2015 Super Rugby Season

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The place for all things Super Rugby.  

Here we can discuss the latest team news, results, upcoming fixtures, referees performances, crowd behaviour, the cheerleaders....

George & Canelion: I've converted your Round 3 and Round 6 threads into the "super" Super Rugby Thread. A few others included in there too.

Check the links below for fixtures, results and the table.

2014 Table

2014 Results
 

   

Stormers and Crusaders level at 3-3 approaching half time.

Some serious defence in this game, but then neither team are very creative in attack.

Crusaders attacking game has surprised me.  When they go direct they have had some gainline success, but at times they are just to lateral and have gone nowhere.

Yeah, the Stormers knows how to read their side to side attack.

I can never remember which if the South African sides you support Biltong?

Great counter attacking try for the Stormers. loose kick from the Crusaders but a fantastic line picked by de Villiers off Burger.

Final score 14 13 to the Crusaders.

How the hell did the ref not notice there was someone knocked out right in front of him! Poor poor reffing!

Christ Force handing out the thrashing on Rebels.

Ozzy3213 wrote:I can never remember which if the South African sides you support Biltong?

I don't have a favourite team mate, since pro rugby began and player movement increased to the extent where players no longer represent their hometown I just support the Springboks now.

I don't feel I can identify with any team any more.

Hence my belief that at least the Springbok team must remain pure.

that's the spirit Biltong, S.A. above all else... as for me, not sure I'd take a RC win over the Lions not finishing in another relegation playoff

Well Bulls too good for the Blues, the Blues stuttering all match, the Bulls way more presence around the field. Scrums and lineouts didnt look too bad but I'll have to watch the first half again. Blues a bit lucky to get that chip through try with two of them falling around it after a nice chip through. Obviously that ones in the arsenal for the year...weepu doing the same last week.

Serfonteyn looked good as well, he must be forcing his way into higher honours regular spoy by now...

Yes, the Bulls defence concentrated on their job and starved the Blues all day, with the little ball that the Blues did get they squandered.

On another note a number of those young Blues players had not played at altitude before and they will learn from the experience. still no Benji.

Bit of a worry when we only have the Chiefs that look remotely like finalists and even they arent overly convincing. The Oz sides are stronger it seems than last year and SA look stable if not world beating at the moment. Tough little comp this with some sides doing complete reversals from the previous week- the Force for example....where did that come from? and the Reds...

I didn't watch the Bulls-Blues match: were the Bulls an improved team compared to their opening couple of games, or were the Blues playing badly? Because that wasn't the result I would have predicted!

RE: Sharks Lions Match (37 -23 to the Sharks)
1.Well done to Frans Steyn for stepping in at the last moment to play fly-half, not a bad effort: and boy does t feel nice to have a kicker who can consistently kick penalties from our own half!
2. The Lions were a different team when Boshoff replaced Jantjies at Flyhalf. Jaintjies looked like a deer in the headlights most of the time (I would too, mind you, if I was opposite Steyn)
3. The Sharks' replacemtne props are a couple of levels below the Beast and Jannie.
4. Jannie can't speak English, so don't interview him!

Great work Breaker - can you update each week? I have added the final scores and links to the video highlights and I'll watch them all later when I'm doing the night feeds for our newborn.

Putting 38 points on that Blues side is pretty impressive.

I was severely impressed with the Bulls, never thought they knew how a backline works.

George Carlin wrote:Great work Breaker - can you update each week? I have added the final scores and links to the video highlights and I'll watch them all later when I'm doing the night feeds for our newborn.

Putting 38 points on that Blues side is pretty impressive.

Thanks George,

Yeah, I'll change the title and update the games each week.
Feel free to add any extra content whenever you please.

I've realised because of the bye that the team I actually most look forward to seeing each week is the Tahs.

George Carlin wrote:I've realised because of the bye that the team I actually most look forward to seeing each week is the Tahs.

Well that makes two of us... maybe 4 including boomeranga and icu.   

Linebreaker wrote:

George Carlin wrote:I've realised because of the bye that the team I actually most look forward to seeing each week is the Tahs.

Well that makes two of us... maybe 4 including boomeranga and icu.   

if they continue playning the way they have, you can count me in as well   

Biltong wrote:

Linebreaker wrote:

George Carlin wrote:I've realised because of the bye that the team I actually most look forward to seeing each week is the Tahs.

Well that makes two of us... maybe 4 including boomeranga and icu.   

if they continue playning the way they have, you can count me in as well   

Great   

You ought come over for a game here... SA also playing Oz in the soccer on May 26. Can arrange tix (for both) if you want.
Also do some stuff for the Roar.

Linebreaker wrote:

Biltong wrote:

Linebreaker wrote:

George Carlin wrote:I've realised because of the bye that the team I actually most look forward to seeing each week is the Tahs.

Well that makes two of us... maybe 4 including boomeranga and icu.   

if they continue playning the way they have, you can count me in as well   

Great   

You ought come over for a game here... SA also playing Oz in the soccer on May 26. Can arrange tix (for both) if you want.
Also do some stuff for the Roar.

Get the barbie on, Breaker. We'll wipe our feet and bring over the Margaret River reds/stubbies [delete as appropriate].

Don't worry about wiping feet mate... my place will be an excavation site in a month or two.

We can light a big fire out the back and have a good sing-a-long.

Damn, now I'll have to bring the guitar.  

and I'll have to learn the words to "Brothers in Arms"... again.   

You just need to hum, after a few, we'll probably all just hum.

Have you moved into the new place yet?

Nope, we actually bought another plot, after close inspection there was too much work to be done, so we bought one without any improvements on it.

We are moving out of our current place end of April, then into an apartment close to my sons' school whilst building a two bedroom unit and garage to move in as soon as possible.

Then once we have built the house we will likely rent the chalet out.

Long way to go.

Good stuff. Wise to avoid extra costs. Is the new one in the fruit farm area still?

Yeah, just two plots to the east.

Biltong wrote:Yeah, just two plots to the east.

Between 7th and 8th?

On the corner, of Seventh and Extra road.

Biltong wrote:On the corner, of Seventh and Extra road.

Looks good... a nice cluster of trees on the side.

Yeah, on the left there are some beautiful thorn trees, those on the road side are gumtrees, they will go and be replaced by thorntrees as well

oh... didn't realise you had gumtrees in SA. Aussie ones or a SA species?
Thorntrees.... are they good for the deer or bokke (what animals are you getting again?)

This really has moved away from rugby somewhat, but it's genuinely interesting.

Bilt - what have you bought? I am imagining Dianne Fossey's place from Gorillas In The Mist.

Linebreaker wrote:oh... didn't realise you had gumtrees in SA. Aussie ones or a SA species?
Thorntrees.... are they good for the deer or bokke (what animals are you getting again?)

They're Aussie in origin. They were brought over initially to supply mines with timber. They've kinda spread from there. And they're not much good for the local fauna. They're considered an alien invasive species!

Ah well it was too good to last... Falling sharp from those heady days when we managed to win game without scoring tries... Back to the soft porn days (silky touches, skillful angle manipulation, no penetration) for my Lions.

kingraf wrote:Ah well it was too good to last... Falling sharp from those heady days when we managed to win game without scoring tries... Back to the soft porn days (silky touches, skillful angle manipulation, no penetration) for my Lions.

Hawu!

Fri 14		Chiefs v Stormers, Waikato Stadium, Hamilton 19:35 local, 06:35 GMT, 02:35 EDT, 01:35 CDT, 23:35 PDT -1d
Fri 14		Rebels v Crusaders, Melbourne Rectangular Stadium 19:40 local, 08:40 GMT, 04:40 EDT, 03:40 CDT, 01:40 PDT
Sat 15		Hurricanes v Cheetahs, Westpac Stadium, Wellington 16:35 local, 03:35 GMT, 23:35 EDT -1d, 22:35 CDT -1d, 20:35 PDT -1d
Sat 15		Highlanders v Force, Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin 19:35 local, 06:35 GMT, 02:35 EDT, 01:35 CDT, 23:35 PDT -1d
Sat 15		Brumbies v Waratahs, Canberra Stadium 19:40 local, 08:40 GMT, 04:40 EDT, 03:40 CDT, 01:40 PDT
Sat 15		Lions v Blues, Ellis Park, Johannesburg 15:00 local, 13:00 GMT, 09:00 EDT, 08:00 CDT, 06:00 PDT
Sat 15		Sharks v Reds, Kings Park Stadium, Durban 17:05 local, 15:05 GMT, 11:05 EDT, 10:05 CDT, 08:05 PDT

Haven't seen anyone start a thread on this round.  Since I am awake at 3:00am (again) I put on the first match, Chiefs-Stormers, and thought I should get this going.  Imported the weekend schedule from ESPNScrum, and I hope the links to their coverage of each match should work.

Chiefs are dominating the Stormers in a way I haven't seen in a long time.  Looks like men against boys.  Though I think one of their tries was a bad call by the referee.  Regardless, as the second half gets going, Stormers are virtually out of it already.  

One observation was at halftime.  Hika Elliot was being interviewed and I realised many Rugby players do not know how to dress.  Pink plaid with a blue solid tie?  Really?  My mother would be horrified.

Watching game doc as chiefs are my team. Was gonna mention the chiefs are playing well and are being quite adventurous but also quite solid. Did you see the first chiefs try, the back heel of the ball forward and regather by Tom Marshall? That, was something different!

Stormers are poor today, quite pathetic really.

Now now biltong

Not over yet though, great fend by the smallest rugby player on the planet Gio Aplon for the try.

Mmm, that's not so poor huh biltong

Massive momentum shift, game on!

24-20 to the chiefs, 4 to go.

Ah, the usual Doctor Grey prediction gone wrong. Score was 17-6 to the Chiefs at halftime, and the play was all Chiefs, Stormers dead as roadkill. Chiefs score right off in the second half and the presumed rout is on. Five minutes left in the match and score is 24-20. I really know nothing about our sport.

Chiefs score. Did anyone see the grounding on replay? I didn't though the referee thought it was OK.