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[Tim]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/sport/98830223/wandering-tighthead-kalolo-tuiloma-finds-a-new-home-at-the-highlanders

[Stargazer]

False alarm ... sort of

LA TO HOST PRE-SEASON SUPER RUGBY

Its only a pre-season match but Super Rugby will debut in America when the Bulls play the Stormers in Los Angeles in February as a curtain raiser to a USA Eagles ARC match.

Coming into the Americas Rugby Championship (ARC) for the first time as defending champions, the United States Men's 15s look to kick off the 2018 competition in leading fashion as they head to an opening match with Argentina XV. The match will headline a double-header feature, following a Super Rugby pre-season showcase between the Vodacom Bulls of Pretoria and Cape Town's DHL Stormers, February 3rd at StubHub Center in Los Angeles.

Western Province Rugby Group CEO, Paul Zacks added, "This is a great opportunity to share the success of the DHL Stormers team and brand with a new and growing market. The world is continuously becoming a smaller place, so exploring new and growing areas of the game forms part of our vision, as we strive to become a truly high-performance organization with global appeal."

“This Super Rugby showcase, is bigger than just the game.” said Barend van Graan, CEO of the Blue Bulls Company, “It should be seen as a step forward in growing rugby even faster in the States, and globally.”

[KiwiMurph]

Looks like new Super Rugby jerseys for NZ teams are being released in December.

Pre-ordering has been launched at Champions ending the night of 30 November.

http://www.champions.co.nz/super-rugby.htm?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=2018 Super Rugby Preorder

[Cyclops]

@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:

Looks like new Super Rugby jerseys for NZ teams are being released in December.

Pre-ordering has been launched at Champions ending the night of 30 November.

http://www.champions.co.nz/super-rugby.htm?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=2018 Super Rugby Preorder

If the description of the new jerseys are accurate then green is the new grey - highlanders, canes and chiefs all have green listed as an away colour. Crusaders have switched to white away jerseys and blues appear to be going for the same colours home and away.

[Bovidae]

Former Chiefs prop Michael Collins is their new CEO.

http://www.chiefs.co.nz/news/news/latest-news/516-chiefs-rugby-club-appoints-michael-collins-as-ceo

[KiwiMurph]

@bovidae said in Super Rugby News:

Former Blues fullback Michael Collins is the Chiefs new CEO.

Fixed. If only....

[Stargazer]

First NZ preseason game announced:

Chiefs v Blues, Fri 2 February 2018, k/o 4.00pm @ Te Kuiti’s Rugby Park

http://www.chiefs.co.nz/news/news/latest-news/517-farmlands-rural-legends-shield-gallagher-chiefs-to-face-blues-in-te-kuiti

[Bovidae]

@stargazer said in Super Rugby News:

First NZ preseason game announced:

Chiefs v Blues, Fri 2 February 2018, k/o 4.00pm @ Te Kuiti’s Rugby Park

That might be a goer - a pilgrimage to Pinetree country. I've never watched a game there.

[Wurzel]

Saders vs Canes in Greymouth on Feb 2nd announced the other day.

[JayCee]

@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:

Looks like new Super Rugby jerseys for NZ teams are being released in December.

Pre-ordering has been launched at Champions ending the night of 30 November.

http://www.champions.co.nz/super-rugby.htm?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=2018 Super Rugby Preorder

is that a test to see if you're a true supporter - ordering the jersey without seeing it?

[Tim]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/provincial/99059465/teenage-halfback-jay-rentons-rise-continues-with-highlanders-opportunity

[KiwiPie]

@bovidae said in Super Rugby News:

Former Chiefs prop Michael Collins is their new CEO.

http://www.chiefs.co.nz/news/news/latest-news/516-chiefs-rugby-club-appoints-michael-collins-as-ceo

Is this the start of a revolution at the Chiefs? Are their troubles just beginning?

[Bovidae]

@kiwipie

In what way? A Taranaki takeover (coach and CEO)?

Ferdi played for Waikato and was also a Chiefs captain so has an association with them.

[KiwiPie]

@bovidae said in Super Rugby News:

@kiwipie

In what way? A Taranaki takeover (coach and CEO)?

Ferdi played for Waikato and was also a Chiefs captain so has an association with them.

In a totally bad-punnish way based totally on his name!

[mikedogz]

https://www.facebook.com/frontrowclub/videos/1503631596391335/

[Stargazer]

Also injury & recovery related:

http://www.instagram.com/p/BbvtsU0BQGr/

Text:

brad_weber9: Everyone always told me I had a screw loose, so thought it was time to get that sucker taken out.

Did not realise the screw in my hip was this big! Looking forward to pain free running now that this bad boy is outta there

[Nepia]

@mikedogz said in Super Rugby News:

https://www.facebook.com/frontrowclub/videos/1503631596391335/

Yeah he still had the moonboot when I was @jegga style having coffee with him and his family in Barangaroo last month.

[pakman]

@nepia said in Super Rugby News:

Yeah he still had the moonboot when I was @jegga style having coffee with him and his family in Barangaroo last month.

Good work: in the words of Col. Jegga, '...you want me on that wall -- you need me on that wall.'?!

[Stargazer]

Confirmed: Ronan O'Gara will be released from his contract with Racing92 at the end of the year to take up the position of Assistant Coack (backs) with the Crusaders from the 1st of January.

Media release (in French) from Racing92:
http://www.racing92.fr/fr/Equipe_Pro/Communique_de_presse___Racing_92-Actualite-49-5235.html

[Stargazer]

O'Gara's appointment as Crusaders' backs coach now also confirmed by the Crusaders themselves:
https://crusaders.co.nz/news/1161-ronan-o-gara-to-join-bnz-crusaders-coaching-team