Super Rugby 2020
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@westcoastie said in Super Rugby 2020:
I would like to see an NZ Super-6 this year. 5x current franchises plus get a best of the rest/PI team going.
Can't for the life of me see why the hell they want to have just five teams, therefore meaning one bye per round. Three games per week is a clearly better product to sell.If the Aussies can get their 4 teams, plus the Force, plus maybe the Fijian Drua or Sunwolves to make up their 6. Each country can play their Super-6 with a cross-over 1v2 semi into a grand final for the newly minted Triple-T (Trans Ta$man Trophy). That would be the extent of playing games with Austraya.
As for the NPC - the Chiefs region had a sort of round robin with the teams from within their region this year (I think this year). Going forward - maybe this has to be the answer for everyone (minimises travel, reduce costs, replicates what happens at schoolboy level)
Blues region - Northland, Harbour, Auckland (could the Akld union be split into East & West for this?)
Chiefs - Counties, Waikato, BOP, Taranaki
Hurricanes - Manawatu, Hawkes Bay, Wellington (can WGTN be split North/South)
South Island - Ta$man, Canterbury, Otago, Southland
Quarters between 1 & 2 from across the pools (randomly drawn, but in such a way you wouldn't play a team from your pool in quarters)
Semis & Final.Best of the rest will get destroyed. Plus you have to pay all the players and set everything up. The players will probably want byes and won't be able to play 10 weeks of derbies in a row.
I don't really have an interest in just playing local teams for the NPC. It might minimise costs but it will also minimise interest.
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@westcoastie said in Super Rugby 2020:
Blues region - Northland, Harbour, Auckland (could the Akld union be split into East & West for this?)
they split Auckland in age group level for inter-franchise stuff already I think...and used to for the likes of Roller Mills
As much as I'd love to return to the glory days of NPC, I think NZR have come too far and let it wither away to the point they cant go back to itbeing the main comp in NZ, or really any more important of one than it is currently
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@KiwiMurph said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Tim a 4 team semi final for a 5 team comp seems overkill but I suppose it's all about squeezing games/revenue in.
the least they could do is have a 4/5 playoff to get into the semis
ps - stink if you're the 5th team. IT woulda been the Blues for ages ... hopefully not this year
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As Marshall would say: BOOMFAH - https://www.allblacks.com/news/investec-super-rugby-aotearoa-gets-the-green-light/
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@nzzp said in Super Rugby 2020:
@KiwiMurph said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Tim a 4 team semi final for a 5 team comp seems overkill but I suppose it's all about squeezing games/revenue in.
the least they could do is have a 4/5 playoff to get into the semis
ps - stink if you're the 5th team. IT woulda been the Blues for ages ... hopefully not this year
Yeah unlucky for canes fans.
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@Bones said in Super Rugby 2020:
@nzzp said in Super Rugby 2020:
@KiwiMurph said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Tim a 4 team semi final for a 5 team comp seems overkill but I suppose it's all about squeezing games/revenue in.
the least they could do is have a 4/5 playoff to get into the semis
ps - stink if you're the 5th team. IT woulda been the Blues for ages ... hopefully not this year
Yeah unlucky for canes fans.
AHEM
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
Nope but no way the landers are anything but roadkill this year. We'll be a happy 3rd or 4th
If it starts again it'll be funny to watch JMac and Jackson do the other side of their Jekyll and Hyde act. Oh hello 5th!
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Might be a weird suggestion, but a top 3 finals might work okay. Super rugby used to have a 6 team finals in where the top 2 teams go straight to the semis. Maybe the top team goes straight to the final and the 2nd and 3rd play it out for the final spot? Idk having no final is weird.
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More and more players coming back from Europe, at the moment. Currently in quarantine are Colin Slade, Terrence Hepetema and Jordan Taufua. The last two are probably back temporarily, but Colin Slade is off-contract and French sources suggest he'll be playing for the Hurricanes next season. I'm keen to find out how much truth there is in that rumour.
Lots of other players off-contract, too, but as far as I know, they're not back in NZ yet. Maybe they're just moving clubs in the NH and staying there. Examples: Loni Uhila, Isaia Toeava, Kahn Fotuali'i, Liam Messam and Julian Savea. And that's only the players from the Top 14.
Ben Franks has retired.
It will be interesting to see whether some of them and some of the players that have come back from Japan, will be playing Super Rugby again, at least in 2020.
