Report: Surprise new Super Rugby format for next year revealed

But I suspect that when Rassie hangs up his coaching boots he’s out the mix altogether. I suspect he wants to end his career as Bok coach.

The bigger question for me is - why are we assuming that he going anywhere after 2027.

Why wouldn’t Rassie continue coaching the boks for another 4 years? And another 4 after that?

I mean he’s only 52. A spring chicken.

I don’t think he has aspirations coaching any other national side. It would be a massive downgrade. Maybe a club to make a few bar and then retire?

England-France was 90 minutes, Ire-Eng 88 minutes… so no, it was not a ‘high-tempo game’ at all.

As you’ll notice those durations come in under the SRP figs Payten mentioned.

Game duration won’t catch on because it’s a meaningless tool for coaches and players. Totally random.

[And FYI ‘clock ticking when there’s no action’ is not included in BIP time]😉

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Was he on the run, hiding out between safe houses?

Were not talking a 1% or 2%, even a 5% gain in advantage, were talking about something that causes one team to hit a barrier and the other to obliterate them. The All Blacks era of aura will go down as legend.

Waste of resources to focus on it. It’s not difficult to keep a scrum out of the game

France still played, and were advantaged by, a very high tempo that game.

FYI Opta doesn’t do work-rest because they believe ball-in-play is far more accurate and inclusive.

It’s in their WRC media info sheets, but if you mean they no longer bother including it, I’d have to agree given it’s absence. Like I said, it was a bit of an eyesore and BIP just ‘looked’ much nicer.

None of these if used as arguments for and against has any relevance to the worth of using ‘game duration’ (which I assume is what W2R was devided by the number of “plays"?), it’s pure science that expending energy over a shorter period is going to have you more fatigued. You can’t dispute that. If you were to argue that BIP correlates to the exact same data/stats/findings/concepts that I’m talking about, then that would be very interesting and I’d have to go back over the data to verify that.

You should also note that the new injury protocol will worsen the ball in play stat, as they keep the clock ticking while theres no action, where in the past the ref would have immediately blown his whistle to stop the clock, then walk over to the injured play to see whats up. The clock would only have started again once teams are ready to restart, so each time they would have saved 10 or 20 secs of milling around and that goes back in to BIP time (roughly half right).