Virtual NPC

Hopefully..............

A ripper for what?…………….sport?

Theres more to life than sport Richy

In Auckland we have culture…………….and crack so we can cram all that culture into one weekend

What have yous guys got? Te Papa is a joke and Pheonix wouldn’t last 2 months in Auckland as a venue

dude, youve been to wellington.

Cuba street has more culture than you can shake a stick at !

Courtney Place has arguably the best nightlife in the Country all in walking distance of each other and you would have heard the saying
"you cant beat Wellington on a good day"

I feel like I live in New Zealand when Im in wellington, go to auckalnd and its like being in Tokyo.

mabey this thread should be directed to flipside ?

nah.....................Flipside is full of people who will know full well that I am taking the piss

I know your only taking the piss dude and you secretly want to live here

LMFAO

oh......herrmmm *snort* ha ha ha ha ha

Nah...........

I would have to become a Hurricanes/Lions supporter and my blood pressure is high enough as it is

has the NPC final got a few people tensed up or something

i think that says it all after the weekend

Final Results for virtual NPC
just a half 562
Zenny 541
The Maestro 520
Fitzy007 507
DamienDj 504
InTheForest 450
PFunk 413
Keewee 288

in the end of th JAH was lucky to come out on top
Can someone fill in the ones i dont have

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opps....forgot the promotion game

its a given Hawkes bay will win by 13+ so

i've finished on 521 points - yah Auckland!!!!

534 for me makes me third after jah and the meastro.

I got ZERO points in the last round

I thought wellington would win and I picked Nelson Bays over H Bay

I could still pip Fitzy in the promo game...

If your lucky fella

461 points for me

I think the result in the playoff match shows that something has to change in terms of promotion/relegation. The imbalance is too great, it needs to be automatic. The problem is that any player with aspirations of super12 contract will go to a first division province. That means even the worst division 1 team has half the players as possible super 12 players while the top second division tgeam basically has none. They can never win against those odds. It is ridiculous that you basically say the teams who are in div 1 now will be there forever and div 2 teams will stay there.

Ive been thinking about this over the w/end and I reckon that when S12 squads are announced it should be compulsory to select 3-5 players from the second division teams in the franchise's catchment area, these players are still under contract from their home union but they get to live and train as professionals for the period of the S12, once it is over they are released back to their home unions where the experience they have gained will flow on to the rest of their team and hopefull strengthen it... ?

thoughts ?

Obviously its not as simple as that and it will need all the wrinkles ironed out but what do you think ?

I think the key is the super 12 coaches. They should be allowed to coach NPC teams, but not the main franchise team. This team could be the other div1 team or a div2 team. This would mean a more even spread of players as they could choose the main province or working with the super12 coach.

Northland have had greater exposure to quality games where as Hawkes Bay have only been tested a couple of times this year......

I feel it should be automatic promotion, because the last three years Hbay have been well beaten by the Div 1 minnows

But if its automatic your gona have them being absoloutley hammered week in week out, if Northland can rack up 60 points then imagine what auckland, wellington or Canterbury would do ! sure, they would learn as they go but I cant see the point because at the end of the season they will go back down and be replaced by the best 2nd division team that year... its an endless cycle.

But that wouldn't happen. The fact is that players move to the div1 provinces from the smaller ones. What would happen is that hawkes bay picked up a lot of very good players, either ones returning to the province or ones moving there to try and make their mark.

You guys do realise that winning that match does not guarantee the div 2 champ will go up ?

they still have to pass a review to see if they could financially sustain a team through a complete Division 1 season....

Also it would be hard for them to gain a sponsor when their place in the 1st division is in doubt each year....

they also would have to be able to atract bigger players to the union, they couldnt afford starts but mabey veterans who are at the end of their careers? but then dont those guys go overseas to play in Japan etc...

Id love to see them up in the top flight but lets face it, they havnt got the talent or $$$$ to make it happen, the best option would be what I said earlier, to make it compulsory to select 2nd division players in S12 squads....