Super Rugby 2020
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@antipodean A very good point. No amount of 'goodwill' defence could justify gifting a professional sporting outfit extra sponsorship dollars in lieu of paying the businesses' own employees.
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@KiwiMurph Muppets. But this isn't an uncommon sight at parks. We saw a group of girls the other day well distanced but passing around a netball. And no, it's not likely 4-5 young girls around the same age came from the same bubble.
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Club World Cup to be put forward as radical new rugby union competition
A radical proposal for an annual Club World Cup featuring 20 teams from around the globe will be put to leading unions this week
Laporte has suggested the involvement of one team each from the US and Japan – as well as four from the Premiership, the Top 14, the Pro14 and six from Super Rugby.
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
Reporters are essential workers
Of course someone has to spew out the constant dribble we are receiving amongst the important messages.
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So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
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So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
If thats their thinking it will kill Rugby in Australia, no one will care not broadcasters they will keep NRL and AFL as strong as it is now.
It will drive all the decent athletes to those sports even more than now.
Big mistake if that is their thinking it will drive Rugby even more underground.From a NZ perspective the sad thing is Australia in Rugby circles is no longer what it was a fierce rivalry for a time,so fans in NZ will not really care.
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
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So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
That would be an unmitigated disaster.
There's something fundamentally wrong with people who don't recognise two issues:
- The environment and circumstances that made Australian rugby world beaters does not exist now, and
- People complaining about the current malaise are (at least to me) grossly overestimating their ability to adjust and manage sports administration.
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
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So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
What a strange article! I genuinely have no idea what point Cully was trying to get across there. That Kearns would play hardball somehow? That NZ should beware???
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@Chris said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
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So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
If thats their thinking it will kill Rugby in Australia, no one will care not broadcasters they will keep NRL and AFL as strong as it is now.
It will drive all the decent athletes to those sports even more than now.
Big mistake if that is their thinking it will drive Rugby even more underground.From a NZ perspective the sad thing is Australia in Rugby circles is no longer what it was a fierce rivalry for a time,so fans in NZ will not really care.
The "return to club rugby" suggests emulating the NRL / AFL model where the competition is entered around one major city, with token interstate representation to form a "national" competition.
Fine in theory but two major issues jump out to me:
a) Unlike say Essendon in AFL or Paramatta in NRL, Randwick does not have a major state-wide following, capable of drawing huge crowds live and on TV.
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@voodoo said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
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So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
What a strange article! I genuinely have no idea what point Cully was trying to get across there. That Kearns would play hardball somehow? That NZ should beware???
Just weird.That if Rugby Aus decide to withdraw from SANZAAR that NZRU could be in quite a pickle.
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@KiwiMurph said in Super Rugby 2020:
@voodoo said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
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So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
What a strange article! I genuinely have no idea what point Cully was trying to get across there. That Kearns would play hardball somehow? That NZ should beware???
Just weird.That if Rugby Aus decide to withdraw from SANZAAR that NZRU could be in quite a pickle.
But the ARU would be in tatters?! Seems an absurd idea to me
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@voodoo Cully is saying that the ex-players who are rumoured to be making a powerplay at RA are stuck in the 1980s and 1990s and would favour club rugby over super rugby. Honestly, Aust needs us more than we need them. BUT we both need SA as they bring in the largest income through broadcasting rights.
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They're taking the piss, surely, if they think an Australian national club comp would work!? No-one would attend beyond exisitng club game crowds, no-one would pay anything even remotely substantial for the TV rights, the ARU's income would be negligible and all their better players would fuck off to the NH.
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@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 2020:
Interesting:
Says SMH reporter Tom Decent...
How would that work when you can't get into Qld? There aren't enough suitable grounds in NSW to make it work.
I realise sports journalists are frantically trying to put out any copy that let's them keep their job, but simply making shit up doesn't help.
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@antipodean He does reference a couple of people and comments which suggest he's at the very least put forward his own idea and asked for comment.
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@junior said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Chris said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
More relevant in this thread.
So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
If thats their thinking it will kill Rugby in Australia, no one will care not broadcasters they will keep NRL and AFL as strong as it is now.
It will drive all the decent athletes to those sports even more than now.
Big mistake if that is their thinking it will drive Rugby even more underground.From a NZ perspective the sad thing is Australia in Rugby circles is no longer what it was a fierce rivalry for a time,so fans in NZ will not really care.
The "return to club rugby" suggests emulating the NRL / AFL model where the competition is entered around one major city, with token interstate representation to form a "national" competition.
Fine in theory but two major issues jump out to me:
a) Unlike say Essendon in AFL or Paramatta in NRL, Randwick does not have a major state-wide following, capable of drawing huge crowds live and on TV.
b) What happens to the state teams, the 'Tahs and the Reds?Spot on that is what I mean by pushing the game underground even more.
Those codes also promote their game much better than rugby does in Australia, you are trying to compete with over a 100 years of tradition and loyalty to those NRL and AFL clubs and mimic what they have.
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@antipodean said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 2020:
Interesting:
Says SMH reporter Tom Decent...
How would that work when you can't get into Qld? There aren't enough suitable grounds in NSW to make it work.
I realise sports journalists are frantically trying to put out any copy that let's them keep their job, but simply making shit up doesn't help.
It can not work for the exact Reasons you have mentioned.The premier in Qld is telling us 6 more months of isolation.
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12324521
It would be nice to get some live rugby soon
