Super Rugby 2025
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So ... searching for EP player lists is seemingly impossible ... but I found the following passage in some sort of archive previewing the 1997 BIL v EP tour match confirming Webber made the switch to EP.
In many ways, Richard Hill
the England open-side flanker
who turned 24 yesterday, will
occupy the hottest seat of the
lot this afternoon. To begin
with, he is up against a distinctly
useful opponent in Matthew
Webber, Easterns' new recruit
from the Auckland Blues - the
reigning Super 12 champions
who tend not to produce too
many second-raters. More sig-
nificant still, however, is the fact
that Hill will be at the very epi-
centre of the breakdowns,
where refereeing interpreta-
tions are so critical.Reckon that means I'm right, but can't find direct reference as yet.
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@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 2025:
Love this from Dups.
Silly bugger, surely the news crew would have expensed those coffees and claimed it back!
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Yep @DaGrubster , I don't catch a lot of Aus derbies, only the Reds/Brumbies/Tahs games. Do find if rugby on tv and I am about I watch it, but Aus games tend to be later anyway, so an effort for me to stay up.
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Has any of the other teams (apart from the Chiefs) officially announced their full list of NDC players yet? Earlier media reports and some TV news footage does show some likely players training but it's always good to know which players have been identified.
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@Bovidae Iink to that Chiefs release please? I can't find it, thanks.
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Interesting thanks, assumed Jacob Norris was still at Moana Pasifika this year... I guess not.
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2025:
An article in the Sunday Star-Times about the 68 SR one-game wonders to date. Many of the recent players are only at the start of their careers so won't stay on this list. Well done if you can remember all, or most of them!
Here is the summary graphic.
Can you provide any insight into the Frano Botica SR cap?
I know he left for league in the early 90s so was it a case of him returning to rugby but not being of the standard to play in super rugby?
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His first year back in rugby in NZ
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@darylmitchell said in Super Rugby 2025:
Interesting thanks, assumed Jacob Norris was still at Moana Pasifika this year... I guess not.
I assume Norris was squeezed out when Savea signed for MP. He was one of their better performing players last year.
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@Tim said in Super Rugby 2025:
It would be really nice this year if we started the season with accurate height and weight measurements for every player.
That's way too big an ask for franchises to get the basics right and provide fans with accurate information.
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@Canes4life as I and many others have mentioned before, the accuracy and availability of stats (in and out of game) in rugby in general are shite!
I know Fantasy leagues in the US and Soccer are huge and drive the production of stats, but we know rugby has them, what is the benefit of not releasing them?
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More stats would be great, it just involves the fans more.
No idea why payer stats and things such as bronco's are all kept secret.
There is obviously a demand for it.It is crazy the stats that are generated here in the States for various sports. Really confused why rugby is just so far behind.
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@Darren thought it was interesting an NRL team posted their Bronco stats the other day, but called it the 1200m shuttle run...I wonder if they didnt call it a bronco cos the Broncos or their SM person thought it was more a rugby term?
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@taniwharugby said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Canes4life as I and many others have mentioned before, the accuracy and availability of stats (in and out of game) in rugby in general are shite!
I know Fantasy leagues in the US and Soccer are huge and drive the production of stats, but we know rugby has them, what is the benefit of not releasing them?
The talk is that the Official Fantasy game could be a game changer for all of this.
Despite the negativity from some quarters, I do actually think with the commission SRP is headed in the right direction.
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@frugby some of us are definitely a bit cynical.....my first thought was they will claim to have accurate stats and fantasy will be a game changer....but thats as far as they'll go, claim its better...hope im wrong
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@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2025:
@frugby some of us are definitely a bit cynical.....my first thought was they will claim to have accurate stats and fantasy will be a game changer....but thats as far as they'll go, claim its better...hope im wrong
Truth will lie somewhere in the middle in my view. There will be improvement but still a long way behind
Frano Michael Botica | New Zealand Rugby History
