'Super Rugby' 2021
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@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.
@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.
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@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.
@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
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@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.
@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.
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@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
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.
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@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.
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@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.
@gt12 said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
So, I don't see any reason to dump the current franchises.
to me the options are keep them, or dump them and revert to provinces. Any other step doesn't make any sense.
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@gt12 said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
So, I don't see any reason to dump the current franchises.
to me the options are keep them, or dump them and revert to provinces. Any other step doesn't make any sense.
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@gt12 said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
So, I don't see any reason to dump the current franchises.
to me the options are keep them, or dump them and revert to provinces. Any other step doesn't make any sense.
@mariner4life it was really just a bit about symbolism, a chance to draw a line under things and reconnect with the communities theyre in, a have a few friends in invercargill for example and theyve pretty much given up on the highlanders, not represented etc and i think thats probably pretty common out of the main centers
also might smooth things if we introduced a couple of new teams, everyone would have to support someone new rather than just the one from franchises that had been split
..and the crusaders thing
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I think I agree; you don't want two or three new Super franchises?
@gt12 said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
I think I agree; you don't want two or three new Super franchises?
where? that's the issue. and what makes people support them now? Why do you change your support? or do you wait 15 years to get new supporters coming through?
It'll be like all the people up here who remain Broncos supporters from the time when they were the only Qld team, and have never moved to the Cowboys.
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@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!
@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@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!
So quite some time ago then? If I didn't know better I would assume that you were a youngish lass from Lodz.
I'm still bloody here though, and so are all of you pricks who are no younger either.
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@gt12 said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
I think I agree; you don't want two or three new Super franchises?
where? that's the issue. and what makes people support them now? Why do you change your support? or do you wait 15 years to get new supporters coming through?
It'll be like all the people up here who remain Broncos supporters from the time when they were the only Qld team, and have never moved to the Cowboys.
Yeah, I think we'd be better to keep the five and find a way to have a competition that works with other countries.
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@gt12 said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
I think I agree; you don't want two or three new Super franchises?
where? that's the issue. and what makes people support them now? Why do you change your support? or do you wait 15 years to get new supporters coming through?
It'll be like all the people up here who remain Broncos supporters from the time when they were the only Qld team, and have never moved to the Cowboys.
@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
or do you wait 15 years to get new supporters coming through?
Exactly it. And their kids, etc. It doesn't happen overnight.
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@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
@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
Downvote!
Although I’m I think I fit exactly what @Kiwiwomble is saying, if the Hurricanes ever gave a shit about the Magpies I may have been able to overcome the Hammetteurs destroying if the team ....
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@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
Downvote!
Although I’m I think I fit exactly what @Kiwiwomble is saying, if the Hurricanes ever gave a shit about the Magpies I may have been able to overcome the Hammetteurs destroying if the team ....
@Nepia said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
Hurricanes ever gave a shit about the Magpies
why should they? no one else does...
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@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
Starting again would be retarded.
@Snowy said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
Starting again would be retarded.
I prefer intellectually challenged!
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@Nepia said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
Hurricanes ever gave a shit about the Magpies
why should they? no one else does...
@mariner4life said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@Nepia said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
Hurricanes ever gave a shit about the Magpies
why should they? no one else does...
Don’t you have some Instagram influencer’s page to go browse?
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@Nepia said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
Hurricanes ever gave a shit about the Magpies
why should they? no one else does...
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@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
Downvote!
Although I’m I think I fit exactly what @Kiwiwomble is saying, if the Hurricanes ever gave a shit about the Magpies I may have been able to overcome the Hammetteurs destroying if the team ....
seems like such an obvious thing to do, away jerseys representing other unions
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@mariner4life You frequently seem to spend time in putting them down come what may so what category do you fall in?
@Higgins said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@mariner4life You frequently seem to spend time in putting them down come what may so what category do you fall in?
the gentle piss taker
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@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.
@Snowy said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@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.
@Kirwan can answer that. I don't have access to the google analytics
