Pasifika SR team

@nepia said in Pasifika SR team:

@steven-harris said in Pasifika SR team:

@nepia 14.Buckman/Naholo

Depends on selection criteria I guess

Good point. I don't think you could count people that Hammer sacked.

King Carlos might be a contender.

Or the ones who left because of the Hammeteur.

mikey07

@kiwiwomble Or chiefs

Dice

I heard Dagg mention the other day that Moana Pasifika have Danny Toala.

Steven Harris

@dice have heard that has well

Stargazer

They should play games at McLean Park.

Steven Harris

@stargazer heard a rumour their preseason training will be down in Bay 😐

Duluth

@stargazer said in Pasifika SR team:

They should play games at McLean Park.

It would be a lot better if the new team was a geographic region like all of the others.

Kiwiwomble

@duluth i agree but i think NZRU would say they dont anymore, just historically

Stargazer

@duluth Yeah, I agree, but the reason for making Mt Smart their home stadium is that the largest Pasifika population lives in Auckland. If they picked a region, then it would either have to (partially) overlap the Blues catchment, or be a region with a much smaller Pasifika population.

I think the first season will show whether the underlying assumption - the Pasifika population in Auckland will support the team and fill Mt Smart stadium - is correct. If not, then there won't be any reason to keep this team based in Auckland and they could actually create a new franchise region.

Kiwiwomble

@stargazer thats what i was kind of getting at a few posts back, i wouldn't be surprised if after a couple of seasons it gets rebranded and moved to Hawkes Bay or something

Duluth

@stargazer said in Pasifika SR team:

I think the first season will show whether the underlying assumption - the Pasifika population in Auckland will support the team and fill Mt Smart stadium - is correct. If not, then there won't be any reason to keep this team based in Auckland and they could actually create a new franchise region.

They should've just created a new regular franchise. If they want ~30 PI qualified players in the competition they could've created a rule that all the franchises needed to select 5 PI qualified players

Kiwiwomble

@duluth yeah, or make PI players more attractive to include in their squads, run the comp straight through the RC, we get a full home and away round robin, som super saturdays with SR games before internationals and team's have to dig deep into their squads and so players that wont be called up to international teams become attractive

Dice

@kiwiwomble said in Pasifika SR team:

@stargazer thats what i was kind of getting at a few posts back, i wouldn't be surprised if after a couple of seasons it gets rebranded and moved to Hawkes Bay or something

Can't see that happening. They've signed a deal to be at Mt Smart until 2028.

Kiwiwomble

@dice really? hadn't seen the date, thats a long commitment

Bovidae

@duluth Who is "they"? AFAIK NZR aren't contributing to the MP player salaries so in this situation MP is independent of the 5 NZ franchises from a financial and governance POV.

The Silver Fern

Pasifika SR team