Bayonne : Xan Mousques à l'UBB l'été prochain

It's a fairly redundant number 1k, it just fits with a full SR season, so has some sort of comparison ability between leagues. As Nick says (to be fair to him and JPM), it does a disservice to French stats when can double twice that for those backs that aren't critical (have no bench cover), then they have EPCR on top of that.

When you're trying to be a sustainable club your back up isn't quite as good either, so as he suggests a player like Lucu plays nearly 300 more minutes (half a dozen games extra) than Dupont because they don't want to risk resting him more.

For instance, Dmac

TournamentsMatchesStarterMin

Tests Matchs 4 288' (Avg : 72')

Rugby World Cup 6 208' (Avg : 35')

Rugby Championship 6 389' (Avg : 65')

Super Rugby Pacific 15 1102' (Avg : 73')

which we can cross out RWC and 1 48 min test leading up and add

New Zealand 5 227' (Avg : 45')

So he's played 1960 minutes this year. Should have played more imo and disappointed that Razor was never honest about the fact he was simply saving him.

And maybe they could think of hosting the '3rd' Bledisloe then too, I know you like the idea of SH moving the RC to same time as 6N. They could feel things out. Theyre looking at hosting one during ANZAC time next year I think.

Wiki has a reliable db from other numbers if seen unions post so I'm generally happy to follow that. This is senior male club numbers (assume from ameture to pro and everyone in between in the country) highest countries to lowest

England[32]131399

France[35]124079

Wales[117][118]122408

South Africa[96]113174

United States[113]50211

Japan[52]48470

Australia[7][nb 1]39380

New Zealand[74]27726

Ireland[47]25440

Malaysia[62]25000

Madagascar[61]16750

Italy[49]15848

Scotland[90]11687

I said that. He was talking about SR (no Europe involvement) and so I said he could involve SR Americas as a preferential "inconvenience" to SR here (for any finals format or whatever he had planned).

Then I suggested an alternative idea where I think they'd be better off ss a partner to URC (Europe), but that suggestion had no involvement with South America.

Dupont is no different to many other examples. He plays on average a game or two less that Mitchell and a game more than Faf on average for example. There's absolutely no player welfare reason he and many of his high profile teammates cannot also tour with his country in July. That is also only possible because he club team rests him, that is the point of this article, the frequency of the need to play B teams. In your case, for me, thankfully France (clubs) choose to do that in the Top14 and are pretty good in the Cup from what I've found.

It feels like every single article we need to tell you this. France is not like South Africa.

Maybe reap what you sew and make your own competition if you have to wet the bed, get angry, and try to leave when your teams turn out to be second rate in every single comp they participate in.

Stip moaning, get to work, and make some more competitive nations.

At least the 6N are helping out Romania and Georgia a bit, and NZ are developing unions in the USA, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, and Japan.