Super Rugby News
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@KiwiMurph said in Super Rugby News:
Confirmation. Sunwolves gone after 2020 season.
14 teams from 2021. No more conferences. Round Robin.
https://super.rugby/superrugby/news/super-rugby-future-is-14-teams/
The 14-team round robin format will see the removal of the current three conference system and will see each team play every other team home or away each season. This means 13 matches for each team, with two byes, in the regular season with the number of home and away matches varying from six to seven based on a two-year alternate match schedule. This will then lead into a new three-week, best versus best, super-charged, top six finals series. The top two ranked teams on the competition ladder will receive a bye in week one before hosting semi-final matches against the winners from a knockout round between teams ranked three to six.I’m shocked, this is good. A return to the best teams making the finals, not pity selections for weak conferences.
Only change I would make is semi finals, having a top 6 in a 14 team comp is a bit much.
@Kirwan said in Super Rugby News:
@KiwiMurph said in Super Rugby News:
Confirmation. Sunwolves gone after 2020 season.
14 teams from 2021. No more conferences. Round Robin.
https://super.rugby/superrugby/news/super-rugby-future-is-14-teams/
The 14-team round robin format will see the removal of the current three conference system and will see each team play every other team home or away each season. This means 13 matches for each team, with two byes, in the regular season with the number of home and away matches varying from six to seven based on a two-year alternate match schedule. This will then lead into a new three-week, best versus best, super-charged, top six finals series. The top two ranked teams on the competition ladder will receive a bye in week one before hosting semi-final matches against the winners from a knockout round between teams ranked three to six.I’m shocked, this is good. A return to the best teams making the finals, not pity selections for weak conferences.
Only change I would make is semi finals, having a top 6 in a 14 team comp is a bit much.
Disagree. Far prefer top 6 to semi finals.
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@Kirwan said in Super Rugby News:
@KiwiMurph said in Super Rugby News:
Confirmation. Sunwolves gone after 2020 season.
14 teams from 2021. No more conferences. Round Robin.
https://super.rugby/superrugby/news/super-rugby-future-is-14-teams/
The 14-team round robin format will see the removal of the current three conference system and will see each team play every other team home or away each season. This means 13 matches for each team, with two byes, in the regular season with the number of home and away matches varying from six to seven based on a two-year alternate match schedule. This will then lead into a new three-week, best versus best, super-charged, top six finals series. The top two ranked teams on the competition ladder will receive a bye in week one before hosting semi-final matches against the winners from a knockout round between teams ranked three to six.I’m shocked, this is good. A return to the best teams making the finals, not pity selections for weak conferences.
Only change I would make is semi finals, having a top 6 in a 14 team comp is a bit much.
Disagree. Far prefer top 6 to semi finals.
@KiwiMurph with more teams sure, but almost half the competition making the finals is overkill.
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Neutral refs is what I would really like to see.
@Tim The reffing in the Lions v Rebels match was disgusting.
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@Tim The reffing in the Lions v Rebels match was disgusting.
@African-Monkey said in Super Rugby News:
@Tim The reffing in the Lions v Rebels match was disgusting.
20 to 1 penalty count. A throwback to the good old days of saffa rugby
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@Tim The reffing in the Lions v Rebels match was disgusting.
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@African-Monkey Egon Seconds is one of the worst refs in SR. He's one of the ARs in the Waratahs v Crusaders game tomorrow.
@Stargazer He should be banned for life after that performance.
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Audio: NZ Rugby boss Steve Tew on Sunwolves axing - open article for link to interview
Haven't had the time to listen to this myself, yet.
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@taniwharugby said in Super Rugby News:
@Frank are you really @MN5 with that level of knowledge?
When it was S18 it included KIngs, Cheetahs, Force, they left at the end of 2017...so take them out and now SW and we get to 14.
@Chris-B I remember Super 10 and CANZ but never a super 6...
As if Frank is anywhere near as big a deal on the fern as I am.
What an absolute clusterfuck though, there was nothing wrong with the competition, it's about time the morons who run it realise that, now they might actually get some fans back.
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@taniwharugby said in Super Rugby News:
@Frank are you really @MN5 with that level of knowledge?
When it was S18 it included KIngs, Cheetahs, Force, they left at the end of 2017...so take them out and now SW and we get to 14.
@Chris-B I remember Super 10 and CANZ but never a super 6...
I forgot to post this earlier. It's from the SANZAAR website:
History - the early days In 1986 NSW and Queensland played against Auckland, Canterbury and Wellington from New Zealand, as well as a composite Fiji side. For five years the tournament was played, a South Pacific Championship or Super Six, which led to ‘expansion’ when South Africa re-entered the rugby world and it was reborn into the Super 10 in 1993, where it ran until 1995, prior to the game becoming professional. In 1996 as SANZAR was formed, the Super 12 was created, a professional competition and the first official ‘international domestic’ tournament featuring the strongest teams – which would become franchises – across New Zealand, South Africa and Australia. -
Marius Louw (Sharks) cited for this high tackle:
@Stargazer Not much in that. :fishing_pole:
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby News:
Jaysus - off the ball around the neck clothesline!
Yeah that's a good old fashioned clothesline eh. Feet in the air and all.
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Nothing in that. Massive dive
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C'mon Blues, Highlanders and Chiefs ...
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Oh no
The Highlanders will have to get their season back on track without the services of All Blacks halfback Aaron Smith. Coach Aaron Mauger told Stuff on Wednesday that Smith will be out for "four to six weeks" after injuring his ankle in the final stages of the loss to the Blues' last Friday. After sustaining the injury Smith tried to run it off but it pulled up sore after the match and now faces a frustrating spell on the sidelines. The Highlanders have two other halfbacks on their books, Kayne Hammington and youngster Folau Fakatava, but Mauger said they are in the process of bringing in someone else to bolster the squad before three tough Kiwi derbies after their bye week. -
Oh no
The Highlanders will have to get their season back on track without the services of All Blacks halfback Aaron Smith. Coach Aaron Mauger told Stuff on Wednesday that Smith will be out for "four to six weeks" after injuring his ankle in the final stages of the loss to the Blues' last Friday. After sustaining the injury Smith tried to run it off but it pulled up sore after the match and now faces a frustrating spell on the sidelines. The Highlanders have two other halfbacks on their books, Kayne Hammington and youngster Folau Fakatava, but Mauger said they are in the process of bringing in someone else to bolster the squad before three tough Kiwi derbies after their bye week. -
@Stargazer Step on up MR FAKATAVA
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@Canes4life Yeah, but I'm afraid they're going to start Hammington, at least until Fakatava has a bit more SR game time under his belt.
@Stargazer you never know, they may just chance their arm.
