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Thursday
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Super Rugby Pacific

Are you paying attention? - video released explains new Super Rugby format

The Super Rugby trophy. Photo / Getty Images

The Southern Kings, Cheetahs and Western Force were axed from the competition after a convoluted and unpopular format in the last few seasons.

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The 2018 re-structured 15-team Super Rugby tournament kicks-off in four weeks time on Saturday 17 February in South Africa when the Stormers host the Jaguares in Cape Town. The Lions, runners-up the last two years, host the Sharks in Johannesburg, while the Bulls have a bye.

The Australian and New Zealand Conferences will kick-off a week later when the defending champions the Crusaders open the defence of their title at home against the Chiefs.

https://youtu.be/nvYXFXQEkXg

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DC000 5 minutes ago
Seven Springboks make World Rugby men’s 15s dream team of the year

Adorable one thinks you can be the best in the world playing 40 mins a game (or less) .


Let the delusions continue on...

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SadersMan 5 minutes ago
The full list of 2024 World Rugby Awards winners

Yeah, sounds a bit hit & miss (unless it's a Kiwi hahaha). Surely the panel must have guidelines. Oh well.

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GH 7 minutes ago
Seven Springboks make World Rugby men’s 15s dream team of the year

No10 is debatable but all other choices are sound. Congrats to all the Dream Team.

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SadersMan 10 minutes ago
Former All Blacks grade the 2024 campaign

It's that simple. Losing RWC2023 by 1pt may as well be by 50pts, for example.

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dc 18 minutes ago
Seven Springboks make World Rugby men’s 15s dream team of the year

Smith still has a lot to learn but will likely be understudy to Finn in Lions team.

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YeowNotEven 20 minutes ago
Seven Springboks make World Rugby men’s 15s dream team of the year

I’ll let it go but it should happen.

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YeowNotEven 20 minutes ago
Seven Springboks make World Rugby men’s 15s dream team of the year

Hells yeah to that

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dc 22 minutes ago
Seven Springboks make World Rugby men’s 15s dream team of the year

Darcy Graham over James Lowe and Finn Russell has to be No. 10

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Steve P 24 minutes ago
Men's 15s World Player of the Year was only a two horse race

I love it. Simultaneously congratulating PSDT while at the same time getting his barbs in on other Boks and praising the All Blacks.

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OJohn 27 minutes ago
Joe Schmidt: 'You've got to be able to learn to roll with those punches'

How do Australians keep the faith with a hopeless kiwi who lives in NZ coaching the Wallabies, who won't put our best team on the paddock and keeps chopping and changing the team so they can't build any cohesion and threaten the All Blacks ?


Schmidt is not fooling anyone.

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Reader76 32 minutes ago
Men's 15s World Player of the Year was only a two horse race

Ben still manages to criticize while applauding PSDT 😁

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GG 41 minutes ago
Pieter-Steph du Toit crowned World Rugby men's 15s player of the year

Good man as well.

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PB 1 hour ago
Former All Blacks grade the 2024 campaign

If you want to be overly simplistic, then you can look at it like that.

AB’s lost at home by 8 vs Los Pumas, in my book that is a bigger loss than by 1 vs Ireland considering where they are in terms of quality.


Losing by a point away to Los Pumas with 11 changes is also acceptable given the exposure that new players got.

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Tash 1 hour ago
Seven Springboks make World Rugby men’s 15s dream team of the year

Marcus Smith perhaps, but not Finn Russel. He did nothing against the Springboks, whereas Marcus Smith was consistently outstanding in all the games he played. Had he stayed on the park against the All Blacks, then England would probably have won the game

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YeowNotEven 1 hour ago
Super Rugby Pacific champion coach Vern Cotter re-signs with Blues

For sure the other union players sacked up and delivered the goods; the Bay of Plenty boys were especially hard.

But the Auckland players from the Blues? Paper gumboots in a shtstorm.

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Bull Shark 1 hour ago
Seven Springboks make World Rugby men’s 15s dream team of the year

100%


Dmacs season was suspect for more than half of it.

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Bull Shark 1 hour ago
Seven Springboks make World Rugby men’s 15s dream team of the year

Agreed. He’s been brilliant this year.


Finn Russel or Marcus Smith?

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Bull Shark 1 hour ago
Seven Springboks make World Rugby men’s 15s dream team of the year

I’d take Wiese over Doris 9 days out of 10.

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Bull Shark 1 hour ago
Pieter-Steph du Toit crowned World Rugby men's 15s player of the year

Even more ridiculous then.

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Bull Shark 1 hour ago
Pieter-Steph du Toit crowned World Rugby men's 15s player of the year

Must be

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