Super Rugby Women's Competition
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The Chiefs and Blues have announced they will play the first Super Rugby women's game, with the “historic” encounter part of a double header before the Blues’ men host the Chiefs in Super Rugby Aotearoa at Eden Park at 4.35pm on May 1.
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@bovidae bloody good idea.
They need to learn from league and not have a full 40 minutes before kickoff clearing the field. Professional players can warm up elsewhere - be fan focussed, and support curtain raisers finishing a few minutes before kickoff.
There's nothing that warms you up for a good game of rugby like a good game of rugby
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@nzzp said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@bovidae bloody good idea.
They need to learn from league and not have a full 40 minutes before kickoff clearing the field. Professional players can warm up elsewhere - be fan focussed, and support curtain raisers finishing a few minutes before kickoff.
There's nothing that warms you up for a good game of rugby like a good game of rugby
Totally agree.
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This seems to be the preferred format for the women's SRA:
Robinson said a potential professional women’s rugby competition would likely feature a maximum of four teams, represented by the three current North Island Super Rugby clubs and a combined one from the South Island.
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@bovidae said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
This seems to be the preferred format for the women's SRA:
Robinson said a potential professional women’s rugby competition would likely feature a maximum of four teams, represented by the three current North Island Super Rugby clubs and a combined one from the South Island.
One South Island team makes total sense, if you look at the FPC provinces in each SR catchment, with Premiership teams (at the end of the 2019 season) in bold, and taking into account the improvement of Northland and Manawatu in 2020:
Blues: Auckland, Northland, North Harbour
Chiefs: Waikato, Counties, BOP, Taranaki
Hurricanes: Wellington, Manawatu, Hawke's Bay
Crusaders: Canterbury, Ta$man
Highlanders: OtagoThat's assuming that women's super rugby teams will mostly recruit from NPC teams (more so than men's SR teams), because they'll probably still have regular jobs or study (even if they get paid to play & train, it might not be enough to live from as is the case with Black Ferns' payments).
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I hope they dont just adopt the crusaders name or something, hopefully they will come up with something unique
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@kiwiwomble said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
I hope they dont just adopt the crusaders name or something, hopefully they will come up with something unique
It will be something basic like South Island or Mainlanders.
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@stargazer said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@bovidae A name including the word Pounamu (as in 'Te Wai Pounamu') would be so much nicer. Then you have the team colour sorted, too.
blue?
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@nzzp said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@stargazer said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@bovidae A name including the word Pounamu (as in 'Te Wai Pounamu') would be so much nicer. Then you have the team colour sorted, too.
blue?
with yellow streaks in it yeah
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@stargazer said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@nzzp Either this is a wind-up or you don't know what pounamu is. It's definitely not blue! Unless you're colour blind.
sorry, tongue very firmly in cheek. It is the internet after all
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@stargazer said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@bovidae said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
This seems to be the preferred format for the women's SRA:
Robinson said a potential professional women’s rugby competition would likely feature a maximum of four teams, represented by the three current North Island Super Rugby clubs and a combined one from the South Island.
One South Island team makes total sense, if you look at the FPC provinces in each SR catchment, with Premiership teams (at the end of the 2019 season) in bold, and taking into account the improvement of Northland and Manawatu in 2020:
Blues: Auckland, Northland, North Harbour
Chiefs: Waikato, Counties, BOP, Taranaki
Hurricanes: Wellington, Manawatu, Hawke's Bay
Crusaders: Canterbury, Ta$man
Highlanders: OtagoIn some ways I agree with you that Southland is very forgettable, and not worthy of mention.
Still , I do think that for completeness sake they should be included.
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@damo These are the FPC provinces, not NPC (it was a post about possible franchise teams for the women's SR competition, next year). Thus far, Southland have not entered a team in the Farah Palmer Cup, although - I think - a Southland women's team was fielded last year for a preseason game against Otago. Not sure whether they'll enter a team in this year's FPC.
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@damo said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@stargazer said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@bovidae said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
This seems to be the preferred format for the women's SRA:
Robinson said a potential professional women’s rugby competition would likely feature a maximum of four teams, represented by the three current North Island Super Rugby clubs and a combined one from the South Island.
One South Island team makes total sense, if you look at the FPC provinces in each SR catchment, with Premiership teams (at the end of the 2019 season) in bold, and taking into account the improvement of Northland and Manawatu in 2020:
Blues: Auckland, Northland, North Harbour
Chiefs: Waikato, Counties, BOP, Taranaki
Hurricanes: Wellington, Manawatu, Hawke's Bay
Crusaders: Canterbury, Ta$man
Highlanders: OtagoIn some ways I agree with you that Southland is very forgettable, and not worthy of mention.
Still , I do think that for completeness sake they should be included.
If this is to create pathways and grow the game then two SI teams are needed. If you go with only one you will simply end up with the Cantab team plus a couple of others. I'm guessing that this will be semi pro and that many squads will look to draw from exciting young development players as much as those that are 'local' and possibly not top level but available by being close by.
Otago-ites will throw up in their mouths at the though of being 'Crusaders'.
Southland has a strong development pool of young women from SGHS and have been working toward a FPC team in the next season or so. Brad Fleming is developing talent in Wakatipu (which can align with either Southland or Otago). Oamaru has had a couple of youth team NZ selections recently etc etc.
Forcing young women to move to Chch to play wouldn't work and the Highlanders have been putting in annual camps for young players for a while now building toward something like this.
Would they be as competitive as the larger population centres? Probably not. But they deserve an opportunity.
