Super Rugby 2025
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@MiketheSnow said in Super Rugby 2025:
Very entertaining matches
Lovely skills, great set plays
Tackling optional
I only saw the highlights, but yeah some of the tries were pretty soft. Am sure there was plenty of decent goal line defence throughout the game, but the teams didn't seem to have to work very hard to score when in 10 metres.
Or maybe I'm just accustomed to 6N rugby
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So, I thought with this new centralised body to run Super that marketing etc was all going to be better than it has been previously?
But, I didn't even know the comp was starting until reading threads on here this week. I'm more avid a fan than most so how are the general public hearing about the comp?
Maybe it's just an Aussie thing and it was more heavily promoted in NZ?
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@Nepia All over social media and national news/rasdio have been reporting on it for a few weeks. Could have been promoted more but there’s definitely been an effort made.
If you don’t use social media or watch sports news/radio(not saying you don’t)then I guess you’d struggle to find out these days. Their main push was socials. The new way of the world.
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@MajorRage said in Super Rugby 2025:
@MiketheSnow said in Super Rugby 2025:
Very entertaining matches
Lovely skills, great set plays
Tackling optional
I only saw the highlights, but yeah some of the tries were pretty soft. Am sure there was plenty of decent goal line defence throughout the game, but the teams didn't seem to have to work very hard to score when in 10 metres.
Or maybe I'm just accustomed to 6N rugby
It's round 1 after a shorter preseason this year. A bit of perspective please.
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https://mumbrella.com.au/super-rugby-picks-lead-creative-agency-ahead-of-2025-season-864405
The Super Rugby Pacific, New Zealand Rugby, and Rugby Australia have appointed Game Creative as their lead creative agency as they prepare to enter the 2025 rugby union season. This is the first of several new business wins for the agency since its launch in August last year, following founder Dan Beaumont’s departure from The Royals in July. Hitting the ground running, Game Creative has already developed and launched the 2025 campaign, ‘The Power of the Pacific’, which champions the energy, culture, and unique spirit that makes rugby union the most powerful sporting code across Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. -
Btw, one thing that NZR have ABSOLUTELY nailed is their content on YouTube.
I watch YouTube far more than I watch/use any other app or form of media and they always have content popping up on there. Over Christmas I watched a ton of old All Black matches.
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Oh, one question, is super rugby merch easily available in Auckland/Wellington? Like you can easily get a Blues/Canes hat or something basic without going to some niche shop way off the beaten path?
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@nonpartizan said in Super Rugby 2025:
Oh, one question, is super rugby merch easily available in Auckland/Wellington? Like you can easily get a Blues/Canes hat or something basic without going to some niche shop way off the beaten path?
Rebel Sport will do those, relevant to the area, so yep. There used to be a shop on main street in Welly, but not sure anymore. Auckland main streets are dead and full of shit, avoid.
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2025:
@nonpartizan said in Super Rugby 2025:
Oh, one question, is super rugby merch easily available in Auckland/Wellington? Like you can easily get a Blues/Canes hat or something basic without going to some niche shop way off the beaten path?
Rebel Sport will do those, relevant to the area, so yep. There used to be a shop on main street in Welly, but not sure anymore. Auckland main streets are dead and full of shit, avoid.
Thank you.
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@nonpartizan said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2025:
@nonpartizan said in Super Rugby 2025:
Oh, one question, is super rugby merch easily available in Auckland/Wellington? Like you can easily get a Blues/Canes hat or something basic without going to some niche shop way off the beaten path?
Rebel Sport will do those, relevant to the area, so yep. There used to be a shop on main street in Welly, but not sure anymore. Auckland main streets are dead and full of shit, avoid.
Thank you.
AKL and WLG
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Btw, this is the type of content that I think is great. I saw something similar on the Barrett family and the boys little sister.
NZR should produce as much of this stuff as possible, NZ is a fascinating country with beautiful scenery.... Showing rugby players and coaches where they live or grew up is actually very interesting to a non NZer.
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2025:
@nonpartizan said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2025:
@nonpartizan said in Super Rugby 2025:
Oh, one question, is super rugby merch easily available in Auckland/Wellington? Like you can easily get a Blues/Canes hat or something basic without going to some niche shop way off the beaten path?
Rebel Sport will do those, relevant to the area, so yep. There used to be a shop on main street in Welly, but not sure anymore. Auckland main streets are dead and full of shit, avoid.
Thank you.
AKL and WLG
Perfect, the Wellington shop is just two blocks from the museum. 👍
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One thing - the last time I followed super rugby closely (I'm lapsed) was pre COVID and South African teams were of course in it.
I think it feels better with it's Pacific orientation. Hard to adequately articulate but it just seems to make much more sense.
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@nonpartizan said in Super Rugby 2025:
Btw, one thing that NZR have ABSOLUTELY nailed is their content on YouTube.
I watch YouTube far more than I watch/use any other app or form of media and they always have content popping up on there. Over Christmas I watched a ton of old All Black matches.
This is great.... Sky sports break down on the All Black channel.
I know kiwis might not be the biggest fans of their analysis but as a non kiwi this is great content. IMHO sticking free content on YouTube is smart in a big picture way.
Edit - sorry for obnoxiously quoting my own post just was referencing my point that NZR/SR are doing well with the YT content.
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Injuries pretty bad, I guess it maybe hard to tell as this is the first time we've had this clarity. You've got to add those left out from niggles (eg proctor) and as yet unconfirmed injuries (eg Higgins)
n total, 62 players were unavailable for selection in the Super Rugby Pacific’s opening round – with 43 of those being across the six New Zealand-based teams. The Crusaders were dealing with the most absentees, with 13 sidelined
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i'd love someone to go back and actually look at what its been like in previous seasons, if im honest i cant remember a time when we havent started a season without a few injuries....so thinking it is just the fact i wouldnt have looked at other teams before so where as i felt we were always unlucky...everyone might have been int he same boat
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@Bovidae i noticed that as well and started to get shitty about it...then we did a few crooked ones and thought...at least hes being consistent and then decided it probably had little to no effect on the game so would rather play on than pull it back
The surprising injury count ahead of round one of the Super Rugby season
