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stemoc wrote: Sat May 15, 2021 6:09 am rich Israelis/jews fund Israel , mind you money that should be going to the people of the US for medicare and infrastructure is going to Israel, you know Israel was the first country to get all its citizens vaccinated agaisnt covid whereas the US which funded them have barely been in the same time range gotten 5% of Americans vaccinated..to make things worse, Israel blocked the vaccines from going to the Palestinians as well an just when US announced they are leaving the middle east, somehow magically them evil "hamas" attacked poor defenseless Israel and now the US might be forced to keep thei forces there....... i sometimes feel like hitler was onto something ..


will give you the benefit of the doubt this time but please tread carefully

Slick wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:39 pm As I said in the match thread, I really hope this embarrasses WR into actually bothering about the tier 2 nations. What a sport we would have if the Pacific Islands, a couple from South and North American and a couple more European teams were successful.

Fuck growing the sport by breaking the good stuff, add to the good stuff

Line6 HXFX wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2023 9:19 am I mean in terms of success, look no further than Wales.
3 million nation of small people, who don't mine coal any more, was recently ranked no1 in the world.
Physical fitness and being a physical specimen isn't part of their religion, as it is to South sea Islanders, so they have to rely on tactics, wits and (in the words of Colin Charvus) "bouncebackability".

Wales are the true rugby miracle for me. Not a nation of man mountain 6 foot 4 genetic rugby gods, from fiji...that just have to get their shit together for six months..to win every game.

Congrats Fiji.

sefton wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2023 9:50 am

Line6 HXFX wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2023 9:19 am I mean in terms of success, look no further than Wales.
3 million nation of small people, who don't mine coal any more, was recently ranked no1 in the world.
Physical fitness and being a physical specimen isn't part of their religion, as it is to South sea Islanders, so they have to rely on tactics, wits and (in the words of Colin Charvus) "bouncebackability".

Wales are the true rugby miracle for me. Not a nation of man mountain 6 foot 4 genetic rugby gods, from fiji...that just have to get their shit together for six months..to win every game.

Congrats Fiji.

That is possibly the most ignorant post about rugby I’ve seen in a long while.

SaintK wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2023 9:26 am

Slick wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:39 pm As I said in the match thread, I really hope this embarrasses WR into actually bothering about the tier 2 nations. What a sport we would have if the Pacific Islands, a couple from South and North American and a couple more European teams were successful.

Fuck growing the sport by breaking the good stuff, add to the good stuff

Agree with your sentiments but, are they not funding the Drua team in the SH competition?
Which is a start.

dpedin wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2023 5:13 pm Bill Mata carries 19 times on Saturday and made 61 metres, his opposite number, Ben Earls made 5 carries for 16. Chessum and Cole each made ONE carry for 1 metre and made ONE tackle each.

Slick wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:39 pm As I said in the match thread, I really hope this embarrasses WR into actually bothering about the tier 2 nations. What a sport we would have if the Pacific Islands, a couple from South and North American and a couple more European teams were successful.

Fuck growing the sport by breaking the good stuff, add to the good stuff

sockwithaticket wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2023 9:25 pm

Slick wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:39 pm As I said in the match thread, I really hope this embarrasses WR into actually bothering about the tier 2 nations. What a sport we would have if the Pacific Islands, a couple from South and North American and a couple more European teams were successful.

Fuck growing the sport by breaking the good stuff, add to the good stuff

Tbh I think the idea that any of the Island teams other than Fiji could be anything more than a tough tier 2 side is fanciful.. Fiji has close to 1m people + it's diaspora, but Samoa is 200K and Tonga about 100K. Even taking into account their diasporas and a disproportionate allocation of resources (which I'm sure other tier 2 nations would have an opinion on) there's only so much that can be done to try and elevate such tiny countries.

Slick wrote: Mon Aug 28, 2023 6:52 am

sockwithaticket wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2023 9:25 pm

Slick wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:39 pm As I said in the match thread, I really hope this embarrasses WR into actually bothering about the tier 2 nations. What a sport we would have if the Pacific Islands, a couple from South and North American and a couple more European teams were successful.

Fuck growing the sport by breaking the good stuff, add to the good stuff

Tbh I think the idea that any of the Island teams other than Fiji could be anything more than a tough tier 2 side is fanciful.. Fiji has close to 1m people + it's diaspora, but Samoa is 200K and Tonga about 100K. Even taking into account their diasporas and a disproportionate allocation of resources (which I'm sure other tier 2 nations would have an opinion on) there's only so much that can be done to try and elevate such tiny countries.

Samoa has pretty similar playing numbers to Scotland and if you take into account diaspora probably a fair few more.