Super XV 2015 General Discussion Thread

LuckyGent88

This weeks fixtures:

Super Rugby Round 4 - Starts 6/3/15
Friday night
Chiefs v Highlanders
Brumbies v W Force

Saturday:
Blues v Lions
Reds v Waratahs
Cheetahs v Bulls
Stormers v Sharks
BYE
Crusaders ,Hurricanes , Rebels

Should be quite an entertaining game tomorrow morning between the Chiefs and the highlanders. Both teams like to throw the ball around so hopefully there are a few nice tries to see.

Reds must beat the waratahs at home to have any chance of competing in the aussie conference this year.

Best games of the weekend probably come from South africa. Some cracking games in store especially with the way they seem to be playing more attacking rugby now.

sydthebeat

Clever pen aaron Smith!

sydthebeat

Chiefs 3 - 6 highlanders

Chiefs with 80% territory

sydthebeat

Osborne you beauty! !

That was a fantastic team try

3 - 11 Highlanders

sydthebeat

3 - 14 at half time !!!

LuckyGent88

What a scoreline for the highlanders at half time.
Love Patrick Osbourne too. Always been a fan of him

Swiwi.

Some of us have to work...

But nice score line syd!

Edit: as for Osborne, the crusaders let him go

NB: good to see you backed your team syd in superbru. Oh wait...

dregin

The joys of a 20 minute commute - Can watch the super rugby on Friday morning and still have plenty of time to get to work early \o/

LuckyGent88

Thought that could have been a penalty try.
6 for highlanders prevented a certain try cynically

sydthebeat

Swiwi. wrote: »

Some of us have to work...

But nice score line syd!

Edit: as for Osborne, the crusaders let him go

NB: good to see you backed your team syd in superbru. Oh wait...

Well in fairness I was the one who gave them the best spread

Need to hold out against this chiefs onslaught !

LuckyGent88

sydthebeat wrote: »

Well in fairness I was the one who gave them the best spread

Need to hold out against this chiefs onslaught !

That was coming anyway.

sydthebeat

Yeah. Need to show it down for the next 6-7 mins.

Stupid pen by waiholo

LuckyGent88

sydthebeat wrote: »

Yeah. Need to show it down for the next 6-7 mins.

Stupid pen by waiholo

Really struggling now. Chiefs have just upped there game in the second half.

sydthebeat

Pulu has been quite poor I think

sydthebeat

Ah ****e !

sydthebeat

Marty you beauty !!!

What a finish !!

sydneybound

Can't believe it!!! What an away win.

Certainly didn't deserve it but what a finish.

Super Rugby delivers again!!!!

LuckyGent88

Ridiculous. What a win. Great start to the morning but now for depressing work

Swiwi.

Smile on the dial for syd.

Could have been flying up the superbru leaderboard too oh ye of little faith. In fairness I haven't been backing the crusaders too much so far

sydneybound

Western Forcs V Brumbies up now

Let see what Cummins is up to in his first game back.

matthew8

I've never seen a team as dominant as the Chiefs lose. Cruden's kicking was horrifically bad.

Swiwi.

matthew8 wrote: »

I've never seen a team as dominant as the Chiefs lose. Cruden's kicking was horrifically bad.

He risks missing out on the RWC squad purely based on his kicking which I agree is just not up to scratch.

Swiwi.

The Blues are absolutely shìte. It kind of reminds me of Leinster at times this season. Good team on paper, actual performance at times woeful. 80%+ territory, 60% possession...and yet the Lions are in front. I reckon Kirwan should just go, he's clearly a terrible terrible coach.

Jacovs

Swiwi. wrote: »

The Blues are absolutely shìte. It kind of reminds me of Leinster at times this season. Good team on paper, actual performance at times woeful. 80%+ territory, 60% possession...and yet the Lions are in front. I reckon Kirwan should just go, he's clearly a terrible terrible coach.

On this note, read this the other day:

"How the Cheetahs managed to burgle a win from the travelling Blues, who enjoyed a monster 78% of the territory and a chunky 69% of the possession, is beyond me!

And it was not really about the kicking this time round. The home side kicked 26 times from hand in comparison with the 23 from the Blues, but that is where the similarity ends. The Cheetahs ran 256 metres to the 519 from the Blues, made 3 clean breaks compared to 14 from the Blues, made 53 carries to 129 from the visitors, beat just 8 defenders to the 31 from the Blues, made 59 passes to the 177 from the Blues, and snuck in 7 offloads to the 20 made by the visitors.

The Cheetahs were forced to make 143 tackles to the paltry 43 from the Blues. They missed a monster 31 tackles to the minimal 8 from the Blues, knocked the ball on 6 more times, and made 6 more handling errors.

Yet won the game!"

http://www.sport24.co.za/Columnists/TankLanning/Stormers-back-to-2012-20150305


And for those watching the Stormers game later, they will be wearing red armbands to show their support for the firefighters who battled a fire in Cape Town the past week.

sydthebeat

De klerk shouldn't have run that

Swiwi.

Pat Lam got vilified in the Auckland press for less. The game itself has been viewing poison, but fairplay to the Lions for their defense which was top class, even if they offer less than an U10 side on attack.

sydthebeat

0 from 4 for the blues. ..... something seriously wrong in that camp.


That was a horrible game to watch, errors absolutely all over the place. ... but fair dues to the lions.

Swiwi.

It's proving hard to get the picks right this season: thought the Chiefs and Blues were easy picks

Kiwi_knock

Reds have rearranged their whole backline on the day of the game, strange tactic.

Kiwi_knock

Nice try for Foley, lovely pass by Carraro at the end. 0-13 to the Tahs.