Super Rugby Trans Tasman
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@kirwan said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@antipodean i have to disagree, rugby in aus is just in a completely different situation than in NZ, they actually need to grow interest and grow fans that will still watch team when theyre not winning, Nz fan just want the best rugby, finding something that fixes both is going to tough if not impossible
do we really need to mix thing up? top five NPC teams play in a trans Ta$man comp but we keep SRA for the higher level. most people seemed to think playing the aussie teams wasn;t doing much for our top players other than risking injury...but it might help younger NPC level guys
Players often talk about the relentless nature of the Nz v NZ clashes. Having teams at a lower standard (usually one or two of Oz and SA) gave the players a break in the intensity (and probably the same for the Saffas).
That means our players will last longer. Look at the injury attrition this year.
I actually think this uneven competition with pseudo-byes v the weaklings followed by hell for leather NZ derbies produce bad All Blacks (and bad coaches).
(I could argue that) it results in NZ splunking like crazy with a 110% quarterfinal effort backed up by a 70% effort semifinal.
I'd rather NZ rugby players perfected operating at 85 to 90% for the whole season. Win ugly even when tired or 'un-stimulated'. Playmakers experienced at dragging some mediocre players with them not operating an RS4 on cruise control.
The hollowing out of South African and Australian franchises by NH clubs (and expansion) has changed the landscape, yet we are pretending we can operate like it is still 2001.
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But I'm biased.
I think NZ and Australia should be operating approx 10 team domestic comps.
With the North v South and NSW v Qld rep games, plus a Champions Cup, counting as the stepping stones to higher intensity test rugby.5 pro teams is bad.
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I would be totally uniterested in a competition involving only the top 5 NPC teams if my team is not one of that top 5. At least with SR franchises there will be players of my NPC team in at least three franchise teams. Lose that connection, and I'll stop my Sky sub.
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@stargazer said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
I would be totally uniterested in a competition involving only the top 5 NPC teams if my team is not one of that top 5. At least with SR franchises there will be players of my NPC team in at least three franchise teams. Lose that connection, and I'll stop my Sky sub.
no you won't
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@mariner4life said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@stargazer said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
I would be totally uniterested in a competition involving only the top 5 NPC teams if my team is not one of that top 5. At least with SR franchises there will be players of my NPC team in at least three franchise teams. Lose that connection, and I'll stop my Sky sub.
no you won't
You're probably right
, I won't stop my Sky sub, because I'm too much of a rugby nerd aka suffer from rugby OCD, but I wouldn't watch each game anymore and couldn't wait for that comp to be over, so I could watch something I'm interested in. -
@stargazer would it make a difference if the alternative was just two seperate comps? where are all the people that were talking about how they would always support a NZ team against an aussie one?
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like it or not, there is simply no way NZ rugby can afford to just do something that 100% works for them. And nor can Australia
And that means compromise you dick-waving idiots on both Boards. Stop resting on the past, and think of the future.
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I have no idea why you include your second sentence, but you know the difference between being interested in games and supporting teams that play in them, don't you? Not sure if that's what you mean, but in a comp with 5 NPC teams (not including my team) playing Aussie teams, I would still want the NPC teams to win (so I'd support them in those games), but that doesn't mean I'm interested in the comp. I'm interested in a comp in which I can watch players from my NPC team play.
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@mariner4life whats the compromise though?
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@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@mariner4life whats the compromise though?
I don't know! I don't know what they both want!! i can't see why a 10 team home and away can't work, with a top 4. But then i am not in possession of all teh facts.
And, i totally get the lack of appeal in Australia for a comp that doesn't look, on current evidence, that will have any Aussie teams in the post-season.
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@mariner4life said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@mariner4life whats the compromise though?
I don't know! I don't know what they both want!! i can't see why a 10 team home and away can't work, with a top 4. But then i am not in possession of all teh facts.
And, i totally get the lack of appeal in Australia for a comp that doesn't look, on current evidence, that will have any Aussie teams in the post-season.
Doesn't the second part answer the first?
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@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@mariner4life whats the compromise though?
I don't know! I don't know what they both want!! i can't see why a 10 team home and away can't work, with a top 4. But then i am not in possession of all teh facts.
And, i totally get the lack of appeal in Australia for a comp that doesn't look, on current evidence, that will have any Aussie teams in the post-season.
Doesn't the second part answer the first?
yes, but i don't know how you get an Aussie team in without conferences. And you can't run a conference when you just play everyone home and away. So then it's 3 rounds, 2 v Domestic, 1 v Trans- Ta$man (like this year but more mixed). Conference winners to the semi along with 2 "wildcards"?
I can hear the howls of outrage from NZ fans already.
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@stargazer i guess thats where football is always going to have a leg up in making a global game, with things like the champions league people in my experience tended to pick a team from those that made it and follow them.
When i was doing construction in london the whole site would close early on champions league final wednesday to go and watch it at the pub
SR was dying before COVID, its just too hard to make a meaningful international club comp if everyone is only interested in the local team and if people arent willing to accept thing like promotion and relegation or qualification or an acceptance there will be lots of low quality games....one of those things has to give
a big comp the includes everyone but has blowouts every other game
or a smaller comps of similar standard but not everyone gets to play in every round -
have to say the nice and simple NPC with a structure based on merit is looking very good right now
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@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
have to say the nice and simple NPC with a structure based on merit is looking very good right now
enjoy the ABs being Australia or Argentina.
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@mariner4life Then you've got the other issue of Aus potentially missing out on a domestic final (compared to Super AU). With Super AU the final was a huge success for them (40k crowd - huge ratings). I can see why Rugby Au want to harness that and not lose it.
Even if you had a 'best Aus vs best Aus' final after a combined comp - it would lose it's lustre if it's for example the 4th ranked team playing the 6th ranked team (out of 10 Aus-NZ teams).
With Super AU they've got a domestic comp that leads nicely to a final with 2 guaranteed Aus teams.
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@mariner4life said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
have to say the nice and simple NPC with a structure based on merit is looking very good right now
enjoy the ABs being Australia or Argentina.
save the sas for when you have a suggestion that everyone will like
and i was actually just saying im looking forward to the NPC
