https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/s...itch-round-robin-format-marketing-expert?rm=a
Dan this is the real stuff you should read on stuff.co.nz backed up by experts and evidence ie nzru should look at super rugby as more then talent development for the all blacks. This article to me outlines clearly how Nzru with their approach is killing super rugby and killing oz interest in super rugby. Don’t quote me as all laid out in the article.
I read the article a week or so ago , but didn't think I better quote it as Adam84 has assured us all the writer Paul Cully is a NZR stooge
But honestly, you still doing the same, blaming NZR, it's like you keep saying that poor RA has had no say in Sanzaar etc etc, because like always it's not RA's fault, because you can either blame NZR etc. So RA seems to be still talking about a 12 team comp, you saying that's all NZR's fault. If it is better for Aus rugby , why doesn't Hamish and Leap Frog just go it alons??
The artcle is great from a point of view but I ask you has this not been done for last while?
Arkwright - who has worked with US Major League franchises, an EPL club and the NSW Blues in State of Origin - believes that should open the door for a conference-style system that would produce at least one Australian semifinalist,
That is exactly what has happened for last 10 years or so that you have saying has killed the comp!
And I ask again, why aren't RA just going alone if it so bad for Aus rugby.
And if you so sure this writer is correct red this part.
Arkwright believes Super Rugby lost its right to be called “the best competition in the world” in about 2005, and has been caught up or surpassed by the Top 14 in France and the English Premiership, while he said the newly minted United Rugby Championship – with South African sides joining the old Pro 14 –would generate excitement in the northern hemisphere.
He says Super rugby lost it's right to being the best comp in the world in 2005, and what happened in 2005 and after? RA and SA decided they needed to add teams, NZR were just staying the same. So who stuffed Super rugby? Tell me again it's all NZR's fault and poor RA has been told what they have to do.
“NZ Rugby should consider themselves as the saviours of the game and take the financial hit,” he said.
And I call this bullshit!! Why should grassroots rugby , you know the kids etc on Saturday morning etc have to suffer because RA has f***ed the game up and they need more money. Isn't it up yo WR (World Rugby) to save the game?
I would add I have read the Ben Darwin theory (as posted by Joe King)before and thought it made huge sense about making Aus super teams better, but no you want NZR to do it!!