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<blockquote data-quote="Umaga&#039;s Witness" data-source="post: 1134888" data-attributes="member: 65365"><p>How does the rugby world create more opportunities for samoan born players? They make up less than a quarter of this squad, with 26 born in New Zealand, 9 in samoa, 4 in australia, and one in the USA. </p><p></p><p>Perhaps if they can focus on getting money through a strong international game using overseas born players, then if they can put that money into schoolboy rugby that could help. Although samoan and Tongan kids these days are far more likely to play league I guess. Tough to compete with that given the recent successes</p><p></p><p>But high school seems to be important. If you look at where these players spent their last year of high school there'd be an even smaller percentage for samoa. I guess another way to get more samoan born players into the game would be more scouting by overseas high schools.</p><p></p><p>I did see a tonga under 16 league team will be touring nrl clubs. That sort of initiative would help</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umaga's Witness, post: 1134888, member: 65365"] How does the rugby world create more opportunities for samoan born players? They make up less than a quarter of this squad, with 26 born in New Zealand, 9 in samoa, 4 in australia, and one in the USA. Perhaps if they can focus on getting money through a strong international game using overseas born players, then if they can put that money into schoolboy rugby that could help. Although samoan and Tongan kids these days are far more likely to play league I guess. Tough to compete with that given the recent successes But high school seems to be important. If you look at where these players spent their last year of high school there'd be an even smaller percentage for samoa. I guess another way to get more samoan born players into the game would be more scouting by overseas high schools. I did see a tonga under 16 league team will be touring nrl clubs. That sort of initiative would help [/QUOTE]
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