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Maybe this is why I don't get the NH club rugby
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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 615254" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>So I'm watching the <em><u>French</u></em> Top 14 match this afternoon, between Racing and Toulon, and it occurs to me that I am hardly hearing any <u><em>French</em></u> player's names being mentioned by the commentators when Toulon have the ball. I hear planety of mention of Carl Hayman, Jonny Wilkinson, Michal Claassens, Bakkies Botha, Rudi Wulff, Matt Giteau, Steffon Armitage, Delon Armitage & Drew Mitchell. Nine of the starting XV are not even French, and there is only one Frenchman in the backline... Maxime Marmoz. He's the only French name I recognise.</p><p></p><p>I wonder how a Toulon supporter could even support this team. I mean, if there were nine foreign, non-NZ eligible players in the Crusaders starting XV, along with a few token Cantabs & Nelsonians, I wouldn't even bother turning on the TV to watch them play, and I would certainly never buy a ticket to go to a game. I simply could not support a Crusaders team in which most of the starting team weren't New Zealanders and weren't eligible for the All Blacks, and frankly, I cannot understand the mentality of supporters who do.</p><p></p><p>One or two foreign player perhaps, but nine!?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 615254, member: 20605"] So I'm watching the [I][U]French[/U][/I] Top 14 match this afternoon, between Racing and Toulon, and it occurs to me that I am hardly hearing any [U][I]French[/I][/U] player's names being mentioned by the commentators when Toulon have the ball. I hear planety of mention of Carl Hayman, Jonny Wilkinson, Michal Claassens, Bakkies Botha, Rudi Wulff, Matt Giteau, Steffon Armitage, Delon Armitage & Drew Mitchell. Nine of the starting XV are not even French, and there is only one Frenchman in the backline... Maxime Marmoz. He's the only French name I recognise. I wonder how a Toulon supporter could even support this team. I mean, if there were nine foreign, non-NZ eligible players in the Crusaders starting XV, along with a few token Cantabs & Nelsonians, I wouldn't even bother turning on the TV to watch them play, and I would certainly never buy a ticket to go to a game. I simply could not support a Crusaders team in which most of the starting team weren't New Zealanders and weren't eligible for the All Blacks, and frankly, I cannot understand the mentality of supporters who do. One or two foreign player perhaps, but nine!? [/QUOTE]
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