Super Rugby 2020
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@Chris said in Super Rugby 2020:
Probably this stupid limited minutes in a non WC year,tells us what the NZRFU really think of Super Rugby as a product, they are helping to kill it.
Hopefully it doesn’t become a competition like the mitre10 cup.
Token few games for some ABsThe problem is the length of the season. It needs to be wound back in. Drop the number if teams. Which they've done.
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@Tim said in Super Rugby 2020:
Karl T ahead of Moli.
Why? He was well of the pace last year and dropped, so in between then and now I'm not sure anyone has done enough to replaced someone, considering no actual games. He could be one of the extra six, sure, but ABs don't get dropped just because
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@Machpants He had meningitis for many weeks of super rugby, then was in really good form in the NPC. Moli was barely used at the World Cup (to the extent that Ofa T was shifted, and Taavao had to play), and I don't think is very impressive, especially in the scrum. Moli looks like a placeholder rather than an incumbent.
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@booboo should have elaborated more, I'm more talking about the fringe All Black's, surely they don't need the same minute restrictions as the top line guys.
Anyway no matter what way it is spun, the Super Rugby brand is taking a hit with these guys sitting on the sidelines, and the NZRU wonder why most stadiums are half full.
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@Canes4life I guess they look at it like, say Ennor, is potentially an injury or 2 away from starting, and then expecting him to start multiple tests on the bounce after a rugged Super campaign too...and as above, this will have been done through the RPA as well as NZR, who you could argue would prefer to have the best players available every single game to ensure the product they are showing is the best.
I understand why they do it, see the benefit of why, but I agree that it doesnt help the competition...
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
So 6 spots to make 31
DMac for sure
Ennor, apparently
Frizzell was a replacement in the squad
Laumape almost certainly
Fafita?
Were short locks, but Sam is back
Dalton maybe?
Akira 🤣
Oh Josh IoaneSo 7 others have been given restrictions (when your create a space from Todd). Moli and Jacobson already counted as part of the initial squad.
We know
DMac for sure
Ennor, apparently
Frizzell was a replacement in the squad
Laumape almost certainlyThree others that no one has worked out for sure.
I'm guessing Karl T is one. Will be difficult to tell as props never play full games anyway these days
Papalii? Has been high on the radar and the ABs still never solved the blindside.
Is Akira one of them? Got some tough love from Shag, but you do have to wonder how much of that was Shag upholding principles. Does Fozzie have a different approach he wants to try?
As for locks, we need to see them in action so I doubt that anyone is high enough on the radar yet to warrant special treatment.
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@Stargazer said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Machpants Sam Whitelock returns to NZ in May and will be available for the ABs this year.
You also forgot that Todd has left for Japan.
Thanks about Todd, this is about those on rest periods for SR 2020 so Sam doesn't apply
So we should have 7 more than the RWC squad on SR rest, not 6.
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@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 2020:
@booboo should have elaborated more, I'm more talking about the fringe All Black's, surely they don't need the same minute restrictions as the top line guys.
Anyway no matter what way it is spun, the Super Rugby brand is taking a hit with these guys sitting on the sidelines, and the NZRU wonder why most stadiums are half full.
the stadiums have been half full for 20 years.
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@Unite said in Super Rugby 2020:
Are the NZ based games screened in 4K? I notice on Fox in Aus they have the Brumbies v Reds on the 4K channel but the Blues v Chiefs is on the normal HD channel.
Nah Sky doesn't offer 4k yet, RWC was in 4k too, just not in NZ
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All the away jerseys have been posted in the 2020 team threads (including a description). Here are all the NZ franchises' away jerseys together in one picture:
https://www.allblacks.com/news/adidas-unveils-investec-super-rugby-away-jerseys/
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@Stargazer said in Super Rugby 2020:
All the away jerseys have been posted in the 2020 team threads (including a description). Here are all the NZ franchises' away jerseys together in one picture:
https://www.allblacks.com/news/adidas-unveils-investec-super-rugby-away-jerseys/
The creative team mailed that in. All similar shades of grey and green
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Utter shit.
