Blues vs Rebels

[Derpus]

Absolutely. Outsiders see Aus with 5 soup teams as too much dilution which in turn weakens all 5 teams but anyone with the temerity to suggest the 2 losing franchises merge to strengthen the entire cohort is greeted on GAGR with a massive flaming.

It's a little more selective though: as I alluded to last night Aus posters can suggest a Brums-Rebs merger & barely anyone raises an eyebrow but a kiwi can't so much as say "y'know what? That might not be the stupidest thing I've ever heard" without the resident anti-all things NZR faction jumping down their throat.

Stop trying to resurrect that stinking bloated corpse of a thread motherfuckers.

 

[Rebel man]

I think NZ having more teams would be a good thing, they will tell you they can't afford it.

Fan engagement is already poor in NZ, don’t see how fragmenting the market will attract more people to the game.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Stop trying to resurrect that stinking bloated corpse of a thread motherfuckers.

Oh, you mean this one?

 

[Dan54]

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I think NZ having more teams would be a good thing, they will tell you they can't afford it.

Or will tell the truth, to improve a competition you don't bring best teams down to the level of supposed weakest, you bring weakest teams up to top level. And that uis happening already. NZ can't substain anymore teams anyway, now we have got MP (Moana Pasifika) (basically made up from NZ teams) you will see the depth here getting tested severely , just read Razor Robertson's comments on fact a few players getting used this year are from pool of almost players. We lose an awful lot more players to Japan and Europe than Aus etc and it bites here too.