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@daffy-jaffy Wow, five years. That's a long contract for such a young player!
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"It also shows there is a great pathway for young
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@daffy-jaffy Super news. Billy is going to be the bigger and better version of Matt.
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@canes4life promise!!?? if he does that deal will look like a genius move. Really sucks that injuries put paid to Matt's chance of a crack at the AB midfield.
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As expected, the Sunwolves have appointed Tony Brown as Head Coach for the 2019 Super Rugby season.
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Phil Burleigh has signed with them too.
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@taniwharugby If the Sunwolves keep signing more NZ rugby players, we may as well count them as the 6th NZ team with a few foreigners.
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@stargazer Quite rapt purely from a Northland piece we get Ranger back for Mitre 10 Cup next year..I suspect moving forward there will be many more..
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You say that like it’s a bad thing. I’d be pleased if they were in our conference - or at least would go to more games
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@gt12 The bad thing is that in reality it's supposed to be a Japanese team but hasn't that many Japanese players in it. Reality is also that if it had more Japanese players in it, it would be even more sh*t than it is now. In more than one way, that team is a joke.
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Always so serious
All good points, except fuck them being a Japanese team, except for Tanaka.
I want them to be fucking choker bloc of favorite sons no longer quite good enough elsewhere - Messam and Lats would be my first additions.
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@stargazer said in Super Rugby News:
@gt12 The bad thing is that in reality it's supposed to be a Japanese team but hasn't that many Japanese players in it. Reality is also that if it had more Japanese players in it, it would be even more sh*t than it is now. In more than one way, that team is a joke.
It wasn't really thought through was it? The team doesn't fit into the Japan rugby set up so can't be either a next level between their club game and internationals or a de-facto Brave Blossoms.
Instead they get overseas players alongside dregs or development players from clubs.Japan Rugby needs to decide how they want this team to fit in. What would be best for them is probably to use it as a step between club and country using national players that don't play overseas.
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Dammit, this is going to be a serious discussion, isn’t it?
All JP won’t work due to club contracts, which weren’t negotiated when the team was introduced.
Personally I think they should have their funding pushed through the roof, then try to have a 50/50 mix, by slowly signing the better JP players - or paying their clubs for the priceless - and surrounding them with old heads to help them get around.
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