Super Rugby News
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9 rounds in and all of the NZ teams have played 8 games
1 Crusaders 36
2 Hurricanes 33
3 Chiefs 33
4 Highlanders 23
5 Blues 17Left to play before Lions Tour
Crusaders - Cheetahs (A), Bulls (A), Hurricanes, Chiefs (A), Rebels (A), Highlanders
Hurricanes - BYE, Stormers, Crusaders (A), Cheetahs, Bulls (A), Force (A), Chiefs
Chiefs - Sunwolves, Reds, BYE, Crusaders, Blues (A), Tahs, Hurricanes (A)
Highlanders - Stomers, Cheetahs (A), Bulls (A), Force (A), Tahs, Crusaders (A)
Blues - Brumbies (A), Tahs (A), Cheetahs, Stormers (A), Chiefs, RedsSome key things to watch.
- Crusaders return from trip to SA to face Canes (although at home)
- Chiefs have easy run for 3 weeks before facing Crusaders in a home game while Saders will have done a SA tour followed by Canes in the lead up
- Blues could get a roll on in the next three rounds but have an awful draw. Two Oz games in succession (mini tour or flying back and forth?), a home game followed by a one game trip to SA followed by the Chiefs on return.
- If the Canes beat the Crusaders they will likely get a very good run of points from this batch of games
- Highlanders could potentially get a roll on even with their trip to SA although they return home to face the Saders in ChCh.
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@Crucial I think you have to factor in that the Chiefs v Crusaders game is hardly a home game for the Chiefs either, as this game is played in Fiji. Also, the Blues game v Reds is played in Apia.
@Stargazer said in Super Rugby News:
@Crucial I think you have to factor in that the Chiefs v Crusaders game is hardly a home game for the Chiefs either, as this game is played in Fiji. Also, the Blues game v Reds is played in Apia.
Yes, good point. The Crusaders will go SA, SA, Home v Hurricanes, Fiji, Melbourne.
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Andre Esterhuizen (Sharks) suspended for 6 weeks for a dangerous (tip) tackle. Longest suspension of the season thus far.
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Andre Esterhuizen (Sharks) suspended for 6 weeks for a dangerous (tip) tackle. Longest suspension of the season thus far.
@Stargazer looks more like a WWE move than a tip tackle!
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Andre Esterhuizen (Sharks) suspended for 6 weeks for a dangerous (tip) tackle. Longest suspension of the season thus far.
@Stargazer said in Super Rugby News:
Andre Esterhuizen (Sharks) suspended for 6 weeks for a dangerous (tip) tackle. Longest suspension of the season thus far.
Well earned tbh - you can't go suplexing people on the field. That could easily result in a broken neck.
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@Stargazer said in Super Rugby News:
Andre Esterhuizen (Sharks) suspended for 6 weeks for a dangerous (tip) tackle. Longest suspension of the season thus far.
Well earned tbh - you can't go suplexing people on the field. That could easily result in a broken neck.
@antipodean said in Super Rugby News:
@Stargazer said in Super Rugby News:
Andre Esterhuizen (Sharks) suspended for 6 weeks for a dangerous (tip) tackle. Longest suspension of the season thus far.
Well earned tbh - you can't go suplexing people on the field. That could easily result in a broken neck.
Was it Tialata a few years back that did a similar one? No head hitting ground but a big wrestling slam?
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Andre Esterhuizen (Sharks) suspended for 6 weeks for a dangerous (tip) tackle. Longest suspension of the season thus far.
@Stargazer said in Super Rugby News:
Andre Esterhuizen (Sharks) suspended for 6 weeks for a dangerous (tip) tackle. Longest suspension of the season thus far.
Way, way back in my day. You would have tried to drive him back in goal for a 5m scrum, or towards the corner for an attacking line out.
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MAORI ALL BLACKS LOCK JOINS AS REPLACEMENT
26 APR 2017
Taranaki and Maori All Blacks lock Leighton Price has joined the Blues for the rest of the Investec Super Rugby competition.
The 1.98m, 112kg lock is a replacement for North Harbour’s Brandon Nansen, who is out for the rest of the competition with injury.
Price has played 41 first class games for Hawkes Bay, Bay of Plenty and Taranaki, as well as a New Zealand Under-20 representative and in last year’s Maori All Blacks for their northern tour.
He may be pressed into action immediately dependant on the severity of injuries to current Blues second rowers, Jimmy Tupou, Patrick Tuipulotu and Josh Goodhue.
Two other young players have assembled with the club as short term injury replacements.
North Harbour’s Hapakuki Moala Liava’a, a former New Zealand Schools and New Zealand Under-20 representative, returns to cover at loose forward, after completing the pre-season training with the Blues.
Auckland outside back Pisi Leilua, a Samoa Under-20 and Auckland Sevens player from the Suburbs club, is also a short-term injury replacement after impressing with the Blues A team.
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Media release on Hurricanes website:
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Yeah gutting for the fella, having to stop playing at his age, I guess the thing he can do once the reality of being forced to retire is look back on his career and savour what he achieved.
The good thing is with rugby being more aware of these concussion issues he has had that support and hopefully assistance toward what he will do next.
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Gotta feel for him though, has a breakthrough season, makes the ABs and increases his market value 10 fold, then is forced to retire before being able to land a few more tests for his country before cashing in up north.
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@Tim so who out of the ABs contacted him? Read, Cane, TJP, oh no, I bet it was Cory Jane still thinking he is an AB!
@taniwharugby Yes, I would describe that article as "thinly sourced".
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Reg Goodes apparently another with serious concussion problems.
Meanwhile, fellow Hurricanes prop Reggie Goodes continues his battle to clear concussion symptoms.
The prop missed the team's 2016 playoff run after being unable to shake the effects of a concussion picked up during a round-robin match. He returned late in the Wellington Lions' provincial season, but another head knock during a Hurricanes pre-season match in February meant he has not been sighted this season.
"He's in a similar place to where Broady was but not quite at the level," Hurricanes coach Chris Boyd said.
"He's getting to a point where he's got no symptoms and then just pushes it that little bit further and the symptoms come back again. He's making good progress, but what that means for a return to play date we're not quite sure."
Centre Matt Proctor was also moving through concussion protocols, but was much closer to a return that Goodes.
