Tasman v Wellington
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@bovidae said in Ta$man v Wellington:
Canterbury hold the tie breaker over Ta$man so will finish 3rd with a BP win. BOP need a BP win to finish above Ta$man.
Canterbury notably having had an extra game to accumulate their points. But, NZ Rugby won't worry about trivialities like that.
If, by some miracle we should manage to tip over those Hawkes Bay bastards and end up playing a final in ChCh, I shall return to this theme.
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@chris-b said in Ta$man v Wellington:
@bovidae said in Ta$man v Wellington:
Canterbury hold the tie breaker over Ta$man so will finish 3rd with a BP win. BOP need a BP win to finish above Ta$man.
Canterbury notably having had an extra game to accumulate their points. But, NZ Rugby won't worry about trivialities like that.
If, by some miracle we should manage to tip over those Hawkes Bay bastards and end up playing a final in ChCh, I shall return to this theme.
I feel for you 😎
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@bovidae It would have - but, it would be nice if, occasionally, the people who get paid quite a lot of money to organize these competitions could actually demonstrate some vague appreciation of fairness.
NZ Rugby has a long history of organizing unfair and unbalanced competitions. I don't think they've been involved in a balanced competition since Super 14 bit the dust.
But, then you look at the draw for this ICC T20 competition. And how the ODI World Cup ended.
Who organizes these things?
How can they be so inept?
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@chris-b said in Ta$man v Wellington:
@bovidae It would have - but, it would be nice if, occasionally, the people who get paid quite a lot of money to organize these competitions could actually demonstrate some vague appreciation of fairness.
Oh, I fully agree with you.
I am assuming that the difference in the number of games played is due to whether a team played one of NH, Auckland or CM before the covid break, or were scheduled to play them after. Ta$man, for example, played Auckland but missed out in playing both CM and NH, who you were scheduled to play in Rds 3 and 4. Waikato wasn't playing CM so had another competition game, as did Canterbury (they were only to play CM and not NH). The caveat in this is that every game Waikato has played since the resumption of the NPC has been an away game.
NZR needs to provide Sky a product, hence these meaningless non-competition games. Personally, once the decision was made to not have promotion-relegation I would have just had a final between Hawke's Bay and Taranaki and finished the NPC there. But, Sky will be wanting those additional 4 SFs as part of their broadcasting agreement.
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@chris-b said in Ta$man v Wellington:
@bovidae It would have - but, it would be nice if, occasionally, the people who get paid quite a lot of money to organize these competitions could actually demonstrate some vague appreciation of fairness.
NZ Rugby has a long history of organizing unfair and unbalanced competitions. I don't think they've been involved in a balanced competition since Super 14 bit the dust.
But, then you look at the draw for this ICC T20 competition. And how the ODI World Cup ended.
Who organizes these things?
How can they be so inept?
Your invitational XV has benefitted from this for at least the last 5 years, now, one covid interrupted season later and you're joining the rest of us on the ramparts. Welcome.
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@nepia I've been railing about the system behind that fucking Shield for at least 5 years.
I don't recall a previous NPC competition where some teams actually got to play more games than others...
In fact, I'd be prepared to let that slide in a covid year, if there hadn't been so many other fucked up tournament structures in the past.
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@chris-b said in Ta$man v Wellington:
@nepia I've been railing about the system behind that fucking Shield for at least 5 years.
I don't recall a previous NPC competition where some teams actually got to play more games than others...
In fact, I'd be prepared to let that slide in a covid year, if there hadn't been so many other fucked up tournament structures in the past.
We listened, we gave you a challenge.
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Crowley needs to go as well as some of the current players for a team that has lots of Super rugby experience finishing out of the Semi’s is unacceptable…but then given the general acceptance of mediocrity down here in Wellington I wouldn’t be surprised if he got an extension.
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@mikey07 said in Ta$man v Wellington:
Crowley needs to go as well as some of the current players for a team that has lots of Super rugby experience finishing out of the Semi’s is unacceptable…but then given the general acceptance of mediocrity down here in Wellington I wouldn’t be surprised if he got an extension.
When I looked at those two teams pre-match, I thought you guys would take us comfortably.
We're down to half a dozen guys who had Super contracts last season (and some of those are bit part players) - though there's several others who have picked up new contracts for next year.
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