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Ireland v Samoa - 26 August 2023
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<blockquote data-quote="Umaga&#039;s Witness" data-source="post: 1139872" data-attributes="member: 65365"><p>IMO Samoa has better players than italy and scotland, after discounting the experience the Italians and scots get by playing together against top teams.</p><p></p><p>Plus italy and scotland don't have a Leinster equivalent.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying samoa would be better than Ireland if they had as much game time together, more that they could be competitive</p><p></p><p>Put it this way. If in a parallel universe samoa had a Leinster equivalent and got to play as many top tests as Ireland does, and ireland instead had their players scattered around like samoa does and the ireland team never played top nations in tests, who do you think would win? I'd pick samoa. Yes they won't win as often or as convincingly as Ireland would against samoa in our real universe, but they'd still be odds on to win.</p><p></p><p> the coaches having time together with the players makes a massive difference too. It's hard to even tell if the samoa coaches are any good as they haven't had the chance to have any time with their players.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umaga's Witness, post: 1139872, member: 65365"] IMO Samoa has better players than italy and scotland, after discounting the experience the Italians and scots get by playing together against top teams. Plus italy and scotland don't have a Leinster equivalent. I'm not saying samoa would be better than Ireland if they had as much game time together, more that they could be competitive Put it this way. If in a parallel universe samoa had a Leinster equivalent and got to play as many top tests as Ireland does, and ireland instead had their players scattered around like samoa does and the ireland team never played top nations in tests, who do you think would win? I'd pick samoa. Yes they won't win as often or as convincingly as Ireland would against samoa in our real universe, but they'd still be odds on to win. the coaches having time together with the players makes a massive difference too. It's hard to even tell if the samoa coaches are any good as they haven't had the chance to have any time with their players. [/QUOTE]
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