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[Tim]

@kiwimurph said in Super Rugby News:

Highlanders beat Tahs 55 - 29 in Queenstown.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/101144619/highlanders-thump-waratahs-in-preseason-super-rugby-clash-in-queenstown

[Bones]

@tim FABRT showing out early.

[Tim]

@bones

Another long season for the Waratahs?

[Bones]

@tim how the fark did they ever win the bloody thing.

[KiwiMurph]

@bones They even lost to the Blues that year!

[Tim]

@bones Well, Cheika's actually a pretty good coach when he's not having a spaz, and they had a number of players who went to Europe for big bucks after that.

[Stargazer]

Good lad, that young Magpie Jonah Lowe. Hat-trick for the Canes today.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/101109601/Hurricanes-blow-away-Crusaders-in-Super-Rugby-pre-season-match-in-Greymouth?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[Bones]

@stargazer Don't get used to Lowe playing...

[Stargazer]

@bones I know, he's not from Wellington.

[Paekakboyz]

@tim you mean a short one for the tahs! 😊

[antipodean]

@tim Pre season counts for nothing

[Crucial]

@antipodean said in Super Rugby News:

@tim Pre season counts for nothing

It's like foreplay

[Duluth]

Hurricanes v Crusaders pre season match

The same YouTube user put up most of last years pre season matches. Hopefully a few more turn up on this channel

[Duluth]

Highlanders v Waratahs

[Tim]

Peter Umaga-Jensen was looking sharp on attack.

LOL for the player who responded to the ref's scrum advice of "everyone needs to find their hole" with "like a gangbang - everyone needs to find their hole".

[Tim]

Blues first-five Stephen Perofeta is likely to miss his team's first match of the new Super Rugby season due to a broken bone in his hand.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=11988487

[KiwiMurph]

@tim said in Super Rugby News:

Blues first-five Stephen Perofeta is likely to miss his team's first match of the new Super Rugby season due to a broken bone in his hand

for fucks sake. You have to wonder about his durability - he had that ankle injury in last year's preseason.

Hopefully it's just one week. Knowing the Blues history it will probably balloon out to a month.

[antipodean]

Blues just can't get a break, well, apart from Perofeta's...

[Crucial]

That is shit luck given their start to the season. You can expect a team to overcome some injury setbacks, but given that the Blues biggest problem for years has been filling the 10 jersey it's a real shitter when decent attempts to do so get chopped down.

[African Monkey]

Oh well shit happens Bryn Gatland it is then, hopefully with Harry Plummer on the bench but that won't happen so Kirkpatrick to be on the bench..