Joe King
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https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2020/04/27/new-zealand-super-rugby-review
Yep, nothing like a good old review.
Pretty timely announcement. Do you think they're trying to send a message to us without being direct?
https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2020/04/27/new-zealand-super-rugby-review
Yep, nothing like a good old review.
Well at least we haven't signed a broadcast agreement obligating us to Super Rugby. If anything the decision not to sign is looking better by the day as the unintended consequence is that we have no legal obligation to supply teams and games to a broadcaster in a pan-continental competition. Every cloud has a silver lining.
Not sure that matters, we still have a signed agreement to SANZAAR to fulfil. This is another thing that gets left out whenever someone says Castle was faultless.
https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2020/04/27/new-zealand-super-rugby-review
Yep, nothing like a good old review.
Pretty timely announcement. Do you think they're trying to send a message to us without being direct?
I think they've got enough issues to deal with without adding yours to the mix.
That international comp (involving Northern Hemisphere) sounds better all the time, from the antipodes.
And all the while, Australia really needs to be working through domestic options/opportunities.
Yet a lot in here don't want to play SA because of the time difference??
Not sure that matters, we still have a signed agreement to SANZAAR to fulfil. This is another thing that gets left out whenever someone says Castle was faultless.
https://www.rugbypass.com/news/the-...eROY8eFOcuslz0XtBiNrf1bnfkGC65Kbsa_wrtepKlPJY
Another bye, bye Super rugby article
The worst thing they could do is some half-way measure, to put Super rugby on hold in the vain hope of coming back to it in a couple of years down the line would just about kill the game here.
Yes this year may have to be a bunch of scratch games, but from next year the competition format needs to be finalized, ffs this isn't rocket science.
Well next year the schedule is crap, could be left with only 6 home games. How does any club in this country compete in the market with only 6 games? In Melbourne if you support an AFL side your going to get at least a dozen games to go watch. Storm at least 10. I'd say a West Coast Eagles fan would even get 10 games a year to watch here. You want people to be excited about 6 games? Same comparison to NRL ain Sydney to. Oh wait I'm away for 2 weeks and your down to 4 games? It can't work and won't work if Super Rugby continues in the proposed format next season.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/300001193/time-to-close-the-door-on-super-rugby
Hell, looks like even the Kiwis want to go domestic.
Apparently the view expressed at the Brumbies fan video get together yesterday was that this year will most likely see a five team domestic comp (Tahs, Reds, Brumbies, Rebels and Force) and that maybe a TT comp could get up in 2021.
See Brumby Jack's account on the Brumbies 2020 thread.