The organizers of Super Rugby Pacific are making a concerted effort to cut down on the number of stoppages and promote free-flowing play.
The news comes after the bosses of Rugby Australia and New Zealand Rugby signed a new deal that keeps the competition together until at least 2030.
A concerted effort is being made to speed up the franchise game and add drama to it in order to make it more appealing to fans.
At the announcement of the new Super Rugby Pacific agreement, Rugby Australia CEO Andy Marinos told the media that they wouldn’t need to change fundamental laws to accomplish their goals.
“How can we speed play up? comes to mind when I look at innovations involving the competition.Are golden points, golden tries, and shot clocks being made available?Adjusting regulation, ensuring that regulation that is sitting in the standard book is really getting refereed and blown to,” Marinos made sense of.
In terms of the game’s design and innovations, we have a group of people working on it right now.We just want to keep changing and evolving.
“It’s not just one thing.Simply focusing on the question of “how can we present the game and make it a better spectacle than what it is currently” is, in my opinion, the key.
During the Super Rugby Pacific announcement in Sydney, Mark Robinson, CEO of New Zealand Rugby, and Andy Marinos, CEO of Rugby Australia, address the audience.It should be noted that Super Rugby Pacific already has a 10-minute golden point period (Matt King via Getty Images).Marinos stated that if their plans are successful, time-consuming phases like scrum resets and repeated scrum collapses could be eliminated.
“Do we always need to go for a long arm when we could simply switch to a short arm and increase the intensity and pace in the event of a scrum or ruck violation?
The boss of Rugby Australia predicted that there would be opportunities to make use of the expansion of social media and fantasy leagues.
In the end, there will probably be a lot of effort put into making the experience for fans at the venues and at home better.
“It’s just about having a reliable story and promoting across the opposition so when individuals look and see and draw in with the item there’s a consistency in the look and feel,” said Marinos.
The Crusaders, this year’s champions, take on the Chiefs at Christchurch’s Orangetheory Stadium on February 24, the first day of next year’s Super Rugby Pacific.
Following that, the Warratahs will take on the Brumbies at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium.
From March 3 to 5, Super Round, the competition’s second round, will take place at AAMI Park.