Super Rugby News
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@tim said in Super Rugby News:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/100772067/first-outing-for-highlanders-and-mauger-in-queenstown
The team is making the most of having second five-eighth Lima Sopoaga for a final season after his announcement he will be leaving to join the England Wasps, but Mauger says there's plenty of strength in the new players.
Oh Bethany.
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Any link on google that has the [Ad] in front of it DO NOT CLICK ON IT
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2018 Super Rugby Referee Team
Federico Anselmi (Argentina)
Nic Berry (Australia)
Nick Briant (New Zealand)
Mike Fraser (New Zealand)
Angus Gardner (Australia)
Will Houston (Australia)
AJ Jacobs (South Africa)
Glen Jackson (New Zealand)
Shuhei Kubo (Japan)
Jamie Nutbrown (New Zealand)
Ben O’Keeffe (New Zealand)
Jaco Peyper (South Africa)
Brendon Pickerill (New Zealand)
Rasta Rasivhenge (South Africa)
Egon Seconds (South Africa)
Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa)
Paul Williams (New Zealand)That's
Argentina: 1
Japan: 1
Australia: 3
South Africa: 5
New Zealand: 7With the Super Rugby tournament format reducing to 120 regular season matches this season the referee team has been reduced from 19 to 17 referees. The team contains a balance of seasoned international referees, several referees who now have a couple of years of Super Rugby behind them and one newcomer, with AJ Jacobs from South Africa making his Super Rugby debut this season. “Along with a new Super Rugby format we will have a refocussed referee team that has been through an extensive training camp over the summer in preparation for the 2018 season”, said SANZAAR CEO Andy Marinos.“The team is a well balanced mix of referees with Test and Super Rugby experience and several emerging referees who now have one or two seasons under their belt. The experience in the team comes from Jaco Peyper and Glen Jackson, who have refereed 82 and 65 matches respectively, while we also have a group around the 40-50 mark including Angus Gardner, Nick Briant and Mike Fraser,” said SANZAAR Game Manager, Lyndon Bray. “At the conclusion of the 2017 season SANZAAR conducted a survey of the Super Rugby team coaches and the feedback helped determine the focus for our annual referee camp which is always held prior to the start of each season.”http://www.superrugby.co.nz/News/31968/super-rugby-referee-team-announced
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@stargazer Any idea who's "dropped"?
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@bovidae said in Super Rugby News:
Also missing from 2017 is Quinton Immelman (South Africa). I can't say I even remember him.
Usually that's a good thing to say about a ref.
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Pita Alatini to play for the Highlanders at the Brisbane 10s, will be announced on Thursday
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Waratahs' team to play the Highlanders in their preseason game in Queenstown on Friday:
15 Andrew Kellaway, 14. Curtis Rona, 13. Lalakai Foketi, 12. Irae Simone, 11. Alex Newsome, 10. Mack Mason, 9. Jake Gordon, 8. Michael Wells, 7. Will Miller, 6. Brad Wilkin, 5. Tom Staniforth, 4. Nick Palmer, 3. Harry Johnson-Holmes, 2. Damien Fitzpatrick (captain), 1. Paddy Ryan.
Reserves: Hugh Roach, Tom Robertson, Shambeckler Vui, Ryan McCauley, Lachlan Swinton, Mitch Short, Seb Wileman, Maclean Jones, Taqele Naiyaravoro, Ned Hanigan, Rory O’Connor, Kelly Meafua
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@stargazer said in Super Rugby News:
Waratahs' team to play the Highlanders in their preseason game in Queenstown on Friday:
15 Andrew Kellaway, 14. Curtis Rona, 13. Lalakai Foketi, 12. Irae Simone, 11. Alex Newsome, 10. Mack Mason, 9. Jake Gordon, 8. Michael Wells, 7. Will Miller, 6. Brad Wilkin, 5. Tom Staniforth, 4. Nick Palmer, 3. Harry Johnson-Holmes, 2. Damien Fitzpatrick (captain), 1. Paddy Ryan.
Reserves: Hugh Roach, Tom Robertson, Shambeckler Vui, Ryan McCauley, Lachlan Swinton, Mitch Short, Seb Wileman, Maclean Jones, Taqele Naiyaravoro, Ned Hanigan, Rory O’Connor, Kelly Meafua
Take away their handful of Wallabies and you are left with a bunch of no-names aren't you?
Maybe its because I haven't been following whats going on but who TF are these guys?
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@stargazer said in Super Rugby News:
@crucial Isn't that typical for - especially a first - preseason game? You'll see rookies and development players in NZ squads this weekend as well.
True, but I also looked up the squad list and, apart from the Wallabies, this is close to the rest of the squad.
Could just be that there are really no 'names' left other than internationals, and we are fast going that way as well.
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BoP back Terrence Hepetema has been called into the Highlanders, as a replacement for Thomas Umaga Jensen.
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@southernmann That was already in December, wasn't it? I saw photos of Umaga-Jensen in a hospital bed before Christmas, I think.
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The Lions have named their team for the 2018 season: http://lionsrugby.co.za/teams.html. It wil be interesting to see how they'll go with a new coaching team and in a competition format that requires them to play more NZ teams.
