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Jack Mesley

👤 Speaker
307 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

And so it does take time.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

So we've got to get those things right in the right balance.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

But world rugby have been great.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

You know, there's no doubt that some nations that dominate certain aspects of the game want those aspects of the game protected at all costs.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

And that's fair enough.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

I guess our kind of rhetoric and our push is regardless of what, you know, your national team looks like at this point in time, we can all learn lots from fans and we're willing to try some things down here in super rugby and all of the leagues in the world can benefit from that learning.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

They don't have to adopt what we've done, but they can learn from it if they like.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

And, you know, that's our kind of our position to world rugby and to the other leagues.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

If a coach and a club wanted to play a certain way, you beauty, you know, we want all styles of how you play this great game and how you compete in that contest.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

We're not removing contests.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

I think there is, there's obviously some, some differences.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

I mean, we we're playing in start in mid February.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

It's hot in the grounds are hard.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

They're dry, you know, so there's a lot of environmental conditions.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

There's also the fact that we are in the Pacific and we've grown up playing the game in a certain way.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

Right.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

So, you know, I think we've got to remember that there are those differences to the environment and culturally how the game's been played historically in our part of the world versus up north.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

But, you know, we want different styles playing.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

We don't want 11 teams playing all the same style.

Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Rugby’s Next Step — And How Fans Can Shape It

And I don't think we've got that.