Official Super Rugby 2016 Thread

[Solitude]

Nooooo! It was so close!

 

[ABCpt]

Another bad start to the weekend.

 

[Agent_Smith]

Peter Grant adds the conversion - 14-24

I'd forgotten about ol' Bash. Really rated him as a good abrasive flyhalf, not afraid of the physical. Just a pity that right boot of his wasn't up to scratch (distance wise).

 

[Fulcrum29]

Good to see that the Force never surrendered.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Well done Brumbies, but I think that the Force can play better rugby and have the room to improve.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

much as I hate to admit it, the 2 games from today had touches of really beautiful rugby and I enjoyed it, heh. Brumbies looking well fit this year.

 

[MickeyD]

Another bad start to the weekend.

35 points for getting the Brumbies score right...

 

[Fulcrum29]

http://www.todayonline.com/sports/lukewarm-response-super-rugby

Lukewarm response to Super Rugby

SINGAPORE — Even though it has been touted as the opener to the Sports Hub’s 2016 rugby season, it appears that tomorrow’s Super Rugby match between the Sunwolves and Cheetahs has yet to fire up fans’ excitement here.

TODAY understands that ticket sales for the rugby fixture — the first sports event to be held at the 55,000-seater National Stadium this year — have been sluggish, with reportedly less than 6,000 tickets sold so far.

While Sports Hub chief operating officer Oon Jin Teik did not reveal details of ticket sales, he stressed yesterday that it is unrealistic to expect rugby events to attract the same crowds as football.

“We have to be realistic in that rugby is not football. Rugby is a sport that the national sports association (the Singapore Rugby Union) is still developing,” he explained.

In an article that I had read more than a week ago they expected +/- 30 000 attendees. Comparing this to the hot dog article that I had posted,

About 24,000 sausages have been produced, and will be on sale exclusively at the food stalls at the National Stadium.

Somebody was overeager with their numbers...

 

[sand_man]

Lions/Highlanders is a tough one to pick. Eish. Bookies saying highlanders. But they said the same against the Chiefs. Can't make up my mind. Changed my pick half a dozen times already. Think I'll settle on a draw.

 

[faniebraai]

Eish, that scrum

 

[faniebraai]

Eish, that scrum

Better 2nd scrum

 

[dunkyd]

Watch interferance running...

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

and that's how you stop a try kids :wtf:

 

[OrbitalDawn]

This Highlanders scrum is monstrous at the moment.

 

[dunkyd]

Watch interferance running...

Finally.

 

[faniebraai]

Highlanders too good for the Lions here

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Highlanders too good for the Lions here

Doing well to keep the game from getting away from them, though.

 

[faniebraai]

Doing well to keep the game from getting away from them, though.

Yeah, but no answer on attack. Huge pressure on our backline every time the ball goes wide, which isn't very often.

 

[faniebraai]

Can't do anything with tgose opportunistic tries

 

[faniebraai]

And another. It's over