41 Responses to Super 14 – Round 8 Teams, make your Picks

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  FireStraeuli on 5 April 2010 at 6:34 pm

  Loosehead,

  Don’t know what three Sharks wins has to do with the Tjietas being one of the two consistently worst teams in the S14?
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  Loosehead on 5 April 2010 at 6:55 pm

  FS, agreed the Cheetahs and Lions have been poor, but then so have the Sharks and Stormers.
  Go and win the competition, then come and tell me how poor my team has been.

  Pot, kettle, black……
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  FireStraeuli on 5 April 2010 at 7:04 pm

  Loosehead,

  How many teams have won this comp? You reckon the rest of them are as poor as the Tjietas and the Lions?

  My main grievance is this, why is it that the breeding ground of rugby players are not at least finishing top 7, or even just losing by a smaller margins? How is it that the Tjietas still have not been able to get enough finances to offer their players a bigger pay checque?

  It is frustrating to see a team, which by SA standards should be placed in the top 4 of the log, handing out log points to the ozzies and kiwis.
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  FireStraeuli on 5 April 2010 at 7:10 pm

  Loosehead,

  …and the worst is, the Tjietas management has yet to even try and do anything to fix it, and the Tjieta supporters aren’t jumping on them for NOT doing anything.
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  superBul on 5 April 2010 at 7:11 pm

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  Somebody questioned the Lions a while ago, they sit in the area where SA big business is seated and they cant build a great team. He said if you look in the parking lot at meeting you will see the money went.
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  superBul on 5 April 2010 at 7:12 pm

  The Cheetahs had the product to market, winning the Currie Cup did nothing for them. Makes one wonder, but then that dam beach in Durbs…..
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  Wallabie. on 5 April 2010 at 7:44 pm

  First of all

  PUMA….where are you? Well done for the Sharks game.
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  Next

  To get this off my chest…..

  BONUS POINTS!!

  Is this the demise of rugby rewarding mediocre performances?

  In 2 games a team could have a win and a loss but lose out to a team that does not win at all. Compare this to a team who loses with two bonus points and draws with a bonus point.

  How can we be rewarding a losing team half the points for winning and then rewarding a draw close to as much as a win.

  The losing team should not be given a four try bonus point…I agree give them the less than 7 points defeat bonus point. I believe the four try bonus should go to the team that scores the four tries and wins.
  In the case of a draw both teams score four tries give the bonus point to the first team to score the four tries.

  Are we not about rewarding winners…at the moment we are sympathising with losers.

  My theory
  a win – 4 points
  A win and four tries – 5 points
  A draw – 2 points
  draw (first team to four tries) – 3 points
  Losing team max points – 1point (less than 7 gap)
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  smallies72 on 5 April 2010 at 8:04 pm

  @firestaeuli
  1 and how manny games did the migthy guppies win against the kaksleg cheetahs in the past 5 years
  2 we can do nothing about kak sleg notalent produsing idiot unions stealing our whole team every year
  3 and the guppies won the super rugby series how many times before
  4 the gupies union had how many teams in the varsety cup play offs, o i forgot they had NO teams in the varsety cup
  5 and the migty guppies won the curry cup how manny times this past 5 years
  6 and the mihgty guppies won how manny under age trophies last year
  7 and the mighty guppies had how manny players is the sa schools team last year
  8 no my friend all that the guppies are good at is stealing players from the cheetahs
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  FireStraeuli on 5 April 2010 at 9:48 pm

  smallies(aged)72,

  So by your own admission the Tjietas has not one decent reason for not having one of the two top teams in the S14 from SA, seeing as you’ve beaten the Sharks that many times, won that many CC’s, why would a player then rather go to an inferior franchise such as the Sharks?

  Can’t be the money, surely a successful team such as the tjietas are able to market their brand well enough to never have to think twice about the amount of money they are able to offer their many star players?

  Btw, the kiwi and ozzie S14 teams obviously has no regard for how many times the tjietas have won the CC and beaten the Sharks, hence them simply strolling onto the park to collect their annual 5point grant disgracefully sponsored by the tjietas.
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  smallies72 on 6 April 2010 at 7:28 pm

  @FireStraeuli
  die punt is met al die guppies se geld en al die guppies se spelers en trosse bokke in die span en miljoene rande en die beste borge het hulle darrem bitter min die laaste 5 jaar bereik.daarinteen het die tjietas met ‘n baie beperkte begroting die cb 3 keer gewen o\21 en o\19 trofees gewen die craven week oorheers die sa skole span oorheers.drie jaar in die varsity cup gespeel en dit als ten spyte van ‘n player drain wat geen ander span beleef nie so eintlik doen ons Flokken goed met die bietjie wat tot ons beskikking is.NET die bulls het ‘n beter rekord as as die cheetahs in die laaste 10 jaar
  as ek reg onthou het die guppies ok al ‘n slag of wat maar redelik laaaaaag in die super 14 ge- eindig
  Dit het die bulls meer as 10 jaar gevat om die super reeks te wen so ek het niks om oor sleg te voel nie
  Maar nou ja die sharks is nou maar bekend daar voor dat hulle sukses wil koop en dit NIE kan kweek nie
  Moet se vir ‘n span vol noboddys doen die cheetahs glad nie sleg nie en met ‘n span met 12 bokke in is die tsjarrks maar half K@kkerig
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  FireStraeuli on 6 April 2010 at 9:07 pm

  samllies72,

  My punt is dat die Tjietas geen verskoning het nie. Met al hulle sukses het hulle nog steeds nie geslaag daarin om hulle self effektief te bemark en dus finansieel sterk genoeg te words om hulle plaaslike spelers genoeg geld aan te bied nie.

  In teenstelling het die Sharks met hulle beperkte sukses nog steeds genoeg geld om te koop wie hulle wil.

  Wat verhoed die Tjietas om finansieel te wees waar die Sharks vandag is? Tjietas het dieselfde borg as die Nulle en die Streamers. Sharks in teen deel het Mr Price wat vroeer jare die Nulle se borg was (dit was toe die Nulle skaars ‘n wen kon koop).

  Hoekom is die Tjietas na al hulle sukses nog steeds nie finansieel sterk nie?