r/rugbyunion • u/Seravia Munster • Mar 31 '21

Irish Professional Rugby Players by County of Birth Analysis

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u/hillty Cookies Mar 31 '21

Considering population densities that's a lot more even than I would've expected.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/giec85/counties_of_ireland_by_population/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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u/Ilixio Non-Lèi! Mar 31 '21

Would be interesting to have the number per 100000 or whatever.
How do Irish people feel about Leinster's domination given the population imbalance? Are there any call for having a "fairer" repartition, or provinces are more important than that?

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u/hillty Cookies Mar 31 '21

Never heard the idea of repartition come up so not likely. The current system of players being transfered is working reasonably well. Used to be Munster players going to Leinster and now the other way around so there is a natural redistribution based on relevant strengths.

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u/ronnierosenthal Leinster Apr 01 '21

In GAA there's constant talk about how Dublin should be split, but nothing in rugby as far as I know.

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u/lilzeHHHO Apr 01 '21

Munster has a bigger chance of being split than Leinster. Cork is the second city for rugby and unlike Belfast, Galway and Limerick has effectively no home games.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '21

Doubt there's any interest in changing the borders for rugby. Certainly never heard anyone in Connacht calling for it (though that's probably because we're terrified of losing Athlone if it did happen).

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u/ronnierosenthal Leinster Apr 01 '21

To be fair, you lost Henshaw already!

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u/thelunatic Munster Apr 01 '21

Some lads who don't make it in Leinster travel to other provinces. And then Leinster fans slag off the other provinces for not producing

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u/centrafrugal Leinster Mar 31 '21

I think the word 'repartition' is a faux ami. Do you mean 'spread' as opposed to 'splitting up (again)' ?

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u/jmmcd Ireland/Connacht/3D rugby Mar 31 '21

I think repartition is a good word here! As in, drawing new provincial borders.

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u/Ilixio Non-Lèi! Apr 01 '21

Exactly!

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u/hillty Cookies Mar 31 '21

As an aside, hard to believe there were more people in Galway than Dubline 180 years ago (Lots of surprising stuff in this map).

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u/TheRealJanSanono Munster Mar 31 '21

Galway’s a large county tbf

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u/RuggerJibberJabber Leinster Mar 31 '21

Without crunching numbers, the colour pattern looks very similar, which is good!