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No offense, but I don't want the competition to follow in American styled leagues, it's not our culture and never will be, that's why we don't like it or accept it. The format just isn't for us.

It's also a point to make SANZAR fans can be generally quite bandwagon. Auckland Blues has by far the worst turnouts of any NZ side and it's by far the largest city in NZ. Success breeds fans. In their hay day Eden Park used to be packed to the rafters.

Honestly, I love the Super Rugby and think it's important for our players to play in it given the traveling aspect, it gives future All Blacks the taste of the venues they become so familiar with in the RC. It also gives them a taste of what it's like to play vs other Nationalities, so it's very...

First and foremost South Africa need to step up their player retention. The All Blacks have it right and will always have it right by not selecting players signed long term overseas. Fortunately the All Blacks is such a huge brand and honour to play for, this 9 times out of 10 keeps them in the...

We have the ITM Cup, which is our regional unions and the greatest grassroots rugby infrastructure in the world along with extremely historical High School sides with rich rivalry and culture like no other found in the world. This is why we do and always will produce the greatest teams and...

glorified all star competition No it's not. 98% of players are playing in their country or origin and a lot in their region of origin. The top 14 is a "glorified all star competition". Paying literally millions for retired All Blacks and fringe All Blacks as well as Australians and South...

Yeah, it would be a promotion/relegation game and if 9th place wins from Div 1, they stay in Div 1. It's just a few thoughts of the top of my head on how this competition could restore some credibility. Also it means teams in Div 2 would be likely to win more games and attract more crowds for...

The format I would generally like to see is; Division 1, 10 teams. Top 4 play-offs. Bottom side relegated, 2nd bottom side plays loser of Division 2 final, in a play-off. Division 2, 10 teams. Top 4 play-offs. Grand final, winner gets promoted, loser plays off vs 2nd bottom division 1 team...

Congratulations to Georgia, great to see progress in some of these regions, the Samoan result particularly impressed me. I'm quite certain Georgia would be capable of beating Italy and Japan regularly and on occasion potentially Scotland, Argentina, Wales and France on an off day.

Mmm, true. It was a disappointing tour, apologies for the BOD incident as well, such a shame. Trust me when I say 99% of all NZ'ers felt for the guy and were disappointed not to be able to see him action for the rest of the tour. Still, I can't see the 2005 Lions 1st XV side losing to a late...

Undoubtedly Jones at this stage. I think Hansen can only really top him if we go undefeated this season, break some previous records and put on some huge scores. What Jones has done with England in little over half a year is staggering. They were knocked out off their own RWC 9-10 months ago in...

The NZ teams could be watered down by adding a 6th side. This would cause more player spread, we'd likely still be dominant, but it would help close the gap considerably with the SA and OZ teams IMO, we have seen examples of how fragile the Highlanders depth is vs the likes of the Reds, the...

Still, the opposition is stronger than a late 90's Irish side. I remember Ireland being occasionally competitive back then, but no where near the force they are today.

So do I. Most of the games were competitive, there weren't many weak sides, maybe the Reds in a bad year, or the Cats or Highlanders. But overall it was such a strong competition. There needs to be two tiers and a relegation/promotion system, similar to the ITM cup.

Bravo SANZAR, you ruined the integrity of the competition so you could apparently expand the sport and get more money, well it's back firing.. of course ruining the quality of the competition was going to have this impact. You have to wonder how dense some of the management are.

Pollard is a really great player, sad for his injuries as well. He's the sort of player you could have used in the semi-final last year, he would have had a huge impact on the game and your attack.

Outstanding performance, what a watch and it doesn't even show his excellent kicking accuracy. Is it fair to say though, Ireland were not that good back then? I think Dan's performance against a Clive Woodward coached Lions side, who was undoubtedly the best coach in the world at the time holds...

Great, now why didn't you just post that in the first place?

Did you read the post properly, I asked peoples opinion of what they thought was the best. Did you read the rest of the thread? Why am I saying this again?

This is beautifully bad LOL