Super Rugby 2024
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Fergus Burke will miss the remainder of Canterbury’s NPC campaign, but there’s better than expected news for the Crusaders.
Burke busted his Achilles during Canterbury’s quarterfinal win against Auckland last week, prompting fears the man tasked with filling Japan-bound Richie Mo’unga’s boots would miss the entire Super Rugby season.
However, while Burke is set to go under the knife in the coming weeks, it’s understood the Crusaders are optimistic he could return shortly after the team’s round seven bye in mid-April.
That’s a roughly six-month time-frame for the 24-year-old, who was carried off the field in Christchurch after going down in a heap with a non-contact injury.
The Highlanders will need to source another lock with confirmation Dunshea has suffered yet another serious injury.
Limited to 22 games for the Crusaders the past seven years due to a lousy run of injuries, including a damaged pectoralis major – the largest muscle of the anterior chest wall – early this year, Dunshea signed a two-year deal with the Highlanders in July.
He is set to undergo surgery in Christchurch this week, and is expected to be sidelined longer than Burke due to the severity of his rupture, Bourke said.
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@Kiwiwomble yeah, that's pretty shitty.
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@Stargazer said in Super Rugby 2024:
It looks like Moana Pasifika have lost Tima Fainga'anuku to the Melbourne Rebels (assuming it's a typo in the image below and not someone else). This is the Rebels squad for their upcoming tour to Japan:
Unless he has switched to tighthead prop, then bizarrely it seems it isn't a typo!
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Member of the Junior Wallabies, prop from Brothers.
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Is anyone else on the Fern aware of this
Good news for Drua team as Australian Govt had sponsored them along with the Moana Pacifica team for a Whopping $52 million four year deal bulk of the money going to Drua.This is a funding up to the next 2027 Rugby World Cup in Australia.
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@Chris said in Super Rugby 2024:
Is anyone else on the Fern aware of this
Good news for Drua team as Australian Govt had sponsored them along with the Moana Pacifica team for a Whopping $52 million four year deal bulk of the money going to Drua.This is a funding up to the next 2027 Rugby World Cup in Australia.
Aus government funding MP?....am i mistaken (wouldn't be the first time) that the MP licence was a NZR one, thats why they were based in NZ etc...seems a bit werid
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@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2024:
@Chris said in Super Rugby 2024:
Is anyone else on the Fern aware of this
Good news for Drua team as Australian Govt had sponsored them along with the Moana Pacifica team for a Whopping $52 million four year deal bulk of the money going to Drua.This is a funding up to the next 2027 Rugby World Cup in Australia.
Aus government funding MP?....am i mistaken (wouldn't be the first time) that the MP licence was a NZR one, thats why they were based in NZ etc...seems a bit werid
Yes that why I was surprised and was wondering if anyone else had heard of this.
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@Stargazer said in Super Rugby 2024:
@Kirwan said in Super Rugby 2024:
Isn't the Drua a NZ license too?
Yes, you're right.
really?....that does raise some questions
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Article from April 2021:
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This article explains more but not MP although I hear they are included in the PacificAus Sports Program along I would presume are other sports
DRUA TEAMS SECURE NEW SPONSORSHIP DEAL FOR 2024 SUPER RUGBY PACIFIC COMPETITION
The Fijian and Fijiana Drua teams are set to kick start next year's Super Rugby Pacific competition in style, thanks to the new sponsorship deal secured under the Australian Government's PacificAus Sports program.
The new sponsorship deal was launched by Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and Australia's Minister for Defence Industry, and International Development and the Pacific Hon. Pat Conroy this morning.
"Within two years of engagement in the Super Rugby competitions, we have seen the return of your investment and support in the lives of our families and communities," Hon. Rabuka said.
"Our young people, now have the opportunity to dare to dream about a life that sports can offer them. Your contribution to our sporting teams through the PacificAus Sports Program, which I’m told is the most successful Australian funded program in Fiji, will contribute to the development of our people in ways we cannot imagine right now."
The Prime Minister acknowledged Australia's ongoing support towards the development of rugby at all level in Fiji.
He highlighted that it is incumbent upon our Fijian warriors to maintain our ethos and demonstrate that true rugby obliges a greater honour than oneself, contributing to the growth of the game that promotes unity, inclusivity and character development.
"Today is also a special day as we acknowledge and pay tribute to the Government and the people of Australia. It would be remiss of me not to mention the DFAT’s Office of the Pacific and Australian Rugby Union. Without you, we would never have seen the rise and success of our DRUA men and women’s teams."
Speaking on behalf of the Australian Government, Hon. Conroy said the Australian Government understands the power of rugby that brings people together.
"Through the PacificAus Sports program, we are offering pathways for Fijian players, coaches and officials to train, exchange and engage with Australia’s rugby community and this enhances our people-to-people links and deepens our bonds, providing more opportunities for Fijian players, women and men, to compete in elite competitions,” Hon. Conroy said.
"I am pleased to announce today that the Australian Government will continue its support for the Fijiana Drua and Fijian Drua to compete in the Super W and Super Rugby Pacific competitions for the next four seasons."
The PacificAus Sports Program is a flagship initiative of the Australian Government, with a funding commitment of $52 million from 2019 to 2023, which the Drua teams were a part of.
The program has commit to another sponsorship deal for four years.
It aims to strengthen connections between Australia and the Pacific region by supporting Pacific teams and athletes to realise their dreams in sport.
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