Maori Super Rugby Team
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@mariner4life Hawkes Bay Magpies Maori team has a nice ring to it.
Brad Weber and Wharau Whakatawa are a good start at halfback. š
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Looking at population if there's going to be another SR franchise then it should really be in Tauranga so that it has a population base and doesn't eat into the other franchises that can't fill their stadiums already
1 Auckland 1,470,100
2 Christchurch 383,200
3 Wellington 215,100
4 Hamilton 176,500
5 Tauranga 151,300
6 Lower Hutt 110,700
7 Dunedin 106,200
8 Palmerston North 81,500
9 Napier 66,300
10 Hibiscus Coast 59,800
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@booboo Got to agree the school rugby doesn't make sense for the sport or players to me.
Ngarimu Blair made the point recently and I agree with him that kids should keep playing in their clubs not disappear off to school and never come back
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@DrivingMaul You canāt put a franchise in a place with a stock car track and a half stand sports ground as the only options as a home base.
Plus, you really should go Rotorua if you want a Maori team. I mean Tauranga likely counts Simon Bridges in its Maori population. š
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@DrivingMaul not that I am advocating a Northland team, Whangarei District is almost 100,000 so slots in at 8th.
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@taniwharugby said in Maori Super Rugby Team:
@DrivingMaul not that I am advocating a Northland team, Whangarei District is almost 100,000 so slots in at 8th.
@DrivingMauls raw statistics have a few holes in them. I can only assume that is Napierās city population and it disregards the over 70k odd people who can get to McLean park from Hastings in 20 odd minutes.
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@DrivingMaul said in Maori Super Rugby Team:
@booboo Got to agree the school rugby doesn't make sense for the sport or players to me.
Ngarimu Blair made the point recently and I agree with him that kids should keep playing in their clubs not disappear off to school and never come backIn the modern era the strength of New Zealand rugby is in the professionalism at school boy competition. Yes players who can't afford to go to elite schools or don't demonstrate the physical capability at an early age miss out, but NZR is better placed finding solutions to that than trying to construct a 10 team professional competition based on club rugby.
In my opinion Ngarimu's argument is a pipe dream devoid of understanding market economics. Unless NZ becomes a closed market.
And I'd have preferred TJP played the last couple of seasons for the MÄori.
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@Nepia Yup I've just lifted them from Wikipedia. Still is there a larger catchment population than Tauranga that isn't serviced by a Super Rugby franchise already?
If so I'm happy that city is put in place of Tauranga. Either way I don't think South Auckland is a great place for a 6th franchise. I get when a Pasifika team would want to be there though
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@antipodean I don't agree with his 10 team professional competition but I do think kids staying with their clubs is a good idea. Trying to get players to come back to clubs after school is one of the reasons that club rugby is really struggling with numbers (note one reason not all the reasons)
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@DrivingMaul said in Maori Super Rugby Team:
@antipodean I don't agree with his 10 team professional competition but I do think kids staying with their clubs is a good idea. Trying to get players to come back to clubs after school is one of the reasons that club rugby is really struggling with numbers (note one reason not all the reasons)
Certainly - there's no reason why strong school development has to mean players don't go back to club rugby. The elephant in the room is if these kids who play at school would give it away regardless on graduation.
