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Alan Cameron (40)
There is a couple of flat earthers on this thread.
I’m getting more of a Monty Python Black Knight vibe.
There is a couple of flat earthers on this thread.
I’m getting more of a Monty Python Black Knight vibe. View attachment 11850
Though I'd like to see something akin to what was used several seasons back in the Shute Shield. Where everyone played each other once for 11 games before splitting into two groups of 6 to play another 5 games with each tier having their own finals series.
It's what's been in place for the Perth Premier grade for the past 3 seasons.
I think it works well...
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/cou...a/news-story/a9e105f5a49727b0dc45cb6c138251e8
Lol if RA was NZRU they do doubt would be going behind NZRU and negotiating with Pacifika to be based in Western Sydney and in Super Rugby Au - but even RA have base level ethics and integrity so that won’t happen.
Ps my comments will make sense in first reading the article posted above
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/cou...a/news-story/a9e105f5a49727b0dc45cb6c138251e8
Lol if RA was NZRU they do doubt would be going behind NZRU and negotiating with Pacifika to be based in Western Sydney and in Super Rugby Au - but even RA have base level ethics and integrity so that won’t happen.
Ps my comments will make sense in first reading the article posted above
Think you may want to read what the proposal was from Moana Pasifika team, they wanted to do it in partnership with NZR for 2021, not real convinced RA would be anymore keen, could be quite costly. I seriously doubt it anything to do with ethics, they not sure they cam afford 5 teams and you think they should consider 6 just to piss off NZR? Geez I glad you don't run rugby here in Aus
Article below interesting - western Sydney did make sense but thought that horse had bolted with plans so advanced on Auckland based option. Still reckon this is all fluff to put pressure on NZRU with western Sydney out of the picture
https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/s...ogant-nz-rugby-set-up-super-side-in-australia
So from recollection they want funding in the first year but claim they will be above board thereafter? Has this been validated and where will the funds come from. What if they don’t break even?
What about Drua?
Article below interesting - western Sydney did make sense but thought that horse had bolted with plans so advanced on Auckland based option. Still reckon this is all fluff to put pressure on NZRU with western Sydney out of the picture
https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/s...ogant-nz-rugby-set-up-super-side-in-australia
So from recollection they want funding in the first year but claim they will be above board thereafter? Has this been validated and where will the funds come from. What if they don’t break even?
What about Drua?
The simplest ready made option in my opinion. They already exist and can draw on some pretty good local talent.
"Rugby Australia chairman Hamish McLennan said on Monday he was prepared to host all five New Zealand franchises in Australia in 2021 and run a trans-Tasman competition entirely from these shores.
McLennan said last week that Australia’s relationship with NZ Rugby was at “its lowest ebb” – a description which NZR perversely took exception to – but there is no question that while the national body is reluctant to rubberstamp it, the five NZ franchises are desperately keen for a full trans-Tasman competition to go ahead next year."
As a consequence of NZ’s stubbornness, Australia is also preparing to hold a repeat of this year’s domestic competition, though with the possibility of an islander side joining as well, McLennan said. But he admitted he was entirely at a loss to understand why NZ and Australia weren’t coming together for a full-scale trans-Tasman competition next season.
At present, the Covid border restrictions are making that impossible but with NZ going to a general election on October 17 and Queensland facing a state election on October 31, the hope is that travel between Australia and NZ could return to something resembling normal before Christmas. In that event, a trans-Tasman rugby competition involving five NZ and five Australian sides would be possible from early next year.
NZ apparently does not believe such a competition can be arranged in such a short period. Australia believes otherwise.
“As an alternative, we are happy to run trans-Tasman entirely from here next year,” McLennan told The Australian.
For the moment, he is turning his attention to the islanders who were rejected by NZR.
“I’d definitely like to do something with a team from the islands but we have had no formal dialogue with the Pasifika team because we presumed they were going to do something with NZ.
“We definitely see all the rugby-playing nations as equal partners so we will see if we can do something. But once again I don’t know why we aren’t looking for a trans-Tasman competition starting next year given that Covid management is becoming more sophisticated and better managed than ever before and travel bubbles are being created.”
NZ Rugby chairman Brent Impey stunned the Pasifika rugby community by rejecting an islander team for next year’s Super Rugby Aotearoa, expressing concerns an islander team could be smashed by the NZ sides.
It’s difficult to say precisely how a Pasifika team would perform but on the two occasions when such a side was assembled, they gave both the Wallabies (29-14) and the All Blacks (41-26) brutal Test matches on successive weekends in July 2004.
Pacific Rugby Players CEO Aayden Clarke was deeply critical of the NZR and urged the islands to turn away from Auckland and look at establishing a team in western Sydney instead.
“Australia have had a far more open-door policy and a willingness with Pacific Island teams over the past few years compared to NZ Rugby,” Clarke told Stuff NZ. “We’ve had the Fijian Drua play in the NRC (the now-defunct National Rugby Championship), we’ve had various options where Australia have been a little but more kind and, without wanting to say it, a little but less arrogant about it.”
Certainly an islander team based in the western suburbs dovetails with McLennan’s long-held views.