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@antipodean I don't agree with his 10 team professional competition but I do think kids staying with their clubs is a good idea. Trying to get players to come back to clubs after school is one of the reasons that club rugby is really struggling with numbers (note one reason not all the reasons)

@Nepia Yup I've just lifted them from Wikipedia. Still is there a larger catchment population than Tauranga that isn't serviced by a Super Rugby franchise already?

If so I'm happy that city is put in place of Tauranga. Either way I don't think South Auckland is a great place for a 6th franchise. I get when a Pasifika team would want to be there though

@Nepia Oh it would need a new stadium

Even Bay of Plenty would like to have all their games in Tauranga rather than Rotorua as no one turns up. I get the cultural and historical link but Rotorua is a non-starter financially

@booboo Got to agree the school rugby doesn't make sense for the sport or players to me.

Ngarimu Blair made the point recently and I agree with him that kids should keep playing in their clubs not disappear off to school and never come back

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/opinion/300173111/super-aotearoa-new-zealand-rugby-miss-a-trick-as-mori-players-suffer?fbclid=IwAR3VqLh76Jig6Ma3W12Zlky1d7usDwr02RXg4iXTKCYtYvlYiNrrVUFJqRA

Looking at population if there's going to be another SR franchise then it should really be in Tauranga so that it has a population base and doesn't eat into the other franchises that can't fill their stadiums already

1 Auckland 1,470,100
2 Christchurch 383,200
3 Wellington 215,100
4 Hamilton 176,500
5 Tauranga 151,300
6 Lower Hutt 110,700
7 Dunedin 106,200
8 Palmerston North 81,500
9 Napier 66,300
10 Hibiscus Coast 59,800
11 Porirua 59,600

During the post match media conference for the Maori All Blacks v Moana Pasifika, Ash Dixon suggested the if there's a Pasifika Super Rugby side why not a Maori one as well

Do you think this could be the future for the Maori All Blacks rather than just a couple of games a year tacked on to the end of the season?

Great to have Cameron George on the Stand-Off show last night, also Brad goes through his 2020 awards

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We'll be getting to the below games this weekend bring you reports on our Facebook Stories and post match interview on our Facebook Page:

Fri:

• 16:45 North Harbour v Bay of Plenty (Farah Palmer Cup)
• 19:05 North Harbour v Canterbury (Mitre 10 Cup)

Sat:

• 11:35 Waikato v Taranaki (Farah Palmer Cup)
• 14:05 Waikato v Wellington (Mitre 10 Cup)
• 19:05 Counties Manukau v Ta$man (Mitre 10 Cup)

Sun:

• 11:35 Northland v Auckland (Farah Palmer Cup)
• 14:05 Northland v Manawatu (Mitre 10 Cup)

@Stargazer didn't realise that Dwayne Polataivao was heading down there.

He's been on our DrivingMaul show several times recently and didn't say anything!!!

You can hear from Gray Cornelius about the Ta$man squad and them having change in the front row

We are starting our buildup to the Mitre 10 Cup on New Zealand Sport Radio.

The aim is to interview a coach from all the provinces before the start of the tournament

First up is Southland with head coach Dale MacLeod going live at 6pm this evening. Tomorrow it's the turn of Ta$man with skills coach Gray Cornelius

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We've been going for 2 months now and this week we're rolling out a new schedule for our shows:

Mon-Sun 7am The Morning Sports Briefing - Your best way to start the day up-to-date with the important sports news
Mon-Fri 2pm The Long Talk - long form interviews

Mon 8pm The DrivingMaul Show (rugby) including Samoan International Dwayne Polataivao
Tue 8pm Do You Know Sport? (quiz)
Wed 8pm The League Hour (league)
Thu 8pm Swinging From The Hip (cricket) including Black Cap Tarun Nethula
Fri 8pm Super Rugby Round Preview
Sun 8pm Super Rugby Round Review

We're available on Facebook or as a podcast just search for New Zealand Sport Radio on iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio or your favourit podcatcher

@Kirwan I don't know what's going on with racing. Someone told me you can still play golf in Australia (but a lot of courses have closed). I think there's a lot of countries making a mess of this situation.

@Duluth He's in full Donald Trump denial that he can still do this. Disney rightly have pulled the plug on him and he's not happy there's a bigger dog in the room telling him what to do.

The first long form interview is now available. I chat with Samoan rugby International Dwayne Polataivao.

This Saturday I'll be talking with Cameron Bell the CEO of Northland Rugby

Cheers Paul

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Podcast https://shows.acast.com/new-zealand-sport-radio/episodes/the-long-talk-with-samoan-international-dwayne-polataivao

"Do You Know Sport?" is the new quiz show on New Zealand Sport Radio!

I'm looking for teams of 2 people to take part & we'll be live at 8pm on Wednesdays (NZ time)

Rounds will include Battle, Closest To The Pin, Who Am I and Quick Fire

It's great to be able to announce this after nearly a week of broadcast The Morning Sports Briefing and there's more shows to come.....

@hydro11 said in Radio Sport:

@nzzp said in Radio Sport:

@Smudge said in Radio Sport:

@nzzp said in Radio Sport:

@Smudge said in Radio Sport:

@DrivingMaul said in Radio Sport:

Folks today we have launched the New Zealand Radio Sport facebook page. We'll be adding in a podcast for those that want to listen on the move soon.

We are starting with the 8am Morning Sport Briefing (been live for 2 days now) and will be adding more opinion, interview, talkback and feature shows over time.

Thank you in advance is you decide to support the supporters radio station.

https://www.facebook.com/nzsportradio

Feels like a bit of walking over a corpse going on here. Not sure it endears me to ever listening, to be honest.

in fairness, it's NZME that's created a void by destroying a staple of sports fans in this country.

@DrivingMaul is trying to bridge that void for people; it feels sudden, but that's not his fault.

That's fine. But, to channel ol' mate Stargazer, he could have perhaps created a separate thread.

not a bad idea,

Amazing how quickly that happened. Revenues must have absolutely cratered

Radio makes money off of advertising so when that dries up, there is no revenue basically.

Yup and with Facebook taking a bigger and bigger slice of the marketing pie due to it's hyper targeting there needed to be a review of the model but it's not happened. I Heart Radio app is perhaps the only move in that direction that I've seen.

@Smudge I'm sorry you feel that way, IF we can get this up and running we will be reaching out to some of the Radio Sport people to see if they would like to contribute

@Stargazer We is me (Paul Bains) and people that I have been collaborating with producing content on DrivingMaul for the last 6 or so years. There's about 6 of us involved so far and we are all doing this for free at the moment hoping to build it into something.

You might know Steven Harris who's contributes on this forum, he's part of the we. Also the only one with any radio experience at all.

That's good as we aren't restricted by how it "should" be done but also means we don't really know what hurdles we are going to come across.

Play a short Super Rugby amongst NZ teams and then have all the players go back to their clubs for what remains of the club competition that will go on for longer.