sportsmad

Jan 3 2010, 06:36 PM

I dont think it will be long before South Africa is introduced into the fold. SA is the only other nation up the standard at the moment and the only other country with the remote possibility of raising the funds required to aprticipate. perhaps the two new roosters players poached from SA could be enticed to represent them in the tournament. also jarrod saffy might be lured away from playing for lebanon to play for the country where i think he grew up (if memory serves me)

Italia

Jan 3 2010, 07:27 PM

Get more matches for South Africa ASAP. A young SA Union player got signed by the Sydney Roosters for NYC in 2010 and is already in their top 25, so league ca definitely capitalise on their large Union base there

sportsmad

Jan 3 2010, 07:45 PM

with the southern kings (or whatever the super 15 club was to be called) missing out in favour of the melbourne rebels this leaves even more south african rugby juniors with no place to go given only 5 teams are available. thats like the NRL having only 5 teams for rugby league juniors in Australia to go to. the difference is du plesis is apparantly up to that standard and springbocks officials were privately seething over his signing with the sydney roosters. smitt, the springbock player warned the NRL off south african juniors prompting a response from the roosters recruiment manager (formerly the melbourne storms recruitment manager) that warned him that the NRL is just going to keep coming and coming.

sportsmad

Jan 24 2010, 10:09 AM

not at the moment. the tournament is only just getting started. if the Atlantic cup can grow to be an exciting annual fixture that puts bums on seats and eventually breaks even then start looking at including other nations. the money just isn't there to develop teams in the region besides SA,USA & Jamaica. get these three nations up to WC level and then go from there

Clarency

Apr 11 2010, 10:18 PM

Actually Canada isn't dead yet.

http://canadarugbyleague.com/

They are sending a Canadian team to compete against the US club sides in a tournament. I'd like to see them get themselves going again.

If things go well the Atlantic Cup can keep expanding.

Clarency

Apr 13 2010, 10:37 PM

Just curious though... does anyone else seem a bit confused that Japan is entering the Atlantic Cup?

Clarency

Apr 14 2010, 07:26 AM

And yea.. there needs to be a few more places out of Asia that play for them to really set up properly.

They're in a real dilemma because any country that is in a financial position to travel there for a tour would heavily outplay them on all angles.

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East Africa - a combination of Kenya, Tanzania/Tanganyika and Uganda. It has not played for about a decade but the Rugby Football Union of East Africa (RFUEA) still exists and there have been recent talks to resurrect the team.

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The British and Irish Lions are a separate case, being a combination of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
A similar development has been of a Pacific Islanders XV combining Fiji, Tonga, and Manu Samoa.
The South American Jaguars were a combination team consisting of players from Argentina, Uruguay and Chile who played the Springboks during the early 1980s.
The African Leopards are a development side drawn from across Africa, they have played representational rugby union against South African students.
Arabian Gulf rugby union team combines various teams from the Arabian peninsula, and competes in World Cup qualification.
There is also a West Indies side.
CIS also played during the early 1990s, comprising of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
World XV sides have also been fielded.

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Just curious though... does anyone else seem a bit confused that Japan is entering the Atlantic Cup?

deluded pom

Jul 24 2010, 05:43 PM

Japan would get hammered regardless of which tournament they played in.

northamericanfootynews

Jul 25 2010, 12:27 PM

Asian Cup sounds good to me.

Rugby League Nut

Jul 26 2010, 05:29 PM

The Asian Cup would be a good base for them to start from. If Japan got serious about RL and we saw more clubs poping up then the Asian Cup would be great. But at this stage there is not much doing and when they do come out to Aus for international 7's or 9's etc they seem to be way out of their depth.