Super Rugby 2025
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The issue with Aoteroa Rugby Pod is both Parsons and Hall are still too close to the current players - meaning they won't criticise any nz player ever. They go through their AB teams and it's constant fawning over all the players and all the options. I find them most interesting when they are talking about non NZ teams.
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@KiwiMurph said in Super Rugby 2025:
The issue with Aoteroa Rugby Pod is both Parsons and Hall are still too close to the current players - meaning they won't criticise any nz player ever. They go through their AB teams and it's constant fawning over all the players and all the options. I find them most interesting when they are talking about non NZ teams.
And trust me, Bryn Hall has a far different opinion on players off camera haha.
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@KiwiMurph said in Super Rugby 2025:
The issue with Aoteroa Rugby Pod is both Parsons and Hall are still too close to the current players - meaning they won't criticise any nz player ever. They go through their AB teams and it's constant fawning over all the players and all the options. I find them most interesting when they are talking about non NZ teams.
Thats why I find Keo and Zels on SA Rugby Mag great to listen to.
A bit of trolling, a bit of bombast, but they know their onions.
And they say things about our players thats our own pundits wont say. And quite matter of factly too.
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@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Steven-Harris said in Super Rugby 2025:
Watching the impartial panel (not)on the breakdown
You may as well give the Chiefs the title now according to Beaver and Joe Wheeler thinks Tavatavanawai should replace Reiko at centreAll impartialness goes out the the window and they become fan boys and girls
Ironically only Goldie displaying common sense
For Christ sakes I thought these people were more measuredI can barely stomach the Breakdown anymore. It’s so far past it’s used by date it ain’t funny.
Sky need to completely overhaul their main midweek rugby show. The fact they are even talking about AB selection at this stage is just pointless. We already know based on last year’s selections that it’s about how you perform towards the end of the competition, not the start.
As I Canes fan it’s hard to engage in a rugby show that doesn’t mention your team in two weeks apart from a two minute preview of the upcoming game against the Blues this weekend right at the end of the show.
BRING BACK R-UNION!
Once you get used to their M.O on the breakdown you cant unnotice it.
Say they are talking about fullback.
Wilson "Will Jordan is going great isnt he".
Kirwan " Beaudy îs going great too, dont forget about him"
Mils "DMAC is going great".
But they will never nail their colours to the mast and actually say who the best is or who should be playing.
They are just cheer leaders. No rigorous analysis, insight or scrutiny. Its insufferable.
And Wilson for such a maverick player is just a politician of a pundit. A fence sitter. Company man.
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@Number-10 said in Super Rugby 2025:
The Lienert Browns giving the Barretts a run for their money in the most carded family stakes.
Anton working overtime getting yellowed twice in the same passage of play against England shows the gusto with which he goes about his work.
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@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2025:
@SouthernMann said in Super Rugby 2025:
That has been my experience as a Landers fan watching Rugby Pod. Have watched it three or four times for about two mentions of my team. It is just the Blues and Crusaders show.
Exactly. Parsons and Hall are just as biased as the other ex-players mentioned.
Tonight's show will be interesting though.
I thought last year the show was really good and they covered all teams quite well. Definitely still the best rugby show we have as they actually offer good insight when they talk.
And they started the show focussing on the Highlanders....
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"culture round" might have some good stuff (hope this isn;t one of those situations where the chiefs have done their own thing)
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@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2025:
"culture round" might have some good stuff (hope this isn;t one of those situations where the chiefs have done their own thing)
There are going to be a few hakas this weekend. The Canes were practising theirs on their social reel and Moana Pasifika will be doing theirs against the Highlanders.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2025:
hope this isn;t one of those situations where the chiefs have done their own thing
As far as I know, the Chiefs are the only NZ team with a jersey.
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@Yeetyaah you normally have the good oil....so Banging head on wall
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Super Rugby Pacific Round Three Injury/Unavailability list
*TBC time/injury unless specifiedBrumbies
Feao Fotuaika (ankle/ round 4)
David Feliuai (finger/ round 4)
Tom Hooper (concussion / round 4)
Noah Lolesio (concussion / round 4-5)
Rob Valetini (hamstring / TBC)
Ben O’Donnell (hamstring/ TBC)
Tevita Alatini (ACL / TBC)
Harry Vella (ACL / TBC)
Tuaina Taii Tualima (illness / TBC)Blues
Kurt Eklund (groin)
Sam Darry (shoulder, season)
Laughlan McWhannell (cheek)
PJ Sheck (shoulder)
Tafua Funaki (shoulder)
Adrian Choat (knee)
Zarn Sullivan (foot)
Stephen Perofeta (calf)Chiefs
Wallace Sititi (knee/long term)
Kaleb Trask (hamstring/ 4-6 weeks)
Liam Coombes Fabling (knee/ 4-6 weeks)
Fiti Sa (shoulder/ long term)
Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi (Shoulder / short term)
Etene Nanai-Seturo (hamstring / long term)
Rameka Poihipi (knee/season)
Luke Jacobson (nose/short-term)Fijian Drua
Frank Lomani (ankle, short term)
Etonia Waqa (knee, short term)
Selestino Ravutaumada (dhoulder, short term)
Epeli Momo (knee, long term)
Vilive Miramira (ankle, short term)Highlanders
Oliver Haig (foot / 7 weeks )
Jonah Lowe (ACL / 4 weeks )
Jona Nareki (ankle / 2 weeks)
Jacob Ratumaitavuki-Kneepkens (neck / 7 weeks)
Josh Whaanga (back / 1 week)
Daniel Lienert-Brown (suspension / 2 weeks)Hurricanes
Zach Gallagher (Achilles / TBC)
Daniel Sinkinson (hamstring / round
Ruben Love (ankle / round 7)
Lucas Cashmore (knee / round 7)
Brett Cameron (knee / season)
Asafo Aumua (foot / TBC)
Tyrel Lomax (ankle / round 5)
Callum Harkin (head / round 4)
Devan Flanders (ankle / round 14)
Tjay Clarke (shoulder/ round 9)
Riley Higgins (hand / round 7)
Billy Proctor (Achilles / TBC)Moana Pasifika
Alamanda Motuga (shoulder)
Fine Inisi (quad)
Julian Savea (knee)
Lalomilo Lalomilo (concussion)
Lotu Inisi (hamstring)
Neria Fomai (knee /out for season)
Ofa Tauatevalu (lower leg)
Semisi Paea (ankle)
Sione Havili Talitui (ankle)NSW Waratahs
Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii (toe)
Joey Walton (groin)
Fergus Lee-Warner (foot)
Lukas Ripley (shoulder)
Western ForceHarry Johnson-Holmes (knee)
Bayley Kuenzle (knee)
Harry Hoopert (knee)
Kane Koteka (ribs)
Divad Palu (shoulder)
Matt Proctor (shoulder)
Henry Robertson (ribs)
Papillon Sevele (knee)
Tiaan Tauakipulu (ribs)
Sio Tomkinson (head injury protocols)
Jeremy Williams (head injury protocols)Queensland Reds
Jock Campbell
Matt Gibbon
Mason Gordon
Isaac Henry
Will McCulloch
Lukhan Salakaia-Loto
Hunter Paisami -
@Kiwiwomble highlanders to run out of the sheds in kilts
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@Yeetyaah said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Kiwiwomble highlanders to run out of the sheds in kilts
If only we were playing the chiefs we could have a pumpkin sporran.
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Damn, that is an extensive list of injuries!
Wonder if the hard ground along with bigger faster bodies is a factor?
I know the playing fields are generally top condition, training pitches are often not going to be as well irrigated.
Super Rugby Pacific Round Three Injury List
