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But the Vic government wasn’t spending money trying to attract domestic tourism. Its up to the promoters to promote the event. The failure in that regard is on NZ and the promoter.

Look I haven’t looked into that side of things. Plus hopefully just in general people are more confident travelling next year

The Vic government paid to get the kiwi sides to attract international tourists and no kiwis bothered to show up. As they where NZ home games and they owned the event they would have got the gate revenue Really how I think it should work is the Vic Government has paid for the Kiwi sides to...

Obviously it had to be moved but the original weekend was a way better choice for the weekend. Also maybe the event organisers could actually advertise the fact it was on. If I was not a rugby fan I would have no clue that it happened this weekend

Lol look at the weekend that they staged it on. 170k will go to the two AFL games and locals will be way on school holidays. Crowds are shit in Aus across the board. Also crowds in Australian sport are down over all. The AFL is 10/20% off pre covid numbers

Exactly NZ set it up stand to profit off it doesn’t advertise that it’s on and complain about small crowds

Fair bit of carry on, “Crusaders could have won by plenty if they didn’t make errors” why did they because the defence forced them into it. The Rebels defended well for the first 60 minutes. After that they were gassed. Our problem was we could never do anything with the ball or maintain...

Have not been able to go yet in super round but will I have to buy a ticket tomorrow or will my membership work?

Point to where I said it was the fault of the Force or the players for getting sick? There is a clear issue when we have no other option but mid week games and one side has been forced into three of them with only one being able to be made up in a bye week. There is a clear issue if a team...

This is the 4th game Moana Pacifica has had to sit out. That is not good enough from a competition stand point. It’s also very different comparing this to the amateur Super W. Not sure how you get so upset at someone saying the competition has been poorly organised. At no point have I blamed...

That red card was embarrassing

Look I get the landscape is different as every discarded player has to stay here and play as opposed to chasing money overseas. Doesn’t change the fact that the situation has been badly mismanaged. Moana Pacifica weren’t notified until after landing in Melbourne that there would be no game...

Semi professional is a stretch. You get paid better in local footy than you do in the state leagues so all those blokes are full time workers or some are studying. No different to club players

It does have to do with planning Other comps adequately planned for this circumstance. They either had to have rest weeks so they could catch up on missed fixtures or top up players as mid week games is the worst possible answer

Other comps have managed it. The fact Super Rugby hasn’t been able to shows a lack of planning. There would be plenty of blokes playing club footy desperate for a shot. Also forcing a club into mid week games also puts players at a higher risk of injury

Exactly, we need to be actively selling the game when we have the WC

Look that’s fair but it shows how poorly organised the comp is

But they shouldn’t have. MP (Moana Pasifika) have had 4 games now compromised, it undermines the integrity of the comp

If it’s not safe to bring players up from the level below nobody would play pro rugby

Eagles have been in the same boat. Look at the North Melbourne game that they almost won. They had 5/6 ring ins