The Trans Tasman Rugby War
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@stargazer said in The Trans Ta$man Rugby War:
Counties and BOP doesn't make sense geographically, does it?
Maybe, but Counties/Thames/BOP is a contiguous region along the east coast.
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@gibbonrib said in The Trans Ta$man Rugby War:
Add some jeopardy, have BOP and Hawkes Bay play off for a spot etc
Oooh. Keep the same teams, only the top 9 from NPC play super rugby
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@machpants said in The Trans Ta$man Rugby War:
@gibbonrib said in The Trans Ta$man Rugby War:
Add some jeopardy, have BOP and Hawkes Bay play off for a spot etc
Oooh. Keep the same teams, only the top 9 from NPC play super rugby
You mean give some meaning to the npc? Madness
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@stargazer said in The Trans Ta$man Rugby War:
@machpants That would mean the end of NPC rugby in Northland, Southland, Counties, and two of Otago, Harbour and Manawatu.
It's all irrelevant anyway
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@stargazer said in The Trans Ta$man Rugby War:
@machpants Fortunately. I like the NPC as it is.
Yeah, I just wish it was one big comp, so play everyone once. Home one session, away the next.
What I mean it's SR Vs Oz won't change.
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@tim said in The Trans Ta$man Rugby War:
For a very long time NZ had a meaningful, competitive number of teams in the NPC. Then they went full retard and put 14 teams in the competition. Public interest and TV revenue plummeted.
Return to tradition and rationality and have 10 NZ teams!
9+9+9 is the strongest competition I've seen
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@stargazer said in The Trans Ta$man Rugby War:
@machpants That would mean the end of NPC rugby in Northland, Southland, Counties, and two of Otago, Harbour and Manawatu.
Nah, just have a 2nd division. Any NZ team that finishes below all the Aussie teams is relegated and replaced with a div 2 team
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Acknowledge they're shit. Acknowledge they hate us.
Cut them loose.
Play a Bledisloe every 3 years. Which they lose by 60 because apparently Shute Shield isn't good enough
Laugh
Fuck 'em, who cares
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@mariner4life said in The Trans Ta$man Rugby War:
Acknowledge they're shit. Acknowledge they hate us.
Cut them loose.
Play a Bledisloe every 3 years. Which they lose by 60 because apparently Shute Shield isn't good enough
Laugh
Fuck 'em, who cares
Imagine how they would treat us if the roles were reversed? Just look at the Warriors, the Breakers and the Nix
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@mariner4life said in The Trans Ta$man Rugby War:
Acknowledge they're shit. Acknowledge they hate us.
Cut them loose.
Play a Bledisloe every 3 years. Which they lose by 60 because apparently Shute Shield isn't good enough
Laugh
Fuck 'em, who cares
Our five pro teams have regular "boys on the booze" flair ups, but we still absolutely flog them. They're about the 7th best team in the world.
We're bound by geography though, and it will never change. Hopefully their group of dumb assholes will by a clue in the next decade.
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@tim said in The Trans Ta$man Rugby War:
@mariner4life said in The Trans Ta$man Rugby War:
Acknowledge they're shit. Acknowledge they hate us.
Cut them loose.
Play a Bledisloe every 3 years. Which they lose by 60 because apparently Shute Shield isn't good enough
Laugh
Fuck 'em, who cares
Our five pro teams have regular "boys on the booze" flair ups, but we still absolutely flog them. They're about the 7th best team in the world.
We're bound by geography though, and it will never change. Hopefully their group of dumb assholes will by a clue in the next decade.
Ya reckon they will? Even at their peak RA preferred to pay over the odds for league converts instead of spending the money to develop the game at the grass roots level. That's not a viable longterm strategy
