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Only the first two are realistic. A national club competition would be an absolute minefield.

Because it's worked so well for us up until this point?

It kicked off mid Feb in 2019 and 2018. So Super Rugby has been kicking off 'early' for some time. You mustn't watch many sports league if 18 rounds is too long for you to be able to stay engaged.

Tell me. What was the date of Super Rugby kick off this season pre-Covid?

If they went with 10 teams across 18 rounds they could kick off on Feb 5 of next year and with the Test window moving back to July the could wrap it up with a week left in June.

If you're going to follow a similar model then we should get the Drua involved and NZ can have their PI squad for a total of 16 rounds. Or just go with a simple home and way season of 18 rounds.

They are both NZ centric.

It's all about the ABs with the NZRU.

Interesting;y. The LA Giltinis have been very quiet of late. They aren't even on the MLR site. Many are hoping it's because they are re-branding. What I don't understand is that they could achieve just as much product integration as these names by having them emblazoned across the jerseys much...

Why not just go with home and away for 18 rounds? What is three bloody weeks?

Gale, Foley, Asiata and DTS are all on contract with MLR franchises for next season. Gale and Foley at NOLA, Asiata for Toronto and DTS at DC. But yeah. There's certainly talent available if there's opportunity. Then there's the guys on the Manuma squad that could be signed to bolster squads...

Interesting question. I've always got the sense there's certainly a North/South divide.

If you go from eyeballs on screens we're comfortably third. But I do agree. We should start afresh if we can secure the necessary funding to do so. We even have a reasonable model in place in the NRC to work off. Replace Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Rising and Spirit with our 5 current...

You could do both. There's no reason why you couldn't build say an 10 team league that draws in the best in the world alongside domestic talent while developing greater community links. And the IPL isn't the worst model to emulate. They do have foreign players quotas after all. Four imports on...

You're talking about the representation of ratings in the media. And following the line from the FFA where he tries to suggest that the ratings aren't tanking but hidden behind streaming platforms or tuning in from NZ or on YouTube. I understand your point. What you aren't grasping is that...

Just because he named 9 different platforms doesn't mean that Fox only represents 20% of the ratings. It means it only represents a little over 20% of the platforms. And it's easy to suggest there may be more viewers without actually quantifying that suggestion with actually numbers. I've been...

We've had this multi platform discussion several pages back this very thread. About what the rough split of viewers were between Fox and Kayo. That's all that matters from a domestic deal perspective in the immediate future.

Mate, the guy is really stretching in order to make what are appalling ratings figures sound remotely reasonable. What matters is the ratings on their primary broadcast partners platforms and they have been poor. A game on the last Saturday got 9k. Come on. Even if you apply the same logic as...

I've been thinking about our options a bit in regards to where we could take this. If we go it alone. The biggest parto f me would like to see us use the NRC format but with our 5 pro franchises replacing Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Rising and Spirit while maintaining both the country teams and...

Heard it last weekend in relation to running toward space. Something like 'running at holes not heads' or something to that effect. Too many big kids seek the contact in order to stream roll their opposition. They becomes solely reliant on it. Young Sua'ali'i hasn't fallen into that trap. Which is...