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<blockquote data-quote="Shaggy" data-source="post: 762059" data-attributes="member: 43400"><p>An interesting thread, this one. I agree with Jayatron's three points; skills structure, the player mix (youth and experience), the style of rugby you choose to play, the pathways for the young players, the structures of the season, and the suporting structures to achieve all of the above, are probably more important than forming Super type teams, and who you play against.</p><p></p><p>If you did go down that road though, it's obviously important to get the buy in from the fan base; as Olyy and Tigs have said, it has it's difficulties with deep seated rivalries within a potential "Super" area. It's important to try to get the fan base to ally with their sporting foes (for the Super season at least), and include/integrate all regions within a Super area. In NZ, we dropped any hint of regionalism from the Super franchise names some years back, to try to include all regions within a super franchise area. The Crusaders for example, try to include all of the provinces within their catchment, even if it's just PR visits/coaching clinics etc. Many people see it as a Canterbury/Christchurch team, but many of the players and coaching personnel have ties to my area - we see the Crusaders very much as "our team", but once the ITM cup starts, the Cantabs are our enemies, and the old tribalism/rivalries resume (which is great).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shaggy, post: 762059, member: 43400"] An interesting thread, this one. I agree with Jayatron's three points; skills structure, the player mix (youth and experience), the style of rugby you choose to play, the pathways for the young players, the structures of the season, and the suporting structures to achieve all of the above, are probably more important than forming Super type teams, and who you play against. If you did go down that road though, it's obviously important to get the buy in from the fan base; as Olyy and Tigs have said, it has it's difficulties with deep seated rivalries within a potential "Super" area. It's important to try to get the fan base to ally with their sporting foes (for the Super season at least), and include/integrate all regions within a Super area. In NZ, we dropped any hint of regionalism from the Super franchise names some years back, to try to include all regions within a super franchise area. The Crusaders for example, try to include all of the provinces within their catchment, even if it's just PR visits/coaching clinics etc. Many people see it as a Canterbury/Christchurch team, but many of the players and coaching personnel have ties to my area - we see the Crusaders very much as "our team", but once the ITM cup starts, the Cantabs are our enemies, and the old tribalism/rivalries resume (which is great). [/QUOTE]
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