Re: Did the All blacks Miss Lomu ?

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 16:28:40 +1300, "Mr Scebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>"MasteroftheRevels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> England are the World Champions and all of them play in the English ZP.
>NZ
>> finished a wretched 3rd and all of them play NPC/S12 with a bunch of
>Samoans and
>> hapless SAs who are even worse.  Can anybody seriously now doubt that the
>> English ZP is the premier rugby competition in the world?  Or did RWC03
>that
>> finished a week ago not happen?
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>Absolutely. The NPC has produced the S12 winner on more occasions than not.
>If it wasn't for all the NZ players in your ZP you'd still be shit. In fact,
>the reason that the AB's are declining is that they are playing *less* in
>the NPC than ever - when they were a regular feature they were unbeatable.

What do you think the consequences of the coming changes to the NZ
set-up will be? It seems from here there will be a bigger divide
between the NPC and S12 competitions. I guess players popped into S12
from the NPC fairly easily before, but there may be even more pressure
for players to go abroad to earn a crust? Maybe there's a case to send
all the younger NZ forwards over to join the AB retirees and form
(boost?) London NZ, who could get some forward practice.

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Regards,
John Williams