Super Rugby 2024
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Super Rugby Pacific 2024: Blues and Chiefs to fight for title, Moana to three-peat
Which team will win the Super Rugby Pacific 2024 title and who will finish with the wooden spoon? RugbyPass writers debate.
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@Dan54 I think Super Rugby have done a good job at aligning all the clubs to build some sort of hype for round 1. A nice improvement on previous seasons. They had all the captains in Auckland for the launch and something as simple as naming the teams at the same time allows for a little more analysis and excitement pre game.
Looking forward to round 1, hope my Canes can get the job done in the heat of Perth in what's a tricky start to 2024.
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@Winger said in Super Rugby 2024:
In general, super rugby has a much different vibe this year. In a very good way
It's all looking good so far. Like an amateur joke outfit to moving to a professional approach. Little thing like naming all the teams early. Media seem to be on board and supportive. NZ have 5 teams where all the fans can have hope.
The big changes needed are in Aust though. That fool McLennan has gone thank God. Cutting out the Rebels is a must do. 4 is still too many but better than 5 teams.
And getting a new group set up to focus just on super rugby. It still needs the right full-time leader but hopefully they get this right
It's all pointing in the right direction.
NZ rugby media & fans can be relentlessly negative. So far most of the noise about this season has been positive
It's strange but in a refreshing way.
I'll give a two weeks max before everyone is bitching and moaning again
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@Canes4life agreed
@Duluth said in Super Rugby 2024:
@Winger said in Super Rugby 2024:
In general, super rugby has a much different vibe this year. In a very good way
It's all looking good so far. Like an amateur joke outfit to moving to a professional approach. Little thing like naming all the teams early. Media seem to be on board and supportive. NZ have 5 teams where all the fans can have hope.
The big changes needed are in Aust though. That fool McLennan has gone thank God. Cutting out the Rebels is a must do. 4 is still too many but better than 5 teams.
And getting a new group set up to focus just on super rugby. It still needs the right full-time leader but hopefully they get this right
It's all pointing in the right direction.
NZ rugby media & fans can be relentlessly negative. So far most of the noise about this season has been positive
It's strange but in a refreshing way.
I'll give a two weeks max before everyone is bitching and moaning again
....probably also true
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@Canes4life good points about alignment etc mate. And also GO THE CANES!!
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@game_film said in Super Rugby 2024:
It’s gonna take me awhile to adjust to not having the adidas gear. The last few years were pretty tame by their standards but over the past 20 years there were some absolute beauties.
see, i'd say Adidas were phoning it in for years, early ones showed some thought but for at least a decade they were just using a template so one team might fluke a good one (often the chiefs in my opinion for some reason) if the template suited them but often not. hardly any would be iconic as we've seen almost every suggestion for a heritage jersey is one from 96-2000
in saying all that i dont think Classic hit it out of the park but i think that might be the directions theyre being given. if you look at NRL, NPC jerseys or old school rugby jerseys in general and they often have something kind of iconic/unique...where are the super jerseys are generally just a solid block of colour...and sometimes the crusaders get stipes of some sort
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Entertaining first game. Pleased to have rugby back.
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Hope I am wrong - but its hard to see this season being much different from the last....same teams fighting for the top of the table, and the fact that the top 8/12 teams can make the finals really makes a meal of it in my opinion..... still a lot to work on ... at a minimum I'd go to a 6 teams finals model, as per @frugby above.
Concerns:
Hope the mouth guard tech doesn't become a new "feature" of an already complex game.
The rule modification has not stopped aerial tennis
Officiating still has a wide variability of quality or lack there of.
Commentators still cheerleading and talking over officials etc.Positives:
Couple of good sized crowds for 1st round - Saders v Chiefs and Landers v MP in particular ---- will be watching the Melbourne "Super round" with interest - but I expect to see a lot of empty seats. It will be interesting to see how the attendances will continue once we are in business as usual mode.MP look to have improved - although it could also be a reflection of where the Landers are at.
Some good tries were scored even with the predictable rusty combos of the 1st round.
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I like the idea of a Super round in a neutral venue(s): Japan / Hong Kong / Singapore / States
If they did it a bit later in the year, they could run a couple of games in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the States and make a bit more of an effort to grow the international fanbase. I wonder whether China (ShanghaI) could also be an idea for a game.
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@gt12 said in Super Rugby 2024:
I like the idea of a Super round in a neutral venue(s): Japan / Hong Kong / Singapore / States
My view it's unbelievably stupid doing this. I hope it's kicked into touch and forgotten about. Except as a study to understand how something so stupid was ever implemented.
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@Winger said in Super Rugby 2024:
@gt12 said in Super Rugby 2024:
I like the idea of a Super round in a neutral venue(s): Japan / Hong Kong / Singapore / States
My view it's unbelievably stupid doing this. I hope it's kicked into touch and forgotten about. Except as a study to understand how something so stupid was ever implemented.
That sounds like a excellent strategy.
There can't be any reasonable reasons to try to establish and grow fan bases in countries with significantly higher populations than NZ and Eastern Australia.
Especially if those places have significant expat fan bases and already show interest in rugby.
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@gt12 said in Super Rugby 2024:
@Winger said in Super Rugby 2024:
@gt12 said in Super Rugby 2024:
I like the idea of a Super round in a neutral venue(s): Japan / Hong Kong / Singapore / States
My view it's unbelievably stupid doing this. I hope it's kicked into touch and forgotten about. Except as a study to understand how something so stupid was ever implemented.
That sounds like a excellent strategy.
There can't be any reasonable reasons to try to establish and grow fan bases in countries with significantly higher populations than NZ and Eastern Australia.
Especially if those places have significant expat fan bases and already show interest in rugby.
I have no issue with Super Round, but it should be an extra round so all the teams are guaranteed 7 home games.
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I’ve said before, super round should be late season In Brisbane with the final match between tahs and reds, cooling off a little later in the year and try and build up that rivalry
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@Kiwiwomble Might be tough to get Suncorp available once the League season is in full swing - especially 6 games cutting up the turf
Waikato rugby fans get a boost as Moana Pasifika match moves to Hamilton’s FMG Stadium Waikato – Moana Pasifika
