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<blockquote data-quote="Jethro" data-source="post: 280099"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (smartcooky @ Sep 25 2009, 07:34 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=413529" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>Well said Sir!!!!! The only issue I'm currently seeing is lack of depth in some teams, Manawatu comes to mind with four top class players unavailable. That will change over time. Right at the moment pretty much the whole of NZ is behind the competition, it's generating interest. The heartland may support the Kiwi teams in S14 but there's not the same Iwi feeling to things, the big five simply aren't our teams, the S15 is going to really bring that home. As stated before I'm going to be following the NRL, with hopefully the Bears included, from 2011 onwards rather than the mickey mouse competition SANZAR have come up with. </p><p></p><p>The four teams that get dropped will have their salary cap halved, with lose players (regardless of what Tew claims), and are basically immediatly second class citizens with no hope of matching the top ten sides. Once again a NZRU decision will lead to a huge drop in spectator numbers and the loss of interest in the game in parts of New Zealand. I would be sharpening up my legal teams in Hamilton and at the top of the South Island, millions of dollars spent only to have Tew move the goal posts year in year out.</p><p></p><p>As to the Provinces agreeing to a ten team competition, fine make it a level playing field rather than the arbitary decision that six teams will remain in the top division regardless if that meet NZRU requirements or not. Thats a grossly unfair way to go about things, and is about what I would expect from the Tewbacca lead NZRU. Both Otago and North Harbour should fall somewhere below teams like Manawatu on the guidelines the NZRU are claiming they will use. Anyone else not trusting the national body at the moment?</p><p></p><p></p><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Woldog @ Sep 25 2009, 08:29 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=413535" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>Dude the only problems the Reds have, besides being the Tahs biatychs, is poaching from the West and no doubt from down South if Melbourne can get it's act together.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jethro, post: 280099"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (smartcooky @ Sep 25 2009, 07:34 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=413529']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Well said Sir!!!!! The only issue I'm currently seeing is lack of depth in some teams, Manawatu comes to mind with four top class players unavailable. That will change over time. Right at the moment pretty much the whole of NZ is behind the competition, it's generating interest. The heartland may support the Kiwi teams in S14 but there's not the same Iwi feeling to things, the big five simply aren't our teams, the S15 is going to really bring that home. As stated before I'm going to be following the NRL, with hopefully the Bears included, from 2011 onwards rather than the mickey mouse competition SANZAR have come up with. The four teams that get dropped will have their salary cap halved, with lose players (regardless of what Tew claims), and are basically immediatly second class citizens with no hope of matching the top ten sides. Once again a NZRU decision will lead to a huge drop in spectator numbers and the loss of interest in the game in parts of New Zealand. I would be sharpening up my legal teams in Hamilton and at the top of the South Island, millions of dollars spent only to have Tew move the goal posts year in year out. As to the Provinces agreeing to a ten team competition, fine make it a level playing field rather than the arbitary decision that six teams will remain in the top division regardless if that meet NZRU requirements or not. Thats a grossly unfair way to go about things, and is about what I would expect from the Tewbacca lead NZRU. Both Otago and North Harbour should fall somewhere below teams like Manawatu on the guidelines the NZRU are claiming they will use. Anyone else not trusting the national body at the moment? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Woldog @ Sep 25 2009, 08:29 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=413535']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Dude the only problems the Reds have, besides being the Tahs biatychs, is poaching from the West and no doubt from down South if Melbourne can get it's act together. [/QUOTE]
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