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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 901453" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>I also don't agree with what SANZAR did in cutting the Force; if they were going to cut a team, it should have been the Rebels (last on first off, and its a lost cause in a market saturated by AFL and Soccer). VFL, the second tier of Aussie Football gets bigger crowd than the Rebels. Even Women's AFL gets comparable crowds. </p><p></p><p>The Force was getting bigger crowds, had more money behind it, and Perth acted acted as an excellent stopover for teams travelling from Australia's east coast and New Zealand to and from South Africa and vice-versa.</p><p></p><p>But even more stupid is that they didn't need to cut any teams at all. The real reason the 18 team competition didn't work was because of the overly complex dual South African conference system that distorted the results in favour of which ever of those conferences didn't playing against NZ teams. All SANZAR needed to do was run it the way they run the 15 team competition... three conferences of six (instead of five) teams..</p><p></p><p>1. Six South African teams</p><p>2. Five Australian teams + Sunwolves</p><p>3. Five New Zealand teams + Jaguares</p><p></p><p>Nine matches every weekend except when byes were scheduled. </p><p>Home and Away in-conference derbies</p><p>Each team plays four of the six teams in each of the other two conferences (two home and two away)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 901453, member: 20605"] I also don't agree with what SANZAR did in cutting the Force; if they were going to cut a team, it should have been the Rebels (last on first off, and its a lost cause in a market saturated by AFL and Soccer). VFL, the second tier of Aussie Football gets bigger crowd than the Rebels. Even Women's AFL gets comparable crowds. The Force was getting bigger crowds, had more money behind it, and Perth acted acted as an excellent stopover for teams travelling from Australia's east coast and New Zealand to and from South Africa and vice-versa. But even more stupid is that they didn't need to cut any teams at all. The real reason the 18 team competition didn't work was because of the overly complex dual South African conference system that distorted the results in favour of which ever of those conferences didn't playing against NZ teams. All SANZAR needed to do was run it the way they run the 15 team competition... three conferences of six (instead of five) teams.. 1. Six South African teams 2. Five Australian teams + Sunwolves 3. Five New Zealand teams + Jaguares Nine matches every weekend except when byes were scheduled. Home and Away in-conference derbies Each team plays four of the six teams in each of the other two conferences (two home and two away) [/QUOTE]
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