Super Rugby 2022

[BerhamporeNinja]

@dan54 thats some BS! man

[Crucial]

@machpants said in Super Rugby 2022:

So only the Moana Pacific game televised? Streamed? Fucking amateurs running this comp

Comp hasn’t started.
Chiefs v MO was a charity game.

[bobily2]

Apparently James O'Connor, Brad Thorn and Jordan Petaia have tested positive for Covid

[Machpants]

@crucial said in Super Rugby 2022:

@machpants said in Super Rugby 2022:

So only the Moana Pacific game televised? Streamed? Fucking amateurs running this comp

Comp hasn’t started.
Chiefs v MO was a charity game.

Yeah I realise this, but they could at least stream all the warm up games. FFS no one can go and watch them. It is just part of the lack of brains that NZR et al have. Anything to build engagement is good. But no, we get nothing

[Tim]

@machpants IIRC, all the preseason games have been moved at least once, except for last night's MP vs Chiefs game, so televising them has had added complications.

[Machpants]

@tim said in Super Rugby 2022:

@machpants IIRC, all the preseason games have been moved at least once, except for last night's MP vs Chiefs game, so televising them has had added complications.

The canes/blues in welly? Can't get a 4k steaming camera there? Fuck sake I could do it with a decent drone!

[bobily2]

@machpants said in Super Rugby 2022:

@crucial said in Super Rugby 2022:

@machpants said in Super Rugby 2022:

So only the Moana Pacific game televised? Streamed? Fucking amateurs running this comp

Comp hasn’t started.
Chiefs v MO was a charity game.

Yeah I realise this, but they could at least stream all the warm up games. FFS no one can go and watch them. It is just part of the lack of brains that NZR et al have. Anything to build engagement is good. But no, we get nothing

I imagine that's up to the individual franchises to organise. Most franchises aren't particularly good at catering to their fans, unfortunately.

[Machpants]

@bobily2 said in Super Rugby 2022:

@machpants said in Super Rugby 2022:

@crucial said in Super Rugby 2022:

@machpants said in Super Rugby 2022:

So only the Moana Pacific game televised? Streamed? Fucking amateurs running this comp

Comp hasn’t started.
Chiefs v MO was a charity game.

Yeah I realise this, but they could at least stream all the warm up games. FFS no one can go and watch them. It is just part of the lack of brains that NZR et al have. Anything to build engagement is good. But no, we get nothing

I imagine that's up to the individual franchises to organise. Most franchises aren't particularly good at catering to their fans, unfortunately.

Yup, that's my point

[Bovidae]

The irony is that the preseason games will be recorded by the franchises to use for analysis/review.

[nostrildamus]

@bayimports said in Super Rugby 2022:

Michael Jones must be getting close to 60, but still has biceps most would kill for

56. Still a spring chicken. Hope he has lost a bit of weight actually, he was putting on the pounds a few years back...

[booboo]

@nzbloke what would cancelling the comp cost?

[Kiwiwomble]

I didn’t think televising preseason games was common in previous seasons

[Crucial]

@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2022:

I didn’t think televising preseason games was common in previous seasons

Correct. Never has been common. A crappy sideline stream on Facebook at most.

[Dan54]

@kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2022:

I didn’t think televising preseason games was common in previous seasons

Never has been, can't remember. As I said they tend to not be a good promotion for the game , because they usually messy affairs.

[NTA]

Waratahs trial yesterday versus 3 of the lower lights in Sydney club Rugby (Two Blues, West Harbour, Hunter). Headed along with the Renegades Treasurer and President as a later minute decision on what the fuck to do on a Saturday.

There were no Wallabies on the field, but the Tahs still won every 30 minute period by 20ish points, conceding only one try. Lot of Clubbies and extended squad in tahs shirts, and they were reasonably impressive.

But the quality of the opposition was ... Well, poor. There's a reason these clubs prop up the bottom of the table. If the Two Blues props are getting match payments, they're spending most of it on Colonel.

CEO of NSW Rugby was there, and sat down for a chat with us. He sort of knows me by sight from a few functions as I'm on the board for Suburban Rugby. An interesting insight on a few players and the lay of the land numbers wise.

Nice stadium in terms of structure but the lines for beer were too long. Also: $7 for a can of Tooheys? Fucking hell... We need to up our prices.

[Crucial]

@machpants see Blues thread for link to YouTube livestream

[BerhamporeNinja]

[Duluth]

Blues v Canes match thread: https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/5130/hurricanes-v-blues-pre-season

[shark]

@duluth said in Super Rugby 2022:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/127679047/nz-rugby-moves-super-rugby-games-from-invercargill-to-dunedin

New Zealand Rugby has scrapped plans to play Super Rugby night games in Invercargill, shifting the games to Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium.

Friday and Saturday night games for the first three rounds of the competition were to be played at Rugby Park.

However, after further conversations between the teams and NZR, it was agreed the facilities at Forysth Barr, including the roof, made it the team’s favoured option for night matches.

Thank fuck someone saw sense. Late night for the teams involved though as a bus trip from Dunedin back to Queenstown would be a good three to three and a half hours with a good run.

[shark]

I feel a bit bad for MP because they'll probably get savaged a bunch of times by the Kiwi sides before they get a chance to secure a win against the Drua or any Australian sides. The beatings will cause disarray and who knows what that does to the organisation. But then again, who cares?