NPC 2023
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i know i said budget but this is what i was told clubs are spending on there top team and does not include any other teams they have. . i know of at least two clubs where every player gets paid for each appearance. the person who told me lead me to believe that all clubs in this comp are paying players and this was the amounts they were spending.
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i love this stuff and remember saying last year they should do more of this kind of thing
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@Stargazer thats a handy pickup
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@Duluth If provinces could only field local players, the competition would always favour the big provinces, who have a much larger player pool. Auckland would have too many players and talented, deserving players would miss out, while a small province wouldn't have sufficient players of an adequate level to field a competitive team.
The competition wouldn't be fair.
Fielding local players should be the starting point, but it isn't always realistic.
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You were just complaining about a HB player going to Southland and an Aucklander playing for HB. It's the same point
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@Duluth No, it isn't exactly the same point, because the player who left for Southland was already contracted to the Magpies and is an NPC level player with sufficient experience.
Fielding a local player in that case was realistic. It isn't always realistic, because local players may not be of an adequate level. I don't know, for example, whether there is a lock of adequate level available in Taranaki to fill that spot now taken by Franklin.
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@Stargazer said in NPC 2023:
Fielding a local player in that case was realistic. It isn't always realistic, because local players may not be of an adequate level.
Then the province should lose games
Depends if we want a provincial competition or a retarded franchise competition.
I can't believe you want to gut a core concept of the NPC like this. Club flows to NPC. It's the strength of NZ rugby blah blah blah
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but wouldnt players further down the pecking order at a big union move around to the smaller ones (properly move and play club, not just fly in for game day) to get game time and hopefully get a fully professional contract?
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Paladin as well, but doesn’t have their badge
Here's the paladin store. The other team with a retro jersey is Harbour https://nz.paladin.sport/products/
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@KiwiMurph pretty shit for Wellington having one of their most important games of the season at the end of a storm week.
The scheduler must have been a Cantab.
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@Stargazer said in NPC 2023:
I haven't checked all union's socials, but some of them are now selling retro jerseys (maybe only those who get their gear from Paladin?). The three I saw on my time line:
Gilbert has had a Retro "inspired" one for us for a couple of year
My biggest problem with Gilbert is all their images are computer generated, not the real thing, so you cant be 100% sure what it like in the flesh
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Great signing by Taranaki
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