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The RWC is rugby Olympics.

(Note: It was the NZRU that wanted the RWC, so bite your tongue, before you scream.)

In most Olympic sports, there are the lull years immediate after the games. An athlete can not be primed to 110% all the time.

If a player does remove themselves from the local NZ competition it is conceivable that some other young bright thing will step up, or maybe the player sees that the grass is so green on the other side they will never return. Those are the risks.

But I must make it clear, the NZRU should NEVER allow an overseas player to be selected for international duties. To do so would remove the union final and only bargaining chip. Players must play for super rugby prior to the international season to be available for international duties. To do so would be a transfer of power from union to player. Not Jona, Dan, Fitz or any player group is greater than the game, not ever !

A player that has international achievements will always trump those that have only national achievements, for all time!

Good luck to you Dan Carter, see post here.

Didn’t Leon MacDonald look good after his return from Japan, and another Troy Flavell well not so much !

Also it should work both ways, hey Jonny Wilkinson do you need a sabbatical down under?

It also should be noted that the richest New Zealand rugby player (a couple of years ago now) had played ZERO internationals. I understand the son of the great AllBlack Fergie McCormick was earning $1 mil a year in Japan. But who cares, his name is, dunno, there you see no international kudos! (But he did do well, well done.)

UPDATE1: Chris Rattue: Sweetheart deals will rip All Blacks apart 

On the individual deal for Dan Carter.

Extracts..

..”What the NZRU is saying is that Carter has an automatic ride into the test side without the same examination that will be applied to every other player.

What is so mind boggling is that any Carter deal would open the escape hatch for the very players the NZRU are trying to keep. Richie McCaw would be a sitter for a dispensation, as should Ali Williams and a few others.

If all the best players are on special deals overseas, what is the point of the rule in the first place?

The ground will also be ripe for resentment and rebellion among those who are denied the favoured status on the whim of men such as Tew and Graham Henry, whose competence to judge these matters must be in severe doubt anyway, given their rotten performance in running the World Cup campaign last year”… 

..”The moment this code of unity is broken is the moment that players abandon the last vestiges of common good that are vital for the test match battle and instead rediscover their instincts of self-interest.”..

..”Now, with the crumbling ruins piling up around it, the NZRU is preparing to tear away the remaining bonds which can still make the All Blacks great. They are separating players into categories, creating division that is likely to rip them apart.”…

“…The game is over. Rather than heralding the great new dawn, sneaky Carter-type deals signal the beginning of the end.”..

WARNING: New Zealand will be the Brazil (in soccer) of world rugby.

I never agreed to allow Dan Carter to have automatic selection into international duties, he is not that good and I would not care if he was. I did say if a player wished to bugger off for a break, and come back and try his luck (by playing super rugby, and take a pay cut) for the All Blacks then that’s fine.

The article above implies that the BROADCASTER CEO and SPONSOR CEO are talking to the NZRU CEO, saying that Dan Carter is worth more to the game in hard cash than the game its self . NO, NO, no player is bigger than the game. DUDE its not golf, tennis or motor racing its a team sport. I refer you back to the Robbie Deans advert ‘A great team will always beat a great player!’. Money is rulling the game.

If what Chris Rattue is saying is true, then CEO Steve Tew (and the board) is a ‘blood idiot’ and he (they) should drink and drive to confirm it. Or resign as his many years in the NZRU have been correlated with some of the most stupid rugby administrator decisions of all time. See this post.

 Thanks to:  Chris ‘Patton‘ Rattue .

 UDPATE2: Peter Bills : Top Springboks must choose between country and fortune

Extract..

…”The suddenly emboldened union has told its most prized men if they want to represent their country they must be prepared to forego a financial bonanza overseas.”…

…”But the union is playing hard to get. As an insider said: “We know that every single agent in South Africa is watching the outcome of this case like a hawk. Our fear is that if we agree to make up the rest of the money involved, the agents will advise their players to sign for a top club in France or England and then wait for us to buy them back when they want to play for the Springboks. We would be mad to agree to that. We just can’t afford it.”…

Good on ya SARFU, wish NZRU had them selves the same hairy clankers ! 

Have you started a blog yet, to vent your spleen, while your game is getting flushed down the outside dunny. Rise up, protest, sing out loud, do something!