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<blockquote data-quote="Felipe" data-source="post: 1030190" data-attributes="member: 76332"><p>In my view, those who attribute a European essence to 6N are wrong and thus restrict expansion prospects. </p><p>I remind you that the tournament was born at the end of the 19th century in the British islands and France only joined in 1910. Nobody would have been surprised and at that time the fifth team was USA and not France. Today we would say that the tournament has an Anglo-Saxon and not a European essence. I say this to justify that there is no more reason to justify the presence of Italy in the tournament than of the USA or Canada. I think that in the year 2000 a big mistake was made incorporating Italy. </p><p>USA should have joined the tournament and I can assure you that his progression after 20 years of participation would have been much higher than that of the Italians. </p><p></p><p>On the other hand, the fact of insisting so much on inflating a country without culture or rugby potential is a lack of respect for countries such as Argentina, Fiji, Samoa or Tonga. These countries have much more rugby culture and much better results and they never received even remotely the same level of support. </p><p>Argentina just entered the Rugby Championship in 2012 despite widely surpassing Italy in terms of results. </p><p>Worse still is the case of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga that do not even have a major tournament in which to participate. </p><p>Italy is a machine of wasting opportunities that it did not deserve to have had. It causes me outrage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Felipe, post: 1030190, member: 76332"] In my view, those who attribute a European essence to 6N are wrong and thus restrict expansion prospects. I remind you that the tournament was born at the end of the 19th century in the British islands and France only joined in 1910. Nobody would have been surprised and at that time the fifth team was USA and not France. Today we would say that the tournament has an Anglo-Saxon and not a European essence. I say this to justify that there is no more reason to justify the presence of Italy in the tournament than of the USA or Canada. I think that in the year 2000 a big mistake was made incorporating Italy. USA should have joined the tournament and I can assure you that his progression after 20 years of participation would have been much higher than that of the Italians. On the other hand, the fact of insisting so much on inflating a country without culture or rugby potential is a lack of respect for countries such as Argentina, Fiji, Samoa or Tonga. These countries have much more rugby culture and much better results and they never received even remotely the same level of support. Argentina just entered the Rugby Championship in 2012 despite widely surpassing Italy in terms of results. Worse still is the case of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga that do not even have a major tournament in which to participate. Italy is a machine of wasting opportunities that it did not deserve to have had. It causes me outrage. [/QUOTE]
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