Super Rugby 2022
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@tim said in Super Rugby 2022:
James Parsons is picking the Chiefs as favourites for the title.
I reckon that's a decent shout if they fan get Josh Ioane playing to his potential at 10.
Blues locks are going to be a real problem - gut says the losses of Tuipulotu & GCT are going to be felt big time
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@kiwimurph and Goodhue excellent one week, anonymous the next, plus has had plenty of injury concerns....
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@kiwimurph yeah if they get Ioane to be consistently at his good streak form from a couple of years ago, he's got one helluva backline sitting there to use the wide space he's extremely good at unlocking.
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@bones said in Super Rugby 2022:
@kiwimurph yeah if they get Ioane to be consistently at his good streak form from a couple of years ago, he's got one helluva backline sitting there to use the wide space he's extremely good at unlocking.
From the warm up half he played he is looking to run onto the ball at speed as well. That’s a big USP in my book. The defence has to hold and compress in his possible channels s that cannot let him get a break. We have missed that attribute since DC and Cruden.
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Episodes from SENZ covering each NZ based Super Rugby team.
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So no one in UK wanted SRP TV deal, so don;t look for it there.
Sanzaar chief executive Brendan Morris is confident of agreeing a broadcast deal in the UK and Ireland markets for the All Blacks series against in July and the Rugby Championship that follows, despite having to pull Super Rugby Pacific out of its bundled offering to pay-TV operators.
Super Rugby Pacific will now be shown on a new platform, sanzaarrugby.tv, in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Europe (excluding France), the Middle East, China and India/Sri Lanka, with the Sky-owned RugbyPass platform no longer an option after "challenges” in the past 12 months, Morris said.
EDIT: Looks like 50 Squid for the entire season, live and on demand
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A good round 1 preview for the season: https://www.flipsnack.com/tahs2015/srp-r1-flipsnack/full-view.html?utm_source=web&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Sanzaar+Round+Preview
It outlines the overall Super Rugby win/loss record for each team over the years which I found quite interesting (excluding the Blues). I have highlighted the rest of the Kiwi teams below.
Crusaders:
Played: 382
Won: 271
Lost: 103
Drawn: 8
P/D: +3612Hurricanes
Played: 357
Won: 205
Lost: 150
Drawn: 6
P/D: +1126Chiefs:
Played: 360
Won: 191
Lost: 159
Drawn: 10
P/D: +519Highlanders:
Played: 357
Won: 174
Lost: 179
Drawn: 4
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Interesting, I knew NZR was bankrolling MP and Drua - something they def do not talk enough about, should be shouting to the stars. But NZR and generating buzz and positive press do not go toether. But it seems that NZ Govt also backing MP to the tune of 4.5 million
Paywalled but
In response to a series of Official Information Act requests to government departments, Sport New Zealand this week confirmed to the Herald it provided the $4m underwrite to Moana Pasifika Limited (MPL) and a $500,000 operating grant for the Moana Pasifika Charitable Trust.
Sport New Zealand issued that funding via a transfer from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT).
The underwrite is available for a maximum of four years and includes an initial grant of up to $1m with no requirement to repay, and $3m loan facility.
Basically NZ is providing all the money and most of the players for MP, along with over half the players for their national teams. All you'll hear in the interantional press is the handful of Pacific born players in the ABs.
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@machpants said in Super Rugby 2022:
Interesting, I knew NZR was bankrolling MP and Drua - something they def do not talk enough about, should be shouting to the stars. But NZR and generating buzz and positive press do not go toether. But it seems that NZ Govt also backing
NZR not bakrolling Drua, they just did the guarantees etc to get them a license, Fiji RU now got the license and Aus govt put some money in
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@machpants said in Super Rugby 2022:
Interesting, I knew NZR was bankrolling MP and Drua - something they def do not talk enough about, should be shouting to the stars. But NZR and generating buzz and positive press do not go toether. But it seems that NZ Govt also backing MP to the tune of 4.5 million
Paywalled but
In response to a series of Official Information Act requests to government departments, Sport New Zealand this week confirmed to the Herald it provided the $4m underwrite to Moana Pasifika Limited (MPL) and a $500,000 operating grant for the Moana Pasifika Charitable Trust.
Sport New Zealand issued that funding via a transfer from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT).
The underwrite is available for a maximum of four years and includes an initial grant of up to $1m with no requirement to repay, and $3m loan facility.
Basically NZ is providing all the money and most of the players for MP, along with over half the players for their national teams. All you'll hear in the interantional press is the handful of Pacific born players in the ABs.
lol who needs silverlake marketing expertise..this does appear to be an obvious miss
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The DHL Super Rugby Pacific Round 2 draw has been reshuffled to give Moana Pasifika the best chance of being able to play their scheduled match against the Chiefs.
NOTE: The announced changes do not affect the draw for any Round 2 matches played in Australia.
The revised draw for Round 2 is:
Friday 25 February – 19:05 NZT - Highlanders v Crusaders – Forsyth Barr Stadium Dunedin
Saturday 26 February – 19:05 NZT – Blues v Hurricanes – Forsyth Barr Stadium Dunedin
Sunday 27 February – 15:35 NZT – Chiefs v Moana Pasifika – Queenstown Recreation Reserve (Wakatipu Rugby Club)
DHL Super Rugby Pacific schedule changes confirmed for Round 2
The DHL Super Rugby Pacific Round 2 draw has been reshuffled to give Moana Pasifika the best chance of being able to play their scheduled match against the Chiefs.
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/300522699/new-zealand-rugby-discussing-early-return-from-queenstown-bubble-with-teams
Plans are afoot to bail out of the Super Rugby bubble in Queenstown a week ahead of schedule, with New Zealand Rugby understood to be working through the logistics of returning the six Kiwi teams to their home bases next week. -
@daffy-jaffy said in Super Rugby 2022:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/300522699/new-zealand-rugby-discussing-early-return-from-queenstown-bubble-with-teams
Plans are afoot to bail out of the Super Rugby bubble in Queenstown a week ahead of schedule, with New Zealand Rugby understood to be working through the logistics of returning the six Kiwi teams to their home bases next week.Bizarre, right in time for 10k cases a day, possibly. With the iso requirements, we’re unlikely to get any games from the Blues! Unless they can self source and be allowed to use some RATs.
Exclusive: NZ Govt's multi-million funding of Moana Pasifika revealed
