North vs South

[pukunui]

@Bovidae said in North vs South:

I picked my teams (based on school) months ago and I'm sticking to them. I just need to track down Foster.

Have you got a link to those school based teams?
Im interested to see how the distribution of players would change based on schools.

[Crucial]

@pukunui said in North vs South:

@Bovidae said in North vs South:

I picked my teams (based on school) months ago and I'm sticking to them. I just need to track down Foster.

Have you got a link to those school based teams?
Im interested to see how the distribution of players would change based on schools.

Even 'school' is a dodgy criteria given the poaching that goes on. First school or last school?
Usually within an island though, I guess.

[pukunui]

@Crucial said in North vs South:

@pukunui said in North vs South:

@Bovidae said in North vs South:

I picked my teams (based on school) months ago and I'm sticking to them. I just need to track down Foster.

Have you got a link to those school based teams?
Im interested to see how the distribution of players would change based on schools.

Even 'school' is a dodgy criteria given the poaching that goes on. First school or last school?
Usually within an island though, I guess.

Yeah, good point. I guess the way to get around that would be to allow players with connections to both islands to nominate for the island feel connected to most.

[Crucial]

It doesn’t really matter anyway, this is just a way of doing a “trial” game and fitting in most of the players.

[Hooroo]

@Crucial said in North vs South:

It doesn’t really matter anyway, this is just a way of doing a “trial” game and fitting in most of the players.

Far out! I reckon!!! Way for everyone to get all twisted about how it is being put together.

[Snowy]

@Hooroo said in North vs South:

@Crucial said in North vs South:

It doesn’t really matter anyway, this is just a way of doing a “trial” game and fitting in most of the players.

Far out! I reckon!!! Way for everyone to get all twisted about how it is being put together.

You don't think the North Island versing South Island rivalry will be bought up on here at all ? It is the point of the whole thing to add some tension / adversarial contest to a "trial" as a team sport.

With one team actually winning, there will be those that rub it in if the North lose (as an example) all part of the fun, but there can't be any excuses like "half your players were ours anyway".

[Hooroo]

@Snowy said in North vs South:

@Hooroo said in North vs South:

@Crucial said in North vs South:

It doesn’t really matter anyway, this is just a way of doing a “trial” game and fitting in most of the players.

Far out! I reckon!!! Way for everyone to get all twisted about how it is being put together.

You don't think the North Island versing South Island rivalry will be bought up on here at all ? It is the point of the whole thing to add some tension / adversarial contest to a "trial" as a team sport.

With one team actually winning, there will be those that rub it in if the North lose (as an example) all part of the fun, but there can't be any excuses like "half your players were ours anyway".

In my mind this is just a random trial given a silly name. Call it what you want, it's just a trial and it won't become a fixture.

[Snowy]

@Hooroo said in North vs South:

@Snowy said in North vs South:

@Hooroo said in North vs South:

@Crucial said in North vs South:

It doesn’t really matter anyway, this is just a way of doing a “trial” game and fitting in most of the players.

Far out! I reckon!!! Way for everyone to get all twisted about how it is being put together.

You don't think the North Island versing South Island rivalry will be bought up on here at all ? It is the point of the whole thing to add some tension / adversarial contest to a "trial" as a team sport.

With one team actually winning, there will be those that rub it in if the North lose (as an example) all part of the fun, but there can't be any excuses like "half your players were ours anyway".

In my mind this is just a random trial given a silly name. Call it what you want, it's just a trial and it won't become a fixture.

Probably correct about it becoming a fixture but North v South has some history and there will be some that are more passionate about it.
And gloat
and brag
and troll.

South islanders are just like that.

[taniwharugby]

@Crucial said in North vs South:

Even 'school' is a dodgy criteria given the poaching that goes on. First school or last school?

Just make it island of the school you were at when you first got laid?

[mariner4life]

@taniwharugby said in North vs South:

@Crucial said in North vs South:

Even 'school' is a dodgy criteria given the poaching that goes on. First school or last school?

Just make it island of the school you were at when you first got laid?

and if you had already left school and joined the work force before that happened?

Asking for a friend...

[nzzp]

@Hooroo said in North vs South:

In my mind this is just a random trial given a silly name. Call it what you want, it's just a trial and it won't become a fixture.

I agree, but as soon as you call it 'North v South' you make it more than just a trial, and people start arguing about where the origin actually is.

Would be amusing if we had folk from Stewart or Chatham Islands playing

[taniwharugby]

@mariner4life you really think I put that much thought into my comment?

[Machpants]

@mariner4life said in North vs South:

@taniwharugby said in North vs South:

@Crucial said in North vs South:

Even 'school' is a dodgy criteria given the poaching that goes on. First school or last school?

Just make it island of the school you were at when you first got laid?

and if you had already left school and joined the work force before that happened?

Asking for a friend...

Man I was so spectacularly unsucessful at school, I’d be playing for France!

[Snowy]

I'm actually realising that Freud was right. You can start pretty much any thread here and it will always end up being about sex.

Even with your sister for the southerners.

[pukunui]

@Hooroo said in North vs South:

@Snowy said in North vs South:

@Hooroo said in North vs South:

@Crucial said in North vs South:

It doesn’t really matter anyway, this is just a way of doing a “trial” game and fitting in most of the players.

Far out! I reckon!!! Way for everyone to get all twisted about how it is being put together.

You don't think the North Island versing South Island rivalry will be bought up on here at all ? It is the point of the whole thing to add some tension / adversarial contest to a "trial" as a team sport.

With one team actually winning, there will be those that rub it in if the North lose (as an example) all part of the fun, but there can't be any excuses like "half your players were ours anyway".

In my mind this is just a random trial given a silly name. Call it what you want, it's just a trial and it won't become a fixture.

Nah maaate, this is oorriggiiinnnnnn!
Can we get Phil Gould over to do the pre game speech about passion and mateship etc?

[Bovidae]

@pukunui said in North vs South:

@Bovidae said in North vs South:

I picked my teams (based on school) months ago and I'm sticking to them. I just need to track down Foster.

Have you got a link to those school based teams?
Im interested to see how the distribution of players would change based on schools.

Here's what I selected during the lockdown period (based on every player being available). Obviously there would now be a few changes through injury and unavailability.

OK, a blast from the past - North Island vs South Island.

The qualifier is which school you went to (some went to more than one school), not where you were born or the province you now play for. All players fit and available for selection

NORTH ISLAND
1 Tu'ungafasi
2 Taylor
3 Laulala
4 S Barrett
5 Whitelock
6 Jacobson
7 Cane
8 Savea
9 Smith
10 B Barrett
11 Ioane
12 Laumape
13 Goodhue
14 Reece
15 J Barrett

16 Coles
17 Tu'inukuafe
18 Ta'avao
19 Tuipulotu
20 Papalii
21 Perenara
22 Black
23 Bridge

SOUTH ISLAND
1 Moody
2 Dixon
3 Moli
4 Dunshea
5 Retallick
6 Grace
7 Lentjes
8 Blackadder
9 Drummond
10 Mo'unga
11 Alaimalo
12 Havili
13 A Lienert-Brown
14 Jordan
15 McKenzie

16 McAlister
17 D Lienert-Brown
18 Tokolahi
19 Romano
20 Harmon
21 Grooby? 
22 Nankivell
23 L Fainga'anuku

[Machpants]

@Bovidae SI would get smashed, thus the reason for the 'first 1st class' rule - that's even the reason given by Foster in the interview

[Bovidae]

@Machpants Oh, I definitely think Foster and co have decided on a criteria that maximises the number of their best players being involved. But the teams that will be selected will have a lot of SR combinations which defeats the purpose and uniqueness of such a game. Whitelock even mentioned it would be good to play against some of his Crusaders teammates.

[pukunui]

@Bovidae said in North vs South:

@pukunui said in North vs South:

@Bovidae said in North vs South:

I picked my teams (based on school) months ago and I'm sticking to them. I just need to track down Foster.

Have you got a link to those school based teams?
Im interested to see how the distribution of players would change based on schools.

Here's what I selected during the lockdown period (based on every player being available). Obviously there would now be a few changes through injury and unavailability.

OK, a blast from the past - North Island vs South Island.

The qualifier is which school you went to (some went to more than one school), not where you were born or the province you now play for. All players fit and available for selection

NORTH ISLAND
1 Tu'ungafasi
2 Taylor
3 Laulala
4 S Barrett
5 Whitelock
6 Jacobson
7 Cane
8 Savea
9 Smith
10 B Barrett
11 Ioane
12 Laumape
13 Goodhue
14 Reece
15 J Barrett

16 Coles
17 Tu'inukuafe
18 Ta'avao
19 Tuipulotu
20 Papalii
21 Perenara
22 Black
23 Bridge

SOUTH ISLAND
1 Moody
2 Dixon
3 Moli
4 Dunshea
5 Retallick
6 Grace
7 Lentjes
8 Blackadder
9 Drummond
10 Mo'unga
11 Alaimalo
12 Havili
13 A Lienert-Brown
14 Jordan
15 McKenzie

16 McAlister
17 D Lienert-Brown
18 Tokolahi
19 Romano
20 Harmon
21 Grooby? 
22 Nankivell
23 L Fainga'anuku

Thanks. I can see now why they have gone with Provinces. Just not enough depth in the South island schools team to make the game competitive.

[ACT Crusader]

@pukunui said in North vs South:

@Hooroo said in North vs South:

@Snowy said in North vs South:

@Hooroo said in North vs South:

@Crucial said in North vs South:

It doesn’t really matter anyway, this is just a way of doing a “trial” game and fitting in most of the players.

Far out! I reckon!!! Way for everyone to get all twisted about how it is being put together.

You don't think the North Island versing South Island rivalry will be bought up on here at all ? It is the point of the whole thing to add some tension / adversarial contest to a "trial" as a team sport.

With one team actually winning, there will be those that rub it in if the North lose (as an example) all part of the fun, but there can't be any excuses like "half your players were ours anyway".

In my mind this is just a random trial given a silly name. Call it what you want, it's just a trial and it won't become a fixture.

Nah maaate, this is oorriggiiinnnnnn!
Can we get Phil Gould over to do the pre game speech about passion and mateship etc?

Thankfully NZ’s borders are closed...