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Message: [QUOTE="M.B.88, post: 2723520, member: 8473"] The nines. Ahh the nines.. I love the format. It's very entertaining and a good opportunity to see your club's fringe players in action. Fans love it. It's the first taste of footy after a long summer of obsessing over the year ahead. It's a spectacle, it's exciting and it is an initiative that deserves to stay. It grows the game in NZ which helps the quality of the league in general. The players all burn to play it. But the coaches decide what's better for them and denounce it "too high risk" and therefore the best players are never given that chance to run free. . Coaches don't only rest their stars, but often it seems they rest their entire first grade squad (ie bulldogs etc) Why won't the coaches give it more merit? Why don't they want to win? Answer, its irrelevant to the season ahead. They see it as merely an alternative trial setting for which i personally don't necessarily mind. . But i feel like it should showcase better talent than nuffies. How? Why not give the winner something more than just pocket first prize money. .? How about let's say, winner takes home 2 NRL competition points to start the season!? A bonus 2 points that in this age of the game could prove a handy buffer come September. An extra 2 points that would elevate the club above those looking at for and against or more so, actually put you in that mathematical conversation? It could give the clubs like titans, tigers, knights or dragons who are all fighting to not win the spoon, the extra breathing room at the end of the year ; an extra reason to risk a better team in auckland. I say give it a shot. By the "weaker" clubs fielding stronger teams and maybe even dominating the format they may be able to entice new paying members in the later stages of the off season, in turn boosting their longevity as NRL contributors. Let clubs even recruit second tier players specifically for the format?? Oh the potential! The ceiling for which this format could grow is limited really to the boldness of stake holders (NRL, clubs, coaches, players and fans) What's there to lose? [/QUOTE]

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