NPC 2023
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@Kiwiwomble think everything ran concurrently, club, npc, super
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the more we talk...the more it also feels weird to be super > club > NPC with international scatter inbetween...seems a like it doesn't flow
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@KiwiMurph credit where it is due, great work Auckland rugby still calling out that BS tweet
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You know when we had best provincial comp??
When we has 3 divisions.
I think some boffins who are much clever than me can mybe come up with a system, 3rd div amateur, 2nd div a bit of money and then proper semi pro top div?
I know it will lead to players moving (as it did pre pro days anyway) , but just a thought. I was on a provincial board in those days (of a 3rd div union) and there was pretty good interet, we only playing teams of own strength etc, and it worked! I know we will have cries of how will we get promotion/relegation, and I don't have all answers. but one thing would be to show finacials as well as playing ability to get promotion?
Just a thought fellas, so just call me an idiot quietly huh??
I will add I love NPC, but understand the problems etc. And we can't lose it or really end up with too short of a season, as NZ generally needs club rugby played when it is. -
Anyone got access to today's newsletter from Dylan Cleaver?
Three questions with an NPC chief
Plus, we go Stateside as Sho-time in La La Land approaches to a sad end ($)
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@ploughboy said in NPC 2023:
funny thing i know club teams whos budget is $500000 and most at least $180000
WTF really? in melbourne we get about 30-35k in subs, main sponsor is 10k, shoulder is 5k and then training tops are a couple each, so say another 25k in sponsors, so a generous 60k a year...thats why we cant afford to build clubrooms
can you say which club?
The NZ Herald posted a report from the Auckland/Harbour game. They pointed out that they don't post about the NPC, because no one reads it.
So, that's another data point to ignore while the NPC closes in upon extinction.
its a chicken and egg deal at the moment, we can just as easily say people arent interested because no one (NZR, PU, Media) are doing a good job hyping it....we might have to use some of the silverlake money to get people interested in it again...have to spend money to make money etc
interesting, they talk of a 1.1m cap, i say a thing in the net yesterday with a news report from 2006 about the NPC...im sure it said they wanted a cap of 2M then...suggesting teams were paying more than that back then, a huge drop
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They'll be comparing clicks relative other articles on the site.
Anyway here's the line mentioning why the paper doesn't cover NPC scores anymore (this story wasn't really discussing the match, it was more about the decline of the comp)
The score — in case anyone is wondering, since an absence of reader interest means they’re no longer reported on this site — was 43-21
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Based on what I was told some club players get paid a sum comparable to NPC contracts. It might be the same club @ploughboy is talking about.
Like the SR salary cap, the NPC salary cap is largely meaningless if you are just topping up player's SR contracts. That becomes more of an issue with the "haves" and "have nots" where the quality of the players you have in your squad is even wider between say, an Auckland and a Southland.
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Like the SR salary cap, the NPC salary cap is largely meaningless if you are just topping up player's SR contracts. That becomes more of an issue with the "haves" and "have nots" where the quality of the players you have in your squad is even wider between say, an Auckland and a Southland.
Which creates other problems too. Auckland had ~27 SR players, plus a couple of NZ u20's they wanted in the squad.. leaving almost no room for selections from club form
I think the Cantabs might be even worse ~30 SR players?
