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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 999417" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>That's all fine and dandy, but did NZ take into consideration the financial implications in doing this?? the amount of money they are going to lose when South Africa, and by extension the entire NH's viewership numbers are gone??</p><p></p><p>For a South African perspective, dumping NZ and Australia and moving to the NH is financially a much better plan, so I can see why us Saffa wouldn't fight the NZ'ers on these talks, but I think the narrow-sightedness by the NZ administrators is something that should be a major concern for the NZ rugby public.</p><p></p><p>Remember, that if NZ loses a lot of money, they won't be able to keep their big name stars in NZ and will have a bigger player exodus than they have now, whereas South Africa will reduce their massive player exodus and keep more stars in SA, meaning the local teams have more star value, which in turn means more people watching the game.</p><p></p><p>If we use that example, and add your perspective of the casual viewer, I bet the numbers of casual viewership will also drop if they don't know any of the newbies running out instead of capped All Black players who are all playing in France or Japan earning a lot more money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 999417, member: 40658"] That's all fine and dandy, but did NZ take into consideration the financial implications in doing this?? the amount of money they are going to lose when South Africa, and by extension the entire NH's viewership numbers are gone?? For a South African perspective, dumping NZ and Australia and moving to the NH is financially a much better plan, so I can see why us Saffa wouldn't fight the NZ'ers on these talks, but I think the narrow-sightedness by the NZ administrators is something that should be a major concern for the NZ rugby public. Remember, that if NZ loses a lot of money, they won't be able to keep their big name stars in NZ and will have a bigger player exodus than they have now, whereas South Africa will reduce their massive player exodus and keep more stars in SA, meaning the local teams have more star value, which in turn means more people watching the game. If we use that example, and add your perspective of the casual viewer, I bet the numbers of casual viewership will also drop if they don't know any of the newbies running out instead of capped All Black players who are all playing in France or Japan earning a lot more money. [/QUOTE]
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