Super Rugby Trans Tasman
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The (least amount of) tinkering way to 'solve' SRTT in almost it's current form. (Assuming going to full round-robin once pandemic is over).
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A 6th NZ team, the Knightiwhas, not Moana Pacifica, to weaken the NZ teams. (As I've said ad-nauseum - MP won't weaken NZ franchises but they will be weak themselves as the poor little cousin with no equal access to uncle's wallet).
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Allow open contracting of all Australian, NZ, Pacific players anywhere within the comp.
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Elevate Razor to AB coach. Appoint Ian Foster or Mark Hammett as Crusaders coach. Jokes aside, the Canterbury coaching conveyer belt is looking as sick as the CBHS first-five factory. just get Razor out will probably solve it no matter who they appoint.
As I'd prefer the whole thing to implode rather than limp on, I don't usually tout this wisdom. I'm not one for tinkering on this one.
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@kiwiwomble would it be auto promotion or play off?
As we know the latter more often than not, doesnt work, the gap between the bottom team in the 1st div to the best in the 2nd div is usually too large.
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@taniwharugby id be happy with auto but i think rugby people tend to prefer a playoff
it may not often result in anyone dropping but at least proves teams are where they belong
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@mariner4life said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@mariner4life whats the compromise though?
I don't know! I don't know what they both want!! i can't see why a 10 team home and away can't work, with a top 4. But then i am not in possession of all teh facts.
And, i totally get the lack of appeal in Australia for a comp that doesn't look, on current evidence, that will have any Aussie teams in the post-season.
Doesn't the second part answer the first?
yes, but i don't know how you get an Aussie team in without conferences. And you can't run a conference when you just play everyone home and away. So then it's 3 rounds, 2 v Domestic, 1 v Trans- Ta$man (like this year but more mixed). Conference winners to the semi along with 2 "wildcards"?
I can hear the howls of outrage from NZ fans already.
This will be very unpopular, but we have to have conferences with probably that system you just explained, which means that the 'Final' may not have the best two teams in the comp - just like the NBA and many other conference competitions.
12 team competition divided into two conferences by country who go to a Conference/Country (i.e., Super Rugby Oz, Super Rugby Aotearoa) Championship and the winners play in the Trans-tasman final.
I'd set it up so that on either side, three teams qualify for the post season.
Conference winner gets the first week off while 2nd and 3rd play.
Country/Conference final
Trans-tasman final.It's not pretty but it will probably pay the bills.
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@rapido said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
The (least amount of) tinkering way to 'solve' SRTT in almost it's current form. (Assuming going to full round-robin once pandemic is over).
- A 6th NZ team, the Knightiwhas, not Moana Pacifica, to weaken the NZ teams. (As I've said ad-nauseum - MP won't weaken NZ franchises but they will be weak themselves as the poor little cousin with no equal access to uncle's wallet).
Allow open contracting of all Australian, NZ, Pacific players anywhere within the comp
- Elevate Razor to AB coach. Appoint Ian Foster or Mark Hammett as Crusaders coach. Jokes aside, the Canterbury coaching conveyer belt is looking as sick as the CBHS first-five factory. just get Razor out will probably solve it no matter who they appoint.
As I'd prefer the whole thing to implode rather than limp on, I don't usually tout this wisdom. I'm not one for tinkering on this one.
I actually think this, or a variant of this might be how to level competiveness quickly. May not have it completely open. Eg. Maybe only a certain amount of externals per franchise, but conceptually I like it
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For a trans- Ta$man competition to have any integrity all teams need to play each other. To me, SR TT ended up being like the Europa League when we'd already watched the Champions League.
If you are going to have conferences then the SFs should be NZ1 vs Aust2 and Aust1 vs NZ2. The top team from each country hosts a SF and the winners play in the final.
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@bayimports would anyone from NZ actually want to move to a shitty Aus franchise though? I think they'd be paying a huge premium or getting sloppy seconds (thirds?).
I expect that would make the Force quite competitive though. Twiggy has the cash for a couple spare All Blacks.
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@derpus said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@bayimports would anyone from NZ actually want to move to a shitty Aus franchise though? I think they'd be paying a huge premium or getting sloppy seconds (thirds?).
I expect that would make the Force quite competitive though. Twiggy has the cash for a couple spare All Blacks.
I think so, it would bring sponsors back in general. I am quite sure some NSW old boy will have significantly deep pockets to invest in his team if he felt he could get them winning again. There is still a lot of money around ...just not currently invested in the game.
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@derpus said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@bayimports would anyone from NZ actually want to move to a shitty Aus franchise though? I think they'd be paying a huge premium or getting sloppy seconds (thirds?).
I expect that would make the Force quite competitive though. Twiggy has the cash for a couple spare All Blacks.
i think so, the goldie/brisbane sydney or melbourne would be attractive to lots of guys when they currently living in Hamilton or dunedin
especially if they thought it didnt hinder their chances of making the All Blacks
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@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@derpus said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@bayimports would anyone from NZ actually want to move to a shitty Aus franchise though? I think they'd be paying a huge premium or getting sloppy seconds (thirds?).
I expect that would make the Force quite competitive though. Twiggy has the cash for a couple spare All Blacks.
i think so, the goldie/brisbane sydney or melbourne would be attractive to lots of guys when they currently living in Hamilton or dunedin
especially if they thought it didnt hinder their chances of making the All Blacks
It clearly wouldn't under the current regime.
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if these guys are playing in the same comp so supposedly the same level, and all the NZ teams have still managed to field All Blacks when they've gone through their shit periods, so you can say playing for a lesser team stopped them
BB signed Auckland before their resurgence last year, he obviously thought he'd proved enough and went looking for a different lifestyle and or challenge
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I remain astonished at any New Zealander who thinks offshoring the selection, development and welfare of All Blacks to our competitors is a good idea.
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@antipodean said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
I remain astonished at any New Zealander who thinks offshoring the selection, development and welfare of All Blacks to our competitors is a good idea.
are you suggesting the Aussie team would deliberately hobble wouldbe all blacks to help the wallabies?
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@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@antipodean said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
I remain astonished at any New Zealander who thinks offshoring the selection, development and welfare of All Blacks to our competitors is a good idea.
are you suggesting the Aussie team would deliberately hobble wouldbe all blacks to help the wallabies?
I'm explicitly stating they wouldn't give a fuck about making their All Blacks play 80mins every week. That's before we dwell on what position they'd play and their "coaching".
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@antipodean of course they would, they would want to be able to attract more players in the future and they would want them playing at their best whilst they were there. Theyre not going to suddenly make a player that would normally get a sub like halfback or hooker sudden play until they drop dead
evil aussie coach: hehehe that will teach the stupid kiwis, i got an extra 20 minutes out of him
media: he now has an injury and you have to play your second string next week against the crusaders
evil aussie coach: was worth it for the motherland!
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@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@antipodean of course they would, they would want to be able to attract more players in the future and they would want them playing at their best whilst they were there. Theyre not going to suddenly make a player that would normally get a sub like halfback or hooker sudden play until they drop dead
What alternative universe are you in?
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@antipodean It's pretty academic but I suspect if we had pursued a domestic first model in place of the international provincial SR we may well be a lot better off.
Its kind of stupid that in a state twice the population size of NZ we only have one professional team. A team which was originally meant to be a representative side.
That ship sailed forever ago, though.
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@antipodean said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@antipodean of course they would, they would want to be able to attract more players in the future and they would want them playing at their best whilst they were there. Theyre not going to suddenly make a player that would normally get a sub like halfback or hooker sudden play until they drop dead
What alternative universe are you in?
was going to ask you the same thing, its cear whichever one it is there is a lot of tinfoil
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@antipodean That's pretty easily addressed with minute caps on international players. Which should already exist.
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I still think that the initial idea of a Super 12 (5 NZ, 5 Aussie, Fiji Drua, Moana Pasifika) is the best, with one round robin. So one year franchises play 5 (or 6) home games and 6 (or 5) away games, the next year it's 6 home games and 5 away games. After that round robin, the teams ranked 3 to 6 play quarter finals for two spots in the semis against teams ranked 1 and 2. The winners of the semis play the Final. No conferences; no guaranteed quarter final spots for teams from a particular country (all based on one combined ranking).
The current way of central contracting and only selecting players from NZ has served the ABs well over the years; I don't see a good reason to change that, especially not with guys like Forrester having the coin to offer huge salaries to lure our best players away if we allow them to play outside NZ. I'm with @antipodean on this point.
