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Further proof that the NZRU aren't playing with the full deck
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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 282023"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jethro @ Oct 8 2009, 02:59 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=415525" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>Exactly right! Tew has mislead the public about what was agreed to. He said the Unions wanted;</p><p></p><p>- everyone plays everyone else</p><p>- the whole competition in a 12 week window</p><p>- no midweek games</p><p></p><p>This is what they wanted in an ideal world, but what Tew neglects to tell the public is that each of these points was NEGOIABLE.</p><p></p><p>Some Provincial Unions were prepared to accept that midweek games might be necessary, or that perhaps the competition might take longer than 12 weeks, but NOWHERE in what the Unions agreed to was any suggestion that 4 teams would be expelled from the competition. That was the NZRU's solution.</p><p></p><p>The four unions expected to be culled contain over 1.2 million Kiwis* What the NZRU is going to is to render between 1/4 and 1/3 of New Zealand's rugby fans irrelevant. They will have NO representation in the top light, and instead will be playing the the meaningless Micky Mouse Division.</p><p></p><p>I think its time we got over this need we have to require everyone to play everyone else every year. The greatest Club Rugby competition in the world, the Heineken Cup, does NOT have everyone playing everyone else. We shoudl take a lead from them</p><p></p><p>Tewbacca and his retard buddies at the NZRU are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and are too stupid to see it. Instead of throwing out teams from the comp, they should be doing what is necessary to make the competition fit within the financial constraints set without consigning 1/3 of New Zealand's Rugby supporters to the scrapheap.</p><p></p><p><strong>Lower the salary cap</strong></p><p>► Stops teams like Canterbury and Auckland buying up the best players </p><p>► a salary cap exemption for home grown talent will help keep resources in their own provinces</p><p></p><p><strong>Split the competition into two pools</strong></p><p>► As I outlined in <a href="http://www.therugbyforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=50029&view=findpost&p=410115" target="_blank">THIS </a>post</p><p>► Its not ideal, but its a <span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>lot </strong></span>better than culling four teams!!!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>*(earlier in another topic, I posted that it was just under 1 million but that was wrong, I was using out of date data)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 282023"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jethro @ Oct 8 2009, 02:59 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=415525']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Exactly right! Tew has mislead the public about what was agreed to. He said the Unions wanted; - everyone plays everyone else - the whole competition in a 12 week window - no midweek games This is what they wanted in an ideal world, but what Tew neglects to tell the public is that each of these points was NEGOIABLE. Some Provincial Unions were prepared to accept that midweek games might be necessary, or that perhaps the competition might take longer than 12 weeks, but NOWHERE in what the Unions agreed to was any suggestion that 4 teams would be expelled from the competition. That was the NZRU's solution. The four unions expected to be culled contain over 1.2 million Kiwis* What the NZRU is going to is to render between 1/4 and 1/3 of New Zealand's rugby fans irrelevant. They will have NO representation in the top light, and instead will be playing the the meaningless Micky Mouse Division. I think its time we got over this need we have to require everyone to play everyone else every year. The greatest Club Rugby competition in the world, the Heineken Cup, does NOT have everyone playing everyone else. We shoudl take a lead from them Tewbacca and his retard buddies at the NZRU are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and are too stupid to see it. Instead of throwing out teams from the comp, they should be doing what is necessary to make the competition fit within the financial constraints set without consigning 1/3 of New Zealand's Rugby supporters to the scrapheap. [b]Lower the salary cap[/b] ► Stops teams like Canterbury and Auckland buying up the best players ► a salary cap exemption for home grown talent will help keep resources in their own provinces [b]Split the competition into two pools[/b] ► As I outlined in [url="http://www.therugbyforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=50029&view=findpost&p=410115"]THIS [/url]post ► Its not ideal, but its a [SIZE=2][b]lot [/b][/SIZE]better than culling four teams!!! *(earlier in another topic, I posted that it was just under 1 million but that was wrong, I was using out of date data) [/QUOTE]
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