Posts by Yamis
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Nice post James.
Mad props.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Currie_Cup_Premier_Division
Just looking at the Currie Cup and it's quite interesting with the dynamics of it.
They only have 8 teams not 14 like us. The Sharks stay as the same team (massive advantage if you ask me in both the Currie Cup AND Super 14), the Bulls more or less stay the same (they have another feeder side but they aren't in the Currie Cup so ALL their players would play for the same team year round, while the poor other three unions are split up so they have 2 sides in the Currie Cup but come together to form 1 side in the Super 14. It's no wonder they are awful year after year while the Bulls and Sharks look so dominant.
Crowds are interesting in the Currie Cup as well. Theres a match between the Boland Cavaliers and Platinum Leopards this year that had a paltry 850 along to it while over 20,000 show up to watch the Sharks play the Bulls.
This to me shows once again how the Super 14 is crapping on local rugby.
But thanks to TV rights and national unions with the type of vision that shows their heads up their arses we will be stuck with a dogs breakfast of a season with the same stupid issues for the next century.
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This is an idea I've toyed with a bit before. As our players are centrally contracted to the NZRU I don't see why it would be so difficult for the five top teams to retain the bulk of their squads and run a draft from the remaining 3-5 teams to pad out their numbers for the "super 15" or whatever they'd want to call it.
Forget the draft Simon.
You don't reward unsuccessful players in unsuccessful teams. You take the teams that qualified and go with them. You don't see Manchester United or Arsenal etc drafting in top players from other sides for the Champions League. Once you start doing that you reward poor performers and poo on the guys who got the teams qualified in the first place who then get booted out. Not to mention those guys aren't from that team so you start to erode the fan connection.
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Regarding crowd numbers they are up about 20% on the same time last year. 7,500 versus about 6,000 after 4 rounds in 08.
Not spectacular but definately noticeable. TV ratings and general interest on the radio is also noticeably up.
They will have to cull 4 teams though and they certainly need to make it the bottom 4. Unfortunately they can't now because they have said they are using other means to decide it. So big teams who finish in the bottom 4 will jump up and down and say you've moved the goalposts.
At the other end if minnow unions finish outside the bottom 4 but are told they are getting relegated the lawyers will be out in force. The NZRU will still be trying to sort this out at Christmas time no doubt and then wind up compromising and relegating the bottom 2 and offering to do the same next year.
I'm all for an 8 or 10 team ANC and post season they take the top 5 and play a shortish champions league style comp with the top Aussie and Currie Cup teams. Keep it to say 6 matches each (4 pool teams home and away) and then semis and finals. It seems to me to be the only sustainable (I'm talking fan interest here) way forward where we won't be changing the format and teams etc every 10 bloody years. You could run it at the start of the following season and it would mean that rugby kicks off at the end of March instead of bloody February.
Won't happen though. Makes too much sense and not enough money.
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I used that analogy (or near enough) about speeding in me blog a few weeks ago...
"And fifthly, the ads on radio are absurd. Saying that parents have always had the right not to smack and imagine how they would feel if a law change said that all parents had to smack?!
That is such a f**king dumb line of logic it beggars belief. It's a bit like saying that they should put the speed limits up to 60kmph because people who go under 50 have always had the right to go under 50 and imagine how they would feel if we made them drive above 60 at all times. Or non drug users have always had the right not to take drugs and so imagine how they'd feel if we told them they had to take crack once a week. Although in saying that, this whole referendum makes me wonder if some people haven't been living that lifestyle before coming up with it.....Also the idea that this law won't make child abuse go away is entirely correct. Just the same as speed limits won't make speeding go away and coaching won't make a team win every time they take the field. Especially not one with 3 old has beens coaching it (I use 'coaching' in the loosest sense possible). But it will certainly reduce it in the same way that speed limits reduce deaths and coaching improves performance (well usually anyway)."
I love cut n paste.
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Whatever you do, don't mow the lawn this summer. I suggest a few more bottles should about kill it completely.
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I found a photo of Steve's front lawn if anyones interested ;)
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Reminds me of the time I spotted someone at the intersection outside our flat chuck a complete set of McDonald's rubbish out of the window. I tore downstairs, out on to the street, scooped it up and managed to hiff the whole lot back through the driver's window just as the light went green. Felt good!
For McDonalds litter you'd struggle to beat Huntly McDonalds carpark. Well not the carpark itself, but just wander over to the stream bank that's adjacent to the carpark and take a peep down the bank. Unbelievable. You almost feel like chucking some there yourself because it could become a community project like a cairn or something.
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I think the relegation at the end of this season isn't just based on position. There's a formula which includes population, registered player base, financial situation, previous years performances will all be considered. They agreed on something a couple of months ago.
I suspect, even if they come dead last, Auckland couldn't be relegated this year on the basis of the formula. In future years, possibly.
That's my point Kyle.
Because they have all these other (stupid) criteria they will end up relegating teams who don't come in the bottom 4 and all hell will break loose.
There's two criteria that matter.
1) They can pay their players and staff
2) They are good at rugbybringing population and all that guff into it is moronic. After next year they will let the winning division two team come up and so all the population, playing numbers stuff won't be considered. So why is it now?
The answer is of course to protect their mates in the bigger provinces from the ignominy of going into the second division but if sides come 9th and are financially OK but get chucked out they will spit the dummy and good on them.
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Not 100% true on the 20% playing position thing there.
It's "Playing History" which of course means they can dismiss where teams come this year and look at the past 1, 2, 5, 10 years (or whatever suits them).
They are going to end up with law suits flying all over the place if they try and relegate teams that didn't finish in the bottom 4.
I sense another backdown and more people realising that the NZRU are a total bunch of incompetent dorks.