'Super Rugby' 2021

taniwharugby

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

bullshit!!! you were balls deep on teh Blues when they looked like winning the comp...

When was that? I bet you cant find posts of mine pumping them as my team...fluffybunny!

I bet i could

if i could be bothered. which i can't.

pfft, I call bullshit on you, you fluffybunny!

The fact you cant be bothered checking means you know you are talking through a hole in your fluffbunny

mariner4life

@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

bullshit!!! you were balls deep on teh Blues when they looked like winning the comp...

When was that? I bet you cant find posts of mine pumping them as my team...fluffybunny!

I bet i could

if i could be bothered. which i can't.

pfft, I call bullshit on you, you fluffybunny!

The fact you cant be bothered checking means you know you are talking through a hole in your fluffbunny

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gt12

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Kiwiwomble said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

enough, i honestly dont think that would stop though, a lot of that came out of our old NPC rivalries so there would just be a natural progression, it would just be anther way to draw a line under it

I dont really have any affiliation or 'love' for the Chiefs (who we were part of initially) or the Blues (who we are part of now) I support all NZ sides equally haha

bullshit!!! you were balls deep on teh Blues when they looked like winning the comp...

I've been following the Chiefs for what, 25 years now? That's long enough to get attached. Starting again would be retarded.

I've been a Bay supporter my whole life, but in reality only consciously about 10 years more than that.

The Chiefs are now as much a part of my supporter identity as any team.

So this.

What's the average age of posters here? I think if you are 40 you are probably young; we aren't a good sample to gauge attachendness to the Super franchises - most kids (certainly the ones I know) would support the Chiefs, Blues, Landers etc. plus perhaps the local province.

I also know a bunch of millenials who have taken the @Nepia option and support a team outside their area. My cousin was a pro footy player, born in Auckland, but rightly saw that supporting the Chiefs was the way forward (he was with us during the foster years too so it's not like he picked us up when we were great).

So, I don't see any reason to dump the current franchises.

Kiwiwomble

@gt12 said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Kiwiwomble said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

enough, i honestly dont think that would stop though, a lot of that came out of our old NPC rivalries so there would just be a natural progression, it would just be anther way to draw a line under it

I dont really have any affiliation or 'love' for the Chiefs (who we were part of initially) or the Blues (who we are part of now) I support all NZ sides equally haha

bullshit!!! you were balls deep on teh Blues when they looked like winning the comp...

I've been following the Chiefs for what, 25 years now? That's long enough to get attached. Starting again would be retarded.

I've been a Bay supporter my whole life, but in reality only consciously about 10 years more than that.

The Chiefs are now as much a part of my supporter identity as any team.

So this.

What's the average age of posters here? I think if you are 40 you are probably young; we aren't a good sample to gauge attachendness to the Super franchises - most kids (certainly the ones I know) would support the Chiefs, Blues, Landers etc. plus perhaps the local province.

I also know a bunch of millenials who have taken the @Nepia option and support a team outside their area. My cousin was a pro footy player, born in Auckland, but rightly saw that supporting the Chiefs was the way forward (he was with us during the foster years too so it's not like he picked us up when we were great).

So, I don't see any reason to dump the current franchises.

resetting the crusaders championship count not enough for people?...just me?...fair enough

Snowy

@gt12 said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

What's the average age of posters here?

@Duluth probably knows that. Of course I just think that you are all Polish chicks last time that we we went into this stuff.

gt12

@Kiwiwomble

It's not like Canterbury are weak, and the moment that NPC teams became important, they'd pull the rug out on Ta$man, who are only kept in it by the Saders giving them plenty of talent to be competitive (e.g. the Saders academy 'pushes' people to different teams by placing them in Nelson or Christchurch), Ta$man doesn't have an academy.

If Ta$man were forced to fight without the Saders standing behind them, they'd be fucked.

And, if the main team was Canterbury, it would just be the Saders.

taniwharugby

@Snowy there was a thread/poll several years back asking for ages, think I was in the 'average age' of posters here at the sprightly age of thirty-sixteen years old!

mariner4life

@gt12 said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

So, I don't see any reason to dump the current franchises.

to me the options are keep them, or dump them and revert to provinces. Any other step doesn't make any sense.

gt12

@mariner4life

I think I agree; you don't want two or three new Super franchises?

Kiwiwomble

@mariner4life it was really just a bit about symbolism, a chance to draw a line under things and reconnect with the communities theyre in, a have a few friends in invercargill for example and theyve pretty much given up on the highlanders, not represented etc and i think thats probably pretty common out of the main centers

also might smooth things if we introduced a couple of new teams, everyone would have to support someone new rather than just the one from franchises that had been split

..and the crusaders thing

mariner4life

@gt12 said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@mariner4life

I think I agree; you don't want two or three new Super franchises?

where? that's the issue. and what makes people support them now? Why do you change your support? or do you wait 15 years to get new supporters coming through?

It'll be like all the people up here who remain Broncos supporters from the time when they were the only Qld team, and have never moved to the Cowboys.

Snowy

@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Snowy there was a thread/poll several years back asking for ages, think I was in the 'average age' of posters here at the sprightly age of thirty-sixteen years old!

So quite some time ago then? If I didn't know better I would assume that you were a youngish lass from Lodz.

I'm still bloody here though, and so are all of you pricks who are no younger either.

gt12

@mariner4life

Yeah, I think we'd be better to keep the five and find a way to have a competition that works with other countries.

Snowy

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

or do you wait 15 years to get new supporters coming through?

Exactly it. And their kids, etc. It doesn't happen overnight.

Nepia

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Snowy said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Kiwiwomble Still plenty on here that are seriously NPC based with loyalties to teams.

It takes a long time to adopt a new team, it seems.

not for @Nepia

Downvote! 🤣

Although I’m I think I fit exactly what @Kiwiwomble is saying, if the Hurricanes ever gave a shit about the Magpies I may have been able to overcome the Hammetteurs destroying if the team ....