this is all a bit moot though anyway, the initial point was just about club rugby trying to be successful in its own right and not purely as a feeder for the international game, @Nepia is the only one that brought up players having to be rested...and then argued people wouldnt like it
lets just assume no one is being rested (because that wasn't part of the announcement) and move on
@Nepia said in Super Rugby 2024:
@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2024:
@Nepia
i think we HAVE to look at other sports....because there are very few successful rugby comps....and we are also talking about a huge overlap in market....so not looking at what
the same people are positively responding too in NRL....is just asking to keep failing
We're in a boom time for the Warriors, would anyone who's ever followed them not agree that the chances of there being a bust are close to 100%?
But, even if remove the Warriors hype and look at the market itself, league is a sport dominated by a single club comp with a dollar investment that NZ rugby can never match so trying to emulate it will likely end in failure.
Like it or not, NZ rugby's bread and butter is the international game. We can't create an NRL, we can't even create a Top 14, we are reliant on the ABs to bring in revenue.
thats quitter talk, i dont buy the we cant so lets not try....because the "cant" is subjective
rugby is an international game in ANZ because thats the way we've marketed it for the last 25 years and on top of that we've actively split the domestic game...and then chopped and changed it....none of that we cant at least look at changing