psychic duck
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They have all their best players plying their trade in Europe they don't have a strong domestic competition. They need to embrace professionalism, they need to get in to super rugby. They have world class players in Albacete, Fernandez lobbe and Figallo, but overall they just are not good enough to compete week in week out. They lack depth, having a greater number of players playing in a higher level of competition will improve depth.
Munster nearly beat the AB's a couple of years ago they lost 16-18 it can happen it is sport. People need to stop harping on about 07, thats a long time ago. Its not going to help them win a rugby championship game next year. Argentina haven't beaten two of the 3 teams in the Rugby Championship and they haven't beaten the other this millennium. Surely you can concede that it is going to be a mental hurdle they will have to face. These close games will get harder to win if they don't win one soon.
Do you agree it is unlikely Argentina will do as well as Italy have done in terms of results?. That was my argument, it didn't have anything to do with the relative strength of competition. Over the last decade I would put Argentina slightly above Scotland and Scotland haven't done much better than Italy in the same competition.
You've avoided answering the question (probably because you can't). I'll try again.
"How then do you explain beating all the 6 Nations sides in a 2 year period 2005-07, reaching 3rd at the RWC, and coming closer to beating the All Blacks than the Europeans in that same period, all achieved without pro domestic teams?"
And stop bringing Italy into this. They are truly irrelevant in comparison of results. The only thing to take from their experience in the 6 Nations is that regular higher level rugby undoubtedly improves teams.
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