Perhaps Western Sydney won’t happen?
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Perhaps Western Sydney won’t happen?
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The WSR team has to be based in Auckland. Giving Aucklanders an alternative to the Blues is the humane option.
It doesn't hurt, but seriously, Auckland works because it has a big population. Watching the Blues over the past decade, I reckon they'd love the excuse to support a different team. I imagine they'll try to make the team representative of all of New Zealand to not alienate fans from other regions.
Basing it in Auckland esp the North Shore is the surest way to alienate fans from other regions. All of them.
^^^^ The NRC would then just become a watered down version of the current Aus conference in Super + the Force. Is that what is needed? I would rather see the NRC expanded, not diminished.
Invercargill? Yeah nah.
The thing with New Zealand, as WCR said above, is they've got one biggish city and then two (or at a push, three) other metropoles of note before places start getting quite small.
You've said it yourself:on a 19-game losing streak the Stags are still pulling decent crowds.