Super rugby 2016 thread
early predictions?
thoughts on inclusion of the new teams?
The Argentinian team will make the semifinals
The Japanese team will come last in their conference
In form teams will be
Brumbies
Rebels
Highlanders
Cheifs
ARG
Every other team is losing important parts of their squad. The biggest drop will be the Hurricanes due to the GOAT centre combo leaving. Tahs might still have form despite losing some key players, but they probably will get man handled in the forwards. Rebels players finally got some experience and I think will stop this "losing every game but valiantly" meme. Brumbies will have the most dominate pack but with Toomua gone they'll have even more problems in the backline unless someone steps up in his place however at the same time the backline will improve now that White has left and the ARG 9 will be able to deliver fast ball making their attack something worth a fuck, in desperate need of a kicker. ARG have most of their RWC squad in the team, they're going to dominate their pool unless they fall victim to jet lag. Chiefs are going to be a problem for anyone with a fully fit squad. Crusaders will improve now that their old lads who only show up for international matches are gone clearing the way for young lads, or they'll fall apart completely. >Blues. >Reds. >Western Force. Japan will disappoint. Kings if they get a team will be shit. SA teams may never recover.
I don't keep track of what's happening during the offseason but I'm going into this season expecting disappointment from the Force and middle-of-the-roadness from the Bulls.
Argentina tbqh family
No South African team ever
I fully expect the finals to be an all New Zealand affair again, Chiefs and someone else more than likely
>tfw Wasps absolutely rape Toulon
Beet feel
>>63754196
SHMR only, pls leave
>>63754021
Highlanders maybe.
Blues to be average. Crusaders to miss out narrowly. Hurricanes to be decent again but not enough to close it out, again.
>>63754386
We can be friends :3
>>63753224
Top 8 will be (NOT IN ORDER)
Crusaders
Chiefs
Highlanders
Brumbies
Rebels
Argentina
Shorks (they get 4 games against Lions/Kings)
Stormers
I think Waratahs and Hurricanes will fall back to mid-table. Things could actually get really bad, really fast for the Tahs. No Cheika, no kepu, no potgieter, no AAC. TPN one concussion away from death. Teams fucked.
The Rebels will do well, as long as they keep Stirzaker and Debreczeni healthy (future Wallabies both). I love their 5 man backrows (Jones, and Timani pretending to be locks).
I think if the Reds kick out their coach in the first 6 weeks, they can sneak into 3rd australian team, but not enough for finals.
I think South Africa will fall into irrelevance because they have 3 super rugby teams effectively in Europe/Japan (local comp i mean). Doesn't matter which team of Stormers/Sharks/Bulls does well, they won't go anywhere in finals.
Lions can get fucked and die, they're a cancer on South African rugby. They'll never get into the finals, and they obviously pay Stuart Berry to fix their matches.
Why Eddie why
This was supposed to be >our year
>>63753224
>Super rugby
lol who cares lmao more importantly henshaw could be moving to leinster
>>63756269
>moving to a worse team than connacht
>>63753224
Sharks to be thouroghly disappointing and not get out the confrence
>>63755168
Fuck off, the Stormers are almost as much of a cancer to >our conference than the Lions
>>63756572
I agree 100%, what's going on down there is hilarious, truly is like a chicken without its head scenario
>>63756269
>Henshaw
Literally who?
>>63756749
*as much as a cancer to >our conference as the Lions
My apologies, I've been drunk for the past 3 hours
>>63756765
apology not accepted you degenerate fuck, stop pissing your life away on booze
>>63756792
what else am I supposed to do?
I've already fallen far enough to be a frequent poster on 4chan, I think whatever hope there was for me to do something constructive with my life can be thoroughly extinguished
Do the Sun Wolves even have a full roster yet?
>>63756269
shit comp. shit teams. shit fans. shit attendance. shit players. good money.
euro "rugby" everyone.
fuck rugby mkay
>>63769838
>bumping a thread for a dead sport
kys
>Blackadder gone
Was he any good for the Crushedsaders lads?
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>>63770471
mediocre would be apt. Not bad, not great. Got his team to the semifinals ever year except last year I think, which he missed out on from shitty conferencing system, but was 6th highest on points. Didn't win a superrug. However, never won of course, and had quite a AB heavy squads (It was all in the forwards however, besides Dan Carter being the star back. Most of their backs are okay, but never great)
>>63769838
Would have helped if one of you fags had /rug/ in the title so it showed up on filters.
>Pooby
>Good sport.
Literally poo.
>take shit
>continue living
sure is good to be /nrl/
>what kinda group pic you want fâm?
>>63756749
>truly is like a chicken without its head scenario
>teams that arent from south africa, australia, or New Zealand
>>63771530
>Pooth Peefrica
>Poopeelia
>Poo Peeland
>>63771224
It hurts to watch man, I'm from Durban myself, hell I even was at Sharks Academy when I was younger.
Everything I love is breaking around me ;_;
>kiwi genetics
