Super Rugby 2018

I think Amanaki Mafi must be considered to be moved to the wing, he punishes the tacklers on the wide.
 
The Reds feeling the pressure just before half-time. No captain, only 14 men, another 40 minutes are going to be tough.
 
The Rebels scoreboard keeps on growing, 45-14. Most tries ever scored by the Rebels in Super Rugby and their largest winning margin against the Reds.
 
I only caught glimpses of the game but what I saw was very poor compared to the previous game.
 
The Super Rugby for the day is done. So far, this is worst game of the season. Good win for the Rebels, nonetheless.
 
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/...e-can-give-them-flying-super-rugby-start.html

Rugby: Sunwolves hope back three can give them flying Super Rugby start

Sunwolves assistant coach Tony Brown said Friday he would allow his exciting back three to have a free rein Saturday when they take on the Brumbies in their Super Rugby opener in Tokyo.

"The back three are most dangerous when you give them a license to play rugby," the former All Black said of Hosea Saumaki, Jason Emery and Lomano Lemeki, who were part of the Japan sevens side that finished fourth at the Rio Olympics. "And for the Sunwolves that's no different. We are looking to attack space and where there is space we want the back three attacking."

Quite how much ball they will get, though, will depend on their athletic pack, all of whom showed deft skills with ball in hand Friday at the captain's run at Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground.

"We need to compete for the full 80 minutes and need to be ready, as Super Rugby is a lot more physical than Top League," Brown said.

There are questions, however, over how prepared the Sunwolves are, with the team having not played a single warm-up game.

Brown said while it was challenging to go into the competition cold, the team had "put together a game plan and now need to go out and execute."

Much of what they do with the ball will revolve around flyhalf Robbie Robinson, who is not only playing his first game of Super Rugby in four years but also has a couple of debutants either side of him in captain Yutaka Nagare and inside center Ryoto Nakamura.
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I expect a very loose game tomorrow, Barbarians-type rugby. Nagara and Nakamura are top rated Top League players, both Suntory Goliath champions. I hope to see the debutants have a game they used to play.

See this Japanese proverb,

"The Brumbies are a tough team, so having a challenger mindset and never being mentally defeated by the opponent is the most important thing," Nagare said.
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Brumbies is in vir 'n ding :whistle: :D
 
Seems 2018 is just continuing with the poor officiating from 2017. We may not 'care' so much coz it's just 2 ozzie teams but those refs are gonna go into our games with their substandardness :(
 
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