Super Rugby News
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Quade Cooper suspended for 3 weeks
“With respect to sanction the Judicial Committee deemed the act of foul play merited a mid range entry point of six weeks. “However, taking into account mitigating factors including the Player’s admission of guilt, his remorse and the fact that the Player had a good disciplinary record having not come under notice since 2012, the Judicial Committee reduced the suspension to three weeks.” “The Player is therefore suspended for three weeks, up to and including Saturday, April 8, 2017.”Mid-range entry point of six weeks, like Luatua, but one more week reduction.
I expected a low-range entry point, because I think his tackle was more like Leitch's in severity, but the lottery came up with quite a harsh punishment. Cooper will miss the games v Jaguares, Hurricanes and Brumbies.Three-week ban for Cooper after red card
A SANZAAR Judicial Committee Hearing has found that Quade Cooper contravened Law 10.4(e) Dangerous tackling of an Opponent.
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The judiciary has convened to work out this weeks suspensions
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Given that Force team is barely NPC standard; the Rebels are shit; the Reds are shit; the Waratahs are shit; and the Brumbies are slightly less shit than the Waratahs, maybe we just fuck Australian rugby off for good? The whole game is fucked here anyway, let it die.
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@mariner4life said in Super Rugby News:
Given that Force team is barely NPC standard; the Rebels are shit; the Reds are shit; the Waratahs are shit; and the Brumbies are slightly less shit than the Waratahs, maybe we just fuck Australian rugby off for good? The whole game is fucked here anyway, let it die.
Except that would remove the annual pleasure of showing them what the Blediloe Cup looks like before locking in the cabinet again for another year.
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Am I the only one that is genuinely concerned about the current state of Aussie rugby?
I love a ribbing of our bigger brothers as much as the next person, but the quality of Tahs vs Brumbies and the crowd for Tahs vs Brumbies points that the game is in dire straits across the dutch.
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@MajorRage You aren't alone. Aus rugby is at it's lowest point since Super Rugby started 20 years ago. Crowds are dire, the quality of rugby is terrible and there is very little media coverage, what coverage there is at the moment is negative. They would be much better off with 3 or 4 stronger teams than the 5 poor teams they have at the moment. The Super Rugby structure at the moment isn't helping either.
A lot of this is down to poor ARU leadership since the 03 World Cup - it's been a long downward spiral.
None of this is good for NZ Rugby either.
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@MajorRage It's been here before. The (then) NZRFU were so concerned they agreed to play a Bledisloe every year to help maintain interest and improve the quality of Australian Rugby. We've been doing that for ~35 years.
At the club level, it's Kiwis and PI with the odd South African and Pom.
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Tupou Sopoaga (yes, the brother of) has been signed by the Highlanders on a month to month contract as injury cover. He signed earlier with Southland for the Mitre 10 Cup.
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SA Government fights to keep Kings
Hopefully NZ continues playing hardball because the stupidity of potentially dropping the Cheetahs while retaining the EP Kings seems proposterous.
On the other side I've got my eye on Perth and my own selfishness would prefer they kept all 18 sides if the Force were to be the side that makes way (as stated in the article)
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Cut all 3
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Go back to Super 12.
Bring back the Cats (or a draft system for the Cheetahs). Lions would have a Springbok worthy starting-midfield if they could pick up Francois Venter.
Move the Brumbies to Melbourne. Rugby a dying game in Australia and they need the exposure in a bigger city.
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@cheetahsBO The DailyTelegraph in Oz is reporting that the Force are the team to go, which if true is equally idiotic. Given the competence of the ARU, it's probably true...
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@mariner4life said in Super Rugby News:
maybe we just fuck Australian rugby off for good?
That would also be the best option for Australian rugby.
The sooner the ARU exits Super Rugby, the better.
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@mariner4life It won't matter whether there's 15 teams or 12 teams. Revenue generation will only keep going down. It's losing money and will continue to haemorrhage. As a regular season comp, Super Rugby's time is up. Frankly it's surprising it lasted 20 years. I suspect even Steve Tew will realise that by 2020.
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@antipodean Aren't the Force relying on ARU money to survive? And the ARU doesn't have any.
