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2014 Super Rugby: Highlanders v Hurricanes (Round 6)
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<blockquote data-quote="Shaggy" data-source="post: 631567" data-attributes="member: 43400"><p>That's true that you can't blame the failures of any team solely on the coach, but your comment about watching/being a fan of the Canes since their inception (it's not 20 years yet, but I get your point), prompted me to respond with something that I've been thinking about for a while (it's a little off topic, but it's relevant to the Canes situation I think), and that is that the conference system, while it's good for TV viewership etc, by ensuring that each nation provides at least one team at the semifinal stage, also almost guarantees that at least one team will be very close to the bottom of the table.</p><p></p><p>When everyone played everyone else once, it was possible to be the least successful team in your country, but still finish just below the middle of the table. While this isn't a result that you'd necessarily want to accept, year in, year out, it's certainly not the coach killer that finishing last in your conference is now.</p><p></p><p>I guess to summarise what I'm saying is that the conference system can make your coach/team look a lot worse (or better) than the previous round robin system, and that the current system will always put at least one coach from each conference in the cross hairs every year</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shaggy, post: 631567, member: 43400"] That's true that you can't blame the failures of any team solely on the coach, but your comment about watching/being a fan of the Canes since their inception (it's not 20 years yet, but I get your point), prompted me to respond with something that I've been thinking about for a while (it's a little off topic, but it's relevant to the Canes situation I think), and that is that the conference system, while it's good for TV viewership etc, by ensuring that each nation provides at least one team at the semifinal stage, also almost guarantees that at least one team will be very close to the bottom of the table. When everyone played everyone else once, it was possible to be the least successful team in your country, but still finish just below the middle of the table. While this isn't a result that you'd necessarily want to accept, year in, year out, it's certainly not the coach killer that finishing last in your conference is now. I guess to summarise what I'm saying is that the conference system can make your coach/team look a lot worse (or better) than the previous round robin system, and that the current system will always put at least one coach from each conference in the cross hairs every year [/QUOTE]
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