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Fuck.
Can we play them at home home please? Why give up that huge advantage against that team?
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@gt12 said in Super Rugby News:
Fuck.
Can we play them at home home please? Why give up that huge advantage against that team?
As a Chiefs season ticketholder this sucks. The NZ derbies are the biggest crowds so how about rewarding those of us who go to the games?
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@bovidae said in Super Rugby News:
@gt12 said in Super Rugby News:
Fuck.
Can we play them at home home please? Why give up that huge advantage against that team?
As a Chiefs season ticketholder this sucks. The NZ derbies are the biggest crowds so how about rewarding those of us who go to the games?
It does suck.
Having bought my season ticket for next year a few weeks back, I’d be pretty pissed off if this was announced subsequently
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2019 pre-season schedule
Highlanders v Waratahs, 6pm Friday 1 February, Molyneux Park, Alexandra
Hurricanes v Crusaders, 3pm Saturday 2 February, Levin Domain
Blues v Chiefs, 3pm Saturday 2 February, Kaikohe
Reds v Chiefs, Friday 8 February (Time TBC), Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane
Crusaders v Highlanders, 6pm, Friday 8 February, Southbridge
Hurricanes v Blues, 3pm, Saturday 9 February, Mangatainoka -
The chances of Sean McMahon playing at next year's World Cup continue to fade with confirmation the star backrower has signed a deal to play for the Japanese Sunwolves in Super Rugby.
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@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:
The chances of Sean McMahon playing at next year's World Cup continue to fade with confirmation the star backrower has signed a deal to play for the Japanese Sunwolves in Super Rugby.
Who?
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TRANSFER NEWS: Waratahs are keen to add South African lock Le Roux Roets to their 2019 Super Rugby roster, head coach Daryl Gibson confirmed.
According to the Rugbycomau, the Australian franchise recruited Roets, a 200cm, 135kg lock who is currently playing for the Pumas in the Currie Cup.
The 23-year-old played for Golden Lions and Blue Bulls before heading to Top14 side Racing in 2016.
However, Roets reportedly turned down an offer from Toulon and return to South African to play for the Currie Cup side the Pumas in 2018.
“We are keen on filling that spot, that lock, and we are searching for that profile of lock where we want to add a bit of size to us,” Gibson told rugbycomau.
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@daffy-jaffy Plumtree will be gutted.
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@kiwimurph Massive signing for the Sunwolves imo. Weird seeing a player in their prime decide to sign for them haha.
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@african-monkey said in Super Rugby News:
@kiwimurph Massive signing for the Sunwolves imo. Weird seeing a player in their prime decide to sign for them haha.
Well, when RugbyOz spends all their budget on Pooper you will see this more and more.
The guy's on a good earner in Japan, may as well stay there. -
@booboo said in Super Rugby News:
@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:
The chances of Sean McMahon playing at next year's World Cup continue to fade with confirmation the star backrower has signed a deal to play for the Japanese Sunwolves in Super Rugby.
Who?
Not sure if you are serious but a 26 test Wallaby flanker who left the Rebels a couple of years ago. Would walk back in to the Wallabies right now - very good player.
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@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:
@booboo said in Super Rugby News:
@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:
The chances of Sean McMahon playing at next year's World Cup continue to fade with confirmation the star backrower has signed a deal to play for the Japanese Sunwolves in Super Rugby.
Who?
Not sure if you are serious but a 26 test Wallaby flanker who left the Rebels a couple of years ago. Would walk back in to the Wallabies right now - very good player.
Not entirely unserious. He took a while to come to mind. Shows how immediacy (or lack thereof) messes with your memory.
And "walk back into the Walkabies"? Past Pooper.
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@booboo said in Super Rugby News:
@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:
@booboo said in Super Rugby News:
@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:
The chances of Sean McMahon playing at next year's World Cup continue to fade with confirmation the star backrower has signed a deal to play for the Japanese Sunwolves in Super Rugby.
Who?
Not sure if you are serious but a 26 test Wallaby flanker who left the Rebels a couple of years ago. Would walk back in to the Wallabies right now - very good player.
Not entirely unserious. He took a while to come to mind. Shows how immediacy (or lack thereof) messes with your memory.
And "walk back into the Walkabies"? Past Pooper.
I'm talking about the Wallaby squad. At worst he'd be an absolute lock for the bench loose forward spot. Admittedly the Wallabies loosies outside of Pooper aren't much (Hanigan lol) but he's a good player - the problem is if he was in their squad then your 3 best loosies are all ideally 7s (Pocock, Hooper, McMahon) even though McMahon and Pocock have played/can play other loose forward positions.
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@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:
@booboo said in Super Rugby News:
@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:
@booboo said in Super Rugby News:
@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:
The chances of Sean McMahon playing at next year's World Cup continue to fade with confirmation the star backrower has signed a deal to play for the Japanese Sunwolves in Super Rugby.
Who?
Not sure if you are serious but a 26 test Wallaby flanker who left the Rebels a couple of years ago. Would walk back in to the Wallabies right now - very good player.
Not entirely unserious. He took a while to come to mind. Shows how immediacy (or lack thereof) messes with your memory.
And "walk back into the Walkabies"? Past Pooper.
I'm talking about the Wallaby squad. At worst he'd be an absolute lock for the bench loose forward spot. Admittedly the Wallabies loosies outside of Pooper aren't much (Hanigan lol) but he's a good player - the problem is if he was in their squad then your 3 best loosies are all ideally 7s (Pocock, Hooper, McMahon) even though McMahon and Pocock have played/can play other loose forward positions.
Sorry, left off the sarcasm emoji wrt to Poopah!
I preety much agree with you, but Poopah!
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@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:
@booboo said in Super Rugby News:
@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:
@booboo said in Super Rugby News:
@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:
The chances of Sean McMahon playing at next year's World Cup continue to fade with confirmation the star backrower has signed a deal to play for the Japanese Sunwolves in Super Rugby.
Who?
Not sure if you are serious but a 26 test Wallaby flanker who left the Rebels a couple of years ago. Would walk back in to the Wallabies right now - very good player.
Not entirely unserious. He took a while to come to mind. Shows how immediacy (or lack thereof) messes with your memory.
And "walk back into the Walkabies"? Past Pooper.
I'm talking about the Wallaby squad. At worst he'd be an absolute lock for the bench loose forward spot. Admittedly the Wallabies loosies outside of Pooper aren't much (Hanigan lol) but he's a good player - the problem is if he was in their squad then your 3 best loosies are all ideally 7s (Pocock, Hooper, McMahon) even though McMahon and Pocock have played/can play other loose forward positions.
and that would be a huge mistake. 7 short ass opensides in your team? But of the 3 of them, McMahon is the one who will at least truck it up in traffic, he's a bit of an animal. It's his only real skill.
Recent Aussie rugby is littered with third-in-line opensides leaving for overseas and being lamented by fans.
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Israel Folau will be joined by his younger brother after Waratahs head coach
Daryl Gibson confirmed John Folau has been offered a training spot with the side.
Gibson said Folau – a rugby league convert like his brother – impressed after switching from the NRL and joining the NRC’s Sydney Rays.
“John has an absolute raw quality to him, he’s an excellent athlete,” Gibson told The Sydney Morning Herald‘s Georgina Robinson.
“[He is] very similar to Israel when he first came over in 2013. It’s a question of him learning the game and our ability to teach him the game, and how quickly he can pick that up. He certainly has all the raw qualities of an athlete, so it’s about how fast we can turn that into a rugby player.”
Folau spent the last three years with the Parramatta Eels, making eight first grade appearances after a test debut for Tonga in 2014.
Gibson was an assistant with the Waratahs when Michael Cheika convinced Israel Folau to give union a try, so he is not unfamiliar in dealing with a rugby league convert.
must be good.
EXCLUSIVE: McMahon signs with Sunwolves, World Cup hopes fade
