Super Rugby Trans Tasman

[ACT Crusader]

@taniwharugby “Reds showed the way” - unfortunately Alex, you can’t all play the Chiefs each week….

[taniwharugby]

[nostrildamus]

'Stop putting all these Kiwi sides on a pedestal'
Just Ardie, ok? He needs those extra inches..

[Duluth]

The Breakdown put up an interesting fake table yesterday. A combined table of SR Trans Ta$man plus the second round of the domestic SR comps

(second round only because the domestic comps were home and away and TT is a single round)

So still dominated by the NZ sides but the Reds close behind.

[MN5]

@nostrildamus said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:

'Stop putting all these Kiwi sides on a pedestal'
Just Ardie, ok? He needs those extra inches..

I love how this joke still works in hilarious fresh new ways

[Canes4life]

@nostrildamus and Blackwell.

[Bovidae]

Here are your referees for Round 4.

Crusaders v Force
Friday 4 June, 7:05pm
Orangetheory Stadium, Christchurch
Referee: Ben O’Keeffe
Assistant 1: James Doleman
Assistant 2: Brendon Pickerill
TMO: Chris Hart

Reds v Blues
Friday 4 June, 9:45pm
Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
Referee: Mike Fraser
Assistant 1: Nic Berry
Assistant 2: Jordan Way
TMO: Brett Cronan

Highlanders v Waratahs
Saturday 5 June, 7:05pm
Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin
Referee: Damon Murphy
Assistant 1: James Doleman
Assistant 2: Jono Bredin
TMO: Chris Hart

Brumbies v Hurricanes
Saturday 5 June, 9:45pm
GIO Stadium, Canberra
Referee: Paul Williams
Assistant 1: Reuben Keane
Assistant 2: James Quinn
TMO: James Leckie

Chiefs v Rebels
Sunday 6 June, 3.35pm
FMG Stadium Waikato
Referee: Graham Cooper
Assistant 1: Brendon Pickerill
Assistant 2: Ben O’Keeffe
TMO: Shane McDermott

[Canes4life]

@bovidae Blues will be stoked not to get Nic Berry.

I'm pretty happy that the Canes also get a kiwi ref on Aussie soil.

[Higgins]

The Chiefs must have done something extremely bad to warrant getting the lineup of officials listed above.

[Machpants]

@higgins said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:

The Chiefs must have done something extremely bad to warrant getting the lineup of officials listed above.

Righteous and deserved punishment for being shit and losing to an Ozzie team

[Machpants]

^ I'm wondering how well that will age, as a Canes supporter ...

[Siam]

@machpants i giggled then immediately gulped upon learning the chiefs had soiled our NZ clean sheet.

There but for the grace of God go I....

[Bones]

oh wow. Dreaded!

"Force activate dreaded 'black-level contact' in training" https://amp.rugbypass.com/news/force-hoald-dreaded-black-level-contact-training-session/

[Tim]

@bones It's a good headline!

[Bones]

@tim said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:

@bones It's a good headline!

Haha yeah it made me curious. I do like the irony of it too, their defence was so shit against the canes, that the coach decides he will initiate black level! Fuck!! Oh but all that means is that they're going to unleash said shit defence on each other?

Oh.

[Mackerzzzz]

So.... black level training ay...

So you play shit on the weekend, so why not basically play another game in training, so every body is exhausted for the next game.

Yeah that'll work...

[Kiwiwomble]

Brumbies with a Pasifika jersey

pretty cool, i do love the irony of a landlocked region with the boat and ocean on the front of their jersey

[Crucial]

@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby Trans Ta$man:

Brumbies with a Pasifika jersey

pretty cool, i do love the irony of a landlocked region with the boat and ocean on the front of their jersey

That is hideous.
Is that boat sailing down Lake Burley Griffin?

[Tim]

God damn those are awful.

[mariner4life]

i am pretty sure that is the worst jersey i have ever seen. Yes, even worse than the Waikato NPC one

a fucking picture on the front of a rugby jersey? hilarious

at least Australian Rugby can recognise it's player base. While the NRL and AFL are in the middle of indigenous round, Aussie Rugby is giving a shout out to the Pacific Islands, the source of 65% of all rugby players in this country.