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@KiwiMurph Blues?
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@African-Monkey said in Super Rugby News:
@KiwiMurph Blues?
I was thinking Aussie conference. Otherwise...good call haha.
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Looks like the South African superhero preseason double header in Cape Town was a huge success - a crowd of over 45k.
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Another Kiwi joins the Sunwolves: Nathan Vella.
Just wondering whether all these NZ players signing with the SW could have negative side effect, in that they are no longer available as injury cover for NZ franchises, like Vella last year for the Canes. The NZ franchises have pretty big squads during preseason, so they'll be able to absorb some of it, but could it become a problem if a lot of players in the same position are going down, like the Chiefs' props last year? Could it result in average NPC players or very young players being called up? In short, does it harm our depth in some positions?
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@Stargazer if they werent signing for the SW I expect they would have signed in France, so I dont think it impacts things anymore than the past few years, if anything, probably better with a few of them coming back to M10 Cup (Ranger signed with Northland, although Pryor brothers not coming back) which is where we need them.
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According to Wiki there are only 13 indigenous Japanese players in the Sunwolves squad of 50 and 4 of those are halfbacks competing for a place with Jamie Booth. The rest are from Oz, ZA, NZ, a few tongans with residence, a Georgian and a south Korean. It is becoming more like a southern hemisphere Barbarians team. It will be interesting to see how many Japanese players make the 23 each match day.
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Still better than losing them to Europe.
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in Super Rugby News:
from Oz, ZA, NZ, a few tongans with residence, a Georgian and a south Korean. It is becoming more like a southern hemisphere Barbarians team. It will be interesting to see how many Japanese players make the 23 each match day.
problem is, the 'good' Japanese players are playing for Toyota, MItsubishi etc, not the SW's.
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Argentina
Federico AnselmiAustralia
Nic Berry
Angus Gardner
Damon MurphyNew Zealand
Nick Briant
Mike Fraser
Glen Jackson
Ben O’Keeffe
Brendon Pickerill
Paul WilliamsSouth Africa
AJ Jacobs
Jaco Peyper
Rasta Rasivhenge
Egon Seconds
Marius van der Westhuizen -
FYI - tonight at 8:30-9:30pm on sky sport there is a super rugby season launch programme thing.
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@Canes4life sad face.
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@Tim Fairly weak starting XV to be fair. Tiatia is barely Super standard, Billy isn't a second five, Prinsep is overated, Blackwell is too small to be a lock - fairly underwhelming if anyone was planning to head up to the game. Goosen and Rayasi not even in the mix aswell, strange.
