NZR review
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@kev said in NZR review:
@Stargazer agree with all of that. I have no real affinity for SR. I watch NZ games because I enjoy rugby but as a competition it lacks the tribal element and it is just not a great competition. I like the current 14 team NPC and think the NZRFU has tanked it and then conveniently said it doesn’t work. It could do with proper management, but if it had to change Duluths regional amalgamation is the best of the bitter pills to swallow.
I also wonder about a rugby Governance review that has 3 professional directors in it and just Graham Mourie. I always though professional rugby should exist to support amateur rugby. In that regard Super should make a shitload and fund NPC. It’s NPC that provides the wide base - always wondered about SR development and age group rugby sides just doubling up. Still reading it though.
Interesting comment that it costs $400k to host an NPC game. Like to know what that cost is? Stadiums, media… surely they could get that down?
Travel? Accommodation? Meals?
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@sparky said in NZR review:
My plan:
Strict salary caps for Super Rugby sides.
Let players with more than 40 AB caps play abroad as long as they commit to a Super franchise for 2 years in a RWC cycle.
Tax-free testimonial games for players who play more than 150 times for their Super franchise.
NPC of 14 sides in two divisions.
Strict salary caps for NPC teams.
Every adult ticket to any NZ Rugby game apart from Tests or Super knockout comes with the possibility of two free complementary tickets for kids.
Apart from 40 cap ABs playing overseas, I like this plan. Although from what I understand super salary cap is pretty solid. Like the 2 div eetc, but maybe even if Sth Canterbury or someone can be talked into coming up, could havr a 1st div of 8-9 teams and still have decent 2nd div
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From Page 76 of the report:
"We question not only whether New Zealand can support so many fully
professional rugby players but whether it can afford the overhead costs
of 26 different Provincial Unions. We recognise that history and tradition
and associated emotional attachments run deep but 26 boards, 26 CEOs,
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Staff numbers at NZRFU headquarters could looked at given some of them are probably doing a lot of the same work as the provincial unions. It would not be surprising if a lot of the work getting done in the Heartland Championship Unions is being done by what are essentially rugby enthusiastic "volunteers" on a shoestring budget anyway.
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Can't see the smaller heartland unions being much different to my local union. And that is 100% local volunteers (mainly guys already helping to keep clubs running) shit even I was the treasurer one year.
Not a lot of help from the state anywaySo the cost aspect will 100% be aimed at the bigger "provinces"
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I have got half way through the report and all the alarm bells are ringing. It reads like a takeover of rugby by its executives. To me paid executives provide professional expertise and the board are the owners or their nominated representatives. In this case from player to club to provincial unions, the PUs are the games nominated representatives. Instead they want “independent” board members. Democracy can be messy but the PUs are NZ rugby not privately run SR boards and big secondary schools. The report reads like a hit job on PUs. I hope it gets tossed.
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@kev said in NZR review:
I have got half way through the report and all the alarm bells are ringing. It reads like a takeover of rugby by its executives. To me paid executives provide professional expertise and the board are the owners or their nominated representatives. In this case from player to club to provincial unions, the PUs are the games nominated representatives. Instead they want “independent” board members. Democracy can be messy but the PUs are NZ rugby not privately run SR boards and big secondary schools. The report reads like a hit job on PUs. I hope it gets tossed.
I think it sounded surprisingly realistic as they understand that there are professional parts of the game and amateur parts of the game. I think that they want professionals for the professional parts and amateurs for the amateur parts.
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@mariner4life said in NZR review:
Can't see the smaller heartland unions being much different to my local union. And that is 100% local volunteers (mainly guys already helping to keep clubs running) shit even I was the treasurer one year.
Not a lot of help from the state anywaySo the cost aspect will 100% be aimed at the bigger "provinces"
Even Heartland unions have a CEO and a Director of rugby etc, so no not 100% volunteers as it basically used to be when I was on a provincial union board.
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While I'm sure the report is blisteringly effective form an economics point of view I'm not sure it's the right thing to do.
Basically it removes the provinces completely from saying how NZR is run - considering all the players come from the provinces it would seem somewhat unwise for you to completely neglect your nursery in the saying how the game is run.
If we look at the proposed make-up of the board again the provinces have been removed and they've been replaced entirely by interest groups. These interest group's have no way of generating players themselves, again they will get them all from clubs and provinces - that again will have no say in how the game is run.
If the NPC is canned then we have rough math some 420 players being put out of a job overnight. And what will they do? Vast majority will probably say "Fuck you" and move overseas.
The report seems hell-bent on turing NZ rugby into the haves (professionals) and the have nots (unprofessional) and nary shall those cursed amateur's interfere with the cash generating machine the professionals are...
Any system set-up to produce the have and the have not's never ends well.
Yes NZR needs to make some tough decisions, I don't think a recommendation to leave the clubs and provinces behind is quite the way to go however.
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I think where this will end up is a fully professional NPC of 10 teams. There will be some merging, maybe some different names and boundries, but we will end up where we want to be.
The Super franchises will turn into clubs and we'll have a structure that we can afford and sustain.
If we continue where the way we are we'll go broke.
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@Kirwan I certainly hope that's the case, there needs to still be a link from Club - province - NPC/Super - AB's.
Not just club (junior rugby) - school - NPC/Super - AB's.
The system needs to ensure that all rugby talent has a pathway to higher honors/AB's - not just via the schools.
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@Kirwan be interesting if the 10 team merger concept came to fruition. What sort ideas would people have of potential mergers?
I know personally I'd rather go to the bottom of the heartland and compete for the wooden spoon each year than merge with Harbour. 😂
Would we be bringing back pre 1985 Auckland?
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@Windows97 said in NZR review:
If the NPC is canned then we have rough math some 420 players being put out of a job overnight. And what will they do? Vast majority will probably say "Fuck you" and move overseas.
First point worth making is that this report doesn't talk about new competition structures
It hints about consolidation and the PU's concentrating on the amateur side of the game
But lets do some rough numbers
NPC - lets pretend the squads are 36 and there's no injuries: 504 players
SR - Lets use 36 again (in reality it's slightly higher) and ignore MP: 180 playersRemove the 33 AB's and there are 147 SR players in NPC.
NPC only players 357
Has anyone suggested an amateur NPC with zero changes to Pro rugby? That's not in the report. They mention a 'consolidation' of NPC and SR and removal of duplication
There was a report ~3 years ago that suggested NZ could handle 8-10 and that the number I keep using (again ignoring MP)
If you increase the pro teams by 3: 108 more pro players
If you increase the pro teams by 5: 180 more pro playersSo the number of NPC only part timers affected is between 177 and 249.
They would lose their token money for 3 months of work. However that would be offset by a large increase in the full time professionals.
The fringe SR players that we lose every year would have more reason to stay. A decent salary and more opportunities for game time. More chances to judge themselves/compete against current All Blacks. NZ would have a wider base of pros to pick from
Yes before the nit picking, 36 is not the real number. I'm only using the numbers as very broad approximations
