Would you like to see a SANZAR team touring Europe?
every four years or so? it would be kind of like the british and irish Lions Tours. i think a SANZAR tour would be great (even though they would probably thrash every team).
true. it would be a bit one sided, but it would also be a spectacle. who wouldn’t want to see a SANZAR side?
The idea has been floated before, but don’t forget that a combined SANZAR squad would suffer from the exactly same problems as do the Lions. They would be a throw-together unit without enough training time to form a really cohesive team. I don’t think that they could dominate the established NH club or national sides any more that the Lions do those in the SH.
Rather than scraping up some new sort of international All-Star squad — I mean isn’t that what the Baa-Baas are for (?) — it might be more interesting to set up some sort of test between the Super-15 winner and the Heineken Cup winner. Two established sides with players that have been together for a least a full season, if not longer. That would put real NH v. SH bragging rights on the line.
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Sure would be entertaining seeing how well them three countries play together
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The idea has been floated before, but don’t forget that a combined SANZAR squad would suffer from the exactly same problems as do the Lions. They would be a throw-together unit without enough training time to form a really cohesive team. I don’t think that they could dominate the established NH club or national sides any more that the Lions do those in the SH.
Rather than scraping up some new sort of international All-Star squad — I mean isn’t that what the Baa-Baas are for (?) — it might be more interesting to set up some sort of test between the Super-15 winner and the Heineken Cup winner. Two established sides with players that have been together for a least a full season, if not longer. That would put real NH v. SH bragging rights on the line.
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January 14th, 2010 at 8:04 am
It would be a bit one sided . Imagine combining just the South Africans and the All Blacks even if you just put the South African forwards with McCaw and the All Black back line with Fourie at half back
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