'Super Rugby' 2021

[Stargazer]

@Machpants said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

Is the game of the periods that are not halves on sky?

Still nothing in Sky's online tv guide.

[taniwharugby]

@Stargazer that and the fact the 9 will roll the ball back with his foot, sometimes over a metre, turn it with his foot or hand to get it in the right angle to pass it off the deck.

[Siam]

@KiwiMurph said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

I put this in the other thread but i'll put it here too.

I don't think I get the kick off out on the full change that they call "more free kicks". So the receiving team, having watched the ball go out on the full, only have a free kick at presumably half way.?

Or

1 minute to play, they've just scored and eroded your lead to 2 points. You've got the kick off, but need the ball for the last minute. Hoof it out on the full, watch them kick possession away, back your lineout and draw out the clock?

Nah. What have I misinterpreted?

Edit, encouraging tap restarts like we did in under 11s?

[KiwiMurph]

@Siam said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@KiwiMurph said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

I put this in the other thread but i'll put it here too.

I don't think I get the kick off out on the full change that they call "more free kicks". So the receiving team, having watched the ball go out on the full, only have a free kick at presumably half way.?

Or

1 minute to play, they've just scored and eroded your lead to 2 points. You've got the kick off, but need the ball for the last minute. Hoof it out on the full, watch them kick possession away, back your lineout and draw out the clock?

Nah. What have I misinterpreted?

Edit, encouraging tap restarts like we did in under 11s?

Why would they kick possession away in that scenario?

[Kiap]

@Siam said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

Edit, encouraging tap restarts like we did in under 11s?

Yep

[Bones]

@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Stargazer that and the fact the 9 will roll the ball back with his foot, sometimes over a metre, turn it with his foot or hand to get it in the right angle to pass it off the deck.

Don't know if you watched the 6N in the weekend, but there's definitely no need to use your feet for that and you're allowed to properly handle the ball, even pick it up and put it back down if you're not ready.

Welsh starting halfback was "dummying" pulling it out and got away with it 3 times before being warned that he'd be free kicked.

[Siam]

@KiwiMurph said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Siam said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@KiwiMurph said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

I put this in the other thread but i'll put it here too.

I don't think I get the kick off out on the full change that they call "more free kicks". So the receiving team, having watched the ball go out on the full, only have a free kick at presumably half way.?

Or

1 minute to play, they've just scored and eroded your lead to 2 points. You've got the kick off, but need the ball for the last minute. Hoof it out on the full, watch them kick possession away, back your lineout and draw out the clock?

Nah. What have I misinterpreted?

Edit, encouraging tap restarts like we did in under 11s?

Why would they kick possession away in that scenario?

I was only thinking about free kicks for touch or height. Haven't seen too much tapping in pro rugby and would argue that a competent scrum or lineout feed on halfway was more of an advantage than a tap.

You're right, I'm just having a hard time imagining a tap on halfway👍

[Machpants]

I've not read these but they come up in my feed "top 10 of XYZ position in Super Rugby"

There are 10 teams....

Best of the best: The top 10 halfbacks in Super Rugby 2021

With the kick-off of Super Rugby broadening on the horizon, a panel of RugbyPass writers have ranked the ten best halfbacks in New Zealand and Australia.

I know that some team's second choice are better than other team's first, but really? Top 10?

[Stargazer]

@Machpants Are they using their dodgy rating system for these rankings? Even if they don't, just like player ratings after games, they are so subjective. A journo's opinion is worth just as much as ours; so not much .

[Chris]

@Machpants some interesting rankings in that lot
Typical rugby pass BS

[taniwharugby]

@Stargazer said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

A journo's opinion is worth just as much as ours

I'd say less, and we offer ours for free, they do thiers under some mis-guided pretense they have done some research or analysis!

[Bones]

@taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

@Stargazer said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

A journo's opinion is worth just as much as ours

I'd say less, and we offer ours for free, they do thiers under some mis-guided pretense they have done some research or analysis!

Don't have to go very far to deem it laughable....Tate McDermott is 3rd.

[Machpants]

SA version

SA Rugby rejig Super Rugby Unlocked to prepare players for British and Irish Lions tour

SA Rugby have confirmed the kick-off of the 2021 season with a number of preparation fixtures for eight provincial teams

[Tim]

https://www.tab.co.nz/sports/competition/14720/rugby-union/super-rugby-aotearoa/super-rugby-aotearoa/outrights

[nzzp]

@Tim weird - Crusaders $1.40 to win the roudn robin, but $4 to win the comp.

I'd lay them on those odds. A hiccup in an 8 game comp and that's it

[Tim]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/300230562/covid-19-highlanders-v-hurricanes-up-in-the-air-as-super-rugby-fears-emerge

[mikey07]

@Tim according to Jacindas press conference it seems as if the 72 hours are just a precaution so I can see it going ahead.

[nzzp]

Blues Crusaders game cancelled by teh look - Blues just emailed to say the footy fest is canned.

[Yeetyaah]

I'd assume NZR have a contingency plan for covid this year? Weren't Super teams changed to be classed as business so they can train under alert level 3? Or is that wrong?

[Yeetyaah]

Aight scratch that, just said on newshub the Blues can't train.