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@steven-harris
Great, we almost always lose when O'Keefe is the ref.
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only $4.40 in a multi if you take all 4 favorites in M10 Cup
$55.10 if all visiting teams win...about $5.60 if you swap out either Ta$man/Auckland for Canterbury/Wellington
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2019 crossover games
@Chris-B It's a conspiracy I tell you!!
The four rounds of picks took place as follows (home team listed first):
- The first round of picks are selected by Premiership teams in reverse order of seeding. These games will be played as home games for the Championship teams;
Otago v Waikato
Southland v Counties Manukau
Manawatu v North Harbour
Bay of Plenty v Wellington
Hawke’s Bay v Ta$man
Northland v Canterbury
Taranaki v Auckland- The second round of picks are selected by Championship teams in reverse order of seeding. These games will be played as home games for the Championship teams;
Southland v North Harbour
Manawatu v Counties Manukau
Bay of Plenty v Waikato
Northland v Auckland
Hawke’s Bay v Wellington
Otago v Canterbury
Taranaki v Ta$man- The third round of picks are selected by Premiership teams in order of seeding. These games will be played as home games for the Premiership teams;
Auckland v Southland
Canterbury v Manawatu
Ta$man v Northland
Wellington v Otago
North Harbour v Bay of Plenty
Counties Manukau v Hawke’s Bay
Waikato v Taranaki- The fourth round of picks are selected by Championship Teams in order of seeding. These games will be played as home games for the Premiership Teams;
Counties Manukau v Taranaki
North Harbour v Otago
Waikato v Hawke’s Bay
Wellington v Northland
Auckland v Bay of Plenty
Ta$man v Manawatu
Canterbury v SouthlandNew Zealand Rugby will now begin work on the draw for 2019.
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@chris-b said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:
@bovidae That disgusts me.
However, the Shield no longer symbolizes anything very significant to me.
What this means is that Waikato selected Otago first - a no brainer - and Otago then selected Canterbury ahead of any other Premiership team as a mandatory RS game. Understandable as they are long-standing rivals.
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@chris-b said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:
@bovidae Waikato getting rewarded for being shit last year and getting relegated.
The Shield is dead to me!
Why? The fact that the first round of cross-over picks has resulted in Otago v Waikato, doesn't mean that that will be the first RS game of the season.
If the first RS game of the season is Otago v Taranaki, and Taranaki manages to grab the shield, and the next game is Taranaki v Ta$man, you'll still have a challege. Anything can happen. It's not like Otago is unbeatable at home.
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@stargazer Until Ta$man gets a challenge, the Shield is dead to me.
Waikato being lined up for a seventh challenge in seven seasons. Symbolises nothing except a flawed system.
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@chris-b said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:
@stargazer Until Ta$man gets a challenge, the Shield is dead to me.
Waikato being lined up for a seventh challenge in seven seasons. Symbolises nothing except a flawed system.
It's the frustrating beauty of the system (until Canterbury seems to get in a pattern of easy challenges).
At CM we get very lean spells where the Shield seems to deliberately avoid us, even more frustrating in those decades before we finally managed a win (under that appallingly poor choice as well
).You have to cross your fingers and hope you get a challenge at the same time as your team is going well.
I'll wait until the full draw before looking at the permutations and see if we've been left out in the cold again.
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@crucial I'm afraid the magic has departed for me. Six years and counting, while those Waikato fuckers line up to get yet another challenge - despite that only Bovidae, two other blokes and a dog actually turned up to watch their defences this year.
At what point do those sleepy fuckers at NZ Rugby wake up and go, "Actually, we can't seem organize a fair and proper competition to save ourselves"?
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Just because Waikato have chosen Otago it doesn't mean that will be the first game of the season. Until we see the schedule we don't know when during the season these games will be.
BTW talked to Richard Kinley (GM of Otago Rugby) yesterday about the Ranfurly Shield and the interview is available to my Pareons now, it will be public on the evening of the 12th
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@drivingmaul said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:
Just because Waikato have chosen Otago it doesn't mean that will be the first game of the season. Until we see the schedule we don't know when during the season these games will be.
I realise this. However, it is iniquitous that Waikato should have been allowed that choice.
If they get a challenge it will be their seventh challenge in seven years. A period in which Ta$man has so far had none and is reliant once again on indirect and usually unlikely routes to getting a challenge - and if we do, you can bet your bottom dollar it will be against fucking Canterbury!
The system as it stands is stacked in favour of the worst team in the Premiership.
So basically, fuck the Shield and fuck NZ Rugby!
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I'm probably about to get shot down, but i feel like BOP hasn't had a crack at the Shield since we held the fucking thing.
