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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 280022"><p>Sometimes, whether or not something makes money shouldn't be the criteria. Where the overall value of something is greater than the money it costs, it should be persisted with. This is a lesson the NZRU needs to learn from our friends in Europe. If every team in their major rugby competitions were to be chopped for losing money, the Guinness Premiership would be a three-team competition, the Top 14 would be a two team competition, and the Heineken Cup would be just those five combined, because the Magners League and the Italian Super 10 wouldn't even exist.</p><p></p><p>The problem with he NZRU is that they are looking at the Air New Zealand Cup from a blinkered standpoint, in total isolation and saying "thats losing money". What they need to do is to treat New Zealand Rugby holistically, i.e. treat International, Super-Rugby, ANZ Cup and Heartland Championship as a single entity, where some parts of it will make money and support other important parts that don't and the whole thing works together to discover and nurture new talent and bring it up through the levels to the ultimate aim of having the best All Black side we can put on the field.</p><p></p><p>If you want to see an example of what happens when a Union goes down the path that the NZRU are heading now, look no further than Scotland and the SRU. They took from their grass roots, and gave to their elite. No financial support for junior rugby, or rugby in schools. In fact the SRU treated junior rugby in a manner akin to disdain. Effectively, kids wanting to play rugby were considered to be a bloody nuisance. That worked fine for a year or two, then the whole thing came crashing down, and now Scotland, once one of the best sides in Europe, is a sad shadow of its former self, always hovering at 9 to 12 in the world. The SRU utterly screwed the game at all levels below the elite, and now they are paying the price for it.</p><p></p><p>A poster on the old iRB forum once said something about Scottish rugby that has always stuck with me. </p><p></p><p><em>"Scottish rugby is like a condemned prisoner standing on the gallows with a rope around his neck. The trapdoor is opening and he hasn't fallen through yet"</em></p><p></p><p>I think of that, and I think the old cliche "There, but for the grace of God, go us.....". The lesson is plain for all to see;</p><p></p><p>Ignore and/or alienate your grass roots at your peril!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 280022"] Sometimes, whether or not something makes money shouldn't be the criteria. Where the overall value of something is greater than the money it costs, it should be persisted with. This is a lesson the NZRU needs to learn from our friends in Europe. If every team in their major rugby competitions were to be chopped for losing money, the Guinness Premiership would be a three-team competition, the Top 14 would be a two team competition, and the Heineken Cup would be just those five combined, because the Magners League and the Italian Super 10 wouldn't even exist. The problem with he NZRU is that they are looking at the Air New Zealand Cup from a blinkered standpoint, in total isolation and saying "thats losing money". What they need to do is to treat New Zealand Rugby holistically, i.e. treat International, Super-Rugby, ANZ Cup and Heartland Championship as a single entity, where some parts of it will make money and support other important parts that don't and the whole thing works together to discover and nurture new talent and bring it up through the levels to the ultimate aim of having the best All Black side we can put on the field. If you want to see an example of what happens when a Union goes down the path that the NZRU are heading now, look no further than Scotland and the SRU. They took from their grass roots, and gave to their elite. No financial support for junior rugby, or rugby in schools. In fact the SRU treated junior rugby in a manner akin to disdain. Effectively, kids wanting to play rugby were considered to be a bloody nuisance. That worked fine for a year or two, then the whole thing came crashing down, and now Scotland, once one of the best sides in Europe, is a sad shadow of its former self, always hovering at 9 to 12 in the world. The SRU utterly screwed the game at all levels below the elite, and now they are paying the price for it. A poster on the old iRB forum once said something about Scottish rugby that has always stuck with me. [i]"Scottish rugby is like a condemned prisoner standing on the gallows with a rope around his neck. The trapdoor is opening and he hasn't fallen through yet"[/i] I think of that, and I think the old cliche "There, but for the grace of God, go us.....". The lesson is plain for all to see; Ignore and/or alienate your grass roots at your peril!! [/QUOTE]
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