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TBF, I'd say the guy knows MLR exists and has exclusive USAR sanctioning. While I have a question mark over his plans ... I will give him that much.
Re: Hawaii. I reckon Fale's involvement turned on having a team there - so it seems that's the go for 2020.
Yep it's the Pacific. Mid Pacific rather than being near us, but it is what it is.
So we'll see how it plays out I s'pose.
"The main difference between playing League and Union is that now I get my hangovers on Monday instead of Sunday - Tom David
So is there going to be two separate teams one based in Samoa and one based in Hawaii?
Thanks for the reply.
Is there any stats on time the ball is in play for?
If it’s longer than it is for 80 minutes I’d be happy for all club rugby to make the move to 70 minutes.
I don't have stats other than a claim last year (for WSR) of average ball-in-play time being comparitively higher than for Super Rugby.
Anecdotally, at least, there seems to be less time expended on scrum resets and other assorted delays - although I did notice a bit of a delay for one reset near the death of last night's game. There's still a requirement for a proper scrum set but it does seem the gaming of repeated resetting is gone.
Anecdotally it is improving. I know I get to the end of a Rapid Rugby game wanting more, whereas more often than not with Super Rugby I give thanks when it is finally over.
I think they said last year the ball was in play the same amount of time as a super rugby match but WSR was over 70min, not 80min. Therefor there was a higher avg of ball in play time in relation to the match time.