Mitre 10 Cup Attendance
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There has been two attempts in the last four/five years to do away with the Premiership/Championship split and just have one competition with playoffs for the top eight.
They did not happen because the same three unions have been against it both times - Northland, Manawatu and Southland.
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@Number-10 said in Mitre 10 Cup Attendance:
There has been two attempts in the last four/five years to do away with the Premiership/Championship split and just have one competition with playoffs for the top eight.
They did not happen because the same three unions have been against it both times - Northland, Manawatu and Southland.
3 of the 4 most rubbish unions! Excellent!! Way to be hamstrung by the muppets of the comp
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@Hooroo The difference between Premiership and Championship teams just isn't big enough for a complete separation. The Magpies drew with one Premiership team, and beat 2 others. We'll probably only lose only one cross-over game. The Steamers and Otago also won two out of four.
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@Stargazer said in Mitre 10 Cup Attendance:
@Hooroo The difference between Premiership and Championship teams just isn't big enough for a complete separation. The Magpies drew with one Premiership team, and beat 2 others. We'll probably only lose only one cross-over game. The Steamers and Otago also won two out of four.
This would create a real difference and it would start to matter if your team was about to get relegated.
At the moment it is a grey splurge of a mickey mouse cross comp.
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We've talked about this quite a lot this season amoungst our season ticket group.
Essentially we have 7 season tickets in a group, most NPC games only 3 or 4 of us show up and it's bloody hard to give away the seats.
I reckon all NPC games should be held on Saturday and Sunday afternoon, I doubt it's going to make a huge difference to the numbers watching on TV if you play 2 games at the same time. Afternoon rugby is a far better schedule and better for those with young families.
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@SammyC said in Mitre 10 Cup Attendance:
We've talked about this quite a lot this season amoungst our season ticket group.
Essentially we have 7 season tickets in a group, most NPC games only 3 or 4 of us show up and it's bloody hard to give away the seats.
I reckon all NPC games should be held on Saturday and Sunday afternoon, I doubt it's going to make a huge difference to the numbers watching on TV if you play 2 games at the same time. Afternoon rugby is a far better schedule and better for those with young families.
Agreed. That would help.
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@Number-10 pretty sure the last 'attempt' to cull teams was about 10 years ago, and this was Northland, Southland, Ta$man and Counties all on the chopping block, with Northland and Ta$man looking most likely due to some arbitrary criteria that was designed for Southland to remain.
Anyone who thinks a Heartland side would get within 50 of Northland or Southland at present is deluded.
Edit: was 2008 the last time they were looking to make changes (publically at least)
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@Stargazer said in Mitre 10 Cup Attendance:
@SammyC I'd be seriously pissed off if I can't watch the away games of my team, because they aren't televised.
When did I say don't televise them?
Surely sky with it's 13 odd sports channels can show games at the same time.
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@SammyC That survey earlier in the year proposed more afternoon games and not televising all games.
I think playing and televising two or more games at the same time will reduce tv viewership as most people prefer to watch games live and are less inclined to watch recorded games or replays.
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@SammyC I'd be ok if they did like they are in the RWC, delay the live coverage...
This conversation comes up every other year, yet the solutions are not really workable in the current environment.
I actually dont mind the crossover matches, and think the current format is the best one they have had since the changes made in 2008 (or was it prior when ANZ Cup was shit too)...as I have long said, bin one of the crossover matches removes the need for storm week (although dont think they had that this year?)
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@Stargazer I would say most people already pick and choose which games they watch. I do.
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@Stargazer said in Mitre 10 Cup Attendance:
I think playing and televising two or more games at the same time will reduce tv viewership as most people prefer to watch games live and are less inclined to watch recorded games or replays.
I wasn't talking about the survey, I was giving my own opinion.
I seriously doubt television viewing numbers are very high anyway. It would be extremely low number who watch every game live on TV.
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@taniwharugby No storm weeks anymore, this year. No more Wednesday games. It has been a lot better this year than previous years, because the competition could start earlier (due to SR finishing earlier).
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@Stargazer for me, the Wednesday/Thursday night games are not designed to get punters to go to them, if they were, k/o would be 6pm...these are for TV viewers
It's ok now with TR Jnr being older, but a couple of years back, 7.30 k/o was too late to take him on a school night...
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