@Canes4life said in Poll: Super Rugby 2025 Top 6:
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@ACT-Crusader said in Poll: Super Rugby 2025 Top 6:
About a third of the way through the season now and whilst no team is mathematically out of making the top 6 (not a fan of this in an 11 team comp), there are signs that the table is starting to take shape near the top (and possibly down the bottom).
So who you got to make it to the pointy end and a shot at Super rugby glory?
6 picks and by the end of the week we’ll tally up the Fern collective wisdom and see how it stacks up come June.
Why would all teams having a mathematical chance of making the top six be a bad thing?
I don’t have an issue with teams having a chance, what I don’t like is so many teams making the finals. It’s the format that I’m not enamoured by. More than half the teams in a comp shouldn’t make a “finals” game. That’s mediocrity on a pedestal.
I disagree, I think having a top 6 suits this competition. If you had a top 4 and those four teams broke away from the rest of the pack early on in the comp then a lot of fans across all teams would lose interest pretty quickly. By having a top 6 there are multiple teams that are in with a chance which keeps the competition and most games interesting until the playoffs come around.
I think what keeps fans interested is if their team is performing well and if that turns into wins. More games, not necessarily, especially if the integrity of the competition is called into question when teams potentially with losing records make a ‘final’.
This is more a case of economics rather than really about fans. More games means revenue opportunities etc
