Japanese Rugby
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Live on Sky Sport 1, this weekend:
Sat. 6/3 @ 3.55pm: Kubota Spears (with Ryan Crotty) v NTT Shining Arcs (with Jimmy Tupou; Fletcher Smith not in the 23)
Sat 6/3 @ 5.55pm: Suntory Sungoliath (with BB, Beauden Barrett, Tevita Li and - on the bench - Richard Judd) v Sanix Blues (with Jarred Adams, Dan Pryor and - on the bench - Jason Emery)
Usually, they broadcast one game on Saturday and one on Sunday, but I think they changed that because the Crusaders v Hurricanes game has been moved to Sunday afternoon.
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@stargazer said in Japan Top League:
Live on Sky Sport 1, this weekend:
Sat. 6/3 @ 3.55pm: Kubota Spears (with Ryan Crotty) v NTT Shining Arcs (with Jimmy Tupou; Fletcher Smith not in the 23)
Sat 6/3 @ 5.55pm: Suntory Sungoliath (with BB, Beauden Barrett, Tevita Li and - on the bench - Richard Judd) v Sanix Blues (with Jarred Adams, Dan Pryor and - on the bench - Jason Emery)
Usually, they broadcast one game on Saturday and one on Sunday, but I think they changed that because the Crusaders v Hurricanes game has been moved to Sunday afternoon.
Who's BB?
Japan are only allowed two foreigners at a time on the field, which is a good rule for them. Funny tho, when they do it it is great for Japan rugby, SR teams doing it is being anti Pacific island rugby
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Hmmm I wonder what they envisage for those cross competition matches? I wonder if our season could include games against their top sides, plus the Australian sides? Is there room in the season for an 8 round SRA season plus a bye and a final then another 8 rounds vs Australian and TL teams, a bye and finals? Nah that's around 21 weeks, and the domestic comps wouldn't align.
On a related note, the teams in the game this arvo had at least two locks under 1.90m and the front rowers were mostly around 110kg so the TL sides would be a bit under sized to be competitive.
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@shark A lot of the games I have watched, admittedly they were mostly those featuring Beauden Barrett's team, have been hopelessly one sided with winning margins about the sixty point mark. That would probably equate to something over one hundred in Super Rugby New Zealand. In laymens terms that's something like watching Auckland administering a pants down thrashing of a mid week North Otago team devoid of a lot of their (North Otago) first choice players who were unable to get time of work.
About the only think going for it would be the opportunity for the Chiefs to have a win and the TV revenues )which would probably the the most important component anyway). With that money I suppose we could accept it but that would probably involve a lot of the second tier players in NZ and Aust (do they still have any?) being used to try and strengthen the Japanese Company Teams.
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@higgins said in Japan Top League:
@shark A lot of the games I have watched, admittedly they were mostly those featuring Beauden Barrett's team, have been hopelessly one sided with winning margins about the sixty point mark. That would probably equate to something over one hundred in Super Rugby New Zealand. In laymens terms that's something like watching Auckland administering a pants down thrashing of a mid week North Otago team devoid of a lot of their (North Otago) first choice players who were unable to get time of work.
About the only think going for it would be the opportunity for the Chiefs to have a win and the TV revenues )which would probably the the most important component anyway). With that money I suppose we could accept it but that would probably involve a lot of the second tier players in NZ and Aust (do they still have any?) being used to try and strengthen the Japanese Company Teams.
Sadly, you're probably right.
A cross-over Cup & plate (maybe even bowl) competition would be the best way in my opinion, with teams divided into three group based on their finishing positions, then teams playing each other in those pools (e.g., top two from J-league, SR-NZ, SR-Oz; and 3/4 from J-league, SR-NZ, SR-Oz; and if they have a bowl, then #5 from SR-NZ and SR-Oz with perhaps some extra J-league teams). This would work best if NZ and Oz super rugby both had 6 teams of course.
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@daffy-jaffy incredible? The accompanying music is quite outstanding I'll give it that....
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