Super Rugby 2022

[Dan54]

Hurricanes didn't train yesterday & the Assistant Coach confirmed that there's Covid "in our environment". Thursday's Blues v Hurricanes women has already been cancelled & called a draw, I'm expecting 'canes v Moana to be postponed as early as toda

The reason Canes didn't train was to keep everyone apart after Aumua tested positive on Saturday, they have to give it 3 days before they clear rest of squad, Gibbes was on TV last night saying game was looking ok as they were getting a few from outside of squad on standby, and as long as they can field a team they will play.

 

[Happyman]

Updated Stats for last round with tackle count 'fixed'

Round 2 Stats

Defensive Players of the Round:

1 – Fraser McReight (Reds) 21 tackles @ 100% success rate
2 - Kane Koteka (Force) 19 @ 100%
3 - Ross Haylett-Petty (Rebels) 18 @ 100%
3 - Nick Frost (Brumbies) 15 @ 94%
4 – Lukhan Salakai-Loto (Reds), Ray Nu’u (Rebels) & Cameron Orr Rebels) all 14 @ 93%

Biggest Attacking Influence ((Clean Breaks + Defenders Beaten + Offloads + Try Assists) x Metres/Run):

1 - Billy Pollard (Brumbies) 69.00 (whatever, just see it as an indicator)
2 - Dylan Pietsch (Waratahs) 64.80
3 - Tom Banks (Brumbies) 51.60
4 -Noah Loloesio (Brumbies) 43.75
5 - Alec Newsome (Waratahs) 35.00

Biggest Game Disrupter (Minutes Played / (Clean Breaks + Defenders Beaten + Offloads + Turnovers Won + Line Out Steals)):
So basically who makes shit happen the most regularly!

1 - Izaia Perese (Waratahs) 8.89 (basically does something game breaking just under every 9 minutes)
2 - Billy Pollard (Brumbies) 10.00
3 - Alec Newsome (Waratahs) 11.43
4 - Dylan Pietsch (Waratahs) 12.17
5 - Ryan Lonergan (Brumbies) 13.00

Work Rate (Minutes Played / (Runs + Turn Overs Won + Tackled):

1 - Ross Haylett-Petty (Rebels) 2.36 (does one of the above every 2 and a third minutes)
2 - Harry Wilson (Reds) 2.76
3 – Kane Koteka (Force) 2.86
4 – Alex Mafi (Reds) 2.86
5 - Cameron Orr (Rebels) & Sam Wallis (Rebels) 2.94

Uh Oh (Minutes Played / (Turn Over Conceded + Missed Tackle + Penalties Conceded + (Yellow Card x 2) + (Red Card x 5)):

1 - Reece Hodge (Rebels) 5.08 (stuffed up something every 5 minutes)
2 - Lachlan Lonergan (Brumbies) & Josh Nasser (Reds)10
4 - Tom Robertson (Force) 11.80
5 - Dane Zander (Reds) 12.75

Impact off the bench (Basically the Game Disrupter one but only for those who played at least 10 but less than 40 minutes from the bench)

1 - Isaac Fines-Leleiwasa (Force) 3.83
2 - Jake McIntyre (Force) 5.00
3 - Tamati Ioane (Rebels) 6.75)
4 - Ollie Callan (Force) 11.50
5 - Ryan McCauley (Force) 17.00

Where do you find these stats RR

 

[RugbyReg]

Where do you find these stats RR

a combo of here and here

 

[Slim 293]

Rugbypass also provide players stats, which I think are different again to both SANZAAR and ESPN...

 

[Happyman]

Rugbypass also provide players stats, which I think are different again to both SANZAAR and ESPN...

Seen all of those I just think the Super Rugby and ESPN sites are not that detailed. The six nations site is excellent.

 

[RugbyReg]

Stats time. But three games in and we've can now start looking cumulatively across the season so far.

Rounds 1-3 Stats

Defensive Players of the season so far:

1 – Fraser McReight (Reds) 41 tackles @ 95.35% success rate
2 – Harry Wilson (Reds) 40 @ 93.02%
3 - Alan Ala'alatoa (Brumbies) 38 @ 92.68%
4 – Brad Wilkin (Rebels) 38 @ 88.37%
5 – Charlie Gamble (Waratahs) 37 @ 94.87%

Biggest Attacking Influence ((Clean Breaks + Defenders Beaten + Offloads + Try Assists) x Metres/Run):

1 - Izaia Perese (Waratahs) 117.24 (whatever, just see it as an indicator)
2 – Jake Gordon (Waratahs) 111.27
3 – Tom Wright (Brumbies) 103.58
4 – Manasa Mataele (Force) 101.33
5 – Jock Campbell (Reds) 83.18

Biggest Game Disrupter (Minutes Played / (Clean Breaks + Defenders Beaten + Offloads + Turnovers Won + Line Out Steals)):
So basically who makes shit happen the most regularly! Minimum of 100 minutes played.

1 - Izaia Perese (Waratahs) 9.23 (basically does something game breaking every 9 and a bit minutes)
2 – Isaak Fines-Leliwasa (Force) 9.92
3 - Manasa Mataele (Force) 13.41
4 - Tamati Ioane (Rebels) 16.63
5 – Andy Muirhead (Brumbies) 17.08

Work Rate (Minutes Played / (Runs + Turn Overs Won + Tackled):


1 - Harry Wilson (Reds) 2.73 (does one of the above just under every 3 minutes)
2 – Tamati Ioane (Rebels) 2.77
3 – Fraser McReight (Reds) 2.90
4 – Ross Haylett-Petty (Rebels) 3.30
5 – Fergus Lee-Warner (Force) 3.33

Uh Oh (Minutes Played / (Turn Over Conceded + Missed Tackle + Penalties Conceded + (Yellow Card x 2) + (Red Card x 5)):

Minimum of 100 minutes played

1 – Reece Hodge (Rebels) 6.11 (stuffed up something every 6 and a bit minutes)
2 - Cabous Eloff (Rebels) 12.50
3 – Harry Johnson-Holmes (Waratahs) 14.78
4 – Dane Zander (Reds) 14.89
5 – Folau Fainga'a (Brumbies) 15.00

 

[RugbyReg]

And some traditional stuff.

Metres Run:

1 - Manasa Mataele (Force) 209
2 - Tom Banks (Brumbies) 172
3 - Izaia Perese (Waratahs) 136
4 - Jake Gordon (Waratahs) 136
5 - Harry Wilson (Reds) 132

Defenders Beaten:

1 - Izaia Perese (Waratahs) 17
2 - Manasa Mataele (Force) 11
3 - Jock Campbell (Reds) 10
4 - Kyle Godwin (Force), Glen Vaihu (Rebels) & Tamati Ioane (Rebels) - 8

Turn Overs Conceded:

1 - Manasa Mataele (Force) & Reece Hodge (Rebels) 8
3 - Darcy Swain (Brumbies) 7
4 - Ben Donaldson (Waraths), Jordan Petaia (Reds), Carter Gordon (Rebels), Jock Campbell (Reds) & Tom Banks (Brumbies) 6

Turn Overs Won:

1 - Angus Blyth (Reds) 5
2 - Alex Newsome (Waratahs), Andy Muirhead (Brumbies), Charlie Gamble (Waratahs), Hamish Stewart (Reds) & Angus Bell (Waratahs) 3

 

[Dctarget]

Ioane is the one shining light this year for Rebels, what a monster. Apparently against the Fijians he also tackled at 22/24. Boy can play

 

[Rob42]

Stats time. But three games in and we've can now start looking cumulatively across the season so far.

Rounds 1-3 Stats

Defensive Players of the season so far:

1 – Fraser McReight (Reds) 41 tackles @ 95.35% success rate
2 – Harry Wilson (Reds) 40 @ 93.02%
3 – Brad Wilkin (Rebels) 38 @ 88.37%
4 – Charlie Gamble (Waratahs) 37 @ 94.87%
5 – Angus Blyth (Reds) 37 @ 90.24%

Biggest Attacking Influence ((Clean Breaks + Defenders Beaten + Offloads + Try Assists) x Metres/Run):

1 - Izaia Perese (Waratahs) 117.24 (whatever, just see it as an indicator)
2 – Jake Gordon (Waratahs) 111.27
3 – Tom Wright (Brumbies) 103.58
4 – Manasa Mataele (Force) 101.33
5 – Jock Campbell (Reds) 83.18

Biggest Game Disrupter (Minutes Played / (Clean Breaks + Defenders Beaten + Offloads + Turnovers Won + Line Out Steals)):
So basically who makes shit happen the most regularly! Minimum of 100 minutes played.

1 - Izaia Perese (Waratahs) 9.23 (basically does something game breaking every 9 and a bit minutes)
2 – Isaak Fines-Leliwasa (Force) 9.92
3 - Manasa Mataele (Force) 13.41
4 - Tamati Ioane (Rebels) 16.63
5 – Andy Muirhead (Brumbies) 17.08

Work Rate (Minutes Played / (Runs + Turn Overs Won + Tackled):


1 - Harry Wilson (Reds) 2.73 (does one of the above just under every 3 minutes)
2 – Tamati Ioane (Rebels) 2.77
3 – Fraser McReight (Reds) 2.90
4 – Ross Haylett-Petty (Rebels) 3.30
5 – Fergus Lee-Warner (Force) 3.33

Uh Oh (Minutes Played / (Turn Over Conceded + Missed Tackle + Penalties Conceded + (Yellow Card x 2) + (Red Card x 5)):

Minimum of 100 minutes played

1 – Reece Hodge (Rebels) 6.11 (stuffed up something every 6 and a bit minutes)
2 - Cabous Eloff (Rebels) 12.50
3 – Harry Johnson-Holmes (Waratahs) 14.78
4 – Dane Zander (Reds) 14.89
5 – Folau Fainga'a (Brumbies) 15.00

Thanks Reg. Watching Perese's highlights from his re-signing announcement, it's remarkable how many of his breaks start from broken play - not necessarily the turnover/kick-return type of broken play, but where he's cleaning up after a play goes wrong. Such an impressive option in that situation. No surprise he tops the defenders beaten given those scenarios.

 

[WorkingClassRugger]

Something that despite our results that I'm always pleased to see in Australian Rugby is a willingness to innovate and introduce new ideas to the game. Some of the most recent have been the 50/22 -22/50 and goal line dropouts. Which brought a lot of hand wringing on announcement of their adoption by WR (World Rugby) but now from what I've seen across several platforms have been widely accepted and even praised.

This time it's a tech innovation. The first professional Rugby comp to introduce smart balls.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.sm...o-be-used-in-super-rugby-20220308-p5a2mt.html

Apparently Nine and Stan will use this first weekend as a trial to see how they can employ this in their broadcast. Will be interesting to see what comes of this.

 

[Lorenzo]

The ball thing has the ability to transform the sport I reckon. Imagine the stats we are gonna have.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

The first professional Rugby comp to introduce smart balls.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.sm...o-be-used-in-super-rugby-20220308-p5a2mt.html

Lucky the Blues arent trialling it, Ofa will break the fucken chips inside when he drops it for the millionth time.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

@cyclopath to be along shortly to let us know

smart balls

..... means something very different in his game.

 

[Rugbynutter39]

@cyclopath to be along shortly to let us know

..... means something very different in his game.

I am surprised dismal we have not had some new smart ball gifs from you

 

[Clubhouse coach]

Round four and things don’t get any easier for the Rebels when they take on the Brumbies, hopefully we will see an improve showing by the Rebels. Brumbies by fifteen, motm Brown.
Tahs v Force could be the match of the round, Force are fielding their strongest team and will win by ten, motm Pasitoa.
The Drua will be on a high from last weeks break through win, but the Reds are playing themselves into form and will be too strong and clinical. Reds by twenty motm Uru.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

I am surprised dismal we have not had some new smart ball gifs from you

Here's a smart balls GIF for ya BOOM chacka lacka, BLUES WIN

"Look at Harry Plummer make the winning kick, I know,
I wasn't expecting the Blues to actually win either."

 

[Rugbynutter39]

Here's a smart balls GIF for ya BOOM chacka lacka, BLUES WIN

"Look at Harry Plummer make the winning kick, I know,
I wasn't expecting the Blues to actually win either."

Maybe the blues should design a smart ball that:
- has special magnets that sticks to blues players so the dopey bastards don’t drop the bsll
- is directed to only travel between the posts when kicked by a blues player but outside the posts when kicked by a non blues player

See there you go dismal your plan for world rugby domination by the blues can finally be fulfilled.

 

[Rugbynutter39]

Round four and things don’t get any easier for the Rebels when they take on the Brumbies, hopefully we will see an improve showing by the Rebels. Brumbies by fifteen, motm Brown.
Tahs v Force could be the match of the round, Force are fielding their strongest team and will win by ten, motm Pasitoa.
The Drua will be on a high from last weeks break through win, but the Reds are playing themselves into form and will be too strong and clinical. Reds by twenty motm Uru.

Nah tahs will beat the force but will be close

 

[Braveheart81]

So they've postponed a third Moana Pasifika game in four rounds.

When exactly are they going to catch these up? Seems like it will be impossible.

There is only one bye week in the competition. Of course, the three teams Moana will need to play are all scheduled to be playing in the week Moana has their bye.

 

[Wilson]

So they've postponed a third Moana Pasifika game in four rounds.

When exactly are they going to catch these up? Seems like it will be impossible.

There is only one bye week in the competition. Of course, the three teams Moana will need to play are all scheduled to be playing in the week Moana has their bye.

Yeah, I took a look at the bye weeks and played around, this monstrosity was the best I could do:

Green is the rescheduled games, yellow have had the date changed within the round and red are games swapped between rounds.

The end result is a lot of 4 and 5 day turn arounds and it sees Moana play both the Hurricanes and the Blues twice in a row, which at least makes the tight turn arounds a bit fairer. Drop one of those additional games and it becomes much more workable though. With round 10 being the super round there's not much more room to push aside from shuffling the order of some of those games to give the sides a more even turn around.