The most prestigious and coveted title in club rugby is back. Get hype!
>Friday Scarlets v Edinburgh Dragons v Ulster
>Saturday Zebre v Munster Leinster v Cardiff Glasgow v Connacht Treviso v Ospreys
In other NH competitions >Premiership Northampton v Leicester Saracens v Bath
>Top 14 Racing v Clermont Pau v La Rochelle
Next week will have the Champions Cup quarter-finals, so these games will be an interesting form guide to see how well clubs can reintegrate their players after the Six Nations.
Also Super Rugby. There's probably some games on in that or something.
Am I the only one who rates him? I always thought Warburton should have been dropped.
Nicholas Allen
/rug/ - super rugby edition
Friday 24th of March 7:35pm - Crusaders v Force 9:45pm - Rebels v Waratahs
Saturday 25th of March 7:35pm - Blues v Bulls 9:45pm - Brumbies v Highlanders 11:55pm - Sunwolves v Stormers
Sunday the 26th of March 2:05am - Kings v Lions 4:15am - Cheetahs v Sharks 10:40am - Jaguares v Reds
Byes - Hurricanes and Chiefs
Noah Roberts
*becomes GOAT*
Nolan Mitchell
I'd pick Ringrose or Henshaw ahead of Joseph Tbh.
Lincoln Martinez
yup. Said it before but ALB is looking in great form especially on defense and Crotty is probably at 12. Best defensive partnership for the All Blacks in a long time
Its one thing to cut apart some drunk scotsmen but another entirely to pick apart the All Blacks. Joseph would get frustrated and become anonymous
Leo Anderson
Why is Connacht so cute and adorable?
Cameron Ortiz
they have the worst fans in ireland
Noah Nelson
I bet you work for the IRFU you fuck
Benjamin Harris
>"super" rugby
William Fisher
>tfw the Irish are acting cheeky in these threads, but we would have disappeared completely until the Lions tour if England had won because we are such fairweather shits
William Reyes
> self aware Irishman
Charles Watson
>soup or rugby
Alexander Adams
>a comp for club teams that can beat "tier 1" "nations" >not super
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Owen Scott
>implying we didn't know what would happen all along Aside from underestimating the Scots, this was pretty good.
Parker Nelson
>that time nz lost to munster and llanelli
Jose Hernandez
Reminder that the Welsh National Rugby Union Team traveled to NZ and got absolutely spanked by the Gallagher Chiefs who had more than half their players missing.
Further reminder that after this embarrassing loss the British and Irish Lions tried to back pedal on their contract which has them playing weakened New Zealand Super Rugby teams mid week. They then entered damage control a year before a game was meant to be played saying they players will be over worked and be unable to perform at their usual strength during the tour.
Northern Hemisphere rugby literally shakes in their boots at the idea of playing Club rugby teams, and us Kiwis know a lot about shaking.
Michael Adams
>wales >tier 1 By the way, just so people know, this is the Welsh team Chiefs are so proud of beating.
>Matthew Morgan, Eli Walker, Tyler Morgan, Scott Williams, Tom James, Rhys Priestland, Gareth Davies; Rob Evans, Scott Baldwin, Tomas Francis, Jake Ball, Luke Charteris (c), Josh Turnbull, Sam Warburton, James King
Jaxson Lewis
>capping your own post
sad cunt
Brandon Sanders
>Reminder that the Welsh National Rugby Union Team traveled to NZ and got absolutely spanked by the Gallagher Chiefs who had more than half their players missing.
>Further reminder that after this embarrassing loss the British and Irish Lions tried to back pedal on their contract which has them playing weakened New Zealand Super Rugby teams mid week. They then entered damage control a year before a game was meant to be played saying they players will be over worked and be unable to perform at their usual strength during the tour.
>Northern Hemisphere rugby literally shakes in their boots at the idea of playing weakened Club rugby teams, and us Kiwis know a lot about shaking.
>expecting me to pay attention to super rugby news
Jeremiah Nelson
Lots of up and comers like Webber, Lowe and Seu
> He is on sabbatical and not playing until the lions
oh right fuck. there goes that plan
Luatua we can handle. Read and the others we cant. Those forwards have an insane ability to link with the backs but we just dont have the players to do it
Joshua Diaz
not liking this uk guy with a strong interest in nz Tbh, double agent
Mason Stewart
Either they were cocky that they could just walk over the Chiefs with literally anyone, or they had practiced together.
Also the Chiefs side had 2 or 3 more players missing from their usual game day squad than Wales did (iirc that squad was ~50% of the side that was playing NZ) so that's not really an excuse unless you are saying a hodge-podge team of random kiwis can beat the second string of a tier 1 nation.
Well yeah, obviously if your the one putting together that post. You kind of have to if you want anyone to take it even slightly seriously
Ryder Miller
Leinster's Brave Séamus Lú?
Hudson Robinson
been here for years lad. bloody newfags
Andrew Lopez
That team also included Munster's brave Rís Ní Mhearsealla
Dominic Ramirez
>"He (Barnes) told us we were not dominant enough," Maestri told reporters. "Anglo-Saxon referees always talk about fair play but the reality is that they think we're cheats
>ETERNAL ANGLO'd
Samuel Russell
>trusting a frog >EVER
Gabriel Moore
Dan lydiate >Dan Leidiot Man I are such a funneh guy.
Blake Clark
OK I just did one whole autism There were 9 players that played vs the Chiefs that did not also play the all blacks. And that is from the 23 man side to play the Chiefs, so 14 players of the 23 were Wales regulars to play NZ. Chiefs soon (tm)
Ryder Lee
Leinster rugby. That is all.
Brandon Nelson
They'd also only played NZ 3 days beforehand
Nathaniel Wilson
What do you think of this guy Rohan Janse van Rensburg? I am hyped.
Should have been blooded last year and I'm glad he'll develop with the Lions. Serfontein was looking quite the prospect too but the Bulls are shit at developing backs so he's been stagnant.
William Smith
They are cheats. >1 (one) camera angle for the alleged bite incident >at stade de france
Blake Nelson
A lot of rugby comentators eem pretty obsessed with players' weights.
Brayden Bennett
tbf serfontein has been injured for what seems like forever >rensburg is the same age as me it hurts
Landon Gomez
So? That's has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. I'm dispelling the myth here These Welsh players had not only trained and played together but the majority were seen as the best picks to play NZ.
Chiefs autism is done. 10 regular first picks out of the 23 man squad. Any team cohesion excuses for the Welsh are 100% not valid as they apply even more so to the Chiefs. Anything about the strength of the sides is a point for the Chiefs domination of the Welsh being even more impressive.
Joseph Lee
absolutely seething
Henry Baker
>74808753 >rensburg is the same age as me lucky you George North is only 9 months older than me and he has 68 int caps. christ.
Justin Johnson
oh god. embarassing
David Williams
As am I desu. part autism, part suppressed homo-erotic feelings.
Chase Nguyen
If they'd found anything there'd have been a citation, I'm not denying he was potentially bitten but the citing commissioner reviews all the footage, don't they?
The TMO also would have had access to all available footage at the time and the broadcaster hardly anticipated there'd be a bite at that exact moment.
Robert Fisher
Scotland
Ryan Walker
is gay
Michael Gutierrez
kek
KEK
K E K
Jonathan Lee
I think he is implying they deleted the footage
Juan Fisher
So what exactly went wrong vs england? Genuinely curious, not trying to rile ya.
Michael Bailey
hyped for zero aussie teams beating other teams this week.
Waratahs make me want to kill myself desu
Landon Stewart
desu I have no clue We made considerably more mistakes than usual, like Andy Robinson era tier number and we just looked at little too shaky at the back. But saying that, we did score 3, nearly 4 trys against England at Twickenham
Jordan Fisher
>tfw you get an emailing telling you to buy AB v Lions tickets >tfw you have been trying to get them since they first let you try buy them >tfw the game you could go to only has single seats so you can't go with your mates
Fuck these ticket cunts, all I want is to go to a game with my mates and you stop me even though there is enough seats for us all you sit us separately. Fuck you and your bullshit allocation system
Carter Gomez
>Andy Robinson era tier You know, I don't think Scotland drew with England this year. They were actually beaten quite badly if I recall correctly.
Maybe you mean something else by Andy Robinson era tier. It seems like without a BSE coach to guide the way, you can't even manage a draw. Next year when you lose to England and they aren't able to say they've beaten you for 10 years in a row, be sure to give thanks to Andy Robinson. news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/8563075.stm
Aaron Long
piss off you english twat
Zachary Reyes
its a Lions test mate everyone theres gonna be based as fuck and you can still meet your mates before and after the match for heavy drinking
Cheapest tickets are always by themselves so I always go with mates and we split up for the match. You dont do much talking in the match anyways.
Jacob Nelson
>in 2009, england beat scotland by 12 points >robinson takes over and gets a draw, a 4 point defeat and a 7 point defeat in his six nations games against england >also loses by just 4 points in the world cup pool >literally within a score of england in every game >the year that he leaves, scotland are beaten by 20 points >because he's english, scots shit on him anyway and compare a 40 point defeat favorably to his tenure Just how eternally asshurt towards the English are you?
Caleb Cook
>cheapest tickets I don't care about the price lad, all of want is to go to the rugby with my mates.
The point is >applied for group tickets at that stage >Didn't get any >now they have released single seats >so there is enough seats for me and my mates (you can buy up to 10 single seats) >but for some retarded reason they wouldn't give another group or 12 their allocation and shuffle groups slightly to fit them in
It is possible that they could have let us site together but have made it so we can't. Fuck them. They are too retarded to sort this shit out they don't deserve my money. If I had missed out on group allocation and there was no sale of massive amounts of seats I would be fine 2bh.
Tyler Richardson
Previous games that I applied for I either got the tickets or I didn't. If I didn't they never emailed me rubbing it in saying hey come buy those tickets you wanted all spread out and not together.
I think that's what's ticked me off, it feels like they are rubbing it in "you wanted 6 tickets seated together? We ignored that and are offering you 6 tickets seperatly" Fuck them.
A
Alexander Cooper
All I'm saying that not physically sitting together in the stadium is not that big a deal. Its a Lions tour whoever you meet will be really cool. Get some based old guy, a group of middle class men completely off their tits or if you're really lucky a couple of qts
Its not like going to a football match here where you're sat next to someone who's homeless, retarded, angry or all of the above.
Aiden Butler
Scotland won a grand total of 3 games under Robinson in the six nations Since he's left they have won 8 You basically cherry picked the games where Scotland try harder just to piss off the English
Tyler Bell
I honestly would rather sit on a couch with my mates and watch it than sit seperatly. We can't take the piss out of each other and joke around at the English lads team loosing if we are 50 seats apart. If it was an AB v AUS game or really any game other than AB v Lions or England I would probably just go single seats.
Jason Ward
also slipped down to 12th in the rankings also lost to fucking tonga
Wasn't massively robinsons fault desu, playing staff weren't great. the talent vs then and now is like night and day
Ian White
>win 3 games in 3 years with robinson >win 8 games in 5 years without him Oh my, just who can stop this Scottish juggernaut?! And you accuse me of picking favourable data...
The only fair comparison is the three years directly after Robinson left, because the players he had were DOGSHIT. The quality of player that's now coming through Glasgow wasn't there. In the three years after he left, they won *drumroll*... 3 games.
Now who's cherrypicking data.
Chase Robinson
Both of us apparently and my mistake, under Robinson Scotland only manged 2 wins :// Most people also seem to forget that just a few months after the defeat against Tonga and Robinson's resignation, Scotland finished 3rd in the six nations
Carter Sanders
Wigan
Hunter Lee
down right horrendous post lad
Nolan Roberts
...
Anthony Robinson
Down forward strong punch post lad.
Carter Anderson
>just a few months after the defeat against Tonga and Robinson's resignation, Scotland finished 3rd in the worst six nations in living memory ftfy
Kayden Perry
Two most hyped games this year will be > Chiefs v Lions in the SR grand Final >Chiefs v BIL Lions on tour
Lincoln White
False.
It will be 2 NZ teams in the final this year, which teams depends on what the NZ conference ranking ends up being. Other regions are in such decline that it's fairly likely.
The first AB v Lions game will be far. more hyped than the Chiefs v Lions game.
William Bennett
landers vs canes rematch book it
Jaxson Brooks
Wrong way round Canes home final
Colton Sanchez
Hello friends
Nathan Ortiz
Hey lad
Josiah Williams
fuck Ireland SR thread:
Lucas Morgan
Luatua is the best pick but he's leaving so Hansen will probably use no loyalty card on him while still selecting Cruden and TKB. Hansen is a hypocrite, predictable and a fucking casual when it comes to selection. Players who can cover 8 are; Luatua Messam Taufua Shields Squire
Nolan Roberts
Doesn't matter Read won't be injured and will be playing (first game, no doyd plz). Plus we have other loosies that can fill 8 if really needed like best Savea for example.
Landon Hughes
Fuck sake, what's with the hard on for your mates?
Carter Gutierrez
t. Nigel no mates
Kevin Ramirez
Ardie Savea should be playing 8 or 6. He's no openside.
Dominic Brooks
Boooo
Tyler Rodriguez
Squire and best Savea >>>>>>>>>>>> everyone else on that list including Luatua
