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<blockquote data-quote="Brigantine" data-source="post: 939010" data-attributes="member: 73940"><p>Hold on a minute... will axing the Wolves and going to a 13 game round robin really reduce travel for SA teams? instead of 8 antipodean away games per 2 seasons (incl 1 in Singapore), there will be 9.</p><p></p><p>Instead it will just cull 6 SA derbies and 2 Jags games, which don't involve much travel. (replaced by 1 extra home game vs a NZ team)</p><p></p><p>I get that SA don't make money off Sunwolves games though. They'd rather have the extra games vs NZ teams, competition wise.</p><p></p><p>If I was SARU, I'd be planning to keep those 3 SA derbies in the schedule. They won't count towards the SR table, but they can have a separate trophy. Maybe a return leg, or maybe challenge the Cheetahs and Kings while the Celtic teams are at the Champions Cup. (1 week each in Jan/Mar/Apr/May). Including the usual derbies that would make a 6-team SA league with a RR each season. There'd be money in that, right? <span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">(This isn't the right thread for this topic really... and it would only work if NZRU/ARU agreed to leave so many bye weeks in there for their own extra derbies)</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brigantine, post: 939010, member: 73940"] Hold on a minute... will axing the Wolves and going to a 13 game round robin really reduce travel for SA teams? instead of 8 antipodean away games per 2 seasons (incl 1 in Singapore), there will be 9. Instead it will just cull 6 SA derbies and 2 Jags games, which don't involve much travel. (replaced by 1 extra home game vs a NZ team) I get that SA don't make money off Sunwolves games though. They'd rather have the extra games vs NZ teams, competition wise. If I was SARU, I'd be planning to keep those 3 SA derbies in the schedule. They won't count towards the SR table, but they can have a separate trophy. Maybe a return leg, or maybe challenge the Cheetahs and Kings while the Celtic teams are at the Champions Cup. (1 week each in Jan/Mar/Apr/May). Including the usual derbies that would make a 6-team SA league with a RR each season. There'd be money in that, right? [SIZE=2] (This isn't the right thread for this topic really... and it would only work if NZRU/ARU agreed to leave so many bye weeks in there for their own extra derbies)[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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