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[2017 Super Rugby] SF2: Lions vs. Hurricanes (29/07/2017)
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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_stormer2010" data-source="post: 867890" data-attributes="member: 39190"><p>Travel is and always will be a factor in SR. Especially since it is now played across 4 continents rather than just the 2. From 1993 to 2015 SA sides had the short end of the stick. Semingly that was fair. In general we still do IMO. Stormers vs Blues I went and literally counted the travel Kms for each team and Stormers have just about double the traveling Kms each years in relation to the Blues. Remember we have to play both Sunwolves AND Jaguares whereas NZ and Aussie sides only play either/or. I see the conference system as annoying but it is not an SA invention. Its the format everyone had agreed to and if any nation pushed for it it was the Aussies. No one cares to take into account the additional amount of travel SA sides put in in the regular season and its lasting affects and just harp on about how the format and travel factor 'screws' the NZ sides. </p><p></p><p>The format is changing in 2018 and we (SA sides) are probably again gonna lose out on the format if we have conferences and derbies still rather than an all-in-one league home-or-away. NZ will have it nice and pretty if the conference system stays; 5 NZ sides in a conference whereas SA will probably end up with Argentina and Aussie with Japan. I can just about garuantee you we will not see one poster complaining about fairness just as you don't see posters complaining about the extra travel SA sides have had t put in over 2 decades of SR and additional miles we still put in during the regular season.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_stormer2010, post: 867890, member: 39190"] Travel is and always will be a factor in SR. Especially since it is now played across 4 continents rather than just the 2. From 1993 to 2015 SA sides had the short end of the stick. Semingly that was fair. In general we still do IMO. Stormers vs Blues I went and literally counted the travel Kms for each team and Stormers have just about double the traveling Kms each years in relation to the Blues. Remember we have to play both Sunwolves AND Jaguares whereas NZ and Aussie sides only play either/or. I see the conference system as annoying but it is not an SA invention. Its the format everyone had agreed to and if any nation pushed for it it was the Aussies. No one cares to take into account the additional amount of travel SA sides put in in the regular season and its lasting affects and just harp on about how the format and travel factor 'screws' the NZ sides. The format is changing in 2018 and we (SA sides) are probably again gonna lose out on the format if we have conferences and derbies still rather than an all-in-one league home-or-away. NZ will have it nice and pretty if the conference system stays; 5 NZ sides in a conference whereas SA will probably end up with Argentina and Aussie with Japan. I can just about garuantee you we will not see one poster complaining about fairness just as you don't see posters complaining about the extra travel SA sides have had t put in over 2 decades of SR and additional miles we still put in during the regular season. [/QUOTE]
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