'Super Rugby' 2021
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@antipodean will be interesting if it changes next year, the Suns have had some good results
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@Kiwiwomble said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@antipodean will be interesting if it changes next year, the Suns have had some good results
Won't change a thing. The GC is where sporting teams die. The AFL has been here before with the Bears. They'll be propping up this team forever unless they can find another Melbourne team to merge with it and relocate.
It's the same with basketball, rugby, league, soccer, tiddlywinks. The GC isn't interested.
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@Stargazer said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
Brutal Super Rugby Aotearoa opens door for Rugby Australia in trans- Ta$man negotiations
So we are saying that we need some soft cocks to fill in the gaps? Bring on the Force? Dilute the competition so that it is not worth watching? FFS.
What happened to quality? Less is more, etc? Quality over quantity? Bigger crowds and more TB viewers.They have a chance to get this right, even if it means more bye weeks and fewer games for player recovery time.
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@Stargazer said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
Brutal Super Rugby Aotearoa opens door for Rugby Australia in trans- Ta$man negotiations
That's the weakest weak shit I've read so far about this new comp.
Can boil it down to "rest your players against our shit standard". Unbelievable.
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@Snowy spot on. This feels a lot like the glory days of Super 12 rugby, where there were massive tussles every week. Loving the comp.
If you get the quality, the crowds and funds follow. The Super 18 can fark off, less is more.
I note that the NFL is a 16 game regular season - and that's it. Wonder why we can't do a proper 12 team comp, accept its' going to be 11 weeks, and then there is international rugby to fill the gaps. I'd rather focus for three months, than suffer through 4-5 months of meaningless competition where you can be out of contention before the cricket sesaon finishes.
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Agreed. The very best thing about this competition is that the winless Chiefs could beat the Crusaders this week, and fuck everything up for them. You can't miss a game.
I can't believe that the powers that be haven't worked out that having two shorter competitions would be better than one long, crappily designed competition.
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@nzzp Because money. It's fine if you're the NFL and can pull a TV audience of 16m each game. But we aren't the NFL.
Unless we can find private equity money, both the NZRU and RA are reliant on TV revenue. And to get that revenue, we to provide more than 11 weeks of content.
It's a shitty situation to be in, because we are forced to choose (somewhat) between quality and quantity. Both in terms of how many rounds and how many teams in the comp itself.
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@barbarian said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@nzzp Because money. It's fine if you're the NFL and can pull a TV audience of 16m each game. But we aren't the NFL.
would love to know what the vieweing numbers were for Super 12 when it was running. Also, remember there are internationals as well -- so you get a 14-15 week comp (depending on byes), and then another 3-6 top tier international games (plus all the overseas ones). Then you can run an amateur or semi-pro comp internally before an end of year tour
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for comparison, from 2005 (still Super 12)
https://www.allblacks.com/news/rugby-viewership-and-match-attendances-rise/
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I just want to watch a couple of good games of rugby each weekend, like we are getting now. I don't believe that reducing the quality increases the viewership.
So the TB networks will have to play replays or find other content rather than playing cripple fight, no contest, matches.
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We've been down the road of "more teams, more fixtures, more money" and we've seen what has happened to a competition that used to be the best in the world.
If I wanted to watch a weekly dirge that never seemed to end, I'd watch NH club rugby.
It's all well and good looking for more fixtures, but selling advertisement space for declining viewership makes no sense.
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There's a medium that can be found between bloated Super 18 and super intense but not sustainable Super Rugby Aotearoa.
Let's say they look at 10 teams - 5 Aus 5 NZ - for 2021 where everyone plays everyone once and then you play 4 teams twice.
I'd like to see the 4 teams twice be 2 teams from NZ and 2 teams from Aus so that it's somewhat fair.
It then ends up being a nice balance between extra NZ derbies/Aus derbies and fairness.
Of course it's not perfect - some teams will draw Crusaders twice and others will draw Force twice - but it's heading in the right direction.
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@barbarian said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@Snowy said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
You take that back now. The Waratahs were the most
deservingwell-resourced and underperforming teams across all competitions and all years.FTFY
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@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@barbarian said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@Snowy said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
You take that back now. The Waratahs were the most
deservingwell-resourced and underperforming teams across all competitions and all years.FTFY
Well resourced and underperforming we may well have been, but we were also capital-c Champions in 2014. And it's my sole purpose here to remind you all of that fact as much as I possibly can.
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@barbarian said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@barbarian said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@Snowy said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
You take that back now. The Waratahs were the most
deservingwell-resourced and underperforming teams across all competitions and all years.FTFY
Well resourced and underperforming we may well have been, but we were also capital-c Champions in 2014. And it's my sole purpose here to remind you all of that fact as much as I possibly can.
should really have won half a dozen by then.
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@shark said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
I have to defer to the opinions of those who have lived in Melbourne more recently than I, but I still maintain a Rebels team performing at a high level against all-comers would create a lot of interest. Whatever happened to the old saying that they could pack the MCG out for the opening of an envelope?
I'm not sure it holds up anymore. I recall in '99 there was a lot interest in the Storm winning the NRL. However, since then, and even though they've been even more successful, the interest just isn't there.
There's heaps of reasons why the interest isn't there for domestic rugby. But, for me, the most important are those I've already mentioned and, to be frank, parochialism - Victorians are very parochial and very proud of their (village) game. The NRL, another domestic competition, is a threat to that. So is any domestic rugby comp. The Wallabies, being an international representative team who plays, at best, once a year in Melbourne is not a threat to that and so is easy to get behind.
Another hurdle is that all of the big Victorian clubs have had some measure of success in the last 15 years or so and the AFL comp can be quite unpredictable. This means that your average potential casual fan of the Rebels is likely to be far more engaged in their AFL team and for longer stretches of the AFL season.
