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@derm-mccrum Only 5 NZers in Italy? That doesn't seem correct.
Awesome graph spam though! :thumbs_up_medium_skin_tone:
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@derm-mccrum Only 5 NZers in Italy? That doesn't seem correct.
Awesome graph spam though! :thumbs_up_medium_skin_tone:
@nepia said in Exodus 2019:
@derm-mccrum Only 5 NZers in Italy? That doesn't seem correct.
Awesome graph spam though! :thumbs_up_medium_skin_tone:
I only looked at players who were born in each country. Where they grew up, moved to, who their parents are is not taken account of. Just raw numbers on where a player was born. I looked at wiki pages for each club, union and club websites. And it's professional teams only - so only two in Italy.
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And just so the NH doesn't feel left out.
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@nepia said in Exodus 2019:
@derm-mccrum Only 5 NZers in Italy? That doesn't seem correct.
Awesome graph spam though! :thumbs_up_medium_skin_tone:
I only looked at players who were born in each country. Where they grew up, moved to, who their parents are is not taken account of. Just raw numbers on where a player was born. I looked at wiki pages for each club, union and club websites. And it's professional teams only - so only two in Italy.
@derm-mccrum 6 by my count, but still low.
Treviso - Budd, Hayward, Faiva, Manu
Zebre - Renton, Tuivaiti -
@derm-mccrum 6 by my count, but still low.
Treviso - Budd, Hayward, Faiva, Manu
Zebre - Renton, Tuivaiti@bovidae said in Exodus 2019:
@derm-mccrum 6 by my count, but still low.
Treviso - Budd, Hayward, Faiva, Manu
Zebre - Renton, TuivaitiYou're right - I put the wrong number into the Italy column instead of NZ for Tuivaiti..
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@derm-mccrum I never realised there were so many Kiwis, relative to SA. So many Fijians too.
It will be interesting to see what happens in UK post BREXIT, SA and PI players will no longer count as European Associated, it won't exist as a category maybe, so PR will have to change it's rules about number of non-UK players I guess
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@nepia said in Exodus 2019:
@derm-mccrum Only 5 NZers in Italy? That doesn't seem correct.
Awesome graph spam though! :thumbs_up_medium_skin_tone:
I only looked at players who were born in each country. Where they grew up, moved to, who their parents are is not taken account of. Just raw numbers on where a player was born. I looked at wiki pages for each club, union and club websites. And it's professional teams only - so only two in Italy.
@derm-mccrum said in Exodus 2019:
@nepia said in Exodus 2019:
@derm-mccrum Only 5 NZers in Italy? That doesn't seem correct.
Awesome graph spam though! :thumbs_up_medium_skin_tone:
I only looked at players who were born in each country. Where they grew up, moved to, who their parents are is not taken account of. Just raw numbers on where a player was born. I looked at wiki pages for each club, union and club websites. And it's professional teams only - so only two in Italy.
Interesting stuff - well done!
So the French basically can field 22 XVs of SH players!
They've fucked themselves and are slowly taking the rest of us with them!
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@derm-mccrum said in Exodus 2019:
@nepia said in Exodus 2019:
@derm-mccrum Only 5 NZers in Italy? That doesn't seem correct.
Awesome graph spam though! :thumbs_up_medium_skin_tone:
I only looked at players who were born in each country. Where they grew up, moved to, who their parents are is not taken account of. Just raw numbers on where a player was born. I looked at wiki pages for each club, union and club websites. And it's professional teams only - so only two in Italy.
Interesting stuff - well done!
So the French basically can field 22 XVs of SH players!
They've fucked themselves and are slowly taking the rest of us with them!
@chris-b said in Exodus 2019:
@derm-mccrum said in Exodus 2019:
@nepia said in Exodus 2019:
@derm-mccrum Only 5 NZers in Italy? That doesn't seem correct.
Awesome graph spam though! :thumbs_up_medium_skin_tone:
I only looked at players who were born in each country. Where they grew up, moved to, who their parents are is not taken account of. Just raw numbers on where a player was born. I looked at wiki pages for each club, union and club websites. And it's professional teams only - so only two in Italy.
Interesting stuff - well done!
So the French basically can field 22 XVs of SH players!
They've fucked themselves and are slowly taking the rest of us with them!
Indeed. Except Murphy's Law will now apply and they'll probably go and win the world cup with all French-born players just to piss us all off.
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I looked up players in the Italian Top 12. I first checked Wikipedia and then the clubs team & player profiles.
These are the players & coaches, who were either born and/or raised in NZ:Rugby San Donà:
Edward Reeves (represents Italy, but born in NZ)
Leroy Henry-Jack
NZ coach: Craig GreenRugby Calvisano
no NZ playersFiamme Oro Rugby
no NZ playersS.S. Lazio Rugby 1927
no NZ playersRugby Club I Medicei
no NZ playersRugby Mogliano
Joe Toai-Key
Mark JackmanPetrarca Rugby
Jeremy Su'aValorugby Emilia
Cardiff Vaega
Junior NgaluafeRugby Rovigo
NZ coach: Joe McDonnellValsugana Rugby Padova
no NZ playersVerona Rugby
ass coach: Luke MahoneyRugby Viadana
UK born, but NZ parents: Keanu Apperley -
@derm-mccrum I never realised there were so many Kiwis, relative to SA. So many Fijians too.
It will be interesting to see what happens in UK post BREXIT, SA and PI players will no longer count as European Associated, it won't exist as a category maybe, so PR will have to change it's rules about number of non-UK players I guess
@machpants said in Exodus 2019:
@derm-mccrum I never realised there were so many Kiwis, relative to SA. So many Fijians too.
It will be interesting to see what happens in UK post BREXIT, SA and PI players will no longer count as European Associated, it won't exist as a category maybe, so PR will have to change it's rules about number of non-UK players I guess
The soccer authorities have woken up to this and it's being presented as better and more opportunities for England qualified players in the leagues.
The rule on only 2 non-European players in a match day squad for Top 14, Premiership, PRO14 and the European Cup comps only applies to NZ or Australian born. If a player has PI heritage of any kind, then they're in. If you look at the background to a lot of the NZ players in France particularly, you can see why they chose some of them, so they can field 4 or 5 ex-ABs in a game which pisses off the opposition.
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@bovidae said in Exodus 2019:
@derm-mccrum 6 by my count, but still low.
Treviso - Budd, Hayward, Faiva, Manu
Zebre - Renton, TuivaitiYou're right - I put the wrong number into the Italy column instead of NZ for Tuivaiti..
@derm-mccrum said in Exodus 2019:
@bovidae said in Exodus 2019:
@derm-mccrum 6 by my count, but still low.
Treviso - Budd, Hayward, Faiva, Manu
Zebre - Renton, TuivaitiYou're right - I put the wrong number into the Italy column instead of NZ for Tuivaiti..
I wonder if your Tongans and Samoans in the 'SH-born professional players in 52 European clubs' actually includes NZers? (Clearly I can't handle SA being ahead of us!)
Does Italy only have two professional clubs now or only two that play in the whatever the European cup comp is called now?
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@derm-mccrum said in Exodus 2019:
@bovidae said in Exodus 2019:
@derm-mccrum 6 by my count, but still low.
Treviso - Budd, Hayward, Faiva, Manu
Zebre - Renton, TuivaitiYou're right - I put the wrong number into the Italy column instead of NZ for Tuivaiti..
I wonder if your Tongans and Samoans in the 'SH-born professional players in 52 European clubs' actually includes NZers? (Clearly I can't handle SA being ahead of us!)
Does Italy only have two professional clubs now or only two that play in the whatever the European cup comp is called now?
@nepia said in Exodus 2019:
@derm-mccrum said in Exodus 2019:
@bovidae said in Exodus 2019:
@derm-mccrum 6 by my count, but still low.
Treviso - Budd, Hayward, Faiva, Manu
Zebre - Renton, TuivaitiYou're right - I put the wrong number into the Italy column instead of NZ for Tuivaiti..
I wonder if your Tongans and Samoans in the 'SH-born professional players in 52 European clubs' actually includes NZers? (Clearly I can't handle SA being ahead of us!)
Does Italy only have two professional clubs now or only two that play in the whatever the European cup comp is called now?
I checked as carefully as I could on each player - a number of them were registered with the NZ union, but their birthplace was Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, etc. Equally, I checked players with the various PI flags and a good number of them were born in NZ and put them into NZ column.
As far as I'm aware, Benetton and Zebre are the only two professional clubs that play in the PRO14 Championship, along with Ireland, Wales, Scotland and South Africa. If one or both of them finish in the top 7 they qualify for the Heineken Champions Cup. If lower, they go into the Challenge Cup.
The Top 12 in Italy is semi-professional as far as I'm aware. (Given the FIR have reneged on their financial commitments for the two professional teams in the PRO14 over a few years, I'd hope this is the case.)
