Reply With QuoteIt could lead to an interesting scenario where we beat all 4 southern hemisphere powerhouses to win the WC, and also win it without playing a single six nations country
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It could lead to an interesting scenario where we beat all 4 southern hemisphere powerhouses to win the WC, and also win it without playing a single six nations country
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It could lead to an interesting scenario where we beat all 4 southern hemisphere powerhouses to win the WC, and also win it without playing a single six nations country
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Two brilliant semi final results, one game good to watch, one game more like a wrestling brawl
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Made me proud to be English!
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Me too...and - just like our victorious cricket team - what a fine example of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism it is.Originally Posted by Manofpride
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You mean "what a fine example of how to naturalise great overseas players quickly and fast track them through process" it is?
Unlike the football team where it probably is more down to multiculturalism as few "imports", but they didn't reach the final
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No I didn’t.
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One I am happy to have got wrong.
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OK, lets just examine those who have represented england in the last 12 months
Roy (born south africa)
Malan (raised south africa)
Morgan (born Ireland)
Stokes (born New Zealand)
Archer (fast tracked Bajan born)
Jordan (as above)
Curran T (born south africa)
Root, Rashid, Bairstow (independent kingdom of yorkshire)
perhaps also add Keaton Jennings (south africa)
Assimilated, not a product of our multiculturalism
Products of multiculturalism
Moeen Ali
Saqib Mahmood
Thats just cricket, Im not so familiar with the world of rugby, but can point to at least 3 assimilated polynesians, two of which were born in australasia and raised in wales
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I don’t recall ever describing them as ‘products of multiculturalism’...both teams are though, undeniably, multicultural ‘products’ as indeed are a number of current international RU teams.
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