Super Rugby 2022
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call the whole thing off, what's the point?
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@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
The Aust teams might have more issues playing each other unless they all relocate to Qld.
Wouldn't it be better if we got a local region to host one of the Australian teams? They could do MIQ once, then have the whole competition in NZ.
Drua: Northland
Force: BOP
Melbourne: Hawkes Bay
Queensland: Ta$man
NSW: Taranaki
Brumbies: Southland -
@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
The Aust teams might have more issues playing each other unless they all relocate to Qld.
Wouldn't it be better if we got a local region to host one of the Australian teams? They could do MIQ once, then have the whole competition in NZ.
Drua: Northland
Force: BOP
Melbourne: Hawkes Bay
Queensland: Ta$man
NSW: Taranaki
Brumbies: Southland -
@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
The Aust teams might have more issues playing each other unless they all relocate to Qld.
You mean NSW and Victoria. The only two States open for business. Qld is going to shit its pants shortly.
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@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
The Aust teams might have more issues playing each other unless they all relocate to Qld.
You mean NSW and Victoria. The only two States open for business. Qld is going to shit its pants shortly.
@antipodean said in Super Rugby 2022:
@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
The Aust teams might have more issues playing each other unless they all relocate to Qld.
You mean NSW and Victoria. The only two States open for business.
Except for sport.
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@antipodean said in Super Rugby 2022:
@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
The Aust teams might have more issues playing each other unless they all relocate to Qld.
You mean NSW and Victoria. The only two States open for business.
Except for sport.
@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
@antipodean said in Super Rugby 2022:
@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
The Aust teams might have more issues playing each other unless they all relocate to Qld.
You mean NSW and Victoria. The only two States open for business.
Except for sport.
And you think that would be different in Qld?
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@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
@antipodean said in Super Rugby 2022:
@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
The Aust teams might have more issues playing each other unless they all relocate to Qld.
You mean NSW and Victoria. The only two States open for business.
Except for sport.
And you think that would be different in Qld?
@antipodean said in Super Rugby 2022:
And you think that would be different in Qld?
Based on Qld successfully holding sports fixtures this year, and the relative number of covid cases in each state, I would say yes.
Back to the SR competition, the Chiefs can only be playing the Hurricanes in the 1st round. The Crusaders are already playing the Highlanders, and the Blues will play MP instead of the Drua.
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Ignore what I said, as they changed the SRA draw completely.
The competition will kick off with Moana Pasifika hosting the Blues at Mt Smart Stadium and the NSW Waratahs hosting the Fijian Drua on Australian soil. While a Super Saturday start in New Zealand sees the Gallagher Chiefs hosting the Highlanders at 4.35pm in Hamilton and the Crusaders welcoming the Hurricanes to Christchurch at 7.05pm.
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Ignore what I said, as they changed the SRA draw completely.
The competition will kick off with Moana Pasifika hosting the Blues at Mt Smart Stadium and the NSW Waratahs hosting the Fijian Drua on Australian soil. While a Super Saturday start in New Zealand sees the Gallagher Chiefs hosting the Highlanders at 4.35pm in Hamilton and the Crusaders welcoming the Hurricanes to Christchurch at 7.05pm.
@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
Ignore what I said, as they changed the SRA draw completely.
The competition will kick off with Moana Pasifika hosting the Blues at Mt Smart Stadium and the NSW Waratahs hosting the Fijian Drua on Australian soil. While a Super Saturday start in New Zealand sees the Gallagher Chiefs hosting the Highlanders at 4.35pm in Hamilton and the Crusaders welcoming the Hurricanes to Christchurch at 7.05pm.
I hate this stupid compromise they'd made to reduce derby games. If they added just 2 more matches all NZ teams play each other twice (home & away).
Instead we have a truncated half-baked version to appease NZR, because apparently the NZ derbies are too physical, and Fozzie doesn't like a massive All Black's casualty ward.
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Using Crusaders for example, draw should look like this:
Rd 1: Crusaders vs Hurricanes.
Rd 2: Highlanders v Crusaders.
Rd 3: Moana Pasifika v Crusaders.
Rd 4: Crusaders v Chiefs.
Rd 5: Blues vs Crusaders.
Rd 6: Chiefs v Crusaders.
Rd 7: Crusaders v Highlanders.
Rd 8: Hurricanes v Crusaders.
Rd 9: Crusaders v Blues.
Rd 10: Crusaders vs Moana Pasifika.
Week off (all teams).
NZ vs Aussie teams.
(16 games overall, instead of 14)
Finals round.
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@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
Ignore what I said, as they changed the SRA draw completely.
The competition will kick off with Moana Pasifika hosting the Blues at Mt Smart Stadium and the NSW Waratahs hosting the Fijian Drua on Australian soil. While a Super Saturday start in New Zealand sees the Gallagher Chiefs hosting the Highlanders at 4.35pm in Hamilton and the Crusaders welcoming the Hurricanes to Christchurch at 7.05pm.
I hate this stupid compromise they'd made to reduce derby games. If they added just 2 more matches all NZ teams play each other twice (home & away).
Instead we have a truncated half-baked version to appease NZR, because apparently the NZ derbies are too physical, and Fozzie doesn't like a massive All Black's casualty ward.
@kiwi_expat said in Super Rugby 2022:
@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
Ignore what I said, as they changed the SRA draw completely.
The competition will kick off with Moana Pasifika hosting the Blues at Mt Smart Stadium and the NSW Waratahs hosting the Fijian Drua on Australian soil. While a Super Saturday start in New Zealand sees the Gallagher Chiefs hosting the Highlanders at 4.35pm in Hamilton and the Crusaders welcoming the Hurricanes to Christchurch at 7.05pm.
I hate this stupid compromise they'd made to reduce derby games. If they added just 2 more matches all NZ teams play each other twice (home & away).
Instead we have a truncated half-baked version to appease NZR, because apparently the NZ derbies are too physical, and Fozzie doesn't like a massive All Black's casualty ward.
NZR is stuck between rock and a hard place. If they went down the path of 2 x nz derbies then people complain that the comp is unbalanced as the nz teams have to play each other twice but the aus teams get to play each other twice.
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Using Crusaders for example, draw should look like this:
Rd 1: Crusaders vs Hurricanes.
Rd 2: Highlanders v Crusaders.
Rd 3: Moana Pasifika v Crusaders.
Rd 4: Crusaders v Chiefs.
Rd 5: Blues vs Crusaders.
Rd 6: Chiefs v Crusaders.
Rd 7: Crusaders v Highlanders.
Rd 8: Hurricanes v Crusaders.
Rd 9: Crusaders v Blues.
Rd 10: Crusaders vs Moana Pasifika.
Week off (all teams).
NZ vs Aussie teams.
(16 games overall, instead of 14)
Finals round.
@kiwi_expat said in Super Rugby 2022:
Using Crusaders for example, draw should look like this:
Rd 1: Crusaders vs Hurricanes.
Rd 2: Highlanders v Crusaders.
Rd 3: Moana Pasifika v Crusaders.
Rd 4: Crusaders v Chiefs.
Rd 5: Blues vs Crusaders.
Rd 6: Chiefs v Crusaders.
Rd 7: Crusaders v Highlanders.
Rd 8: Hurricanes v Crusaders.
Rd 9: Crusaders v Blues.
Rd 10: Crusaders vs Moana Pasifika.
Week off (all teams).
NZ vs Aussie teams.
(16 games overall, instead of 14)
Finals round.
So using the Blues vs Crusaders as the doomed game, round 5 is when this will all be called off?
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@antipodean said in Super Rugby 2022:
And you think that would be different in Qld?
Based on Qld successfully holding sports fixtures this year, and the relative number of covid cases in each state, I would say yes.
Back to the SR competition, the Chiefs can only be playing the Hurricanes in the 1st round. The Crusaders are already playing the Highlanders, and the Blues will play MP instead of the Drua.
@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
@antipodean said in Super Rugby 2022:
And you think that would be different in Qld?
Based on Qld successfully holding sports fixtures this year, and the relative number of covid cases in each state, I would say yes.
The situation isn't the same now the virus is running rampant in Qld too.
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@kiwi_expat said in Super Rugby 2022:
@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
Ignore what I said, as they changed the SRA draw completely.
The competition will kick off with Moana Pasifika hosting the Blues at Mt Smart Stadium and the NSW Waratahs hosting the Fijian Drua on Australian soil. While a Super Saturday start in New Zealand sees the Gallagher Chiefs hosting the Highlanders at 4.35pm in Hamilton and the Crusaders welcoming the Hurricanes to Christchurch at 7.05pm.
I hate this stupid compromise they'd made to reduce derby games. If they added just 2 more matches all NZ teams play each other twice (home & away).
Instead we have a truncated half-baked version to appease NZR, because apparently the NZ derbies are too physical, and Fozzie doesn't like a massive All Black's casualty ward.
NZR is stuck between rock and a hard place. If they went down the path of 2 x nz derbies then people complain that the comp is unbalanced as the nz teams have to play each other twice but the aus teams get to play each other twice.
@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby 2022:
@kiwi_expat said in Super Rugby 2022:
@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
Ignore what I said, as they changed the SRA draw completely.
The competition will kick off with Moana Pasifika hosting the Blues at Mt Smart Stadium and the NSW Waratahs hosting the Fijian Drua on Australian soil. While a Super Saturday start in New Zealand sees the Gallagher Chiefs hosting the Highlanders at 4.35pm in Hamilton and the Crusaders welcoming the Hurricanes to Christchurch at 7.05pm.
I hate this stupid compromise they'd made to reduce derby games. If they added just 2 more matches all NZ teams play each other twice (home & away).
Instead we have a truncated half-baked version to appease NZR, because apparently the NZ derbies are too physical, and Fozzie doesn't like a massive All Black's casualty ward.
NZR is stuck between rock and a hard place. If they went down the path of 2 x nz derbies then people complain that the comp is unbalanced as the nz teams have to play each other twice but the aus teams get to play each other twice.
NZ teams still play NZ teams 3 (or 2 if you're lucky enough to get the Moana 5 point guaranteed game) extra times, ozzie do it easy with 3 extra ozzie games. Still unbalanced. Home and away, no finals, works. I guess the only games they really make money on are finals, as crowds are so shit, so they think they need to keep them. But English premiership does fine with no finals, and it would be a fair comp based on excellence.
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@kiwi_expat said in Super Rugby 2022:
@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
Ignore what I said, as they changed the SRA draw completely.
The competition will kick off with Moana Pasifika hosting the Blues at Mt Smart Stadium and the NSW Waratahs hosting the Fijian Drua on Australian soil. While a Super Saturday start in New Zealand sees the Gallagher Chiefs hosting the Highlanders at 4.35pm in Hamilton and the Crusaders welcoming the Hurricanes to Christchurch at 7.05pm.
I hate this stupid compromise they'd made to reduce derby games. If they added just 2 more matches all NZ teams play each other twice (home & away).
Instead we have a truncated half-baked version to appease NZR, because apparently the NZ derbies are too physical, and Fozzie doesn't like a massive All Black's casualty ward.
NZR is stuck between rock and a hard place. If they went down the path of 2 x nz derbies then people complain that the comp is unbalanced as the nz teams have to play each other twice but the aus teams get to play each other twice.
@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby 2022:
@kiwi_expat said in Super Rugby 2022:
@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
Ignore what I said, as they changed the SRA draw completely.
The competition will kick off with Moana Pasifika hosting the Blues at Mt Smart Stadium and the NSW Waratahs hosting the Fijian Drua on Australian soil. While a Super Saturday start in New Zealand sees the Gallagher Chiefs hosting the Highlanders at 4.35pm in Hamilton and the Crusaders welcoming the Hurricanes to Christchurch at 7.05pm.
I hate this stupid compromise they'd made to reduce derby games. If they added just 2 more matches all NZ teams play each other twice (home & away).
Instead we have a truncated half-baked version to appease NZR, because apparently the NZ derbies are too physical, and Fozzie doesn't like a massive All Black's casualty ward.
NZR is stuck between rock and a hard place. If they went down the path of 2 x nz derbies then people complain that the comp is unbalanced as the nz teams have to play each other twice but the aus teams get to play each other twice.
Yet... according to Foster/NZR Super Rugby Aotearoa is apparently not "tough enough" to ready players for their test fixtures, which was one of their many laughable list of excuses made for the coaching team's poor record... Meanwhile - we're also being informed (by both coaches & players alike) that the current Derby format is incredibly demanding on our All Black players and they need more easy games against the Aussies..
Foster and NZR's constant shifting of the blame & complete lack of accountability in general is disgraceful.
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@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby 2022:
@kiwi_expat said in Super Rugby 2022:
@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
Ignore what I said, as they changed the SRA draw completely.
The competition will kick off with Moana Pasifika hosting the Blues at Mt Smart Stadium and the NSW Waratahs hosting the Fijian Drua on Australian soil. While a Super Saturday start in New Zealand sees the Gallagher Chiefs hosting the Highlanders at 4.35pm in Hamilton and the Crusaders welcoming the Hurricanes to Christchurch at 7.05pm.
I hate this stupid compromise they'd made to reduce derby games. If they added just 2 more matches all NZ teams play each other twice (home & away).
Instead we have a truncated half-baked version to appease NZR, because apparently the NZ derbies are too physical, and Fozzie doesn't like a massive All Black's casualty ward.
NZR is stuck between rock and a hard place. If they went down the path of 2 x nz derbies then people complain that the comp is unbalanced as the nz teams have to play each other twice but the aus teams get to play each other twice.
Yet... according to Foster/NZR Super Rugby Aotearoa is apparently not "tough enough" to ready players for their test fixtures, which was one of their many laughable list of excuses made for the coaching team's poor record... Meanwhile - we're also being informed (by both coaches & players alike) that the current Derby format is incredibly demanding on our All Black players and they need more easy games against the Aussies..
Foster and NZR's constant shifting of the blame & complete lack of accountability in general is disgraceful.
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