Re: Team to face Scotland : Sun Nov 06, 2016 4:15 pm  

fun time frankie wrote:

I'd go back to the tri nations but play each other twice and have a second tier comp played at the same time and play double headers every time there isn't going to be a fourth team to match the big three ever

Not a bad shout, two games against Aus and NZ would also mean you could put 2 fixtures in the heartlands and two in expansion areas and keep everyone happy.

Re: Team to face Scotland : Sun Nov 06, 2016 5:33 pm  

How did they get 21,009 as the attendance, even if they counted the number twice (once for each match) surely there wasn't that many?

Re: Team to face Scotland : Sun Nov 06, 2016 5:58 pm  

Dally wrote:

How did they get 21,009 as the attendance, even if they counted the number twice (once for each match) surely there wasn't that many?

The capacity is 32,000 so 2/3rds full seems about right, and with it being a double header many people will have arrived/left midway through a game.

Re: Team to face Scotland : Sun Nov 06, 2016 6:00 pm  

When we had the tri nations people moaned and said we needed to include development nations to help them improve and when we include them people moan and want the tri nations back.

It's just like what happens with the super league format.

moan change moan change moan change.

Re: Team to face Scotland : Sun Nov 06, 2016 6:02 pm  

How did they get 21,009 as the attendance, even if they counted the number twice (once for each match) surely there wasn't that many?

Re: Team to face Scotland : Sun Nov 06, 2016 6:22 pm  

UllFC wrote:

Not a bad shout, two games against Aus and NZ would also mean you could put 2 fixtures in the heartlands and two in expansion areas and keep everyone happy.

I can't see fans, players, or TV broadcasters buying into a concept which has 3 teams playing each other twice. You would get two teams end up playing each other 3 times in a short series.

That's kinda an overkill if you ask me.

Re: Team to face Scotland : Sun Nov 06, 2016 6:34 pm  

kobashi wrote:

I can't see fans, players, or TV broadcasters buying into a concept which has 3 teams playing each other twice. You would get two teams end up playing each other 3 times in a short series.

That's kinda an overkill if you ask me.

You mean like last year with the series against NZ

Re: Team to face Scotland : Sun Nov 06, 2016 6:35 pm  

kobashi wrote:

I can't see fans, players, or TV broadcasters buying into a concept which has 3 teams playing each other twice. You would get two teams end up playing each other 3 times in a short series.

That's kinda an overkill if you ask me.

like in SOO when 2 teams play each other 3 times in a short space of time. you're right it would never catch on

Re: Team to face Scotland : Sun Nov 06, 2016 6:50 pm  

the artist wrote:

like in SOO when 2 teams play each other 3 times in a short space of time. you're right it would never catch on

Wow. You really are gonna bring up SOO as an example. Hey if we are gonna talk about getting on SOO levels lets go back and look at that concept of England vs the exiles. was you one of them guys who said that can catch on like SOO also.

Just no... It can never get to that level.

Oh and why should Samoa, PNG or Fiji miss out on the 4 nations. Or are you saying that in Australia it should be 4 nations while in England it should be tri nations.

Now let's gets on to the scheduling of a tri nations with teams playing each other twice.

Wouldn't that be a 7 week tournament with just three teams. You really think players, fans and TV will be interested in this.

Re: Team to face Scotland : Sun Nov 06, 2016 7:03 pm  

kobashi wrote:

Wow. You really are gonna bring up SOO as an example. Hey if we are gonna talk about getting on SOO levels lets go back and look at that concept of England vs the exiles. was you one of them guys who said that can catch on like SOO also.

Just no... It can never get to that level.

Oh and why should Samoa, PNG or Fiji miss out on the 4 nations. Or are you saying that in Australia it should be 4 nations while in England it should be tri nations.

All the other countries should miss out because there aim is to keep the score respectable what's the point in that I can tell you what will happen at every World Cup the group games will be quite competitive with the way it's fixed then you get three one sided q-finals followed by Australia hammering the weakest semi final opponent then England and New Zealand fight it out to see who gets beat by Australia in the final