NPC 2023
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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 , it’s 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 Tu’ungafasi made the Crusaders he went back to Northland demanding money that Northland couldn’t 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 it’s an open market , but it doesn’t 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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@Chris Yes all the main sources on here were talking about it.
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I don't know about people on here talking about it, just what I heard from my source when it was happening.
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@African-Monkey to be fair he did make good strides through the season and had improved considerably and I'd have had him back the following year.
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It has been on the NZR agenda for a while now by the look of things,NPC is heading for an amateur or semi amateur competition.
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However, that clashes with NZ Rugby’s opinion that provincial unions should first and foremost concentrate on community rugby, with winning NPC titles no longer the priority.
.....nothing is going to generate interest in lower levels like having...nothing...to play for
I for one am shocked...shocked that the attendance figures are dropping given how little is done to get people to the games.....
I saw on the weekend the AB's instagram page posted a meme about not having AB's games to watch this weekend and just waiting...rather than encouraging people to go watch NPC...sums things up i think
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