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Super Rugby Form Gauge - Round 13: South African teams stutter in horror weekend

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It was an awful weekend for teams from the South African conference with only the Lions coming out victorious in their match against the lowly Waratahs.

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The Jaguares and Sharks came close to securing to wins in in New Zealand against the Highlanders and the Chiefs, respectively, but ultimately the home sides prevailed. The Bulls didn’t fare any better against their Kiwi opposition. The Crusaders are now the second New Zealand side to travel to Pretoria and comfortably account for the home side so the Bulls won’t be looking forward to their upcoming trip to Australasia.

Meanwhile, in Australia, the Rebels won their tussle with the Reds and the Brumbies belted the Sunwolves.

Taking into account the above, as well as previous results, RugbyPass have put together a comprehensive ranking calculator based purely on objective metrics.

How good is a team at winning away from home? How well do they travel between South Africa and Australasia (and vice-versa)? Do they escape with wins by the slimmest of margins or do they often put their opposition to the sword? All this and more has been factored into the calculations to determine an accurate measure of how Super Rugby’s teams are performing at this point in the season.

Check back each week to see which teams are trending upwards and which teams are treading water.

Without further ado, here is the Super Rugby Form Gauge for round 13 of the season.

Trivia:

  • 14th is the Waratahs’ lowest ranking of the season.
  • 15th is the Sunwolves’ lowest rank of the season.
  • This is the first time since Round 5 that a team on a bye week has fallen in the rankings – in this case, it’s the unlucky Stormers.
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I thought we made a lot of progress against that type of defence by the WC last year. Lots of direct running and punching holes rather than using width. Against that type of defence I think you have to be looking to kick on first phase when you have front foot ball which we did relatively successfully. We are playing a lot of rugby behind the gain line at the moment. They are looking for those little interchanges for soft shoulders and fast ball or off loads but it regularly turns into them battering away with slow ball and going backwards, then putting in a very rushed kick under huge pressure.


JB brought that dimension when he first moved into 12 a couple of years ago but he's definitely not been at his best this year. I don't know if it is because he is being asked to play a narrow role, or carrying a niggle or two, but he does not look confident to me. He had that clean break on the weekend and stood there like he was a prop who found himself in open space and didn't know what to do with the ball. He is still a good first phase ball carrier though, they use him a lot off the line out to set up fast clean ball, but I don't think anyone is particularly clear on what they are supposed to do at that point. He was used really successfully as a second playmaker last year but I don't think he's been at that role once this year. He is a triple threat player but playing a very 1 dimensional role at the moment. He and Reiko have been absolutely rock solid on defence which is why I don't think there will be too much experimentation or changes there.

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