Super Rugby 2022
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@KiwiMurph said in Super Rugby 2022:
It's not surprising and to be honest I can see why Rugby Australia are thinking what they are.
Last year they got 40k for their domestic final and a large tv audience to watch Reds vs Brumbies decider.
This year they got one home quarter final.
Throw in the broadcasting $ issue + that RA under their current management like to negotiate through the media and here we are.
You could see this coming when RA only signed up to the trans-tasman Super comp for 2 years.
and they need to do something to raise the profile before hosting the RWC
Its also mad to think there is nothing between the guys i manage in melbourne and a super contract
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so, here the question for me....if a pacific super rugby comp was taking off the table....no wants to play with us....do we think a 5/6 team NZ super comp is the best was forward or a "full strength" NPC and flag the franchises
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@Kiwiwomble a 5 team comp is already boring....but I think the NPC as the main vehicle for NZR is too far gone, so yeah.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2022:
so, here the question for me....if a pacific super rugby comp was taking off the table....no wants to play with us....do we think a 5/6 team NZ super comp is the best was forward or a "full strength" NPC and flag the franchises
no
and this is why i reckon, for all their talk, NZRU will blink.
Super Rugby Aotearoa is completely unsustainable. They would need to create a new comp from scratch for the first half of the year. Or tear up the entire structure and start again. And that will never happen.
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@taniwharugby said in Super Rugby 2022:
@Kiwiwomble a 5 team comp is already boring....but I think the NPC as the main vehicle for NZR is too far gone, so yeah.
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby 2022:
@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2022:
so, here the question for me....if a pacific super rugby comp was taking off the table....no wants to play with us....do we think a 5/6 team NZ super comp is the best was forward or a "full strength" NPC and flag the franchises
no
and this is why i reckon, for all their talk, NZRU will blink.
Super Rugby Aotearoa is completely unsustainable. They would need to create a new comp from scratch for the first half of the year. Or tear up the entire structure and start again. And that will never happen.
ok, at least im not crazy thinking SRA, even with a sixth team, is going to achieve little except wear out and bruise out top players
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@mariner4life said in Super Rugby 2022:
oh, good, and we're back here
Exclusive: Rugby Australia tells NZ it will walk in bombshell move set to tear Super Rugby apart
Exclusive: RA tells New Zealand it will walk in bombshell move to tear Super Rugby apart
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@mariner4life 10 team competition?
North Harbour+Northland
Auckland+CM
MP
Waikato
BOP
Central Vikings
Wellington
Ta$man
Canterbury
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@Tim said in Super Rugby 2022:
@mariner4life 10 team competition?
North Harbour+Northland
Auckland+CM
MP
Waikato
BOP
Central Vikings
Wellington
Ta$man
Canterbury
Otagolooks good
Love having North Auckland back
And the Vikings
And the South Central Vikings
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@Tim obvious joke aside...thats where it get messy, make a new comp too similar to NPC and it will do more damage to that legacy than good
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@Kiwiwomble I think one day we will have to face the reality that we cannot have two entirely separate professional competitions, and we especially cannot sustain a 14 team competition.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2022:
@Tim obvious joke aside...thats where it get messy, make a new comp too similar to NPC and it will do more damage to that legacy than good
you wouldn't have both, and maybe we would have a structure that makes sense. So the NPC is now played March to the end of September or something (including international breaks)
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@Tim said in Super Rugby 2022:
@Kiwiwomble I think one day we will have to face the reality that we cannot have two entirely separate professional competitions, and we especially cannot sustain a 14 team competition.
i think we've been circling that day for a couple of years already
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby 2022:
@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2022:
@Tim obvious joke aside...thats where it get messy, make a new comp too similar to NPC and it will do more damage to that legacy than good
you wouldn't have both, and maybe we would have a structure that makes sense. So the NPC is now played March to the end of September or something (including international breaks)
so relegate the bottom teams to the heartland or we thinking the death of some unions?
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@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2022:
@Tim said in Super Rugby 2022:
@Kiwiwomble I think one day we will have to face the reality that we cannot have two entirely separate professional competitions, and we especially cannot sustain a 14 team competition.
i think we've been circling that day for a couple of years already
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby 2022:
@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2022:
@Tim obvious joke aside...thats where it get messy, make a new comp too similar to NPC and it will do more damage to that legacy than good
you wouldn't have both, and maybe we would have a structure that makes sense. So the NPC is now played March to the end of September or something (including international breaks)
so relegate the bottom teams to the heartland or we thinking the death of some unions?
like 8 people total would miss Southland and Northland. Other shit unions in crap locations like HB, Naki and Manawatu form one side.
Done.
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Nzh paywalled article
Super Rugby Pacific is set to make one giant post-season change by effectively firing Sanzaar as manager of the competition.
The vexed Sydney-based body will be replaced by an independent transtasman governance group that is expected to have a remit to drive commercial revenue for the competition, oversee rules and regulations, shape the future strategic direction and generate fan-first initiatives.
The move is happening as the key initiative in a strategic plan to win back fans and return Super Rugby to being the world's best club competition rather than an elongated trial for the All Blacks and Wallabies.
It is also being viewed as a means to provide Rugby Australia with greater confidence that they should remain part of Super Rugby beyond 2023 – following news that some of their board are keen to pull out in 2024 and build their own domestic competition.
RA chairman Hamish McLennan told Fox Sports that they are strongly considering ending the partnership after 2023.
"We'll honour our commitments in '23 but we need to see what's best for rugby in Australia leading up to the RWC in Australia in '27," McLennan said.
"All bets are off from '24 onwards with NZ."
Parting ways with Sanzaar, which has run, managed and administered Super Rugby since its launch in 1996, is the second biggest change in the competition's history behind the unilateral decision by New Zealand Rugby in 2020 to no longer include South African teams.
The decision to set up a new company to run Super Rugby has been driven by a newfound desire among the national unions of New Zealand and Australia to give the competition a stronger, independent identity and the clubs greater say and control in what they want.
Sanzaar, which runs with a small body of full-time staff based in Sydney, is governed by a nine-person executive committee, eight of whom are the chief executives and chairs of the New Zealand, Australian, South African and Argentinean national unions..
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@mariner4life Reed Prinsep as captain should provide plenty of valuable experience for the Central Vikings.
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@Tim said in Super Rugby 2022:
@mariner4life 10 team competition?
North Harbour+Northland
Auckland+CM
MP
Waikato
BOP
Central Vikings
Wellington
Ta$man
Canterbury
OtagoThere would have to be a draft and/or salary cap or it would be like the old NPC and a dominant few teams. For something like this to generate real provincial rivalries and tribalism it needs a level of competitiveness between teams.
The Central Vikings joke shows the problem caused by geography. The 'poo and Welly could combine but then what to do with HB and Naki?North Harbour+Northland
Auckland+CM
MP
Waikato +BOP
HB
Naki
Wellington + Manawatu
Ta$man
Canterbury (North of Ashvegas )
Otago (South of Ashvegas) -
we've instantly identified the problem we will never sold
in trying to have "no losers" we won't have many winners either
Combining unions will not work. Game sharing, branding, it will all get muddled.
Places are going to have to lose.
