Maybe that's why I don't follow the actual competition in progress so much.
New Zealand need to increase their talent pool but it is going to take time if the performance of their youth team at the last Under-19 World Cup, where they lost to Nepal in the Plate final after failing to progress in the main competition, is any indication.
We have made some progress in this competition after losing all three matches in Gabon last year.
Rayner is aware of the prestige associated with progress in the competition.
But progress in the competition will only be of passing interest.
Their loss, heralding the second straight season they have failed to progress in the competition, meant that Welsh region Ospreys qualified as one of the best-placed runners-up after beating Leicester on Saturday.
Under-pressure Leinster coach Michael Cheika will be mightily relieved at his team's qualification but on the evidence of this display, they are unlikely to progress much further in the competition.
Wenger acknowledged his team had not made the progress he had desired in the competition following their exit at the quarter-final stage last season to Chelsea, who are in the draw for the quarter-finals on 18 March.
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Everyone can judge progress toward the plan and against the competition, in some cases even down to individual retailers.
But the former Marseille defender, who has played in Europe's elite competition in each of the past seven seasons, believes that Tottenham can overturn their 3-2 deficit and progress to the group stages.
"We're looking for further progress in reforming the energy market, an end to misleading food price promotions, and more competition in banking to take some of the pressure off hard-pressed consumers, " he said.
Rangers fear that Jelavic, who has already played for Rapid in European competition this season, will be ineligible to play for the Glasgow club in the Champions League if his former employers progress to the group stages of the Europa League.
For example, a group led by New York University, which was an also-ran in the Roosevelt Island competition, plans to create an applied-sciences institute, called the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress, in Brooklyn.
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