Super Rugby 2020
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This weekend's preseason results:
Rebels 14 - 45 Brumbies (HT: 7 - 7)
Blues 29 - 28 Hurricanes (HT: 17 - 14)
Highlanders 7 - 41 Crusaders (HT: 7 - 12)
Reds 28 - 19 Waratahs (HT: 7 - 7)
Jaguares 66 - 7 Georgia XV (HT: 26 - 0)
Sunwolves 81 - 28 Challenge Barbarians (HT: 40 -14) -
@Nepia said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Stargazer said in Super Rugby 2020:
Oh dear, will this apply to all All Blacks (at all 5 franchises)? Is this imposed by the ABs coaches/management?
I don't get the whiny-ness of that tweet - it's the opening round and just about every team in the comp will have a player on restricted minutes for some reason or another. Plus it happens pretty much every year. Plus NZR pays the bills for those players.
Sumo, as much as I enjoy his commentary, is very much in the anti-NZR, anything they as the establishment do is wrong school of thought.
I suspect it may have a bit to do with his employment in an organisation that does not have the broadcast rights.
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It's a fair complaint. I think it's a major reason super rugby has lost a lot of interest. Does not seem valued very much. Too much focus on international rugby.
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I think "super" rugby lost impetus because it wasn't really super due to there being too many teams which diluted the player pool and we ended up watching some pretty ordinary guys throw a ball around and most likely drop it.
Then there was the whole competition structure...which IMO is fckd. To misquote George, "one more year" but this time it is good.
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@Machpants TBH I've not noticed the anti NZR stuff (haven't checked my Twitter account in forever) but maybe this has become more prevalent since jumping from Sky?
As to the issue of resting players, well, no easy answer is there.
Play them all the time they burn out get injured, dont play them it impacts super rugby and you could argue potentially form and combos at international.
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@taniwharugby said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Machpants TBH I've not noticed the anti NZR stuff, but maybe this has become more prevalent since jumping from Sky?
As to the issue of resting players, well, no easy answer is there.
Play them all the time they burn out get injured, dont play them it impacts super rugby and you could argue potentially form and combos at international.
It certainly seems that way from my observations
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@taniwharugby said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Machpants TBH I've not noticed the anti NZR stuff (haven't checked my Twitter account in forever) but maybe this has become more prevalent since jumping from Sky?
As to the issue of resting players, well, no easy answer is there.
Play them all the time they burn out get injured, dont play them it impacts super rugby and you could argue potentially form and combos at international.
The expanded competition and the conference system has done more to damage the product than anything else. The original brilliant S12 was an NFL type season where every game mattered
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@taniwharugby said in Super Rugby 2020:
@canefan back then ABs played NPC...fond memories of @Nepia 's Central Vikings playing up here with Bull Allen, Cully et al, Bull loved a chat over a beer after too...format and expansion of super rugby has damaged npc too.
True that. A little bit of both I reckon. With a shrinking talent pool it makes no sense to have more teams in SA or Oz
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I'm battling with the thought that Super Rugby starts again this weekend. The kids only went back to school today!
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@mariner4life said in Super Rugby 2020:
I'm battling with the thought that Super Rugby starts again this weekend. The kids only went back to school today!
It's forecast to be 41 degrees here on Friday and Saturday. Ludicrous weather to play a winter sport.
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@antipodean said in Super Rugby 2020:
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby 2020:
I'm battling with the thought that Super Rugby starts again this weekend. The kids only went back to school today!
It's forecast to be 41 degrees here on Friday and Saturday. Ludicrous weather to play a winter sport.
I may watch the Chiefs game on Friday night but I doubt it. I don't have enough time for Cricket and rugby watching and with the test series around the corner, I'm firmly in the watch cricket camp.
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@antipodean said in Super Rugby 2020:
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby 2020:
I'm battling with the thought that Super Rugby starts again this weekend. The kids only went back to school today!
It's forecast to be 41 degrees here on Friday and Saturday. Ludicrous weather to play a winter sport.
And the elite players will still be playing in November. Competition rugby for 10 months of the year.
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@Hooroo said in Super Rugby 2020:
@antipodean said in Super Rugby 2020:
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby 2020:
I'm battling with the thought that Super Rugby starts again this weekend. The kids only went back to school today!
It's forecast to be 41 degrees here on Friday and Saturday. Ludicrous weather to play a winter sport.
I may watch the Chiefs game on Friday night but I doubt it. I don't have enough time for Cricket and rugby watching and with the test series around the corner, I'm firmly in the watch cricket camp.
Taipans are playing Friday, and are in the playoff hunt. Rugby will become relevant when the Taipans are done.
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