Super Rugby 2025
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Reds up 42-14 at half-time v a Bristol B team. Gotta wonder about the value of all that travel just to play a one sided mis-match game.
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@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Yeetyaah said in Super Rugby 2025:
lol and the North think their clubs are superior.
Yeah nah
Bristol are without their internationals, and with injuries they have about 20 absent. They are also playing a game the next day, so this was basically an academy team. Reds were full strength, even if first game of the season
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@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Yeetyaah said in Super Rugby 2025:
lol and the North think their clubs are superior.
Yeah nah
Bristol are without their internationals, and with injuries they have about 20 absent. They are also playing a game the next day, so this was basically an academy team. Reds were full strength, even if first game of the season
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2025:
Bristol was basically an academy team. Reds were full strength, even if first game of the season
It doesn't say that on the picture. No mention other than the home side being the Bristol Bears so to the casual observer it is the best team they could field on the day. Not Queensland's fault Bristol accepted a game when they knew they would be below full strength and still calling their team as the Bristol Bears and not Bristol Bear Development XV. Queensland did right by giving them an utter flogging.
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2025:
Bristol was basically an academy team. Reds were full strength, even if first game of the season
It doesn't say that on the picture. No mention other than the home side being the Bristol Bears so to the casual observer it is the best team they could field on the day. Not Queensland's fault Bristol accepted a game when they knew they would be below full strength and still calling their team as the Bristol Bears and not Bristol Bear Development XV. Queensland did right by giving them an utter flogging.
@Higgins said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2025:
Bristol was basically an academy team. Reds were full strength, even if first game of the season
It doesn't say that on the picture. No mention other than the home side being the Bristol Bears so to the casual observer it is the best team they could field on the day. Not Queensland's fault Bristol accepted a game when they knew they would be below full strength and still calling their team as the Bristol Bears and not Bristol Bear Development XV. Queensland did right by giving them an utter flogging.
Correct. But it doesn't negate my point that this game was in no way an indicator of the relative strengths of SR Vs NH club rugby. It was a stupid money making attempt, and I doubt any profit was made apart from a good confidence boost for the Reds
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2025:
Bristol was basically an academy team. Reds were full strength, even if first game of the season
It doesn't say that on the picture. No mention other than the home side being the Bristol Bears so to the casual observer it is the best team they could field on the day. Not Queensland's fault Bristol accepted a game when they knew they would be below full strength and still calling their team as the Bristol Bears and not Bristol Bear Development XV. Queensland did right by giving them an utter flogging.
@Higgins said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2025:
Bristol was basically an academy team. Reds were full strength, even if first game of the season
It doesn't say that on the picture. No mention other than the home side being the Bristol Bears so to the casual observer it is the best team they could field on the day. Not Queensland's fault Bristol accepted a game when they knew they would be below full strength and still calling their team as the Bristol Bears and not Bristol Bear Development XV. Queensland did right by giving them an utter flogging.
think you completely missed the point
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@Bovidae good catch
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Reading through the team specific threads for this year's comp I get the feeling there's a lot of injuries in the squads.
Is the number normal or am I just paying more attention this year?
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Also mentioned amongst the coaches that there is only a 3-week lead-in to the competition opener compared to 4 weeks in 2024. There seems to have been a lot of off-season surgeries.
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2025:
Also mentioned amongst the coaches that there is only a 3-week lead-in to the competition opener compared to 4 weeks in 2024. There seems to have been a lot of off-season surgeries.
The players have realised that razor doesn't give a shit about SR form, so might as well give it a miss
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2025:
Also mentioned amongst the coaches that there is only a 3-week lead-in to the competition opener compared to 4 weeks in 2024. There seems to have been a lot of off-season surgeries.
The players have realised that razor doesn't give a shit about SR form, so might as well give it a miss
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2025:
Also mentioned amongst the coaches that there is only a 3-week lead-in to the competition opener compared to 4 weeks in 2024. There seems to have been a lot of off-season surgeries.
The players have realised that razor doesn't give a shit about SR form, so might as well give it a miss
More and more are trying the Blackadder method of AB selection.
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2025:
Also mentioned amongst the coaches that there is only a 3-week lead-in to the competition opener compared to 4 weeks in 2024. There seems to have been a lot of off-season surgeries.
The players have realised that razor doesn't give a shit about SR form, so might as well give it a miss
More and more are trying the Blackadder method of AB selection.
@Nepia said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2025:
Also mentioned amongst the coaches that there is only a 3-week lead-in to the competition opener compared to 4 weeks in 2024. There seems to have been a lot of off-season surgeries.
The players have realised that razor doesn't give a shit about SR form, so might as well give it a miss
More and more are trying the Blackadder method of AB selection.
Only works if you wear red and black....
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A much more competitive game for Qld against Ulster. The article says that Aidan Morgan played well for Ulster. The Reds won 38-31.
https://www.rugby.com.au/news/five-things-we-learned-from-reds-ulster-202527
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