Figured I’d start a thread in honour of the initiative nobody asked for, and seemingly hardly anybody wants. The Super Round!
All of this weekend’s games are held at AAMI park in Melbourne; so yeah, of the 12 teams, 6 of them are missing a home game. But I believe they’re compensated by the Victoria State government so they go along with it.
Last weekend the Melbourne Rebels had 4000 in the crowd for a home derby against the Brumbies. It’ll be interesting to see if they get much of a crowd for any of these games which for the home fans are all bar 1 neutral games.
Actually - you’re probably right on the timing too, if they held it over Easter weekend instead I’m sure it’d be a lot more attractive to travel over the ditch for a long weekend.