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<blockquote data-quote="C A Iversen" data-source="post: 284791"><p>I don't have the time to address a massive diatribe like that Nickdnz. Simply put, you twisted many truths.</p><p></p><p>"Also, I don't see why people are now complaining about the Tri Nations as well. What do people want, no international competitions now? And I don't see how adding Argentina to the fixture is a reasons to complain. People claim "The current format is boring" and then when Argentina is added and instead of three matches verse each team, it changes to two, which ultimatly solves the whole "boring" aspect of the same three teams competing against each other constantly, and yet NZ fans just seem to find any reason to complain."</p><p></p><p>I like Argentina being brought in, my complaint is that it took so long and that the format is stagnant. You can't cram the same games down our throats forever and personally I'd rather have the Tri-Nations every two years and have a tour from another country on the year in between. That'd keep the Tri-Nations super fresh, but that's just my opinion. I just didn't have the time to make an epic post about it to be clearer.</p><p></p><p>The point of what I was saying is that the SANZAR boys just think adding a team to any comp makes it new and have done for a long time, rather than slight format changes to keep things fresh. Argentina is the only good idea they've had. The Super comp additions are just pushing the competition to become a long, boring year-stretching waste of resources.</p><p></p><p>As for the ANZC, I firmly believe the crowd levels will stay the same for the smaller unions if they are in premier grade. Southlands have grown year on year for 5 years. You bigger unions are just running scared that there's a certain amount of sponsorship in NZ to go around and sponsors would start looking at sponsoring the "new" teams who play to the "we're not a big city, but we try hard" sentimental favourite card. That's why the big unions are trying to shaft the small.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="C A Iversen, post: 284791"] I don't have the time to address a massive diatribe like that Nickdnz. Simply put, you twisted many truths. "Also, I don't see why people are now complaining about the Tri Nations as well. What do people want, no international competitions now? And I don't see how adding Argentina to the fixture is a reasons to complain. People claim "The current format is boring" and then when Argentina is added and instead of three matches verse each team, it changes to two, which ultimatly solves the whole "boring" aspect of the same three teams competing against each other constantly, and yet NZ fans just seem to find any reason to complain." I like Argentina being brought in, my complaint is that it took so long and that the format is stagnant. You can't cram the same games down our throats forever and personally I'd rather have the Tri-Nations every two years and have a tour from another country on the year in between. That'd keep the Tri-Nations super fresh, but that's just my opinion. I just didn't have the time to make an epic post about it to be clearer. The point of what I was saying is that the SANZAR boys just think adding a team to any comp makes it new and have done for a long time, rather than slight format changes to keep things fresh. Argentina is the only good idea they've had. The Super comp additions are just pushing the competition to become a long, boring year-stretching waste of resources. As for the ANZC, I firmly believe the crowd levels will stay the same for the smaller unions if they are in premier grade. Southlands have grown year on year for 5 years. You bigger unions are just running scared that there's a certain amount of sponsorship in NZ to go around and sponsors would start looking at sponsoring the "new" teams who play to the "we're not a big city, but we try hard" sentimental favourite card. That's why the big unions are trying to shaft the small. [/QUOTE]
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