NPC 2023
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@Bovidae That's a pity. Those media guides were useful and those media releases don't include players that have been added to squads after the initial team namings, but before the season starts. It wouldn't be a problem if each PU had decent player profiles on their websites, but that's not the case.
Several PU's, including my own, still have the 2022 squads on their site.
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North Harbour's website doesn't even have a squad announcement, let alone a profile page.
Auckland still has last year's squad up:
Auckland Rugby Union
Official site of Auckland Rugby Union. Delivering amateur and professional rugby in Auckland City.
Media guides are still from 2022.
No coverage at all from the NZ Herald. One article from Stuff.
jeez that is all super amateurish....hell, all this stuff would make a good damning article for some journo...if they cared
happy to say otago seems to have a 2023 squad up, all but a couple with new photos and everything
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@Duluth I still dont know why they bother with the mid-week games, it is a contrived draw as it is, just make it one less game to remove the storm week game, this is a semi pro comp FFS, some of these guys still have jobs, and potentially playing 3 games in 8 days, training and working (or not as would be the case)...
It's a Wednesday night in the winter, and k/o at 1905 FFS...If i want to go, it is better I stay in town than go home and then come back in for the game, not exactly family friendly, you do wonder if some really do want it to fail.
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@Kiwiwomble said in NPC 2023:
The official NPC site doesn't bother with midweek games. Northland v Taranaki is not part of round 1 or round 2 so you won't find the teams listed any where
jesus fucking christ thats lazy, if domestic rugby dies we cant really be surprised
I feel like the blokes who are always putting down the NPC are running it at the moment. It's like they're going out of their way to destroy it.
Just a little bit of effort in marketing and social media would be of benefit.
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@taniwharugby said in NPC 2023:
It's a Wednesday night in the winter, and k/o at 1905
The Hawke's Bay v Waikato mid-week game has been moved to 5.35pm.
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@Nepia I fear it's too late. If done right the club footy passion could translate to NPC. If I wander down to a club game there is often more passion than at a Lions fixture unfortunately.
There's still lots of passion in the provinces. Best we just cut you big city blokes out of it and share your NPC players around to the rest of the squads and we'll leave you to your club rugby.
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The first thing many unions need to look at is the salary cap , itās fair to say many are flaunting the 1.1m salary cap paying overs for super players which is inflating the spend
Sticking to the cap might see a quality super rugby player stay at a smaller province , I know when Isi Tuāungafasi made the Crusaders he went back to Northland demanding money that Northland couldnāt come up with ,hence he ended up at Ta$man
I know this really grated with Northland because they had held out an olive branch after he was unwanted by AucklandI know of other unions where a very similar story has happened, I get that itās an open market , but it doesnāt help when overs are being thrown out there
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@Steven-Harris Haha a bit rich of Isi Tu'ungafasi to do that for such a bog average front rower. Did he not realise that he was only dragged down to Chch in the hope that they could convince Ofa to sign for them lol.
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@African-Monkey said in NPC 2023:
@Steven-Harris Haha a bit rich of Isi Tu'ungafasi to do that for such a bog average front rower. Did he not realise that he was only dragged down to Chch in the hope that they could convince Ofa to sign for them lol.
That was very close to happening Ofa pulled out at the last minute.
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