Best players in SR this week
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Another combined team
5 Blues
5 Chiefs
1 Hurricanes
2 Drua
1 Waratah
1 ForceSuper Rugby Pacific Team of the Week: Blues and Chiefs lead the way
Planet Rugby takes a look at the standout performers from the opening round's action in the 2023 Super Rugby Pacific tournament.
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@Winger said in Best players in SR this week:
@Bovidae said in Best players in SR this week:
I thought that Parkinson was better than Dickson for the Highlanders. The latter still gives away some dumb penalties.
I'd pick IWL as the other lock myself.
Didn't IWL give away some dumb penalties too. Otherwise had a good gameq
According to this only 1 penalty (IWL)
But 13 tackles and 4 missed. Too many missed but otherwise Ok stats. Blackwell also was fine based on these stats. Unsure how accurate these stats are though
https://www.espn.com/rugby/playerstats?gameId=596224&league=242041
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@Bovidae said in Best players in SR this week:
@Winger I can't take that team seriously when Sowakula and Laulala are chosen.
I wasn't going to post this team but at least they (or whoever did it) agree on many of the players discussed. But more love for the Chiefs and Blues and less for the Canes than the other teams that were posted. The sky sport twitter team seems to have disappeared that I though was good (except maybe at HB)
This one above
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Here's the rugbypass version
They are looking at Aussies as well, not just NZers
Super Rugby Pacific team of the week for round one
Following every round of Super Rugby Pacific this season, RugbyPass will name its Team of the Week. Here’s the TOTW for Round One.
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@Bones said in Best players in SR this week:
@Crucial Weber was head and shoulders the best halfback. Not sold on the centre.
Weber was the best of the week yes, Roigard and Christie weren’t too far behind, Fakatava was all over the place and Drummond, well he was forgettable as per usual.
Jorgensen and Toole were pretty awesome for the Tahs and Brumbies but Telea was the standout winger on week 1.
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@Canes4life Weber was a key difference maker for the chiefs against a champion side. Roigard and Christie were good, but change them for someone else and their teams would still have run up big wins.
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@Bones said in Best players in SR this week:
@Canes4life Weber was a key difference maker for the chiefs against a champion side. Roigard and Christie were good, but change them for someone else and their teams would still have run up big wins.
Yeah I get what you’re saying but it’s easy when you’re forwards are going forward even against the Crusaders. I thought Weber was fairly rusty in that first half tbh, but he was exceptional in the second. He’s made a strong start in his case to be one of the three halfbacks at the WC.
Having all those halfbacks playing well can only be a good thing.
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@Canes4life yeah big struggle for Roigard and Christie with how their forward packs were just getting bitch slapped all over the park eh.
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@Bones said in Best players in SR this week:
@Canes4life yeah big struggle for Roigard and Christie with how their forward packs were just getting bitch slapped all over the park eh.
It’s all perspective aye which is why myself and others had Roigard up there as one of the top halfbacks of the week. He churned through a lot of work despite playing in the heat of Townsville, which is a lot harder than playing in Chch this time of year, plus if you want to play that game Roigard is the only one who doesn’t have an All Black outside him taking the pressure off.
Weber was rusty in the first half, had a solid second but he wasn’t that far ahead of Roigard and Christie like you say.
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@Bones said in Best players in SR this week:
@Canes4life said in Best players in SR this week:
myself and others
Lol when someone has a different opinion to @Bones he reverts to being a troll. Classic Bonesy.
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@Canes4life said in Best players in SR this week:
@Bones said in Best players in SR this week:
@Canes4life said in Best players in SR this week:
myself and others
Lol when @Bones is losing an argument he reverts to being a troll. Classic Bonesy.
Losing what? Colour me surprised you think Roigard was the bees knees against that high class reds outfit, I'm sure it's got nothing to do with your typical bias. No trolling or losing here, just the ability to see other teams.
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@Bones said in Best players in SR this week:
@Canes4life said in Best players in SR this week:
@Bones said in Best players in SR this week:
@Canes4life said in Best players in SR this week:
myself and others
Lol when @Bones is losing an argument he reverts to being a troll. Classic Bonesy.
Losing what? Colour me surprised you think Roigard was the bees knees against that high class reds outfit, I'm sure it's got nothing to do with your typical bias. No trolling or losing here, just the ability to see other teams.
No I thought Weber was the best halfback of the week as mentioned above, but I just didn’t agree with your statement that he was by far and away the best halfback of the week because he wasn’t. Roigard and Christie were very solid aswell, it doesn’t matter if their opposition were weaker, they still had very strong performances.
And what bias? In all my posts recently I’ve mentioned players from other teams I.e Jorgensen, Toole, Telea, Stevenson etc. In fact if I had to choose a top XV for this week I would probably only pick one Hurricane in Jordie. Aumua was another candidate in the hooking position but Samisoni probably edges it there for me.
I agree that I like to hype some players up, ie Roigard, Lakai and Higgins recently but I know talent when I see it and I just want them to perform well. I’m pretty sure every Ferner is guilty of that from time to time.
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Best players of the round per NZ team for me this week were:
Blues: Dalton Papali’i
Chiefs: Damian McKenzie
Hurricanes: Cam Roigard
Crusaders: David Havili
Highlanders: Josh Timu
