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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 807683" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>And in the NH it goes to the other extreme. Its possible for two teams to meet up to six times in a season, for example, in AP, or Pro12 or Top14, twice in the regular season plus once the payoffs and same again in the RCC/ECC</p><p></p><p>In SR I favour the idea that every team ought to play every other team.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Apples and Oranges. You don't have tens of thousands of people buying tickets to watch workers working in factories!</p><p></p><p>I am 100% in favour of National Teams being entitled set their own selection policy in choosing who they select and where they play. The NZRU consider that players who are based in Europe and Britain learn to play a style that suits the conditions and the competition they play in. As a consequence, their skills are not honed to level the NZRU requires, and with the access limited by their clubs, we won't have enough time with the players to get them up to scratch.</p><p></p><p>When we have ALL our players playing in NZ Franchises, the All Blacks coach has unfettered access to all players, and he gets a level of co-operation from the individual team coaches that will not be forthcoming from the coaches and management of NH clubs.</p><p></p><p>Additionally, and this is something most advocates of NZ selecting foreign players almost never think of, the All Blacks coaching staff only have to watch and analyse, at most, five and as few as only two matches each week. If we were selecting from Europe, that could be as many as 19 matches each week. Why should we make more unnecessary work for our coaches?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 807683, member: 20605"] And in the NH it goes to the other extreme. Its possible for two teams to meet up to six times in a season, for example, in AP, or Pro12 or Top14, twice in the regular season plus once the payoffs and same again in the RCC/ECC In SR I favour the idea that every team ought to play every other team. Apples and Oranges. You don't have tens of thousands of people buying tickets to watch workers working in factories! I am 100% in favour of National Teams being entitled set their own selection policy in choosing who they select and where they play. The NZRU consider that players who are based in Europe and Britain learn to play a style that suits the conditions and the competition they play in. As a consequence, their skills are not honed to level the NZRU requires, and with the access limited by their clubs, we won't have enough time with the players to get them up to scratch. When we have ALL our players playing in NZ Franchises, the All Blacks coach has unfettered access to all players, and he gets a level of co-operation from the individual team coaches that will not be forthcoming from the coaches and management of NH clubs. Additionally, and this is something most advocates of NZ selecting foreign players almost never think of, the All Blacks coaching staff only have to watch and analyse, at most, five and as few as only two matches each week. If we were selecting from Europe, that could be as many as 19 matches each week. Why should we make more unnecessary work for our coaches? [/QUOTE]
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