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Jensrsa wrote:Super 15 Tournament Details
- 120 match regular season plus seven match finals series
- 15 teams
- Three conferences (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa)
- 18 rounds [16 matches per team, two bye weeks]
- Each team will play eight matches within its conference (four home and four away)
- Each team will play eight cross-conference matches – against four of the five teams from each of the other two conferences (four at home and four away)
- Each team will play 12 of the other teams within the season (85% of opposition teams which is up from 70% in 2016).
- Eight team Finals Series: Three Conference winners and; five wild card places – the next best performing teams based on competition points after the
Conference winners regardless of Conference. Conference winners and fourth-placed team on competition points will host quarter-finals.

New Zealand Conference
Blues, Chiefs, Crusaders, Highlanders, Hurricanes

Australian Conference
Four Australian teams (TBC), Sunwolves

South Africa Conference
Bulls, Lions, Sharks, Stormers, Jaguares

http://www.superxv.com/sanzaar-confirm- ... ment-2018/

fraz wrote:If Australia does keep all five teams, will the whole miserable, drawn-out process be remembered as an absolute masterstroke by the much maligned Pulver? Or will the consensus be that his poor planning, worse engagement and inability to handle complex problems have resulted in him accidentally falling arse-backwards into a favourable outcome?

EDIT: (and gloriously screwing over the South Africans in the process)

comets wrote:I won't be watching Soup Rugby next year, I'm done, ZN teams are the one ones worth watching and even they have been weak this year, why does NZRU not get rid of the Blues yet? :/

Slim 293 wrote:That 'Super XV' website is not actually an official site for Super Rugby...

The fake logo and the fact that the competition has never been called that should be a dead giveaway though.

If Australia does keep all five teams, will the whole miserable, drawn-out process be remembered as an absolute masterstroke by the much maligned Pulver? Or will the consensus be that his poor planning, worse engagement and inability to handle complex problems have resulted in him accidentally falling arse-backwards into a favourable outcome?

EDIT: (and gloriously screwing over the South Africans in the process)

bravo wrote:

If Australia does keep all five teams, will the whole miserable, drawn-out process be remembered as an absolute masterstroke by the much maligned Pulver? Or will the consensus be that his poor planning, worse engagement and inability to handle complex problems have resulted in him accidentally falling arse-backwards into a favourable outcome?

EDIT: (and gloriously screwing over the South Africans in the process)

How in the f**k would keeping 5 x teams be remembered as a masterstroke, the whole reason the ARU are in this mess is because they expanded to five teams!?

your comments make no sense??

bravo wrote:

If Australia does keep all five teams, will the whole miserable, drawn-out process be remembered as an absolute masterstroke by the much maligned Pulver? Or will the consensus be that his poor planning, worse engagement and inability to handle complex problems have resulted in him accidentally falling arse-backwards into a favourable outcome?

EDIT: (and gloriously screwing over the South Africans in the process)

How in the f**k would keeping 5 x teams be remembered as a masterstroke, the whole reason the ARU are in this mess is because they expanded to five teams!?

your comments make no sense??

Five teams weren't that big of an issue until last season. All of a sudden they are. But I suspect a lot of the current issues are related more to leadership than talent and depth. In particularly just woefully shite coaching. Sort that out and things will improve.

fraz wrote:

bravo wrote:

If Australia does keep all five teams, will the whole miserable, drawn-out process be remembered as an absolute masterstroke by the much maligned Pulver? Or will the consensus be that his poor planning, worse engagement and inability to handle complex problems have resulted in him accidentally falling arse-backwards into a favourable outcome?

EDIT: (and gloriously screwing over the South Africans in the process)

How in the f**k would keeping 5 x teams be remembered as a masterstroke, the whole reason the ARU are in this mess is because they expanded to five teams!?

your comments make no sense??

Bollocks. The ARU is in a mess because they haven't invested in coaching and they've been burgling the grass roots for decades to pay for their boozy lunches. We've won two out of the six titles since adding the fifth team, it's an absolute nonsense argument that we don't have enough talent, we just don't have enough quality coaches and cutting a team is going to do four fifths of fudge all to change that.

Anything that gets the South Africans to put another toe out the door is a movement towards forcing the NZRU to agree to a pacific club comp, which is going to be the best way forward.

If we can keep all five teams, that's a great outcome for us, even if we have another few lean years. Coupled with this new national coaching oversight board that's emerging, these are very positive signs for our beleaguered sport.

bravo wrote:How in the f**k would keeping 5 x teams be remembered as a masterstroke,

bravo wrote:the whole reason the ARU are in this mess is because they expanded to five teams!?

Jensrsa wrote:Bulls 2018 jersey - Celebrating 80 years of Blue Bulls rugby



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Wilson's Toffee wrote:

Jensrsa wrote:Bulls 2018 jersey - Celebrating 80 years of Blue Bulls rugby



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Celebrating without the Barberton Daisy. An emblem of 80 years dropped sito-sito. No regard for history, yet brag about "80 years"....

Bulls are gone, down the drain. Shittiest admin they've had in decades.

Average Joe wrote:

Wilson's Toffee wrote:

Jensrsa wrote:Bulls 2018 jersey - Celebrating 80 years of Blue Bulls rugby



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Celebrating without the Barberton Daisy. An emblem of 80 years dropped sito-sito. No regard for history, yet brag about "80 years"....

Bulls are gone, down the drain. Shittiest admin they've had in decades.

The Bulls have not had the Barberton Daisy on they're Super Rugby kit for ages.

Average Joe wrote:With a Super Rugby Logo on the sleeve? Or will they print new ones without the SR Logo?

Brumby_in_Vic wrote:Newsome is with the Waratahs, Ruru the Rebels. McCalman, Rona, Pek Cowan, Ryan Louwrens, Kane Koteka, Scoble, Robbie Coleman, Angus Cottrell are still unattached as far as I know. Haven't checked whether Tessmann is in the Reds squad.

In regards to the Rebels have around 45 players depending on what source you are reading.

Brumby_in_Vic wrote:Newsome is with the Waratahs, Ruru the Rebels. McCalman, Rona, Pek Cowan, Ryan Louwrens, Kane Koteka, Scoble, Robbie Coleman, Angus Cottrell are still unattached as far as I know. Haven't checked whether Tessmann is in the Reds squad.

In regards to the Rebels have around 45 players depending on what source you are reading.

assfly wrote:Gerhard van den Heever - there's a blast from the past. What happened to him? His first season for the Stormers was pretty good if I remember correctly. Seemed destined for great things.

Edit: I think he first started with the Bulls.

mightyreds wrote:

Brumby_in_Vic wrote:Newsome is with the Waratahs, Ruru the Rebels. McCalman, Rona, Pek Cowan, Ryan Louwrens, Kane Koteka, Scoble, Robbie Coleman, Angus Cottrell are still unattached as far as I know. Haven't checked whether Tessmann is in the Reds squad.

In regards to the Rebels have around 45 players depending on what source you are reading.

My goddam reply went off when I was still preparing it - these things are like guns!

Thanks, BIV, you are the man 'In the know about the know'.

Average Joe wrote:

Wilson's Toffee wrote: Celebrating without the Barberton Daisy. An emblem of 80 years dropped sito-sito. No regard for history, yet brag about "80 years"....

Bulls are gone, down the drain. Shittiest admin they've had in decades.

The Bulls have not had the Barberton Daisy on they're Super Rugby kit for ages.