Okay, Okay – seeing that it’s not simply a reluctance to change, but a genuine understanding issue, I decided to dig a little deeper and speak a little blonde.
A very short and blonde summary of the New! Improved! (?) Super Rugby format:
- 15 Teams (Hence Super 15 – but we dont call it that – okay?) Five from each of the SANZAR countries (That’s SA, NZ and Oz) 😉
- Teams are spilt into THREE seperate conferences / pools / nationalities
- Each team will face their FOUR LOCAL rivals TWO times (once on home ground and once away) = 8 local derbies per team
- Each team will then face FOUR teams from each of the other two countries
- Each Team will skip one team from each of the other two countries (so your team will not play one team from Oz and not play one team from NZ)
- All teams will play 12 of their 16 round robin matches on home soil – every team will only play four matches abroad.
- SIX teams advance to the play-offs (stretching over THREE weeks)
THESE SIX TEAM WILL BE CONSISTING OF:
- The three teams TOPPING their respective conference logs
- AND
- The other three teams left over with the most points (if above 3 teams are taken out of the equation – regardless of conference)
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- The Two top teams will earn a Home Semi-Final spot automatically
- The other four teams will play a knock-out round to secure the other Semi-finalists
- Semi-Finals and Finals take place as always!
Easy….see?? 😀
(Thanks to rugby15.co.za for speaking blonde so well!)
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Now I’m really confused. 😈 Where is KSA’s version?
@Pokkel (Comment 1) : Go brush up on ur blonde! 😆
@Ice (KCM) (Comment 2) : I’m definitely not blonde enough for your version 😆 😉
Pokkel if that does not make sense u are worse than blonde – u are DOF! 😆
@Ice (KCM) (Comment 4) : 😆
@Ice (KCM) (Comment 4) : When you’re as analytical as me then too little information can be confusing. 😉
When u are me – too much info gets lost anyway! LOL
I am sure someone will find this useful! 😉
@Ice (KCM) (Comment 7) : At Sharksworld we cater for EVERYBODY…except maybe Bulls supporters
😉
very good I would just add ONE extra line in there.
The other three teams left over with the most points (if above 3 teams are taken out of the equation) will advance to the play offs (regardless of conference) slotting in BELOW the 3 automatic qualifiers even if the have more log points than them
@Pokkel (Comment 8) :
No we even cater for those.
That is why she said “left over” rather than using the word “remaining”
😛 😛
@KSA Shark © (Comment 9) : please go ahead!
@Ice (KCM) (Comment 11) : no it’s fine the way it is. 😀
@Pokkel (Comment 8) : so I want a version for brunettes, redhair and bold people
i’m confused as which one you read if you haev highlites 🙄 🙄
And the worst part of it is that it will change again next year-no world cup!
What I can see from this planning though is the beginning of a very large super rugby tournament, perhaps even to include norther hemisphere countries. Think about it, separate conferences for each country, not having to play against all opposition sides, and the winners of each conference playing each other.
With the introduction of more teams, and the focus being placed on local derbies, we may very well call the trophy for our conference the currie cup. These okes didn’t think small when they planned this!
thanx ice – it’s really simple 😎
@rekinek (Comment 13) : Just read short excerpts from each one. 🙂
@rekinek (Comment 15) : U’re welcome fellow blonde G-Shark! 😉
@Crock (Comment 14) : personally I hate the fact that an “exvlusive” comp is turned into a global circus. I prefer it being less teams, playing all the opposition and then sees who comes out tops. Perhaps the NH can have their own S15 and the winners can play the winners of the SH just to see which hemisphere rules in the current year?
@Crock (Comment 14) :
Yip on the last section. It is no coincidence that it is not called the S15 but rather SupeRugby.
That number 15 will change very soon.
Too blonde for me, I’ll go get a translator 😕
I was fine until
6 teams advance to the playoffs
3 teams topping their respective
the other 3 teams left over
That equals 9 teams in the playoffs? 😕 😕 😕
the sa teams has to compete well againts the other confrences, if we dont and are all very close, we can loose out having any team in the semi’s
@rekinek (Comment 13) :
Is there a version for fat people?? 🙄
Ek vra maar net!! 😕
@Caratacus (Comment 21) : the 6 teams advancing to the play offs would consist of the 3 teams topping their respective conference logs and the 3 teams with the most points left . Better?
@Ice, ja, I like that idea.
Ice, blonde speak confuses me.
I am not confused by this – short and on the button.
Well done
yes! and of those 6 team the top 2 goes to semis while the other 4 fight it out for last 2 places
Jinne tog – and they say woman are stupid! 😈 😆
@Salmonoid (Comment 26) : thanks Sammy Sane!
@Caratacus (Comment 21) : not to sharp with the math either, are you?
Just kidding!
@ICE(KCM) (Comment 24)- Now THAT makes sense!! Thank you!! No I got double F for Math in matric.Wrote my number on the paper and left the hall at the first oppurtunity. 😆
@Caratacus (Comment 31) :
How simple can this be. ONLY the two top teams from the 3 conferences (countries) make a guaranteed semi. ONLY 4 teams make the play offs. 🙄
3rd play 6th in the play off – will be played on home turf on the team that ends 3rd.
4th plays 5th in the play off – will be played on home turf of the team that ended 4th.
Who wins the 3rd and 6th play off plays who came 2nd in the conference in the semi on that teams home turf.
Who wins 5th and 6th play off will play the top team from the conferences on their home turf.
Icy, you post 24 is another blonde moment 😆 Now get rid of the Carter pic. He is the enemy from next week.. 🙂
@Puma (Comment 33) :2nd last paragraph. meant – 4th and 5th play off.
@Puma (Comment 33) : with all this info you have just undone all my good work!
EVERYONE WHO IS BLONDE, FEMALE, OR CANNOT TAKE IN TOO MUCH INFO GIVEN, IGNORE PUMA’S COMMENT 33!
@Ice (KCM) (Comment 35) : hehehehehe. 😛
@Puma (Comment 33) : what’s wrong with 24?
Okay see Morne posted on keo some of our refs for the start of the S15.
Sharks/Cheetahs – Steve Walsh. How did we get so unlucky 🙄
Sharks/Blues – Peyper. He is quite a good ref.
Force/Sharks – Keith Brown, quite a good ref.
Rebels/Sharks – STEVE WALSH!!!!!! How do we get him TWICE???
Also when last has Walsh reffed Sharks at the Tank since he made a big mess up of the 2007 Super Final? I can’t remember, but if this is him back to ref at the tank since then, he had better be smarter with the reffing. Never forgive him for the mistake he made that but all ended our chances of winning the 2007 S14 Cup.
Ahhh okay – u don’t see the semi’s as “play-offs”….term can be interpreted dif ways.. 😉
@Ice (KCM) (Comment 37) : 6 teams DON’T advance to the play offs
ONLY 4 do 😉 Two that end top out of the 3 conferences get a guaranteed semi 🙂
Now for that, get rid of the Carter pic. Next week is is no fun and games, real thing starting. Don’t wanna see the enemy 😎
@Ice (KCM) (Comment 39) : Yebo…hehehe. Play offs is only from 3rd to 6th. Top two are in a semi.
What have you achieved when you get 4 stars? Just see mine just arrived
Okay see I am promoted to CURRIE CUP PLAYER.. 😎
Cheers Ice,
Out of here now. Enjoy the rest of your day.
eish – now the politicians think sharksworld bloggers are all bleddy agents
for those interested we have steve walsh then jaco peyper then keith brown and then steve walsh again for our first 4 games…heaven help us…
@Ice (KCM) (Comment 39) : Help. What happens if the team qualifying #4 finishes with more points than conference winner #3. They both make the semis. Presumably #4 due to more points will face #2 meaning #3 gets squared up against #1 . Then both #4 and #3 win their away semi-finals. So it’s #4 vs #3 in the final. Where is the final held?
What happens if #6 ends up with more points than #2, beats #3 and #1 in the playoffs and semis respectively. Has to meet #2 in the final. Where is the final held then?
I am short. I am blonde. I am a woman. I understood the rules of SuperRugby straight off the superxv website. So your (collective) point is WHAT, precisely? Sheesh. You boys are HARD work! Guess I’ll not get any stars for this one eh?
Oh, and comment 47 – the final is held in Durban, bru.
@Puma (Comment 38) : Correction there. Keith Brown cost us against the Chiefs at the Tank last year too. So not a good ref. We have him twice as well.
@stevo (Comment 46) : I say so too. We sure unlucky.
Okay out of here now. Catch up tomorrow.
😆 As in the Tank, chaps.
@Puma (Comment 43) : How many comments have you made?
@Ice (KCM) (Comment 39) : What happens if 2 sides #6 and #5 end with exactly the same records: wins, tries, points. They both make it too the final. Where is the final held?
@SharonvanWyk (Comment 48) : A blonde woman posted the article!? 😉
@beet (Comment 53) : SIGH!
@Ben (Comment 55) : 🙄
@beet (Comment 53) : Dude number 1 and 2 are guaranteed hom semi finalists. So no semi final home advantages will be up for grab for the other teams.
What happens if all the players in every team are red-carded three times, drink fizzy bubblech laced with steroids and come down simultaneously with an untreatable and highly contagious strain of viral pneumonia? Where is the final held then?
@SharonvanWyk (Comment 59) : LOL. What was that??? 🙂
@beet (Comment 53) : Sorry understood your question wrong. Are you trying to confuse everyone? 🙂
@SharonvanWyk (Comment 59) : To answer your question. Its easy. No final will be held then, the trophy will be handed to the sharks. 🙂
@SharonvanWyk (Comment 59) :
vanWyksvlei maybe?
@Ice (KCM) (Comment 17) : 😎
imediately thought of G-force 😉
@wpw (Comment 23) : i assumed that would have some hair or be bold so my categories should cover. 🙄
@Salmonoid (Comment 63) : Isn’t that near Hotazel?
@SharonvanWyk (Comment 66) : My mistake – that’s Vanzylsrus! Good place for a final though, even if no bugger turns up to play due to banning, drug infringements and consumption. Lots of meerkats.
So, Rob et al, what does a girl have to do to get stars then? Demonstrate a cutting and inciteful knowledge of the modern game? Look damned good in Black and White? Dive with great whites? Be a great hooker? Know how to handle odd-shaped balls? Know exactly when to crouch, touch, pause and engage? 🙂
@SharonvanWyk (Comment 68) : all of the above? 🙂 Can’t see how you could go wrong!
@robdylan (Comment 69) : OK. Cool! Ticked that lot off. So when do I get a star then?!!!!
@SharonvanWyk (Comment 70) : aint you just a little box full of fun?!
OK. I’m going to have a bit of fun here, if Rob will humour me. I’ve been pondering the catchphrase “You can’t fake rugby” (it’s there, at the top of the page, dudes) and at first glance it would appear that indeed you can’t. But then I got to thinking that there have been an awful lot of fake performances over the years.
The first one I remember is England vs Australia in the Rugby World Cup final of 1991. Throughout the tournament England looked to be on fire, with breathtaking and salacious running rugby thanks to the likes of Rory Underwood and Jeremy Guscott. But you’d never have known that watching Will Carling’s team fold against Michael Lynagh and the Wallabies that grim November afternoon. I blame Carling to this day. He faked it that day. Big time. He went on to fake it with his wife and the Princess of Wales, but I suppose that’s irrelevant (I wonder if they faked back?)
The next big rugby fake, in my humble opinion, came 16 years later in the 2007 World Cup semi finals, when France smiled wanly and reached for the vaseline against England. They had potential bonecrushers in Chabal and Bruno, but instead chose to flutter their eyelids at Laurence Dallaglio and his band of girl scouts before rolling on to their backs and committing the ultimate faux pas. The only consolation was that South Africa made mincemeat of England in the final.
Which brings us to the person many feel personifies the concept of fake rugby – Luke Watson. Yup. There are some who say the flame of his talent was extinguished by the vagiaries of rugby politics in the post apartheid era, to which I say “PISH”. Watson’s ability was always overshadowed by his own estimation of that ability and a complete INability to keep his mouth shut. Rugby fake or flake? It’s a matter of opinion, I suppose, but seeing as this is mine, I’ll take both!
So. There you have it. Examples of rugby being faked or of players faking up? You decide!
@SharonvanWyk (Comment 72) : holy crap but you talk a lot 🙂
@SharonvanWyk (Comment 72) : They fake rugby all the time here in the USA, it is called American Football! 😆 😛
@Dancing Bear (Comment 74) : LOL 🙂
Well. I wont ask anty questions on Super 15 again, thats for sure…. 😯
@SharonvanWyk (Comment 72) : One of the (many) theories postulated in Defending the Caveman is that women have more words allocated to them for use on a daily basis than men do… I think we’ve just seen incontrovertible proof thereof!
@SharonvanWyk (Comment 48) :
***Applause**** Well done! As a short blonde myself, I am very proud of you….
The POINT is – there are PLENTY of people getting it (sorry you are not unique!) – but there are also some who dont. This article was to make it easy for those. Nice of me, hey?
@Ben (Comment 55) : That would be true and that would be me…yes 😉
@Salmonoid (Comment 63) :
@SharonvanWyk (Comment 70) : Search the site for “What’s in / with the stars”…I am sure Rob would prefer your tick boxes – but unfortunately he set up the Star rules himself 😉
@SharonvanWyk (Comment 72) :
Nice “article” Dude, Bru, Chap! 😆
@Culling Song (Comment 77) :
😈
@beet (Comment 53) : @beet (Comment 47) :
Perhaps you should ask the self-proclaimed new expert on the site? 😉 😆
@SharonvanWyk (Comment 72) : Good to have another lady at Sharksworld and so well spoken too!! 😆 Welcome….I see a couple of articles coming up!
@Pokkel (Comment 80) : Thanks Pokkel and Ice!
Appreciate the warm welcome!
@Ice (KCM) (Comment 78) : or some too lazy to read the complicated version 😉
@rekinek (Comment 82) : Like Yours Truly! 🙂
Why complicate matters when u can keep it simple?? LOL
@Ice (KCM) (Comment 83) : KISS. Keep it simple, stupid!!!
KISS my ASS!
@Ice (KCM) (Comment 85) :
😯 
@Ice (KCM) (Comment 85) : Go girl!