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Round 1 Summary - No surprises

Authored by: Olivier Tresca
on Saturday, August 16 2014 @ 10:37 pm ACST

Although I completely agree that sending players to learn the game in Aus is great, what good does it do to the local leagues if they never head back home? What I worry about is what might happen in a few years time, when some country are able to field a team made entirely of Aus based players and don't select localy based one. Do we want the IC to be a tournament of expats living in Australia?

The other concern I have is that we are seeing teams that look one way in their local competition, and completely different at the IC. If you consider Ireland for example, they lost against France in the EU cup, based on that you could assume that France would do relatively well against them here, but no they got flogged. I know that the team roster will vary a lot from competition to competition, mostly because of budget constraint put on players. However, having a Euro Irish side and an Aus Irish side that plays the IC (or any other country for that matter), seems like it's not the way forward.

I'm not suggesting Aus based player don't get to play in the IC, but maybe the eligibility rules must be changed. Something like, if you are a long time Aus resident you can play only if you have already played a couple of games for your country in the year leading to the IC.

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