Super Rugby 2025
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With the round robin now over, it would be interesting to see how many players from each team never took the field. I am not talking about those with long-term injuries, but the squad players who have spent the season training but never playing.
For the Chiefs, the only players who have never played a minute are Fiti Sa and Liam Coombes-Fabling, both returning from off-season surgery. All other players had some time on the field (not many for Trask).
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With the round robin now over, it would be interesting to see how many players from each team never took the field. I am not talking about those with long-term injuries, but the squad players who have spent the season training but never playing.
For the Chiefs, the only players who have never played a minute are Fiti Sa and Liam Coombes-Fabling, both returning from off-season surgery. All other players had some time on the field (not many for Trask).
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@Bovidae Yeah think for Canes it might have been Siale Lauaki, Arese Poliko & Lucas Cashmore
@DurryMexted said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Bovidae Yeah think for Canes it might have been Siale Lauaki, Arese Poliko & Lucas Cashmore
Kade Banks, Daniel Sinkinson and Tjay Clarke never took the field more than once as well.
Lauaki played against Moana Pasifika. His single appearance surprised me after a very good NPC.
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@hikastags said in Super Rugby 2025:
Interesting, the Canes will have their best squad since 2015/2016 next year so if they can get Dearns as well, that would be a huge coup.
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@DurryMexted said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Bovidae Yeah think for Canes it might have been Siale Lauaki, Arese Poliko & Lucas Cashmore
Kade Banks, Daniel Sinkinson and Tjay Clarke never took the field more than once as well.
Lauaki played against Moana Pasifika. His single appearance surprised me after a very good NPC.
@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 2025:
@DurryMexted said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Bovidae Yeah think for Canes it might have been Siale Lauaki, Arese Poliko & Lucas Cashmore
Kade Banks, Daniel Sinkinson and Tjay Clarke never took the field more than once as well.
Lauaki played against Moana Pasifika. His single appearance surprised me after a very good NPC.
Josh Taula and Tom Allen were others.
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@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 2025:
@DurryMexted said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Bovidae Yeah think for Canes it might have been Siale Lauaki, Arese Poliko & Lucas Cashmore
Kade Banks, Daniel Sinkinson and Tjay Clarke never took the field more than once as well.
Lauaki played against Moana Pasifika. His single appearance surprised me after a very good NPC.
Josh Taula and Tom Allen were others.
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@Canes4life funnily enough Josh Taula was away from the Canes for a few weeks in Japan with the NZ University team, not even sure if the Canes social media ever mentioned that
@Grooter said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Canes4life funnily enough Josh Taula was away from the Canes for a few weeks in Japan with the NZ University team, not even sure if the Canes social media ever mentioned that
Better for him to be playing I guess.
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There are probably at least ten permutuions for the semis.
For example, Blues, Reds and Canes win. Crusaders and Brumbies out. Does that then make Canes top seeds for semi's? If so, they play Blues and Reds go to Hamilton.
And where would the final be?
Not much written about such unlikely scenarios?
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There are probably at least ten permutuions for the semis.
For example, Blues, Reds and Canes win. Crusaders and Brumbies out. Does that then make Canes top seeds for semi's? If so, they play Blues and Reds go to Hamilton.
And where would the final be?
Not much written about such unlikely scenarios?
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With the round robin now over, it would be interesting to see how many players from each team never took the field. I am not talking about those with long-term injuries, but the squad players who have spent the season training but never playing.
For the Chiefs, the only players who have never played a minute are Fiti Sa and Liam Coombes-Fabling, both returning from off-season surgery. All other players had some time on the field (not many for Trask).
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2025:
With the round robin now over, it would be interesting to see how many players from each team never took the field. I am not talking about those with long-term injuries, but the squad players who have spent the season training but never playing.
For the Chiefs, the only players who have never played a minute are Fiti Sa and Liam Coombes-Fabling, both returning from off-season surgery. All other players had some time on the field (not many for Trask).
Ake Darry Grindlay Spencer Paul for Blues
Cashmore Poliko Taula Allen for Canes
Brewis Gardiner for Sanders
Michaels Sanders and poss Wingham for Landers
Papuni and Fomai for MP
Sa and Coombes fabling for Chiefs.
Hard to fathom the Blues and Canes treatment of some young players. -
For anyone still confused on the finals format for this year's competition, below are all the possible playoff scenarios from the quarter finals this week.
Scenario 1
Winners: Chiefs, Crusaders and Brumbies
Semifinals: Chiefs (1) v Hurricanes (4), Crusaders (2) v Brumbies (3)Scenario 2
Winners: Chiefs, Crusaders and Hurricanes
Semifinals: Chiefs (1) v Brumbies (4), Crusaders (2) v Hurricanes (3)Scenario 3
Winners: Chiefs, Reds and Brumbies
Semifinals: Chiefs (1) v Reds (4), Brumbies (2) v Crusaders (3)Scenario 4
Winners: Chiefs, Reds and Hurricanes
Semifinals: Chiefs (1) v Reds (4), Hurricanes (2) v Crusaders (3)Scenario 5
Winners: Blues, Crusaders and Brumbies
Semifinals: Crusaders (1) v Blues (4), Chiefs (2) v Brumbies (3)Scenario 6
Winners: Blues, Crusaders and Hurricanes
Semifinals: Crusaders (1) v Blues (4), Chiefs (2) v Hurricanes (3)Scenario 7
Winners: Blues, Reds and Brumbies
Semifinals: Brumbies (1) v Blues (4), Chiefs (2) v Reds (3)Scenario 8
Winners: Blues, Reds and Hurricanes
Semifinals: Hurricanes (1) v Blues (4), Chiefs (2) v Reds (3) -
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2025:
With the round robin now over, it would be interesting to see how many players from each team never took the field. I am not talking about those with long-term injuries, but the squad players who have spent the season training but never playing.
For the Chiefs, the only players who have never played a minute are Fiti Sa and Liam Coombes-Fabling, both returning from off-season surgery. All other players had some time on the field (not many for Trask).
Ake Darry Grindlay Spencer Paul for Blues
Cashmore Poliko Taula Allen for Canes
Brewis Gardiner for Sanders
Michaels Sanders and poss Wingham for Landers
Papuni and Fomai for MP
Sa and Coombes fabling for Chiefs.
Hard to fathom the Blues and Canes treatment of some young players.@ARHS said in Super Rugby 2025:
Ake Darry Grindlay Spencer Paul for Blues
Darry & Paul injured obviously
Ake was injured early on and was expected to be named after the bye midway through the season. He tweaked his shoulder injury that week. We never had another update on him.. I assume the shoulder didn't fully recover?
Not sure if they intended to play Spencer this year given all the fullbacks in the squad
They don't seem to rate Grindlay. Another young midfielder, Taele, got plenty of game time
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2025:
With the round robin now over, it would be interesting to see how many players from each team never took the field. I am not talking about those with long-term injuries, but the squad players who have spent the season training but never playing.
For the Chiefs, the only players who have never played a minute are Fiti Sa and Liam Coombes-Fabling, both returning from off-season surgery. All other players had some time on the field (not many for Trask).
Ake Darry Grindlay Spencer Paul for Blues
Cashmore Poliko Taula Allen for Canes
Brewis Gardiner for Sanders
Michaels Sanders and poss Wingham for Landers
Papuni and Fomai for MP
Sa and Coombes fabling for Chiefs.
Hard to fathom the Blues and Canes treatment of some young players. -
@ARHS said in Super Rugby 2025:
Ake Darry Grindlay Spencer Paul for Blues
Darry & Paul injured obviously
Ake was injured early on and was expected to be named after the bye midway through the season. He tweaked his shoulder injury that week. We never had another update on him.. I assume the shoulder didn't fully recover?
Not sure if they intended to play Spencer this year given all the fullbacks in the squad
They don't seem to rate Grindlay. Another young midfielder, Taele, got plenty of game time
@Duluth Spencer seems to be spending most of his days playing golf with his dad.
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@ARHS Some of those players have been out with long-term injuries, so not available for selection. But there are definitely some who are fit but haven't been used at all.
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2025:
@ARHS Some of those players have been out with long-term injuries, so not available for selection. But there are definitely some who are fit but haven't been used at all.
.....yes several from Canes and Blues. The rest are long term injuries as cause.
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@ARHS said in Super Rugby 2025:
Ake Darry Grindlay Spencer Paul for Blues
Darry & Paul injured obviously
Ake was injured early on and was expected to be named after the bye midway through the season. He tweaked his shoulder injury that week. We never had another update on him.. I assume the shoulder didn't fully recover?
Not sure if they intended to play Spencer this year given all the fullbacks in the squad
They don't seem to rate Grindlay. Another young midfielder, Taele, got plenty of game time
@Duluth said in Super Rugby 2025:
@ARHS said in Super Rugby 2025:
Ake Darry Grindlay Spencer Paul for Blues
Darry & Paul injured obviously
Ake was injured early on and was expected to be named after the bye midway through the season. He tweaked his shoulder injury that week. We never had another update on him.. I assume the shoulder didn't fully recover?
Not sure if they intended to play Spencer this year given all the fullbacks in the squad
They don't seem to rate Grindlay. Another young midfielder, Taele, got plenty of game time
Yeah they obviously see Taele as the man going forward with AJ Lam as Rieko won't be around next season, and Corey Evans can play backup.
Was hoping to see more of Grindlay over the last 2 seasons, but yeah, obviously there's something the Blues coaches don't like about him, similar to Corey Evans under Leon MacDonald.
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2025:
With the round robin now over, it would be interesting to see how many players from each team never took the field. I am not talking about those with long-term injuries, but the squad players who have spent the season training but never playing.
For the Chiefs, the only players who have never played a minute are Fiti Sa and Liam Coombes-Fabling, both returning from off-season surgery. All other players had some time on the field (not many for Trask).
Ake Darry Grindlay Spencer Paul for Blues
Cashmore Poliko Taula Allen for Canes
Brewis Gardiner for Sanders
Michaels Sanders and poss Wingham for Landers
Papuni and Fomai for MP
Sa and Coombes fabling for Chiefs.
Hard to fathom the Blues and Canes treatment of some young players.
