Super Rugby 2020
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@KiwiMurph I assume the camera operators receive the same rebuke .
"Acting on an anonymous tip, Newshub cameras caught Mo'unga and several unidentified players exercising together on a field next to the team's Rugby Park training ground."
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
Reporters are essential workers
Ahh but did they touch the balls?
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@Bones said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
Reporters are essential workers
Ahh but did they touch the balls?
who's balls?
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bones said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
Reporters are essential workers
Ahh but did they touch the balls?
who's balls?
The ones Richie was fondling. Apparently everyone had a go.
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@antipodean A very good point. No amount of 'goodwill' defence could justify gifting a professional sporting outfit extra sponsorship dollars in lieu of paying the businesses' own employees.
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@KiwiMurph Muppets. But this isn't an uncommon sight at parks. We saw a group of girls the other day well distanced but passing around a netball. And no, it's not likely 4-5 young girls around the same age came from the same bubble.
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Club World Cup to be put forward as radical new rugby union competition
A radical proposal for an annual Club World Cup featuring 20 teams from around the globe will be put to leading unions this week
Laporte has suggested the involvement of one team each from the US and Japan – as well as four from the Premiership, the Top 14, the Pro14 and six from Super Rugby.
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
Reporters are essential workers
Of course someone has to spew out the constant dribble we are receiving amongst the important messages.
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So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
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So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
If thats their thinking it will kill Rugby in Australia, no one will care not broadcasters they will keep NRL and AFL as strong as it is now.
It will drive all the decent athletes to those sports even more than now.
Big mistake if that is their thinking it will drive Rugby even more underground.From a NZ perspective the sad thing is Australia in Rugby circles is no longer what it was a fierce rivalry for a time,so fans in NZ will not really care.
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
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So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
That would be an unmitigated disaster.
There's something fundamentally wrong with people who don't recognise two issues:
- The environment and circumstances that made Australian rugby world beaters does not exist now, and
- People complaining about the current malaise are (at least to me) grossly overestimating their ability to adjust and manage sports administration.
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
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So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
What a strange article! I genuinely have no idea what point Cully was trying to get across there. That Kearns would play hardball somehow? That NZ should beware???
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@Chris said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
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So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
If thats their thinking it will kill Rugby in Australia, no one will care not broadcasters they will keep NRL and AFL as strong as it is now.
It will drive all the decent athletes to those sports even more than now.
Big mistake if that is their thinking it will drive Rugby even more underground.From a NZ perspective the sad thing is Australia in Rugby circles is no longer what it was a fierce rivalry for a time,so fans in NZ will not really care.
The "return to club rugby" suggests emulating the NRL / AFL model where the competition is entered around one major city, with token interstate representation to form a "national" competition.
Fine in theory but two major issues jump out to me:
a) Unlike say Essendon in AFL or Paramatta in NRL, Randwick does not have a major state-wide following, capable of drawing huge crowds live and on TV.
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@voodoo said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
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So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
What a strange article! I genuinely have no idea what point Cully was trying to get across there. That Kearns would play hardball somehow? That NZ should beware???
Just weird.That if Rugby Aus decide to withdraw from SANZAAR that NZRU could be in quite a pickle.
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@KiwiMurph said in Super Rugby 2020:
@voodoo said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
More relevant in this thread.
So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
What a strange article! I genuinely have no idea what point Cully was trying to get across there. That Kearns would play hardball somehow? That NZ should beware???
Just weird.That if Rugby Aus decide to withdraw from SANZAAR that NZRU could be in quite a pickle.
But the ARU would be in tatters?! Seems an absurd idea to me
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@voodoo Cully is saying that the ex-players who are rumoured to be making a powerplay at RA are stuck in the 1980s and 1990s and would favour club rugby over super rugby. Honestly, Aust needs us more than we need them. BUT we both need SA as they bring in the largest income through broadcasting rights.
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They're taking the piss, surely, if they think an Australian national club comp would work!? No-one would attend beyond exisitng club game crowds, no-one would pay anything even remotely substantial for the TV rights, the ARU's income would be negligible and all their better players would fuck off to the NH.
