Super Rugby Pacific 2025

[Braveheart81]

* The Reds are very accurate, but they are not recording significantly more points as a result of their superior goal kicking - not attempting shots as a tactic (and getting more tries as a result?)

Obviously it's impossible to work out how things would have gone if they'd taken a different approach but it is interesting how much the Reds have turned down penalty shots at goal despite having very accurate goal kicking.

I don't know how many tries and total points the Reds would have scored if they'd varied their approach to take the more kickable shots at goal but it is interesting to consider.

Given the Reds are 6th in points scored and 5th in tries scored it doesn't seem like they are optimizing their overall point scoring by kicking for the corner and going for tries.

 

[Dan54]

I was pumped for the Wallabies and Springbok game last year; 2:30pm in August..... The only thing worse than paying $200+ a ticket to watch that Wallaby performance was the overcast skies.

We didn't get a single afternoon game this year at Suncorp for the Reds. Frustrating as I've got a 2.5 and a 5 year old that'd love to go, but getting home at 10pm isn't really doable.

Yep Ig, the one thing I have noticed with the afternoon games in NZ this year , is the number of kids there. Ase you say the younger ones of your kids age, next to impossible or really hard to take to night games.

 

[Wilson]

Obviously it's impossible to work out how things would have gone if they'd taken a different approach but it is interesting how much the Reds have turned down penalty shots at goal despite having very accurate goal kicking.

I don't know how many tries and total points the Reds would have scored if they'd varied their approach to take the more kickable shots at goal but it is interesting to consider.

Given the Reds are 6th in points scored and 5th in tries scored it doesn't seem like they are optimizing their overall point scoring by kicking for the corner and going for tries.

Really hard to gauge, particularly because there are potentially games that would've been lost by not going to the corner - both Force games are probably in that category, as is the winning BP against the Highlanders.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Goes both ways.

You could argue the Reds took shots v the Canes that in other weeks would have been drilled 5m out and mauled in for a try at least one of them.

 

[Lindommer]

SRP2025 last round

Chiefs 46 Clan
Saders 45 Brumbies
Brumbies 43 Saders
Canes 34 Moana
Reds 33 Drua
Moana 28 Canes
Blues 28 Tahs
Tahs 26 Blues
Force 23 bye
Drua 20 Reds
Clan 20 Chiefs

Chiefs 1. Best 1st/worst 3rd.
Saders 2. 1/3.
Brumbies 3. 1/3.
Canes 4. 4/5.
Reds 5. 4/6.
Moana 6. 5/8.
Blues 7. 5/8.
Tahs 8. 6/8.
Force, Drua, Clan all out of it.

The Brumbies/Saders clash is probably the only one where table positions are up for grabs.

 

[Strewthcobber]

Getting into really simplistic level of analysis here, but the Reds scored 0.73 maul tries per match, which is about half a try higher than the median.

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Chiefs 1. Best 1st/worst 3rd.
Saders 2. 1/3.
Brumbies 3. 1/3.
Canes 4. 4/5.
Reds 5. 4/6.
Moana 6. 5/8.
Blues 7. 5/8.
Tahs 8. 6/8.
Force, Drua, Clan all out of it.

The Brumbies/Saders clash is probably the only one where table positions are up for grabs.

The Reds and Canes will really want the points. Difference between playing away at 4th and most likley getting a second chance at semis, and 5th/6th and going out in straight sets is failry major