Super Rugby 2020

[Tim]

I am gagging for some news about squad selections. Any rumours?

[Machpants]

@Tim said in Super Rugby 2020:

I am gagging for some news about squad selections. Any rumours?

Same 23 except either Frizzell or Pat T on the bench.

My guess from last RWC. Then again they've gone away from the continuous mantra of experience this time so maybe the mantra of change applies to squad.

[Yeetyaah]

@Machpants You got the right thread there?

[Yeetyaah]

@Tim What I was trying to find out but then it turned into a big rant about Thursday.

[Machpants]

@Yeetyaah said in Super Rugby 2020:

@Machpants You got the right thread there?

Only squad that counts ATM!

[mikey07]

@Machpants some us like to live in the future haha

[Bovidae]

From an article on Stuff:

The future is unsure for Tima Fainga'anuku. A lucrative contract from French club Montpellier awaits him if he is not picked up by a Super Rugby team.

[Yeetyaah]

@Bovidae Smart kid really. Doesn't get picked by a Super Rugby side so takes up a contract rather than fucking around at home. Now he's ready to do it again. I'm sure he'll get one somewhere, dudes been in form. Whether or not he's so loyal to the Crusaders so he won't go anywhere else remains to be seen.

[Yeetyaah]

Re the squad naming date. In 2015, the world cup didn't get in the way of the squad naming, so let's assume it'll be next week. Check the date here. RWC final was on the 31st of October in 2015. Chiefs named their squad on the 28th of October.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11535991

[Yeetyaah]

New developments in squad naming for Super. I asked the Blues page on Instagram when the squad would be named, they responded with November. Maybe we are waiting until after the RWC.

[Tim]

@Yeetyaah Nice work mate.

[mikey07]

@Yeetyaah aw but I want to know now what other disappointing signings Plumtrees made 😂

[Tim]

[chchfanatic]

Squads are named on November 9th

[Yeetyaah]

@chchfanatic Someone already mentioned that, do you have confirmation of this?

[Higgins]

@chchfanatic said in Super Rugby 2020:

Squads are named on November 9th

That is not a Thursday!

[Bovidae]

Saturday does seem to be a strange day to announce the squads. Trying to avoid any media coverage?

I spoke to someone at the Chiefs and they wouldn't tell me the exact date, only it was in November.

[chchfanatic]

@Yeetyaah yes I asked my contact when his squad is named and he came back with November 9th

[chchfanatic]

I have it on WhatsApp but can’t work out how to post the screenshot

[Yeetyaah]

Some dude who works for stuff.co.nz just posted in the rugby stuff page on Facebook and said the squad are named on the 12th of November. Fuck knows honestly. Dunno why they don't just say and build some hype.