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<blockquote data-quote="saulan" data-source="post: 873816" data-attributes="member: 60236">Here is a different perspective on that Heineken: <a href="http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/RugbyChampionship/side-entry-all-blacks-fixation-stifles-our-rugby-20170924-3" target="_blank">http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/RugbyChampionship/side-entry-all-blacks-fixation-stifles-our-rugby-20170924-3</a>I also don&#039;t believe that holds true anymore. I mean, yes I believe that playing against New Zealand internationally is our best test, but if you look at the results, we have been failing abysmally for the last 15 years. Statistics from over 20 years ago skew things, if we look at the post professionalism era, we are not really a rival to New Zealand, that win about 70% of the time (which is a problem for the competitiveness of the sport, they have no real rival anymore).I&#039;ve posted something like this before, but I think it&#039;s relevant to repea.tAlso, recent results also show that the plan of using New Zealand and Super Rugby as our go to tournament hasn&#039;t been working out too well for us. Again, I know we have our political issues, but the main issue really is retaining players and that means we need to generate more money to retain players and stop them going north... Actually, let me just copy paste that previous post, it says most of what I want to say again (and it got no ones attention last time).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="saulan, post: 873816, member: 60236"] Here is a different perspective on that Heineken: [URL]http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/RugbyChampionship/side-entry-all-blacks-fixation-stifles-our-rugby-20170924-3[/URL] I also don't believe that holds true anymore. I mean, yes I believe that playing against New Zealand internationally is our best test, but if you look at the results, we have been failing abysmally for the last 15 years. Statistics from over 20 years ago skew things, if we look at the post professionalism era, we are not really a rival to New Zealand, that win about 70% of the time (which is a problem for the competitiveness of the sport, they have no real rival anymore). I've posted something like this before, but I think it's relevant to repea.t Also, recent results also show that the plan of using New Zealand and Super Rugby as our go to tournament hasn't been working out too well for us. Again, I know we have our political issues, but the main issue really is retaining players and that means we need to generate more money to retain players and stop them going north... Actually, let me just copy paste that previous post, it says most of what I want to say again (and it got no ones attention last time). [/QUOTE]

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