Super Rugby Trans Tasman
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Perhaps NSW and Queensland playing in a reworked NPC?
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@hydro11 said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@frye said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@hydro11 said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@shark said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
The 10-0 start is simply proving beyond doubt that the right move was made in cutting the Force a couple of years back. Aussie rugby fans have a choice: maximum number of teams, or a lesser number of competitive teams. Going from 5 to 4 is only losing 35 or so professional contracts, of whom only a handful might go overseas but the balance of the squad who are any good would strengthen the other four teams.
Yes but the NZRU offered Australia just two professional teams and they told us to get stuffed. Now we are creating Pacific Islands teams.
I 100% agree that Australia only having 4 teams is a clear and obvious way forward.
Have you got a source for that?
Not a statement from the NZRU but it was widely reported in the media last year. https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/300053117/nz-rugby-super-rugby-review-identifies-eightteam-model-as-optimal-format
Throw in Sunwolves and Jaguars to make Super X?
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@shark said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
The 10-0 start is simply proving beyond doubt that the right move was made in cutting the Force a couple of years back. Aussie rugby fans have a choice: maximum number of teams, or a lesser number of competitive teams. Going from 5 to 4 is only losing 35 or so professional contracts, of whom only a handful might go overseas but the balance of the squad who are any good would strengthen the other four teams.
Maybe need to think about some form of first and second division, with promotion/relegation?
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Congratulations to Australian Rugby for finally losing their cherry in Trans Ta$man Super Rugby.
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@derpus said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@shark if you actually look at win percentage and overall success in the comp only the Brumbies have ever been consistently competitive. And even they only won the comp a couple times more than a decade ago.
I love this fantasy world you guys have concocted where RA are gunna start cutting teams to ensure SR is suitable for NZ.
Setting aside the competitive arguments, cutting teams is clearly not what fans want, so why should they. What's the point of rugby? Plus who do you cut? Force are probably the second best supported side.
Huh? In your first paragraph you state that the Brumbies have been the only consistently competitive Australian team. But then you say it's fantasy that RA would reduce their teams. The former statement is an argument for doing so. So you agree that the Aussie teams aren't up to it but just think it's ludicrous that RA - having already done it once - might drop a team?
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@shark exactly. Hence we create our own comp, only this time with blackjack and hookers.
We don't have to deal with losing to you every week. We can expand rather than contract our national footprint and we don't have to alienate a group of existing fans.
The Super Au comp was already way more popular than any other comp or format we've had recently.
A regular TT with only 3 Australian teams would represent at least as much of a gamble, mainly because there is no guarantee it will actually make us competitive.
It seems just as likely to me that you cut a couple of teams to make us more competitive, alienate a bunch of funs, lose a bunch more players overseas and we continue to suck just as much.
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@derpus ideally, Aus have more teams locally, and the top 4 play our top 4 (from proposed expanded or NPC comp in NZ)
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@taniwharugby happy with that.
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@taniwharugby is the way hope for a red card?
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@taniwharugby “Reds showed the way” - unfortunately Alex, you can’t all play the Chiefs each week….
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'Stop putting all these Kiwi sides on a pedestal'
Just Ardie, ok? He needs those extra inches.. -
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@nostrildamus said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
'Stop putting all these Kiwi sides on a pedestal'
Just Ardie, ok? He needs those extra inches..I love how this joke still works in hilarious fresh new ways
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@nostrildamus and Blackwell. 🙏
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Here are your referees for Round 4.
Crusaders v Force
Friday 4 June, 7:05pm
Orangetheory Stadium, Christchurch
Referee: Ben O’Keeffe
Assistant 1: James Doleman
Assistant 2: Brendon Pickerill
TMO: Chris HartReds v Blues
Friday 4 June, 9:45pm
Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
Referee: Mike Fraser
Assistant 1: Nic Berry
Assistant 2: Jordan Way
TMO: Brett CronanHighlanders v Waratahs
Saturday 5 June, 7:05pm
Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin
Referee: Damon Murphy
Assistant 1: James Doleman
Assistant 2: Jono Bredin
TMO: Chris HartBrumbies v Hurricanes
Saturday 5 June, 9:45pm
GIO Stadium, Canberra
Referee: Paul Williams
Assistant 1: Reuben Keane
Assistant 2: James Quinn
TMO: James LeckieChiefs v Rebels
Sunday 6 June, 3.35pm
FMG Stadium Waikato
Referee: Graham Cooper
Assistant 1: Brendon Pickerill
Assistant 2: Ben O’Keeffe
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@bovidae Blues will be stoked not to get Nic Berry.
I'm pretty happy that the Canes also get a kiwi ref on Aussie soil.
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The Chiefs must have done something extremely bad to warrant getting the lineup of officials listed above.
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@higgins said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
The Chiefs must have done something extremely bad to warrant getting the lineup of officials listed above.
Righteous and deserved punishment for being shit and losing to an Ozzie team
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^ I'm wondering how well that will age, as a Canes supporter ...
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@machpants i giggled then immediately gulped upon learning the chiefs had soiled our NZ clean sheet.
There but for the grace of God go I....🙂
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😂 oh wow. Dreaded!
"Force activate dreaded 'black-level contact' in training" https://amp.rugbypass.com/news/force-hoald-dreaded-black-level-contact-training-session/
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@tim said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@bones It's a good headline!
Haha yeah it made me curious. I do like the irony of it too, their defence was so shit against the canes, that the coach decides he will initiate black level! Fuck!! Oh but all that means is that they're going to unleash said shit defence on each other?
Oh.
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So.... black level training ay...
So you play shit on the weekend, so why not basically play another game in training, so every body is exhausted for the next game.
Yeah that'll work...
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@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
Brumbies with a Pasifika jersey
pretty cool, i do love the irony of a landlocked region with the boat and ocean on the front of their jersey
That is hideous.
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God damn those are awful.
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i am pretty sure that is the worst jersey i have ever seen. Yes, even worse than the Waikato NPC one
a fucking picture on the front of a rugby jersey? hilarious
at least Australian Rugby can recognise it's player base. While the NRL and AFL are in the middle of indigenous round, Aussie Rugby is giving a shout out to the Pacific Islands, the source of 65% of all rugby players in this country.
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@mariner4life said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
i am pretty sure that is the worst jersey i have ever seen. Yes, even worse than the Waikato NPC one
have you seen some of the warriors jerseys? or pretty much any of the Marvel/superhero ones?
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@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
i am pretty sure that is the worst jersey i have ever seen. Yes, even worse than the Waikato NPC one
have you seen some of the warriors jerseys? or pretty much any of the Marvel/superhero ones?
yes. this is worse.
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@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
Brumbies with a Pasifika jersey
pretty cool, i do love the irony of a landlocked region with the boat and ocean on the front of their jersey
Jervis Bay used to be their 'Danzig'. During WWI they annexed it (jawohl, I am not making this up) and controlled it as a sea port until just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
Brumbies with a Pasifika jersey
pretty cool, i do love the irony of a landlocked region with the boat and ocean on the front of their jersey
Is that a scene from the film Moana on the front of the jersey?
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@stargazer said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
Is that a scene from the film Moana on the front of the jersey?
That fellow doesn't look sufficiently, shall we say, 'stout'.
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@stargazer ha that was my thought, maybe one of the original sketches!
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@mariner4life said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
i am pretty sure that is the worst jersey i have ever seen. Yes, even worse than the Waikato NPC one
a fucking picture on the front of a rugby jersey? hilarious
at least Australian Rugby can recognise it's player base. While the NRL and AFL are in the middle of indigenous round, Aussie Rugby is giving a shout out to the Pacific Islands, the source of 65% of all rugby players in this country.
That wasn't lost on me either. I'm all for the NRL doing something to recognise Aboriginal players and culture, but there are vastly more PI players now in the NRL than Aboriginal. So it seems a bit off to recognise the contribution of one players base and not the other. But I guess the PI influence is more recent and not as ingrained culturally as that of the Aboriginal.
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@mariner4life said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
@mariner4life said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:
i am pretty sure that is the worst jersey i have ever seen. Yes, even worse than the Waikato NPC one
have you seen some of the warriors jerseys? or pretty much any of the Marvel/superhero ones?
yes. this is worse.
I quite like it.
The Marvell and superhero ones are just shocking tho
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