Rugby Australia want Bledisloe Cup Anzac Test back on the table

With the disruption this would make to Super rugby I can’t see this as a good idea. This year the SR games have been great with upsets and close battles. Not sure why you’d want to change that

The ABs would need to assemble 2 months earlier than is practical. The Super round was outstanding…leave it alone. If anything play a Bledisloe on Kings Birthday weekend

It’s just too early in the season and too disruptive to SR. I can’t see it happening.

We are masochists !

Perhaps Turkey ?

Just bring in coaches that’ll play an exciting brand of rugby. And don’t overthink having quick scrums, it’s doesn’t really make much of a difference. Often, there’s teams are both grinding each other own with few exciting tries scored in the first half. More counterattacking styles of play might add more excitement.

Great that super round was a success. It’s important that domestic rugby grows

Super round can happen at any round of super rugby. A third bledisloe on Anzac Day is a great idea.

So yet another brain dead idea from Rugby Australia, the worst run Tier One rugby union, a zombie idea from a zombie organisation. Just when SRP finally has a major success after so much negative publicity, Rugby Australia wants to throw that all away and do even more damage to SRP. RA have said it's a no-brainer, and it is, but not in the way they want it to be.

If RA get their way planting a Bledisloe game on ANZAC weekend will reduce the first nine rounds of SRP to nothing more than a sequence of trial games for the AB's and Wallabies. SRP already has a strong reputation for this. This will make it ten times worse. Then RA want to destroy the SRP round before ANZAC day weekend so the AB's and Wallabies can assemble. Then they want to kick SRP out of ANZAC day weekend, forcing a full stop on the comp. Then they want to destroy the round following their Bledisloe Cup as the SRP teams try and reintegrate their AB's and Wallabies. The first three months of SRP will be wrecked by this utterly stupid idea.

Instead of having SRP get to a point where it has developed some momentum, instead of the games being crucial for the playoffs, instead of giving SRP its biggest weekend before the playoffs, RA want to throw all that away so the Bledisloe Cup can Bigfoot that weekend and reduce the months up to it to nothing more than a training run for the Bledisloe. Other than the catastrophic damage it will do to SRP, a competition struggling for survival, there will be no more revenue than a Bledisloe later in the year, and because of the damage it will do to SRP, the publicity around it will be entirely negative. Yet another appallingly destructive, entirely counter-productive idea from the worst run national organisation in a very poorly run sport.

This latest demonstration of RA’s gross incompetence is entirely a product of the fact that it now control three of their four SRP teams. No dissent from them. If NZR think about conforming with RA's push towards disaster, as they have so often in the past and might be doing now, then hopefully NZ's SRP clubs will oppose it tooth and nail. After all the damage RA and NZR have done to SR over the decades they should know that nothing good comes out of those organisations, and if it comes out of RA it is ten times worse.

This year’s Super Round got it right, when you take it to rugby heartland, the atmosphere, turnout, and energy are on another level.

League growing in the South? 🤣

Massive difference between going to a game and joining a club.

It would be quite cool to see a Bledisloe test earlier in the year but no idea how the calendar will allow it.

I dont see the need for an extra Bledisloe test. Loved the Super round in Christchurch.

I mean it’s one way Aus can bring something to the table, filling out an MCG (if they want to be cruel to fans) or homebush each year.

But obviously super round was this good, would only remain this good by having aussies trip over, with the ANZAC angle. So you a swapping one for the other, is it worth it to ruin super round?

Would two aussie teams draw a crowd at a nuetral venue?

JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN