Super Rugby 2020

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 8:15am

Great defense aaron

WeleaseWoderick · 13-06-2020 8:22am

Bazzo wrote: »

Might be working on 5 hours sleep but I'll be ****ed if I'm missing this. £34 for a NowTV spots pass for the month seems like good value (not an offer or anything). Isn't sky sports about £40 on top of your normal sky package?

They have Sky Sports reduced to €25 at the moment as an addon for TV packages.

13-06-2020 8:29am

Breakdown is definitely gonna be interesting, the way they're policing it. A lot of backs rely on crawling on the ground, laying an egg etc to buy some time until support gets in. Looks like that won't be happening any more.

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 8:31am

Great try!!

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 8:43am

Seen a red for that lots of times... Though there's a little bit of an actual jump from the chiefs player too

irishbucsfan · 13-06-2020 8:44am

Filthy Highlanders

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 8:45am

Fcuk sake mitch hunt, that's about 4 brain farts already in that 33 mins

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 8:46am

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Filthy Highlanders

A lil un on a big un

lawrencesummers · 13-06-2020 8:51am

Tough gig for the ref implementing new rules but he’s being consistent, doesn’t take much time over the ball to win a jackal.
I think McKenzie, who is probably the smallest on the pitch and half the size of many has two turnovers already.

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 8:52am

Yes!!! That's a big try just before half time.

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 8:53am

And hunt nails his hardest kick so far.... Nice

Yeah_Right · 13-06-2020 9:01am

How good is it to be watching live rugby again.

lawrencesummers · 13-06-2020 9:11am

The last twenty minutes will be interesting when match fitness or lack of start to show. Who has been keeping their home fitness up and who has been eating celebrations and watching tiger king.

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 9:16am

It's gonna take a while for the players to get to grips with the much stricter breakdown enforcement.

It will make for a faster better game

realhorrorshow · 13-06-2020 9:23am

sydthebeat wrote: »

It's gonna take a while for the players to get to grips with the much stricter breakdown enforcement.

It will make for a faster better game

Safer too, good to see the jackal turnovers awarded immediately rather than having a guy hanging in there for five seconds getting smashed.

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 9:27am

Anything that rids the game of the side ways clear out and the torpedo shoulders... I am all for.

awec · 13-06-2020 9:29am

That’a property dumb. Jumping in, eyes closed, arms down, with the shoulder.

He’s lucky MacKenzie bumped into him on the way down as it seemed to stop him rotating round further.

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 9:29am

Fcuk sake jona, that was needless

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 9:35am

That was a very lucky penalty for us.

Dillon hunt only had one hand on that

lawrencesummers · 13-06-2020 9:37am

Looks to me like the enforcement of the breakdown rules favours the defending team, will be interesting to see what the stats say but favouring the defending team has a bad impact on the attractiveness of the game, it favours teams who have good defense and set piece, and makes running rugby more of a liability.

clsmooth · 13-06-2020 9:37am

Some zip on Aaron Smiths pass

accensi0n · 13-06-2020 9:38am

So good to be able to watch some live rugby/sport.

accensi0n · 13-06-2020 9:45am

What a poach by the chiefs there.

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 9:48am

Feck

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 9:49am

Lol some story!! Nice one son

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 9:51am

Wow!!! Some finish!!!

accensi0n · 13-06-2020 9:51am

wow.

thomond2006 · 13-06-2020 9:51am

Penalty fest to say the least but a great finish. The Chiefs went for their DG too early and left too much time on the clock.

awec · 13-06-2020 9:52am

Those highlander jackets are... interesting.

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 10:04am

Isn't it fantastic to see the players mingling with the fans after the game

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 10:15am

Interesting that there was very little handling errors (10 in total, only 3 for the Highlanders) and the effect that had on scrums. Six in total I think.

If that trend continues, which I hope it does, it was put pressure on tight five forwards to have better ball playing core skills and less scrummaging. Also, because of the penalty count the number of line outs greatly increased. 32 in total!!

Hopefully as the players get to grips that number with drop, but until then it will be a dominant feature of the game

irishbucsfan · 13-06-2020 10:41am

Very interesting to see how enforcement goes over a few weeks. Especially after a few weeks of coaches in the ears of referees before/after games.

lawrencesummers · 13-06-2020 11:27am

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Very interesting to see how enforcement goes over a few weeks. Especially after a few weeks of coaches in the ears of referees before/after games.

From one game it looks like teams will be more defensive minded, won’t mind playing without the ball if they have good defence and a Strong lineout / Maul.

You could come away from watching that game thinking 10 man rugby is the way to go.

A back making a half break is at bigger risk of being turned over, which is a pity.

bilston · 13-06-2020 1:39pm

Great finish to the game. Bit of a whistle fest at times but that's not unexpected due to rustiness and the law changes.

A more than decent watch after three months of rugby tumbleweed!

Also, while I appreciate the necessity for sport being played behind closed doors, this was an illustration that you can't compensate for a crowd watching live sport!

hahashake · 13-06-2020 2:22pm

Congrats sydthebeat and other landers fans! Boys were a bit rusty and adapting to the new rules didn't help, but fair play to the landers. The boys I talked up were fairly quiet but plenty of time to get back into form.

Looking forward to a packed Eden Park with hopefully a slightly better standard of game.

sydthebeat · 13-06-2020 6:27pm

hahashake wrote: »

Congrats sythebeat and other landers fans! Boys were a bit rusty and adapting to the new rules didn't help, but fair play to the landers. The boys I talked up were fairly quiet but plenty of time to get back into form.

Looking forward to a packed Eden Park with hopefully a slightly better standard of game.

Cheers hhs, cracker of a game. Thought we were gonners when nareki got that second yellow card for us.... 20mins a man down, yet I think we came out of those 20 two points up... That was the big difference I think, your boys didn't capitalise on the extra space, Wainuis try excepted. Your line outs killed ye too, both in attack and defense... Which I found very surprising for a gatland coached team. It was as if he didn't know they were going to be told to take their line before the throw.

hahashake · 13-06-2020 8:05pm

sydthebeat wrote: »

Cheers hhs, cracker of a game. Thought we were gonners when nareki got that second yellow card for us.... 20mins a man down, yet I think we came out of those 20 two points up... That was the big difference I think, your boys didn't capitalise on the extra space, Wainuis try excepted. Your line outs killed ye too, both in attack and defense... Which I found very surprising for a gatland coached team. It was as if he didn't know they were going to be told to take their line before the throw.

Lineouts weren't helped by the fact we are down to a loose forward and rookie lining up in the second row (although the throwing was as much to blame!).

Nice bit of intrigue that a late injury meant that Gatland jr was responsible for beating his old man.

Bring on game 2!

swiwi_ · 13-06-2020 11:18pm

Enjoyed that. The law book says tackled player must play ball immediately. Nice to see a move away from « tackled player can hold on for 3 seconds while opposing players try and get ball and get smashed to pieces by clean out ». Pocock would have a field day though.

Not sure what the future of rugby holds but it’s nice to have it back.

BonnieSituation · 14-06-2020 5:11am

sydthebeat wrote: »

Isn't it fantastic to see the players mingling with the fans after the game

That was by far one of my favourite things* about this morning. It was class. Looking forward to seeing what happens now at Eden Park later.

There was NRL on around the same time with no crowds, but even just seeing the players walking around chatting to each other was great.

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On the current match, the first 20' of this feels like the first half this morning was a different sport never mind the same league!

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*Obviously the double DGs were class too.

hahashake · 14-06-2020 10:49am

Love this:

Blues looking like serious contenders.

hahashake · 18-06-2020 1:26pm

Unfortunately no DC again this week for Blues vs Chiefs, or Sam Cane for that matter. Should be another cracker though, expect to see Akira Ioane putting in a big performance after being in the stands last week. Just hope the Chiefs can play a bit more cohesively under the supposed greatest ever rugby coach.*

*according to readers of Rugby World magazine...

20-06-2020 8:16am

McKenzie v Barret. Let's go

Buer · 20-06-2020 8:36am

The penalty count is making this very hard to watch.

20-06-2020 9:10am

I've only started watching in the second half but man this is not good.

Muligatawney · 20-06-2020 9:59am

Wasn't great in the rain but Blues look really good. Tuipulotu really making the case for an AB starting spot.

hahashake · 20-06-2020 11:38am

Muligatawney wrote: »

Wasn't great in the rain but Blues look really good. Tuipulotu really making the case for an AB starting spot.

Sotutu was looking like the next AB 8 too.

Strange to see a Gatland coached team look so unstructured, though the ref and weather didn't help the flow of either team. Players still haven't adjusted to the stricter breakdown but O'Keefe was strangely inconsistent anyway.

Blues v Crusaders looking very tasty.

Yeah_Right · 20-06-2020 11:39am

Muligatawney wrote: »

Wasn't great in the rain but Blues look really good. Tuipulotu really making the case for an AB starting spot.

Absolutely. With Retalick on sabbatical, Whitelock and him would be my choice for starters. Sotutu should expect an ABs call up as well.

Good win for the Blues.

sydthebeat · 20-06-2020 12:03pm

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Absolutely. With Retalick on sabbatical, Whitelock and him would be my choice for starters. Sotutu should expect an ABs call up as well.

Good win for the Blues.

Your year YR!

Yeah_Right · 21-06-2020 1:26pm

sydthebeat wrote: »

Your year YR!

Just watched the Crusaders v Hurricanes. I think the Crusaders are definitely the favourites. The Blues visit to ChCh in week 5 should be tasty. I predict it to be a battle of 2 unbeaten teams. Sorry Syd ðŸ˜

sydthebeat · 21-06-2020 1:38pm

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Just watched the Crusaders v Hurricanes. I think the Crusaders are definitely the favourites. The Blues visit to ChCh in week 5 should be tasty. I predict it to be a battle of 2 unbeaten teams. Sorry Syd ðŸ˜

100%

I'm quite apprehensive about what your lads will do to us next Saturday in Eden Park. All I'm looking for with the Highlanders is progression and growth. We cannot be reliant on Aaron Smith for ever.

Watching the crusaders this morning and while they had a good win with five tries it wasn't exactly a perfect performance. Their penalty count was through the roof, and not only the breakdown pens, but quite a myriad of different ones. They are just so good damn clinical with great finishers all over the park. Ennor, reece, goodhue, Bridge, haveli.

Canes had a nightmare from the lineout.... Followed on from the chiefs last week....
Very surprising as we all knew the number of lineouts would increase greatly because of the pen count.

Super Rugby 2020

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