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What if Aus leave Super rugby?
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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 994996" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>That seems fair. Although, I think Australian Rugby made a big mistake in not keeping Perth part of the tournament. I'm not talking about the Western Force as a team, but rather the city. Not only is it geographically a good stop over between RSA and the Australasia, but also the amount of people in that region. There's over 50k South African expats living in the City, and nearly all of them are rugby supporters. That's a huge market they are missing out on.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But here's the thing though, we aren't throwing our weight around, and we aren't the ones spreading the rumours, most of the journalists making up these rumours are either from Australia or the NH (welsh online). Our Board has on several occasions mentioned that they have no intention to leave Super Rugby, even though the media just keeps on spreading the stories.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Let's look at Saturday's line up. The schedule for games usually start with the first game being played either in Japan or NZ from 5 am onwards. The NZ games follow that game up to usually 10 am, then we get the Australia games from 10 am to 2 pm. Then the SA games start from 3 pm to 7 pm. Then Argentina's game is usually either 10pm or midnight.</p><p></p><p>When it's a bumper day, there really isn't other time slots available, and studies have shown that Sunday games just doesn't work in SA. so we really are only left with Friday evening or Saturday games.</p><p></p><p>Not only that, but it would not be in the teams best interest to play in SA between 12 and 2 pm, especially in the summer when the heat is at it's highest and theres no shade over the stadiums. There would be water breaks every 10 minutes, and that wouldn't be a watchable game either for the fans.</p><p></p><p>Every country suffers a bit with games showing either very early in the morning or very late at night. Not just NZ.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That might be a good study. But regardless of Australia leaving or not, the amount of viewers in Africa won't change that much, and the steady income will keep coming in. In fact, if Australia leaves, it could be that RSA, NZ and Argentina and Japan get a bigger cut from viewership.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And vice versa. That's not unique to NZ. the viewership for an SA derby is way higher than a game featuring the Blues or Highlanders in SA.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 994996, member: 40658"] That seems fair. Although, I think Australian Rugby made a big mistake in not keeping Perth part of the tournament. I'm not talking about the Western Force as a team, but rather the city. Not only is it geographically a good stop over between RSA and the Australasia, but also the amount of people in that region. There's over 50k South African expats living in the City, and nearly all of them are rugby supporters. That's a huge market they are missing out on. But here's the thing though, we aren't throwing our weight around, and we aren't the ones spreading the rumours, most of the journalists making up these rumours are either from Australia or the NH (welsh online). Our Board has on several occasions mentioned that they have no intention to leave Super Rugby, even though the media just keeps on spreading the stories. Let's look at Saturday's line up. The schedule for games usually start with the first game being played either in Japan or NZ from 5 am onwards. The NZ games follow that game up to usually 10 am, then we get the Australia games from 10 am to 2 pm. Then the SA games start from 3 pm to 7 pm. Then Argentina's game is usually either 10pm or midnight. When it's a bumper day, there really isn't other time slots available, and studies have shown that Sunday games just doesn't work in SA. so we really are only left with Friday evening or Saturday games. Not only that, but it would not be in the teams best interest to play in SA between 12 and 2 pm, especially in the summer when the heat is at it's highest and theres no shade over the stadiums. There would be water breaks every 10 minutes, and that wouldn't be a watchable game either for the fans. Every country suffers a bit with games showing either very early in the morning or very late at night. Not just NZ. That might be a good study. But regardless of Australia leaving or not, the amount of viewers in Africa won't change that much, and the steady income will keep coming in. In fact, if Australia leaves, it could be that RSA, NZ and Argentina and Japan get a bigger cut from viewership. And vice versa. That's not unique to NZ. the viewership for an SA derby is way higher than a game featuring the Blues or Highlanders in SA. [/QUOTE]
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