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'Super Rugby' 2021

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  • M Machpants

    I've not read these but they come up in my feed "top 10 of XYZ position in Super Rugby"

    There are 10 teams.... 🙄

    https://www.rugbypass.com/news/best-of-the-best-the-top-10-halfbacks-in-super-rugby-2021/

    I know that some team's second choice are better than other team's first, but really? Top 10?

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    @Machpants some interesting rankings in that lot
    Typical rugby pass BS

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    • StargazerS Stargazer

      @Machpants Are they using their dodgy rating system for these rankings? Even if they don't, just like player ratings after games, they are so subjective. A journo's opinion is worth just as much as ours; so not much :cat_face_with_tears_of_joy: .

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      taniwharugby
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      @Stargazer said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

      A journo's opinion is worth just as much as ours

      I'd say less, and we offer ours for free, they do thiers under some mis-guided pretense they have done some research or analysis!

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      • taniwharugbyT taniwharugby

        @Stargazer said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

        A journo's opinion is worth just as much as ours

        I'd say less, and we offer ours for free, they do thiers under some mis-guided pretense they have done some research or analysis!

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        Bones
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        @taniwharugby said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

        @Stargazer said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

        A journo's opinion is worth just as much as ours

        I'd say less, and we offer ours for free, they do thiers under some mis-guided pretense they have done some research or analysis!

        Don't have to go very far to deem it laughable....Tate McDermott is 3rd.

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          Machpants
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          #1657

          SA version

          https://www.rugbypass.com/news/sa-rugby-rejig-super-rugby-unlocked-to-prepare-players-for-british-and-irish-lions-tour/

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            https://www.tab.co.nz/sports/competition/14720/rugby-union/super-rugby-aotearoa/super-rugby-aotearoa/outrights

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            • TimT Tim

              https://www.tab.co.nz/sports/competition/14720/rugby-union/super-rugby-aotearoa/super-rugby-aotearoa/outrights

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              @Tim weird - Crusaders $1.40 to win the roudn robin, but $4 to win the comp.

              I'd lay them on those odds. A hiccup in an 8 game comp and that's it

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                https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/300230562/covid-19-highlanders-v-hurricanes-up-in-the-air-as-super-rugby-fears-emerge

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                • TimT Tim

                  https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/300230562/covid-19-highlanders-v-hurricanes-up-in-the-air-as-super-rugby-fears-emerge

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                  mikey07
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                  #1661

                  @Tim according to Jacindas press conference it seems as if the 72 hours are just a precaution so I can see it going ahead.

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                    Blues Crusaders game cancelled by teh look - Blues just emailed to say the footy fest is canned.

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                      I'd assume NZR have a contingency plan for covid this year? Weren't Super teams changed to be classed as business so they can train under alert level 3? Or is that wrong?

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                        Aight scratch that, just said on newshub the Blues can't train.

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                          https://twitter.com/marchintonffx/status/1361408419450642434

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                            https://twitter.com/marchintonffx/status/1361408419450642434

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                            @Stargazer said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:

                            https://twitter.com/marchintonffx/status/1361408419450642434

                            I wouldn’t mind seeing that may need bigger squads to get through it though

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                              Kiwiwomble
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                              hardly a show piece when the teams are playing each other that often, its like the RC when you end up playing aussie four times a year anything special starts to disappear

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                              • KiwiwombleK Kiwiwomble

                                hardly a show piece when the teams are playing each other that often, its like the RC when you end up playing aussie four times a year anything special starts to disappear

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                                @Kiwiwomble Yeah, 3 rounds might be a bit too much. If this happens, they must come up with something (I have no idea what) to make it interesting enough for people to come back to the stadions yet again. Maybe a tournament with a completely different format, crazy rules, ....

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                                • StargazerS Stargazer

                                  @Kiwiwomble Yeah, 3 rounds might be a bit too much. If this happens, they must come up with something (I have no idea what) to make it interesting enough for people to come back to the stadions yet again. Maybe a tournament with a completely different format, crazy rules, ....

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                                  Kiwiwomble
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                                  @Stargazer don't know if was just me but there looked like there was a distinct drop in attendances in the second round, let alone what they might be with a third

                                  maybe one of the three games against the same team needs to be taken rurally?

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                                    @Stargazer don't know if was just me but there looked like there was a distinct drop in attendances in the second round, let alone what they might be with a third

                                    maybe one of the three games against the same team needs to be taken rurally?

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                                    @Kiwiwomble Just outside their main centres would be a start. Blues to Albany or Whangarei, Chiefs to NP, Pukekohe or Rotorua, the Canes to Napier or (heaven forbid) Palmy; Crusaders to Nelson, and Landers to Invercargill.

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                                    • StargazerS Stargazer

                                      @Kiwiwomble Just outside their main centres would be a start. Blues to Albany or Whangarei, Chiefs to NP, Pukekohe or Rotorua, the Canes to Napier or (heaven forbid) Palmy; Crusaders to Nelson, and Landers to Invercargill.

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                                      Kiwiwomble
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                                      #1671

                                      @Stargazer definitely, its at least where I would start

                                      would also be the perfect time to crack out some LE local union homage jerseys, Highlanders maroon, Canes Green and white if in Palmy etc

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                                        @Kiwiwomble Just outside their main centres would be a start. Blues to Albany or Whangarei, Chiefs to NP, Pukekohe or Rotorua, the Canes to Napier or (heaven forbid) Palmy; Crusaders to Nelson, and Landers to Invercargill.

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                                        taniwharugby
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                                        #1672

                                        @Stargazer Blues were due to play in Whangarei last year for their first RR game there in many years, but Covid put paid to that, like loads of stuff.

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                                          SRTSF.

                                          We become the selectors.

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