Official 2015 Super Rugby Thread

[daveatsave]

Super 15 2015

So, who will be the mighty trophy winners this year? Anyone care to share some insight and why they think that team will win?

 

[Fulcrum29]

Chiefs.

 

[APoc184]

Bulls:

15. Jurgen Visser, 14. Bjorn Basson, 13. JJ Engelbrecht, 12. Jan Serfontein, 11. Francois Hougaard, 10. Handre Pollard, 9. Piet van Zyl, 8. Arno Botha, 7. Lappies Labuschagne, 6. Deon Stegmann, 5. Victor Matfield (captain), 4. Jacques du Plessis, 3. Werner Kruger, 2. Adriaan Strauss, 1. Trevor Nyakane

Substitutes: 16. Callie Visagie, 17. Morne Mellet, 18. Dayan vd Westhuizen/Neethling Fouche, 19. Grant Hattingh, 20. Pierre Spies, 21. Rudy Paige, 22. Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 23. Jesse Kriel

 

[GreGorGy]

Gonna be a walkover. Hey, it is that time again where we can start making our picks. Lemme think about this, over and above the obvious of course...

 

[Bighit]

There should be some on streamhunter. Just Google live rugby streaming on the day.

Install XBMC, Install the Sportsdevil add on (there are a ton of youtube videos and articles mentioning how to do this).

You then get access to most sport streams from darestreams, lshunter, streamhunter etc without those initial 60 second ads.

I find it is always a bit of a miss and hit with those channels. I've only ever managed to watch half of 2 x rugby matches via Sportsdevil. I just use the Supersport Streaming now with my mother's smartcard details. They don't stream at all so it doesn't bother them that I use it. And their streaming is also in HD nowadays.

Don't really feel up to searching through pages and pages of rugby stuffs so can anyone who has their preferred free streaming link, repost them please. Gotta get ready for the weekend!

Just a few pages back. Sevens, Cricket, Rugby all on some day that females get excited about.

 

[GreGorGy]

Just a few pages back. Sevens, Cricket, Rugby all on some day that females get excited about.

OH FüCK!

Well, that be tough luck for them bitches.

Although, it is Mysterious Drifter Christmas so maybe an afternoon / early evening of Rugby followed by a late evening of mucking about. It is win-win...

 

[GreGorGy]

Hi Dave

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I say BULLS because I cannot think without my heart, as Fanie will shortly confirm. Our tour last year was a disgrace but this year the shortened season sees us facing Blues, Chiefs, Brumbies and Rebels and the only challenge there is the Chiefs, although we manage to lose to the blues pretty often, even when they are having a bad season.

I will have to think about this question, come to think of it. I will tell you who won't contend: Stormers, Sharks.

Troloolollol.

 

[Fulcrum29]

As a proud WP supporter I agree with Krige:

ewn.co.za/2015/02/11/Bulls-will-be-too-strong-for-inexperienced-Stormers

'BULLS TOO STRONG FOR INEXPERIENCED STORMERS'

The sides meet at Loftus this coming weekend in their opening Super Rugby fixture of the season.

CAPE TOWN – Former Stormers captain Corne Krige reckons a highly physical and experienced Bulls pack will be too much for young Stormers side to handle.

The sides meet at Loftus this coming weekend in their opening Super Rugby fixture of the season.

The Cape side will be without a number of first team regulars and still sweating over the fitness of wing Kobus van Wyk.

Krige says this one is for the Bulls to lose as they have the stronger team ahead of the clash.

“The Bulls will urge this one on their experience and just their physical power. But there was a very young side a few years ago that went to Durban to play in the Currie Cup final expected to lose but they didn’t.

“So there are no guarantees in rugby and the Bulls still have to play well to beat Stormers.”

Krige says the youthful Stormers team will have to perform well to upset the Bulls at home.

“The Bulls is going to this game with the experience that they have in their forwards, with injuries, we have lost couple of backline players. We might go in with an inexperienced side but those young players won’t necessarily be fazed by that experienced side.”

Saturday’s clash kicks off at 19:10.

(Edited by Leeto M Khoza)

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Just a few pages back. Sevens, Cricket, Rugby all on some day that females get excited about.

Yeah, not going to go through installing XBMC and there is no SS account to use. Suppose I'll just wait and see what get mentioned closer to the time I guess.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

As a proud WP supporter I agree with Krige:

ewn.co.za/2015/02/11/Bulls-will-be-too-strong-for-inexperienced-Stormers

Especially after the Bulls' trouncing of the Saracens. Very solid performance, that.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Especially after the Bulls' trouncing of the Saracens. Very solid performance, that.

Yah... but... they played against the Saracens brand on negotiated terms, their own play sets. Toulon vs Sharks, Toulon only put 6 regulars in the team… though they still trusted to win, it isn’t the real deal. Both the Saracens and Toulon had a game the next day.

Honestly, the Bulls did their best and even though with a whole other team on the bench they still managed to be tired out in the last 15 minutes.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Yah... but... they played against the Saracens brand on negotiated terms, their own play sets. Toulon vs Sharks, Toulon only put 6 regulars in the team… though they still trusted to win, it isn’t the real deal. Both the Saracens and Toulon had a game the next day.

Honestly, the Bulls did their best and even though with a whole other team on the bench they still managed to be tired out in the last 15 minutes.

All true, but I reckon it's still better competition for a warm up match than the SWD Eagles or whoever.

 

[Fulcrum29]

All true, but I reckon it's still better competition for a warm up match than the SWD Eagles or whoever.

Totally agree

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Interesting comment from Lambie...

http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/Super15/Tries-not-a-priority-Lambie-20150210

Tries not a priority: Lambie

Durban - Scoring more tries during this season's Super Rugby campaign is the last thing that has crossed the minds of the Sharks, flyhalf Patrick Lambie has said on Tuesday.

The Durban franchise were the second worst try scorers in the competition last season and came in for criticism from some quarters as they struggled in attack.

"We might not have scored as many tries last year as we would have liked but we managed to win some important games and make it to the semi-final.

"This year we want to take it a step further. Our focus is on our intensity and playing a good brand of rugby, if we work hard enough that will be the case," the Springbok back said.

The Durbanites scored 29 tries, which was the second worst alongside the bottom-placed Rebels and one better than the Bulls.

Anyway onto greater things: come on STORMERS!

 

[DWPTA]

T-minus 24 hours to kick off.

 

[APoc184]

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[Stevi]

Always hard making first round picks when you not too sure about teams and their from going into the tournament.
My picks are made, hope most are right

 

[GreGorGy]

Always hard making first round picks when you not too sure about teams and their from going into the tournament.
My picks are made, hope most are right

Damn straight - so I apply a strategy. Whichever of the mutton-loving, wool-muffing, ram-sucking, sheep-fücking buck-tooth hicks wins, it is a guess to educate my choices going forward. At home, logic and of course heart rule:

Crusaders v Rebels
Crusaders will want an early victory and despite their poor showing last few weeks in warm-ups, those are warms, this is a home game: my only question is margin.

Brumbies v Reds
Brumbies struggling with psychology, Reds struggling with lamb chop addicktion. Reds smell better, ever so slightly - must be the mint sauce.

Lions v Hurricanes
Who can tell this early? The one opportunity you have to choose the lions without prejudice and you throw it away? I don't think so. Lions over these visiting weather conditions.

Blues v Chiefs
Chiefs easily. Oh wait, didn't I say that last year and come short?

Sharks v Cheetahs
Could be a close call, actually, and this is the time the Cheetahs would choose to upset former contenders Sharks. I expect a narrow margin in favour of the home side.

BULLS v Stormers
Smart money favours the home side in this match-up. For once. FFS - we better win it! Or else I will be upset!

Waratahs v Force
Speaking of upset, Force to take it. Waratahs will have upset stomach from swallowing too much ram jizz the night before.

 

[Noob-Noob]

Bulls have a very strong team. Until we get a injury in basically any position then we have no depth. Also i'm not very impressed by Visser. We should have rather played Handre at fullback and Potgieter at flyhalf.

I really hope this is the year of the Lions. (even though i'm a bull)

 

[Fulcrum29]

WP is still TBA, when is Coetzee leaving... is there even a management at Newlands?