Comments on: Super Rugby draw altered for Aussies

By: Greenies

Greenies — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:25:40 +0000

Copping the Americans is never a good idea. S R is based on their format right?

By: Nils

Nils — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:17:52 +0000

“The disruption for the New Zealand and South African teams should be minimal.”

Please explain me, how an AUSSIE derby can disrupt teams in other countries?

By: viewer

viewer — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:04:19 +0000

Come 2017, NZ’s teams will begin playing one week earlier, all other things being equal (assuming there’s SR in 2017; they are about to lose my following shortly. Can’t stand the apathy, empty stands, illegal tactics & poor officiating )

By: gunther

gunther — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:09:04 +0000

@Robzim-16:

Lives off the fat of the land?

Don’t make larf .

I’m a net contributor.

Unlike you in your imitation crocs.

Now get back to finding that soap.

By: Robzim

Robzim — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:35:27 +0000

@gunther-8:

A quisling? Naw, just not xenophobic.

A good example of a local quisling is a bloke who lives off the fat of Cape Town but whose head is buried so deep up the arse s of the blue bull fans that only his blue suede shoes are visible from the outside.

By: aliboy

aliboy — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:32:16 +0000

@STBUR-13: Whilst I personally agree with you, I believe that the ratings say otherwise somehow.

By: BrumbiesBoy

BrumbiesBoy — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:31:31 +0000

@Jeez-11: Agreed. Oh, how I yearn for the days of Super 12! But this time with four teams only per country. Young William must be turning in his grave and if he was here again he'd probably put the ball down and start kicking it again...

By: STBUR

STBUR — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:11:49 +0000

Too many derbies. S15 has the most ridiculous format. Who wants to see all these local games? Super Rugby is about playing against the foreign franchises.

By: kingcorn

kingcorn — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:33:59 +0000

I said it before and I will say it again, the queens should have been allowed to play in conference against SA teams. SA should have asked for the draw to be changed that all Derby matches be played at the beginning. Especially since the wobblies are asking for an extra week, this would have allowed for a fair qualification into the super 15 by the SA teams and none of this rubbish of having to chop a team for another. It would have guaranteed exposure for the queens and the best of the SA teams would have qualified.

We can even go further and say that only 3 teams from each regions qualify with the remaining teams going into a round robin to qualify for the remaining 3 spots. Making it super 12 with the best teams competing for the coveted title.

By: Jeez

Jeez — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:02:25 +0000

@BrumbiesBoy-9: Greed is destroying the game.

By: Spiesisworthless1

Spiesisworthless1 — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:56:10 +0000

@Robzim-7: Our derbies weren't great either TBH. The NZ derbies were on another level altogether. All in all, Super Rugby should be more focused on exo-conference clashes: also getting tired of seeing the same teams from the same countries playing each other over and over.

By: BrumbiesBoy

BrumbiesBoy — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:43:22 +0000

@Jeez-5: "Too much rugby" is most definitely to blame and it's going to be even worse by the time the BIL next tour NZ & SA.

By: gunther

gunther — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:33:44 +0000

Robbo is a quisling.

He would bend over and pass the soap if the convicts asked him nicely.

Not that that they would ask nicely of course.

By: Robzim

Robzim — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:16:38 +0000

@Spiesisworthless1-6: Oh well, i guess that is a question to ask the Aussies, maybe they find our derbies also boring. Personally I have also seen enough of Stormers/Cheetahs for example and find a match between two top school sides more appealing.

By: Spiesisworthless1

Spiesisworthless1 — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:07:07 +0000

Aussie Super Rugby derbies are just awful. No wonder the NRL is so popular in Aus.

By: Jeez

Jeez — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:02:21 +0000

Reasonable yes, but Greg Peters is bad news. ‘Too much rugby’ is his fault.

By: Tacitus

Tacitus — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:56:10 +0000

Let’s move away from knee jerk reactions, folks.

This seems like a very reasonable request from the Aussies.

And it’s not going to disrupt our schedules significantly.

By: BrumbiesBoy

BrumbiesBoy — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:41:45 +0000

@sharks_lover-2: It's called planning ahead mate, something those clowns at Boundary Road, Newlands don't believe in.

By: sharks_lover

sharks_lover — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:38:44 +0000

Why cant the same be dont for US?? why is everything always done for the Aussies??

Or again is it they did something about it while SARU sat with the fingers up their crackz dawns doing nothing????

By: Guns

Guns — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:25:35 +0000

Favouritism demon spawns!