NPC 2023

WTF really? in melbourne we get about 30-35k in subs, main sponsor is 10k, shoulder is 5k and then training tops are a couple each, so say another 25k in sponsors, so a generous 60k a year...thats why we cant afford to build clubrooms

can you say which club?

@Tim said in NPC 2023:

The NZ Herald posted a report from the Auckland/Harbour game. They pointed out that they don't post about the NPC, because no one reads it.

So, that's another data point to ignore while the NPC closes in upon extinction.

its a chicken and egg deal at the moment, we can just as easily say people arent interested because no one (NZR, PU, Media) are doing a good job hyping it....we might have to use some of the silverlake money to get people interested in it again...have to spend money to make money etc

interesting, they talk of a 1.1m cap, i say a thing in the net yesterday with a news report from 2006 about the NPC...im sure it said they wanted a cap of 2M then...suggesting teams were paying more than that back then, a huge drop

Stargazer

@Tim said in NPC 2023:

They pointed out that they don't post about the NPC, because no one reads it.

Part of that may be due to their pay-wall.

And the NZH rugby reporting isn't that great anyway.

Duluth

@Stargazer

They'll be comparing clicks relative other articles on the site.

Anyway here's the line mentioning why the paper doesn't cover NPC scores anymore (this story wasn't really discussing the match, it was more about the decline of the comp)

The score — in case anyone is wondering, since an absence of reader interest means they’re no longer reported on this site — was 43-21

nzzp

@ploughboy said in NPC 2023:

funny thing i know club teams whos budget is $500000 and most at least $180000

budget isn't the same as salary though - presumably those clubs aren't paying their players.

500k is a lot!

Bovidae

Based on what I was told some club players get paid a sum comparable to NPC contracts. It might be the same club @ploughboy is talking about.

Like the SR salary cap, the NPC salary cap is largely meaningless if you are just topping up player's SR contracts. That becomes more of an issue with the "haves" and "have nots" where the quality of the players you have in your squad is even wider between say, an Auckland and a Southland.

Duluth

@Bovidae said in NPC 2023:

Like the SR salary cap, the NPC salary cap is largely meaningless if you are just topping up player's SR contracts. That becomes more of an issue with the "haves" and "have nots" where the quality of the players you have in your squad is even wider between say, an Auckland and a Southland.

Which creates other problems too. Auckland had ~27 SR players, plus a couple of NZ u20's they wanted in the squad.. leaving almost no room for selections from club form

I think the Cantabs might be even worse ~30 SR players?

taniwharugby

@Duluth and then any ABs on the books are likely paid minimal and NZR pay it anyway, and then they don't often run in thier provincial colours anyway.

ploughboy

i know i said budget but this is what i was told clubs are spending on there top team and does not include any other teams they have. . i know of at least two clubs where every player gets paid for each appearance. the person who told me lead me to believe that all clubs in this comp are paying players and this was the amounts they were spending.
@Bovidae im sure we will be talking about the same club and im sure you can guess the other.

Kiwiwomble

i love this stuff and remember saying last year they should do more of this kind of thing

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Stargazer

Kiwiwomble

@Stargazer thats a handy pickup

Duluth

If it was a provincial competition Taranaki would pick the next best lock from their local clubs

But it stopped being that a while ago

The Silver Fern

NPC 2023

Three questions with an NPC chief