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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_Ezequiel" data-source="post: 342627" data-attributes="member: 42683">The travelling-problem of the SA teams has always been a weak spot of the Super 12/Super 14 competition. Even though we&#039;ve had 3 wins and a total of 5 finalists in the last 4 years it still had an impact on the results. This is the only thing that has massively changed to the advantage of the South African teams in the new format. I don&#039;t see why they couldn&#039;t go on with the same format- 14 matches- 7 home, 7 away1 team with a bye every week. I don&#039;t see why in the old format there was a bye-rule included anyway but in a competition with an odd number of teams it would be normal. Saying the NZ teams suffered the biggest loss when it comes to advantages might be true but still... The format is not that strange. Play every domestic team twice, play 4 teams from each other conference (wish we would play all 5. 2 extra matches wouldn&#039;t hurt anyone) makes it still a SANZAR competition. I see some people complain they have some teams at home, others away but in the Super 14 format that was also the case. You play 13 matches in a single-round competition. We never played each team home and away.About the whole play-off qualification I agree that it might have been better including the best 2 of each conference. The problem with that is that you might end up with a team qualifying although winning less points than other teams. Whether we have a point-based qualification or conference-based qualification doesn&#039;t really matter. Both options have pros and cons.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TRF_Ezequiel, post: 342627, member: 42683"] The travelling-problem of the SA teams has always been a weak spot of the Super 12/Super 14 competition. Even though we've had 3 wins and a total of 5 finalists in the last 4 years it still had an impact on the results. This is the only thing that has massively changed to the advantage of the South African teams in the new format. I don't see why they couldn't go on with the same format - 14 matches - 7 home, 7 away 1 team with a bye every week. I don't see why in the old format there was a bye-rule included anyway but in a competition with an odd number of teams it would be normal. Saying the NZ teams suffered the biggest loss when it comes to advantages might be true but still... The format is not that strange. Play every domestic team twice, play 4 teams from each other conference (wish we would play all 5. 2 extra matches wouldn't hurt anyone) makes it still a SANZAR competition. I see some people complain they have some teams at home, others away but in the Super 14 format that was also the case. You play 13 matches in a single-round competition. We never played each team home and away. About the whole play-off qualification I agree that it might have been better including the best 2 of each conference. The problem with that is that you might end up with a team qualifying although winning less points than other teams. Whether we have a point-based qualification or conference-based qualification doesn't really matter. Both options have pros and cons. [/QUOTE]

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