NH International Rugby

Snowy

@mariner4life said in NH International Rugby:

Even thought the on-field product doesn't always deliver, i envy the 6N

Yeah. It is a great competition. Maybe that is where TRC should go. One match against each country, alternating years home and away, if fans really are jaded by it.

raznomore

@Snowy said in NH International Rugby:

@raznomore said in NH International Rugby:

@Snowy I think there would be a majority of NZ fans that feel the same as you do mate. But there are more and more of us that are over TRC.

So tours then? Like most of us have wanted for a long time. Mid week games, etc? A 3 test series against the Boks every 2 years with mid week against Bulls, Stormers, et al?

What are the other options? Just shut down the ABs? We've got to be in some matches somewhere.

Yeah in an ideal world where money was not the driving force. I really don't know what the options are either. I just know how I feel about a Boks vs Abs test. Or vs Australia. The Lustre is less. Not gone, just less.

Snowy

@raznomore said in NH International Rugby:

@Snowy said in NH International Rugby:

@raznomore said in NH International Rugby:

@Snowy I think there would be a majority of NZ fans that feel the same as you do mate. But there are more and more of us that are over TRC.

So tours then? Like most of us have wanted for a long time. Mid week games, etc? A 3 test series against the Boks every 2 years with mid week against Bulls, Stormers, et al?

What are the other options? Just shut down the ABs? We've got to be in some matches somewhere.

Yeah in an ideal world where moeny was not the driving force. I really don't know what the options are either. I just know how I feel about a Boks vs Abs test. Or vs Australia. The Lustre is less. Not gone, just less.

As I said - we gotta play somebody. Will that become boring too? There really are only eight good teams in rugby at any one time, sometimes fewer.

raznomore

As I said, I don't know what the options are. I'm just being honest that the regularity at which we play the Bok & Wallabies, added to (usually in any normal year) seeing these players over and over in Super Rugby has made it less of an event for me. I will always enjoy AB's rugby, so long as I'm lucky enough to see it. But I miss unfamiliarity, I guess. The unknown quantity that only NH powerhouses can now offer.

junior

@raznomore said in NH International Rugby:

@sparky I think you’ll find their fan base is pretty sick of the site of us and IMO many NZ fans are bored as shit with the Springboks. I am one of them.

The RC has become stagnant. Adding the Argies was good but it’s not the spectacle it once was.

You mean you're not interested in seeing the ABs play the current world champs?

raznomore

@junior no. I am bored with the regularity at which we play them.

junior

@raznomore said in NH International Rugby:

@junior no. I am bored with the regularity at which we play them.

Fair enough.

How much of that has been driven by the fairly regular towellings we've given them in NZ over the last, say, 10 years?

Have you got more satisfaction from the times we've played them in RSA (because I have)?

raznomore

@junior absolutely. It’s like a different prospect altogether playing them there.

MiketheSnow

@sparky said in NH International Rugby:

@Machpants said in NH International Rugby:
IMHO the Boks against the ABs is the greatest rivalry in any sport.

Wrong thread 😉

Derm McCrum

@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:

@sparky said in NH International Rugby:

@Machpants said in NH International Rugby:
IMHO the Boks against the ABs is the greatest rivalry in any sport.

Wrong thread 😉

I was beginning to think that South Africa had moved northwards....

MiketheSnow

@Derm-McCrum said in NH International Rugby:

@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:

@sparky said in NH International Rugby:

@Machpants said in NH International Rugby:
IMHO the Boks against the ABs is the greatest rivalry in any sport.

Wrong thread 😉

I was beginning to think that South Africa had moved northwards....

Was referring to the opinion not the geography

https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/4071/the-hot-takes-and-unpopular-opinions/508

Derm McCrum

@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:

@Derm-McCrum said in NH International Rugby:

@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:

@sparky said in NH International Rugby:

@Machpants said in NH International Rugby:
IMHO the Boks against the ABs is the greatest rivalry in any sport.

Wrong thread 😉

I was beginning to think that South Africa had moved northwards....

Was referring to the opinion not the geography

https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/4071/the-hot-takes-and-unpopular-opinions/508

Ah right.

I was referring to the topic not the opinion.

sparky

All trials in the UK involving spectators returning to stadiums are now suspended. The reminder of the 6 Nations and the 8 Nations tournament to happen behind closed doors.

Machpants

@sparky said in NH International Rugby:

All trials in the UK involving spectators returning to stadiums are now suspended. The reminder of the 6 Nations and the 8 Nations tournament to happen behind closed doors.

Ouch. See, Martin Johnson, fuck off with your NH tour idiocy.

I can't see us getting SA or even Arg successfully too Oz. SA won't come and Arg will test positive somewhere. But at least we'll get the 4 Bleds in with crowds

Tim

@Machpants said in NH International Rugby:

Ouch. See, Martin Johnson, fuck off with your NH tour idiocy.

Wasn't that Lawrence Dallaglio?

Stargazer

@sparky said in NH International Rugby:

All trials in the UK involving spectators returning to stadiums are now suspended. The reminder of the 6 Nations and the 8 Nations tournament to happen behind closed doors.

For anyone who would like to read more than just this one sentence, this is one article about it (no doubt there are more):

https://www.bbc.com/sport/54246745