A lot of debate has been doing the rounds in terms of whom the more successful team in Super Rugby is…
We all know about the Crusaders incredible record in the tournament, and other teams have thrown in their weight aswell. But history is exactly that…history ,so what’s the most recent tendencies.
Here are some interesting reading I came across on “Pick & Go” website
Even with the Bulls dismal performances in earlier years in the Super Rugby tournament they have managed to take pole position in a log that works on the same principal as the IRB World Rankings. Teams like the Brumbies and Waratahs also suprise in relatively high log positions, and even the Stormers who has only recently hit the right note are well on the up.
Note that these rankings are all the way back, since the start of the 1996 Super 12 tournament up untill now.
This can be compared to NZ topping the world rankings more often than not although they have’nt seen the World Cup trophy in some 23 years, but the form team over the last period of time will be the team most rewarded.
| Position | Team (History) |
Ranking Points | Last RPE Movement |
“This is pick & go’s new Super Rugby ranking table
which shows the ranking point positions of each team since the first Super12 match in 1996.Each team started on 80 points and they move up and down relative to each other using the same points exchange system that the IRB use for ranking Test matches.Exchange points are doubled for semis & finals.”
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| 1 | Bulls | SAF | 88.7297 | 0.0000 | |||
| 2 | Brumbies | AUS | 83.6279 | +0.6767 | |||
| 3 | Waratahs | AUS | 83.5451 | +0.3705 | |||
| 4 | Crusaders | NZL | 83.4451 | 0.0000 | |||
| 5 | Stormers | SAF | 82.6609 | +0.0708 | |||
| 6 | Chiefs | NZL | 82.0412 | -0.6767 | |||
| 7 | Reds | AUS | 79.8543 | +1.6541 | |||
| 8 | Blues | NZL | 79.5090 | -0.3705 | |||
| 9 | Sharks | SAF | 79.2217 | +1.5714 | |||
| 10 | Hurricanes | NZL | 78.7933 | -1.5714 | |||
| 11 | Force | AUS | 75.6097 | 0.0000 | |||
| 12 | Highlanders | NZL | 74.8715 | +0.7057 | |||
| 13 | Cheetahs | SAF | 74.5733 | -1.6541 | |||
| 14 | Lions | SAF | 73.5174 | -0.7057 |
Log coutesy of “Pick & Go”
In terms of trophy winners in Super rugby here are the list.
Crusaders = 7
Blues = 3
Brumbies = 2
Queensland = 2
Transvaal = 1
Bulls = 2
Although the Crusaders have clearly topped the before mentioned list, are teams like the Bulls realisticly making a shift as far as tournament domination are concerned?
I think the answer is clearly yes at this point in time, but the question remains… Can they build on recent and past success…?
2010 will be another building block towards this goal should the Bulls be successful in defending their title…
150@ Puma – Yip, it’s good to work from home… one has to keep the self-dicipline up though, the peeps at home tend to want to interrupt you and ask you to do this and that.
Handbriekie is on leave this week, she has to take leave because she has over 50 days accumilated leave which she will lose if she does not take it… so it’s a week a month from now on.
She jumped into the garden this morning… and it was… we need a saw… we need an axe, take the wheel barrow out behind your wood-working tools…ect…
151 – GBS, that is a lot of leave owed to her, your HANDS GONNA BE FULL…HEHEHE.
152@ Puma – The thing with her is, she is a workaholic, like me…. in stead of doing nothing or going mall-hopping, she’s been directing traffic from behind her Notebook for the farkers at the office, whilst on bloody leave… so basically (except for today) she has just moved her work desk home….
😆 handbriekie sit nou vir rudi op sy plek , hehehehehe hy werk nou sy allie af 😆
Rudi wees nou slim broer , bring vir handbriekie more saam en kom drink n paar slet sappies hier, en eet n bietjie ordentlike kos 😉 😆
154@ Tjarkie – Ek werk ALTYD my alie af, flok!
Tjarkie, BonzaiHandbriekie and a couple of friends have been contracted to cater this weekend at that lovely Bushveld Paradise we went to a month or so ago, for 50 people… the place is hosting a high-roller poker tournament in the middle of the bush…
So, Handbriekie and myself are alone as from tomorrow morning 06:00 till just after the Easter weekend… so tomorrow night we’re going out on the town… Handbriekie has planned in detail what we’re going to be up to…. en natuurlik het ekself ‘n broek vol planne… hehehehe
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