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What now for NH rugby?
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<blockquote data-quote="barthelemy" data-source="post: 765244" data-attributes="member: 56370"><p>6N has nothing to do with the NH issues. You are talking about relegation and 2 group of teams, Four Nations does not have this and does perfectly well, the 6th Nation is an irrelevant argument in my perspective.</p><p></p><p>We could change the 6th nation at one point to integrate more team with relegation systems, why not, however, this is not the main issue of NH rugby.</p><p></p><p>The improvement of NH rugby (and we talk mainly about FR and ENG as I consider Wales, Ireland and Scotland doing well enough if compare population size) will happen through a structural reorganization of France and English championships (more Fracne than England btw), and why not the creation of an European Super Rugby championship. I'm posting a good post of snoopy dog about this matter :</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.therugbyforum.com/threads/36666-A-Super-Rugby-style-tournament-would-significantly-improve-European-nations" target="_blank">http://www.therugbyforum.com/threads/36666-A-Super-Rugby-style-tournament-would-significantly-improve-European-nations</a></p><p></p><p>The main point is to have less domestic matches during the year, to have a stronger focus on the national team. </p><p></p><p>The main issue is France as they will need to change radically their union-clubs agreement where the union will have to start to contract the French international players in order to protect them (like Australia and NZ) and in order to compensate financially clubs much more than what they do today. It is an issue of money (french union is not really able to do this today, they will need a bit of extra money) and it is an issue of culture where it is difficult to find agreements of that sort in France.</p><p></p><p>There is also certainly some stuff to change in the rugby education of the young NH players but I think it will follow naturally if we implement the changes stated above.</p><p></p><p>Then we can still talk about changing the format, the length, the period of the year for the 6 nations, however, it does not seem to me a priority for now.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px">- - - Updated - - -</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Great post</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barthelemy, post: 765244, member: 56370"] 6N has nothing to do with the NH issues. You are talking about relegation and 2 group of teams, Four Nations does not have this and does perfectly well, the 6th Nation is an irrelevant argument in my perspective. We could change the 6th nation at one point to integrate more team with relegation systems, why not, however, this is not the main issue of NH rugby. The improvement of NH rugby (and we talk mainly about FR and ENG as I consider Wales, Ireland and Scotland doing well enough if compare population size) will happen through a structural reorganization of France and English championships (more Fracne than England btw), and why not the creation of an European Super Rugby championship. I'm posting a good post of snoopy dog about this matter : [url]http://www.therugbyforum.com/threads/36666-A-Super-Rugby-style-tournament-would-significantly-improve-European-nations[/url] The main point is to have less domestic matches during the year, to have a stronger focus on the national team. The main issue is France as they will need to change radically their union-clubs agreement where the union will have to start to contract the French international players in order to protect them (like Australia and NZ) and in order to compensate financially clubs much more than what they do today. It is an issue of money (french union is not really able to do this today, they will need a bit of extra money) and it is an issue of culture where it is difficult to find agreements of that sort in France. There is also certainly some stuff to change in the rugby education of the young NH players but I think it will follow naturally if we implement the changes stated above. Then we can still talk about changing the format, the length, the period of the year for the 6 nations, however, it does not seem to me a priority for now. [COLOR="silver"][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] Great post [/QUOTE]
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