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    I'm wondering if I'm living in a glassbowl. The RWC has such appeal and interest (David Beckham even prefers it to football==soccer) but club and provincial rugby and in Australia even national/international rugby is struggling.
    For the Aussies I suggest you just need to bring back the biffo and shady, inarticulate but completely offensive warehouse brawlers with a giant mo or two. Seems to go down well.

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    @kruse my utopia is a proper domestic competition, with a champions cup tacked on if there absolutely has to be TT content.

    The lack of a proper domestic competition is the number 1 reason we have fallen behind NZ and SA. Committing to this 'same ol' shit' comp just further embeds the terrible structures we have in place.

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    @derpus said in Super Rugby 2022:

    @kruse my utopia is a proper domestic competition, with a champions cup tacked on if there absolutely has to be TT content.

    The lack of a proper domestic competition is the number 1 reason we have fallen behind NZ and SA. Committing to this 'same ol' shit' comp just further embeds the terrible structures we have in place.

    Okay - yeah, an Aus domestic competition - I think everybody's on board with that.

    Whether that feed into a subsequent SANZAAR level "Champions Cup", or sits outside of something like... "Super Rugby" - exactly like NZ and SA are doing, who you apparently want to catch up with... is a completely different question.
    And - there doesn't HAVE to be TT content... but do you think the Wallabies are going to keep-up/improve without it?

    So when it's verbalised as "Super Rugby is shit, Bledisloe is shit, we shouldn't be playing anybody else cause we can't win - so, umm... it's shit, because... people will turn off..." - well, there's going to be pushback.

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    @kruse Fair enough. Doesn't really change the fact that, from an Australian perspective, SR is shit and we do play too many Bledisloe's.

    I never said we shouldn't play anyone else. I said we play NZ too much.

    I don't understand why its a fait accompli that if we don't get fucking reamed by NZ teams week in week out we can never improve.

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    @derpus said in Super Rugby 2022:

    @kruse my utopia is a proper domestic competition, with a champions cup tacked on if there absolutely has to be TT content.

    The lack of a proper domestic competition is the number 1 reason we have fallen behind NZ and SA. Committing to this 'same ol' shit' comp just further embeds the terrible structures we have in place.

    You've never had a proper domestic competition and the period when you were ahead of NZ was peak Super rugby. The previous period to that was peak South Pacific Championship.

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    RA and NZR have confirmed the formation of Super Rugby Pacific after months of discussions and speculation.
    
    The 12-team tournament will see Fijian Drua and Moana Pasifika join the five Australian and five New Zealand sides, set to kick off on 18 February 2022.
    
    Teams will play each other once across the 14-week regular season, along with playing three teams twice, with an added focus on delivering more local derbies following the success of Super Rugby AU and Aotearoa.
    
    The final series will see the top eight teams battle it out, with quarters, semis and final as follows:
    
    Quarterfinals – 1 v 8, 2 v 7, 3 v 6 and 4 v 5 with the top ranked team hosting
    Semi-Finals – top ranked quarter-final winner hosts against lowest ranked quarter-final winner & 2nd highest ranked quarterfinal winner hosts 3rd highest ranked quarterfinal winner
    Final – top ranked semi-final winner hosts the other semi-final winner
    
    Nathan Williamson  /  Aug 29, 2021

    RA, NZR launch new era with formation of Super Rugby Pacific

    RA, NZR launch new era with formation of Super Rugby Pacific

    SANZAAR has confirmed the formation of 'Super Rugby Pacific' after months of discussions and speculation

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    @kiwimurph said in Super Rugby 2022:

    along with playing three teams twice, with an added focus on delivering more local derbies

    That's the big change since the last announcement.

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    This has additional quotes from MP and FD:

    Super Rugby Pacific format confirmed

    Super Rugby Pacific format confirmed

    Super Rugby Pacific will kick off a new era for the world’s most exciting professional rugby competition next February with a 15-week regular season and a refreshed finals format, New Zealand Rugby (NZR) and Rugby Australia (RA) have announced.

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    @bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:

    This has additional quotes from MP and FD:

    Super Rugby Pacific format confirmed

    Super Rugby Pacific format confirmed

    Super Rugby Pacific will kick off a new era for the world’s most exciting professional rugby competition next February with a 15-week regular season and a refreshed finals format, New Zealand Rugby (NZR) and Rugby Australia (RA) have announced.

    Teams will play eight teams once and three teams twice with an emphasis on derby matches

    I wonder what this means, exactly. Obviously good for Oz 🙄

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    Amusing that DMac is in the promo image.

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    I doubt the Aussie teams will be able to avoid playing at least one NZ team twice. Otherwise the NZ teams will want to do the same. We wait for the full draw.

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    @tim said in Super Rugby 2022:

    Amusing that DMac is in the promo image.

    I like the name, open to a couple of Japanese teams please, then we don't get the stupid extra 3 games

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    Super Rugby Pacific Confirmed for 2022

    Super Rugby Pacific Confirmed for 2022
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    #63

    12 Teams. Five Oz. Five NZ. Fijian Druan. Moana Pasifika.

    14 Game regular season. 7 Home games. 7 Away.

    Each team to play each other once then three extra derbies.

    One points table. No conference system. Teams to be ranked 1 to 12.

    Top eight teams to qualify for Quarter Finals (1v8, 2v7, 3v6, 4v5). Then Semis, then the Grand Final.

    17 week competition to start in February 2022and finish before a July International window.

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    @machpants said in Super Rugby 2022:

    @tim said in Super Rugby 2022:

    Amusing that DMac is in the promo image.

    I like the name, open to a couple of Japanese teams please, then we don't get the stupid extra 3 games

    Agreed, best thing about this new competition is the name. Future expansion to Japan or west USA left as possible. Makes clear that the future of the competition does not involve the SA sides.

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    Seems to be an even playing field and a fresh start. Bring it on.

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    Pretty happy with it, regardless of an 8 team finals which is trying to give everyone a prize scenario, I don't mind the 3 extra games being derbies, if it helps the weaker country c'est la vie, no system is perfect! Love we have a couple of PI teams, and reckon the work on is a Japan and American team.

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    This is the Aussie promo. Also interesting to read on some of the Australian franchises' accounts that this competition format has been confirmed for 2022 and 2023. This isn't clear from the NZR and RA official media releases.

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    @tim said in Super Rugby 2022:

    Amusing that DMac is in the promo image.

    Joane confirmed to Moana Pasifika?

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    @gt12 Good spotting.

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