Superbru 2014

TheAvenged87 said:
So what's the feeling about this?

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I think its getting abit too big, and if we had to travel to Argentina also thats too much travel for a tournament.

I think they should make a promotion / relegation format, that way we could have like 20 teams in total, with say 8 in the "1st Division" and 12 in the "2nd division", bottom 3 teams from the 1st division get relegated and the top 3 teams from 2nd division get promoted at the end of the season
 
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TheAvenged87 said:
So what's the feeling about this?

http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3824_9174759,00.html
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I think it's a very dangerous idea. For one, it has been proven that not any one of the current 3 countries has enough talent pools to sport more teams that we currently are sporting, and for all the teams to be competitive. There is always that one team from each country that you know is not going to make it, and their Superbru games are usually easy to predict. To introduce another team from SA will be bad for the overall quality of the game (and now that old saying of QUALITY over QUANTITY is coming to mind).

The Argentinian side is an interesting decision, but will be very difficult to implement. Travel will be such a major part of the game, that it is going to negatively affect the overall quality of the games. You will now frankly be travelling across the globe in your touring weeks, making the travel factor much more prominent.

On the plus side, should they do this, they will HAVE to do away with the double derby games to fit the competition into the calendar, and have a round robin competition again. Believe it or not, that will decrease the number of games being played as per the current format.
 
I liked the Super 12 format, then they tinkered and had us put up with the Super 15 ...... this suggestion is just no. It will just be a farkup, end of.
 
i only picked this mornings match... will do the others later this evening after some pondering of who is in the teams etc
 
Ike_009 said:
Why is SA so keen to get the kings in, they failed last time so this will just be more of the same. I just don't get the logic of throwing in more teams when you just divide the pool and make it harder for SA teams. Plus Argentina, our players are gonna die from jet lag.
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Politics. See the boss at the EP Kings is Cheeky Watson and he is big buddies with the ANC politicians and he normally gets what he wants. For instance look what happened with Luke Watson back in the day. He had to be picked for the Springboks even though Jake didn't want him there.

It's sad but South Africa is ruled by the political assholes.
 
Suits me just fine 8-0 Chiefs :D Damn Macintosh nailed Macaw :D and the saders aren't playing their normal brand of rugby and Mills looks good :) And Damn fine buy by the Chiefs in Robbie that man is a beast
 
Damn, I really thought that the Crusaders will win because they are playing at home. And if it wasn't for their goalkicker they probably would have been in front.

I hope the second half goes better.
 
history dictates that the saders usually have a slow start to the season and then finish strong. i hope the score stays at 8-0 cause i think i said that score with the chief to win :D
 
yoh double concussion fail for the chiefs and it seems all the flyhalf's are struggling in the beginning of the season
 
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