Super Rugby 2020
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Stargazer The Highlanders would be the smallest of the 5 franchises in terms of operating costs, and there is only so much fat you can trim to save money. The main sponsors of each team might have to dig deeper into their pockets.
Why would a sponsor pay more, for less product??
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@shark said in Super Rugby 2020:
Why would a sponsor pay more, for less product??
Common sense says they shouldn't, but if NZR has no more money to give the franchises then outside of a bank loan the only available source of money would be from the goodwill of their sponsors.
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
@shark said in Super Rugby 2020:
Why would a sponsor pay more, for less product??
Common sense says they shouldn't, but if NZR has no more money to give the franchises then outside of a bank loan the only available source of money would be from the goodwill of their sponsors.
Which would be an awful look if those same sponsors had sent employees home without pay...
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@KiwiMurph I assume the camera operators receive the same rebuke .
"Acting on an anonymous tip, Newshub cameras caught Mo'unga and several unidentified players exercising together on a field next to the team's Rugby Park training ground."
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
Reporters are essential workers
Ahh but did they touch the balls?
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@Bones said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
Reporters are essential workers
Ahh but did they touch the balls?
who's balls?
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bones said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
Reporters are essential workers
Ahh but did they touch the balls?
who's balls?
The ones Richie was fondling. Apparently everyone had a go.
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@antipodean A very good point. No amount of 'goodwill' defence could justify gifting a professional sporting outfit extra sponsorship dollars in lieu of paying the businesses' own employees.
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@KiwiMurph Muppets. But this isn't an uncommon sight at parks. We saw a group of girls the other day well distanced but passing around a netball. And no, it's not likely 4-5 young girls around the same age came from the same bubble.
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Club World Cup to be put forward as radical new rugby union competition
A radical proposal for an annual Club World Cup featuring 20 teams from around the globe will be put to leading unions this week
Laporte has suggested the involvement of one team each from the US and Japan – as well as four from the Premiership, the Top 14, the Pro14 and six from Super Rugby.
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
Reporters are essential workers
Of course someone has to spew out the constant dribble we are receiving amongst the important messages.
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More relevant in this thread.
So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
More relevant in this thread.
So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
If thats their thinking it will kill Rugby in Australia, no one will care not broadcasters they will keep NRL and AFL as strong as it is now.
It will drive all the decent athletes to those sports even more than now.
Big mistake if that is their thinking it will drive Rugby even more underground.From a NZ perspective the sad thing is Australia in Rugby circles is no longer what it was a fierce rivalry for a time,so fans in NZ will not really care.
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
More relevant in this thread.
So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
That would be an unmitigated disaster.
There's something fundamentally wrong with people who don't recognise two issues:
- The environment and circumstances that made Australian rugby world beaters does not exist now, and
- People complaining about the current malaise are (at least to me) grossly overestimating their ability to adjust and manage sports administration.
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
More relevant in this thread.
So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
What a strange article! I genuinely have no idea what point Cully was trying to get across there. That Kearns would play hardball somehow? That NZ should beware???
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@Chris said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
More relevant in this thread.
So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
If thats their thinking it will kill Rugby in Australia, no one will care not broadcasters they will keep NRL and AFL as strong as it is now.
It will drive all the decent athletes to those sports even more than now.
Big mistake if that is their thinking it will drive Rugby even more underground.From a NZ perspective the sad thing is Australia in Rugby circles is no longer what it was a fierce rivalry for a time,so fans in NZ will not really care.
The "return to club rugby" suggests emulating the NRL / AFL model where the competition is entered around one major city, with token interstate representation to form a "national" competition.
Fine in theory but two major issues jump out to me:
a) Unlike say Essendon in AFL or Paramatta in NRL, Randwick does not have a major state-wide following, capable of drawing huge crowds live and on TV.
b) What happens to the state teams, the 'Tahs and the Reds?
