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How did rugby crack Georgia? - Squidge Rugby

Georgian Rugby are to enter a side in the Currie Cup

In his latest piece of expert analysis, Squidge Rugby looks into the evolution of rugby in Georgia and the fascinating story behind the burly men of Eastern Europe.

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Georgia are one of only five countries that consider XV’s rugby to be their national sport along with New Zealand, Madagascar, Tonga and Wales. How did this happen? Squidge delves into the history books to find out in his own inimitable style.

Credit: Squidge Rugby 

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YeowNotEven 50 minutes ago
Springboks dominate in 2024 despite ill-discipline

9 years and no win? Damn. That’s some mighty poor biasing right there.

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Icefarrow 54 minutes ago
Every country in the world where you can be paid to play rugby

Semi-professional. A mixture of amateurs and paid players. It's basically NPC for the lower-tier unions.

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NE 1 hour ago
Springboks dominate in 2024 despite ill-discipline

SA has consistently been protected by WR/IRB officials for the past 3 decades. This same protection and bias was also clearly evident in SR when they competed there and SA were never the top SA rugby nation. They went 9 years without winning it before fleeing.

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NE 1 hour ago
Springboks dominate in 2024 despite ill-discipline

Yet more confirmation that you know nothing about the game. Thanks, appreciated.

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BB 5 hours ago
Records show All Blacks' greatest rugby adversary is now Ireland

Absolutely spot on Marc!

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GP 5 hours ago
Razor's 2024 All Blacks Christmas wish list

You and I are never going to agree. He was brilliant in the Final. You just do not like him because he is/was a Crusader.

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JW 7 hours ago
What is the future of rugby in 2025?

I hope that administrators keep it that way and dont go further towards a Rugby League style situation.

Keep? Do you have any idea what league is like? That is what rugby has turned into, not where it's trying to go. The universal body type of mass, the game needs to stop heading towards the physically gifted and go back to its roots of how it's played. Much like how SA are trying to add to their game by taking advantage of new laws.

Why not rather empower teams to choose how they want to play and create a framework that favours neither size nor agility. That favours neither slow tempo play or rock n roll rugby.

That's what's happening, but as Nick suggests the slow tempo team can still too easyily dictate how the fast tempo team can play.

If World Rugby can create a game like that then it will be the ultimate winner.

You mean how rugby used to be before teams started trying to manipulate everything to take advantage for their own gain to the discredit of the game.

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JW 7 hours ago
Every country in the world where you can be paid to play rugby

Is that "paid" or compensated?

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JW 9 hours ago
Razor's 2024 All Blacks Christmas wish list

Yeah they could have done with more grunt against France for sure. The opportunity for Lakai was good, and he was affective for 40 minutes but a full 80 was far too much to put on a debutant, losing a bit of the punch that was needed in the game be himself coming on fresh at the end.

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IS 10 hours ago
Razor's 2024 All Blacks Christmas wish list

I'm sorry but teams regularly win with 14 players we did it in the quater finals witg 2 yellow cards it wasn't Sam cane that missed all our points mounga and barest lost us the world cup the attack was stale under him we had the worst 4 years with mounga in 10

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GP 10 hours ago
Razor's 2024 All Blacks Christmas wish list

But others here are blaming him for the non World Cup win. Fact is , he is a better 10 than the 2 hybrid ones you love.

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GP 10 hours ago
Razor's 2024 All Blacks Christmas wish list

Believe it or not rugby is a team sport. We did not lose the WC final because of Richie. He was one of our best in the Final and was named in the Tournament 15 after it was all over. You could say Sam Cane cost us the Final, he got carded AGAIN......

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GP 10 hours ago
Razor's 2024 All Blacks Christmas wish list

He is better than DMac and regularly out played him on the way to 7 titles, including the 2023 Final in Hamilton

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IS 11 hours ago
Razor's 2024 All Blacks Christmas wish list

Don't forget we has our worst years under mounga and we lost the world cup because of him

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IS 11 hours ago
Razor's 2024 All Blacks Christmas wish list

But he's not better than dmac we have already seen that dmac smashed in in the Japanese league and in super rugby and dmac top the tables in alot of the stats was literally the best 10 in the world even world rugby thought so

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Bull Shark 11 hours ago
Razor's 2024 All Blacks Christmas wish list

The articles picture is such a click bait tease. So did Razor and Richie lock lips or not?

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Bull Shark 11 hours ago
What should be on a rugby Christmas wish list for 2025?

My Christmas wish is for more balanced rugby “journalism” from this site, and less fan baiting for clicks.

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Bull Shark 12 hours ago
'One of the deadliest wingers in rugby' has decided his future

Never heard of him 😗

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fl 12 hours ago
What is the future of rugby in 2025?

but if you can't adapt to different systems and different sets of players, you aren't good enough for international rugby.

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fl 12 hours ago
What is the future of rugby in 2025?

if you need to change the entire selection and tactical approach in order to allow one player to shine, then maybe you should go without that one player!


England are much better off with Ford or Fin at 10.

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