Super Rugby 2022
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@tim said in Super Rugby 2022:
Listen to the pod!
get fucked!!
- not the Fern way
- ain't nobody got time for that
- Precis motherfucker!
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@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
I assume that is the same thing shown on Sky, which I've never watched either.
lol
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@bovidae said in Super Rugby 2022:
I assume that is the same thing shown on Sky, which I've never watched either.
I don't watch it often but it's not bad.
Parsons generally has interesting points. Hall is good too but is slightly restricted by being a current player
The host keeps out of their way.
Much better info than the other shitty sky rugby shows
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It's the only rugby pod/show I consistently listen to, but traveling by train to work helps on that front.
Parson's picking is generally terrible.
However, when Hall and Parsons discuss tactics and operations it really shows how little we understand about the game, as it is played at that level.
Last year they got a bit further away from that, sadly.
I like Hall. He discusses other HBs really professionally and supportively, without even one moan about not being close to AB selection, especially as some of them were clearly playing worse than him.
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@gt12 said in Super Rugby 2022:
Parson's picking is generally terrible.
Parsons' picking isn't helped by his enthusiasm for making "big calls", which is fun though.
Interesting that both he and Hall were picking the Waratahs to improve a lot this season.
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@gt12 I've never been a fan of Parsons the player (more on his ability/size than his enthusiasm/drive where he always gave 100%) but enjoyed listening to his analysis, as you say he has some great insights that we arent always onto
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@antipodean said in Super Rugby 2022:
Sadly MP not playing, there'd be a good double figures of tries there!
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@tim said in Super Rugby 2022:
James Parsons is picking the Chiefs as favourites for the title.
I reckon that's a decent shout if they fan get Josh Ioane playing to his potential at 10.
Blues locks are going to be a real problem - gut says the losses of Tuipulotu & GCT are going to be felt big time
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@kiwimurph and Goodhue excellent one week, anonymous the next, plus has had plenty of injury concerns....
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@kiwimurph yeah if they get Ioane to be consistently at his good streak form from a couple of years ago, he's got one helluva backline sitting there to use the wide space he's extremely good at unlocking.
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@bones said in Super Rugby 2022:
@kiwimurph yeah if they get Ioane to be consistently at his good streak form from a couple of years ago, he's got one helluva backline sitting there to use the wide space he's extremely good at unlocking.
From the warm up half he played he is looking to run onto the ball at speed as well. That’s a big USP in my book. The defence has to hold and compress in his possible channels s that cannot let him get a break. We have missed that attribute since DC and Cruden.
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Episodes from SENZ covering each NZ based Super Rugby team.
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So no one in UK wanted SRP TV deal, so don;t look for it there.
Sanzaar chief executive Brendan Morris is confident of agreeing a broadcast deal in the UK and Ireland markets for the All Blacks series against in July and the Rugby Championship that follows, despite having to pull Super Rugby Pacific out of its bundled offering to pay-TV operators.
Super Rugby Pacific will now be shown on a new platform, sanzaarrugby.tv, in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Europe (excluding France), the Middle East, China and India/Sri Lanka, with the Sky-owned RugbyPass platform no longer an option after "challenges” in the past 12 months, Morris said.
EDIT: Looks like 50 Squid for the entire season, live and on demand
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A good round 1 preview for the season: https://www.flipsnack.com/tahs2015/srp-r1-flipsnack/full-view.html?utm_source=web&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Sanzaar+Round+Preview
It outlines the overall Super Rugby win/loss record for each team over the years which I found quite interesting (excluding the Blues). I have highlighted the rest of the Kiwi teams below.
Crusaders:
Played: 382
Won: 271
Lost: 103
Drawn: 8
P/D: +3612Hurricanes
Played: 357
Won: 205
Lost: 150
Drawn: 6
P/D: +1126Chiefs:
Played: 360
Won: 191
Lost: 159
Drawn: 10
P/D: +519Highlanders:
Played: 357
Won: 174
Lost: 179
Drawn: 4
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Interesting, I knew NZR was bankrolling MP and Drua - something they def do not talk enough about, should be shouting to the stars. But NZR and generating buzz and positive press do not go toether. But it seems that NZ Govt also backing MP to the tune of 4.5 million
Paywalled but
In response to a series of Official Information Act requests to government departments, Sport New Zealand this week confirmed to the Herald it provided the $4m underwrite to Moana Pasifika Limited (MPL) and a $500,000 operating grant for the Moana Pasifika Charitable Trust.
Sport New Zealand issued that funding via a transfer from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT).
The underwrite is available for a maximum of four years and includes an initial grant of up to $1m with no requirement to repay, and $3m loan facility.
Basically NZ is providing all the money and most of the players for MP, along with over half the players for their national teams. All you'll hear in the interantional press is the handful of Pacific born players in the ABs.
Picking the 2022 Super Rugby Pacific champion and the Kiwi take on the Six Nations | Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Exclusive: NZ Govt's multi-million funding of Moana Pasifika revealed
