Ireland vs Japan
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Said it last week too, I love the style of rugby Japan play, really positive, don’t remember them being offside much, just went out the play their game
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@sparky said in Ireland vs Japan:
The ABs need to arrange tests against Japan every year.
Get them into the RC, there could be some great games, any gap to arg and aus doesn’t look that big
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in true fern fashion I had little idea who won and by how much reading this thread (39-31 to Ireland).
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@kiwiwomble I think its a matter of when tbh. They're only gonna get stronger as well.
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@african-monkey said in Ireland vs Japan:
@kiwiwomble I think its a matter of when tbh. They're only gonna get stronger as well.
Wouldn't it make sense to have a combined 'Asia-Pacific' team playing out of Japan. The Jap side is pretty much that anyway with their island recruiting. If a new international side was formed for annual comps the individual sides could still select for Olympics, RWC .
A Pan-Am side could do the same with Arg/US/Canadia -
@crucial Funnily enough, I was thinking about the old Pacific Islands sides and how it was probably the way to go moving forward looking back on it, where they could base themselves in Auckland or Sydney for internationals, but sadly, it never kicked on.
I think Japan are strong enough to just go about things on their own, even without the imports. They'll continue to go from strength to strength.
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@african-monkey said in Ireland vs Japan:
@crucial Funnily enough, I was thinking about the old Pacific Islands sides and how it was probably the way to go moving forward looking back on it, where they could base themselves in Auckland or Sydney for internationals, but sadly, it never kicked on.
I think Japan are strong enough to just go about things on their own, even without the imports. They'll continue to go from strength to strength.
A fair bit of their strength is from those imports with the flipside being that they are weakening the others while doing it.
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I think Japan have enough history (and results) to justify them standing in their own right, i think we've learned these manufactured team often dont get supported, people think its not "their team"
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I'm going to hold of bagging Japan for their imports when established tier one countries dont have NZ/RSA/PI players
I think its just more obvious with Japan because these imports look different, ive come around to idea that as long as they play in the Japanese domestic league (ie contribute to rugby in the country) and they meet all the other rules then fair play to them
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@kiwiwomble said in Ireland vs Japan:
@sparky said in Ireland vs Japan:
The ABs need to arrange tests against Japan every year.
Get them into the RC, there could be some great games, any gap to arg and aus doesn’t look that big
That's the Argentina and Oz who we overall drew results with last year?
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@machpants said in Ireland vs Japan:
@kiwiwomble said in Ireland vs Japan:
@sparky said in Ireland vs Japan:
The ABs need to arrange tests against Japan every year.
Get them into the RC, there could be some great games, any gap to arg and aus doesn’t look that big
That's the Argentina and Oz who we overall drew results with last year?
yeah, also the same Argentina that only beat Romania by 7 points over the weekend...Romania
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@kiwiwomble said in Ireland vs Japan:
@machpants said in Ireland vs Japan:
@kiwiwomble said in Ireland vs Japan:
@sparky said in Ireland vs Japan:
The ABs need to arrange tests against Japan every year.
Get them into the RC, there could be some great games, any gap to arg and aus doesn’t look that big
That's the Argentina and Oz who we overall drew results with last year?
yeah, also the same Argentina that only beat Romania by 7 points over the weekend...Romania
Thus were only 7 points better than Romania, that's bad!
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@machpants so everyone one is at a similar level so get them in!
