Exodus

[Derm McCrum]

[Nepia]

@derm-mccrum Only 5 NZers in Italy? That doesn't seem correct.

Awesome graph spam though!

[Derm McCrum]

@nepia said in Exodus 2019:

@derm-mccrum Only 5 NZers in Italy? That doesn't seem correct.

Awesome graph spam though!

I only looked at players who were born in each country. Where they grew up, moved to, who their parents are is not taken account of. Just raw numbers on where a player was born. I looked at wiki pages for each club, union and club websites. And it's professional teams only - so only two in Italy.

[Derm McCrum]

And just so the NH doesn't feel left out.

[Bovidae]

@derm-mccrum 6 by my count, but still low.

Treviso - Budd, Hayward, Faiva, Manu
Zebre - Renton, Tuivaiti

[Machpants]

It's a graphical extravaganza! Cheers!

[Derm McCrum]

@bovidae said in Exodus 2019:

@derm-mccrum 6 by my count, but still low.

Treviso - Budd, Hayward, Faiva, Manu
Zebre - Renton, Tuivaiti

You're right - I put the wrong number into the Italy column instead of NZ for Tuivaiti..

[Machpants]

@derm-mccrum I never realised there were so many Kiwis, relative to SA. So many Fijians too.

It will be interesting to see what happens in UK post BREXIT, SA and PI players will no longer count as European Associated, it won't exist as a category maybe, so PR will have to change it's rules about number of non-UK players I guess

[Chris B.]

@derm-mccrum said in Exodus 2019:

@nepia said in Exodus 2019:

@derm-mccrum Only 5 NZers in Italy? That doesn't seem correct.

Awesome graph spam though!

I only looked at players who were born in each country. Where they grew up, moved to, who their parents are is not taken account of. Just raw numbers on where a player was born. I looked at wiki pages for each club, union and club websites. And it's professional teams only - so only two in Italy.

Interesting stuff - well done!

So the French basically can field 22 XVs of SH players!

They've fucked themselves and are slowly taking the rest of us with them!

[Derm McCrum]

@chris-b said in Exodus 2019:

@derm-mccrum said in Exodus 2019:

@nepia said in Exodus 2019:

@derm-mccrum Only 5 NZers in Italy? That doesn't seem correct.

Awesome graph spam though!

I only looked at players who were born in each country. Where they grew up, moved to, who their parents are is not taken account of. Just raw numbers on where a player was born. I looked at wiki pages for each club, union and club websites. And it's professional teams only - so only two in Italy.

Interesting stuff - well done!

So the French basically can field 22 XVs of SH players!

They've fucked themselves and are slowly taking the rest of us with them!

Indeed. Except Murphy's Law will now apply and they'll probably go and win the world cup with all French-born players just to piss us all off.

[Stargazer]

I looked up players in the Italian Top 12. I first checked Wikipedia and then the clubs team & player profiles.
These are the players & coaches, who were either born and/or raised in NZ:

Rugby San Donà:
Edward Reeves (represents Italy, but born in NZ)
Leroy Henry-Jack
NZ coach: Craig Green

Rugby Calvisano
no NZ players

Fiamme Oro Rugby
no NZ players

S.S. Lazio Rugby 1927
no NZ players

Rugby Club I Medicei
no NZ players

Rugby Mogliano
Joe Toai-Key
Mark Jackman

Petrarca Rugby
Jeremy Su'a

Valorugby Emilia
Cardiff Vaega
Junior Ngaluafe

Rugby Rovigo
NZ coach: Joe McDonnell

Valsugana Rugby Padova
no NZ players

Verona Rugby
ass coach: Luke Mahoney

Rugby Viadana
UK born, but NZ parents: Keanu Apperley

[Derm McCrum]

@machpants said in Exodus 2019:

@derm-mccrum I never realised there were so many Kiwis, relative to SA. So many Fijians too.

It will be interesting to see what happens in UK post BREXIT, SA and PI players will no longer count as European Associated, it won't exist as a category maybe, so PR will have to change it's rules about number of non-UK players I guess

The soccer authorities have woken up to this and it's being presented as better and more opportunities for England qualified players in the leagues.

The rule on only 2 non-European players in a match day squad for Top 14, Premiership, PRO14 and the European Cup comps only applies to NZ or Australian born. If a player has PI heritage of any kind, then they're in. If you look at the background to a lot of the NZ players in France particularly, you can see why they chose some of them, so they can field 4 or 5 ex-ABs in a game which pisses off the opposition.

[Nepia]

@derm-mccrum said in Exodus 2019:

@bovidae said in Exodus 2019:

@derm-mccrum 6 by my count, but still low.

Treviso - Budd, Hayward, Faiva, Manu
Zebre - Renton, Tuivaiti

You're right - I put the wrong number into the Italy column instead of NZ for Tuivaiti..

I wonder if your Tongans and Samoans in the 'SH-born professional players in 52 European clubs' actually includes NZers? (Clearly I can't handle SA being ahead of us!)

Does Italy only have two professional clubs now or only two that play in the whatever the European cup comp is called now?

[Derm McCrum]

@nepia said in Exodus 2019:

@derm-mccrum said in Exodus 2019:

@bovidae said in Exodus 2019:

@derm-mccrum 6 by my count, but still low.

Treviso - Budd, Hayward, Faiva, Manu
Zebre - Renton, Tuivaiti

You're right - I put the wrong number into the Italy column instead of NZ for Tuivaiti..

I wonder if your Tongans and Samoans in the 'SH-born professional players in 52 European clubs' actually includes NZers? (Clearly I can't handle SA being ahead of us!)

Does Italy only have two professional clubs now or only two that play in the whatever the European cup comp is called now?

I checked as carefully as I could on each player - a number of them were registered with the NZ union, but their birthplace was Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, etc. Equally, I checked players with the various PI flags and a good number of them were born in NZ and put them into NZ column.

As far as I'm aware, Benetton and Zebre are the only two professional clubs that play in the PRO14 Championship, along with Ireland, Wales, Scotland and South Africa. If one or both of them finish in the top 7 they qualify for the Heineken Champions Cup. If lower, they go into the Challenge Cup.

The Top 12 in Italy is semi-professional as far as I'm aware. (Given the FIR have reneged on their financial commitments for the two professional teams in the PRO14 over a few years, I'd hope this is the case.)

[Derm McCrum]

@Nepia Here's the make up of the club squads that are currently top 6 in the PRO14 - split across two conferences:

[mariner4life]

@derm-mccrum are those Irish squad sizes correct? Between 60 and 69 players? Does that include the reserves side?

[Derm McCrum]

@mariner4life said in Exodus 2019:

@derm-mccrum are those Irish squad sizes correct? Between 60 and 69 players? Does that include the reserves side?

All the 6 teams include both the senior and academy squads as they're called. In Ireland, we don't have "reserves' as such. The PRO14 Championship is 21 rounds, the European Cup has 6 pool rounds, (plus knockouts) and there's 10-12 tests to play, so players get game time. Last season, Leinster used 55 players during the season.

At the weekend just gone, they went away to Dragons in Wales. Cullen decided to throw his kids in at the deep end, minded by Grandad Fardy. 5 first team benchers, 11 second and third choice, and 7 academy 19/20 year olds - mainly in the backline. 4 of the academy kids scored on the night in a absolute routing 59-10. The academy keeps on giving.

[Chris B.]

@derm-mccrum If Argentina can buck up their ideas, France might not even make it out of their pool. A result I will, frankly, be cheering for.

[Derm McCrum]

@chris-b said in Exodus 2019:

@derm-mccrum If Argentina can buck up their ideas, France might not even make it out of their pool. A result I will, frankly, be cheering for.

Even though it might be through gritted teeth, I might join you.

[Chris B.]

@derm-mccrum Yes, well, I might be overtaken by schadenfreude if it is England that is teetering...