'Super Rugby' 2021

[Kiwiwomble]

@Snowy fair enough, i honestly dont think that would stop though, a lot of that came out of our old NPC rivalries so there would just be a natural progression, it would just be anther way to draw a line under it

[Snowy]

@Kiwiwomble Still plenty on here that are seriously NPC based with loyalties to teams.

It takes a long time to adopt a new team, it seems.

[mariner4life]

@Snowy said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Kiwiwomble Still plenty on here that are seriously NPC based with loyalties to teams.

It takes a long time to adopt a new team, it seems.

not for @Nepia

[taniwharugby]

@Kiwiwomble said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

enough, i honestly dont think that would stop though, a lot of that came out of our old NPC rivalries so there would just be a natural progression, it would just be anther way to draw a line under it

I dont really have any affiliation or 'love' for the Chiefs (who we were part of initially) or the Blues (who we are part of now) I support all NZ sides equally haha

[Snowy]

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Snowy said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Kiwiwomble Still plenty on here that are seriously NPC based with loyalties to teams.

It takes a long time to adopt a new team, it seems.

not for @Nepia

I should have said "franchise" @nepia is pretty solid about his NPC team. Which was what I was getting at.

[Kiwiwomble]

@Snowy said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Snowy said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Kiwiwomble Still plenty on here that are seriously NPC based with loyalties to teams.

It takes a long time to adopt a new team, it seems.

not for @Nepia

I should have said "franchise" @nepia is pretty solid about his NPC team. Which was what I was getting at.

i probably am too, think i would rather otago won than the highlanders,

i still like being able to trace that guy that went to the highschool and then that club and got the call up to the team

I love how Fumi tanaka and Horie rocked up in dunners with little other than Tony Brown saying it would be great for their rugby, picked a clb, played a whole clubs season...got picked for Otago, played a whole NPC season...then got super call ups

[mariner4life]

@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Kiwiwomble said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

enough, i honestly dont think that would stop though, a lot of that came out of our old NPC rivalries so there would just be a natural progression, it would just be anther way to draw a line under it

I dont really have any affiliation or 'love' for the Chiefs (who we were part of initially) or the Blues (who we are part of now) I support all NZ sides equally haha

bullshit!!! you were balls deep on teh Blues when they looked like winning the comp...

I've been following the Chiefs for what, 25 years now? That's long enough to get attached. Starting again would be retarded.

I've been a Bay supporter my whole life, but in reality only consciously about 10 years more than that.

The Chiefs are now as much a part of my supporter identity as any team.

[Snowy]

@Kiwiwomble said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

i probably am too, think i would rather otago won than the highlanders

Yep. Auckland for me. I was at Eden park every weekend with my Dad as a kid. At the supporters club, knew the players, great memories. I like the Blues and I'm invested but it takes a shitload of time to get there.

[taniwharugby]

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

bullshit!!! you were balls deep on teh Blues when they looked like winning the comp...

When was that? I bet you cant find posts of mine pumping them as my team...fluffybunny!

[Snowy]

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

Starting again would be retarded.

You just called @Nepia and @Bones retards didn't you?

[Kiwiwomble]

@Snowy said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Kiwiwomble said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

i probably am too, think i would rather otago won than the highlanders

Yep. Auckland for me. I was at Eden park every weekend with my Dad as a kid. At the supporters club, knew the players, great memories. I like the Blues and I'm invested but it takes a shitload of time to get there.

John leslie and paul cooke coached my highschool team (whilst playing for otago)...there was just better connection with the community then

[mariner4life]

@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

bullshit!!! you were balls deep on teh Blues when they looked like winning the comp...

When was that? I bet you cant find posts of mine pumping them as my team...fluffybunny!

I bet i could

if i could be bothered. which i can't.

[mariner4life]

@Snowy said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

Starting again would be retarded.

You just called @Nepia and @Bones retards didn't you?

wouldn't be the first time

[taniwharugby]

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

bullshit!!! you were balls deep on teh Blues when they looked like winning the comp...

When was that? I bet you cant find posts of mine pumping them as my team...fluffybunny!

I bet i could

if i could be bothered. which i can't.

pfft, I call bullshit on you, you fluffybunny!

The fact you cant be bothered checking means you know you are talking through a hole in your fluffbunny :face_with_tears_of_joy:

[mariner4life]

@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

bullshit!!! you were balls deep on teh Blues when they looked like winning the comp...

When was that? I bet you cant find posts of mine pumping them as my team...fluffybunny!

I bet i could

if i could be bothered. which i can't.

pfft, I call bullshit on you, you fluffybunny!

The fact you cant be bothered checking means you know you are talking through a hole in your fluffbunny :face_with_tears_of_joy:

[gt12]

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Kiwiwomble said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

enough, i honestly dont think that would stop though, a lot of that came out of our old NPC rivalries so there would just be a natural progression, it would just be anther way to draw a line under it

I dont really have any affiliation or 'love' for the Chiefs (who we were part of initially) or the Blues (who we are part of now) I support all NZ sides equally haha

bullshit!!! you were balls deep on teh Blues when they looked like winning the comp...

I've been following the Chiefs for what, 25 years now? That's long enough to get attached. Starting again would be retarded.

I've been a Bay supporter my whole life, but in reality only consciously about 10 years more than that.

The Chiefs are now as much a part of my supporter identity as any team.

So this.

What's the average age of posters here? I think if you are 40 you are probably young; we aren't a good sample to gauge attachendness to the Super franchises - most kids (certainly the ones I know) would support the Chiefs, Blues, Landers etc. plus perhaps the local province.

I also know a bunch of millenials who have taken the @Nepia option and support a team outside their area. My cousin was a pro footy player, born in Auckland, but rightly saw that supporting the Chiefs was the way forward (he was with us during the foster years too so it's not like he picked us up when we were great).

So, I don't see any reason to dump the current franchises.

[Kiwiwomble]

@gt12 said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Kiwiwomble said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

enough, i honestly dont think that would stop though, a lot of that came out of our old NPC rivalries so there would just be a natural progression, it would just be anther way to draw a line under it

I dont really have any affiliation or 'love' for the Chiefs (who we were part of initially) or the Blues (who we are part of now) I support all NZ sides equally haha

bullshit!!! you were balls deep on teh Blues when they looked like winning the comp...

I've been following the Chiefs for what, 25 years now? That's long enough to get attached. Starting again would be retarded.

I've been a Bay supporter my whole life, but in reality only consciously about 10 years more than that.

The Chiefs are now as much a part of my supporter identity as any team.

So this.

What's the average age of posters here? I think if you are 40 you are probably young; we aren't a good sample to gauge attachendness to the Super franchises - most kids (certainly the ones I know) would support the Chiefs, Blues, Landers etc. plus perhaps the local province.

I also know a bunch of millenials who have taken the @Nepia option and support a team outside their area. My cousin was a pro footy player, born in Auckland, but rightly saw that supporting the Chiefs was the way forward (he was with us during the foster years too so it's not like he picked us up when we were great).

So, I don't see any reason to dump the current franchises.

resetting the crusaders championship count not enough for people?...just me?...fair enough

[Snowy]

@gt12 said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

What's the average age of posters here?

@Duluth probably knows that. Of course I just think that you are all Polish chicks last time that we we went into this stuff.

[gt12]

@Kiwiwomble

It's not like Canterbury are weak, and the moment that NPC teams became important, they'd pull the rug out on Ta$man, who are only kept in it by the Saders giving them plenty of talent to be competitive (e.g. the Saders academy 'pushes' people to different teams by placing them in Nelson or Christchurch), Ta$man doesn't have an academy.

If Ta$man were forced to fight without the Saders standing behind them, they'd be fucked.

And, if the main team was Canterbury, it would just be the Saders.

[taniwharugby]

@Snowy there was a thread/poll several years back asking for ages, think I was in the 'average age' of posters here at the sprightly age of thirty-sixteen years old!