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<blockquote data-quote="Penne Rara" data-source="post: 848339" data-attributes="member: 74680"><p>Let me try to answer</p><p></p><p>1- Even though their budget is rather small in comparison to other big rugby nations, there's a real rugby philosophy in NZ. Every player grows up to become an All Black. Of course, not everyone becomes one, it requires an incredible amount of work and also talent. </p><p>All that prestige is worth having a crack, at least. </p><p>However, I doubt that the NZRU keeps all their players. They also lose quite a lot of them who go offshore, either in Australia because of a league drain or elsewhere because they're just not good enough to get to Super Rugby level. Garden-Bachop is just an example among many others. The kiwis out there will correct me if I'm wrong</p><p></p><p>2 - The first reasons I can think of are jet lag and travel fatigue. It is obvious that you can't force players to travel that much when it means that they'll begin the match while being already exhausted and most of the time, that's just granting an additional advantage to the home team.</p><p>The comp will become super busy and sure, maybe you'll enjoy watching teams from different countries playing each other every week, but it'll also mean that it will need to be shortened to only 6 or 7 weeks if you want players to get enough rest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Penne Rara, post: 848339, member: 74680"] Let me try to answer 1- Even though their budget is rather small in comparison to other big rugby nations, there's a real rugby philosophy in NZ. Every player grows up to become an All Black. Of course, not everyone becomes one, it requires an incredible amount of work and also talent. All that prestige is worth having a crack, at least. However, I doubt that the NZRU keeps all their players. They also lose quite a lot of them who go offshore, either in Australia because of a league drain or elsewhere because they're just not good enough to get to Super Rugby level. Garden-Bachop is just an example among many others. The kiwis out there will correct me if I'm wrong 2 - The first reasons I can think of are jet lag and travel fatigue. It is obvious that you can't force players to travel that much when it means that they'll begin the match while being already exhausted and most of the time, that's just granting an additional advantage to the home team. The comp will become super busy and sure, maybe you'll enjoy watching teams from different countries playing each other every week, but it'll also mean that it will need to be shortened to only 6 or 7 weeks if you want players to get enough rest. [/QUOTE]
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