Hurricanes (13) 16 / 18 (9) Highlanders (Final Score)
The Hurricanes and Highlanders did battle in Super Rugby at
Westpac Stadium, Wellington at 09:35 SA Time (19:35 NZ Time, 07:35 GMT).
This was the live match discussion Article.
The match was broadcast LIVE on SuperSport 1, SHD & CSN on TV in SA.
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Scorers:
Hurricanes:
- Penalties – Beauden Barrett (2), Andre Taylor (1)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – TJ Perenara (1)
- Conversions – Andre Taylor (1)
Highlanders:
- Penalties – Hayden Parker (5)
- Drop Goals – Hayden Parker (1)
- Tries – 0
- Conversions – 0
Teams:
Hurricanes |
Highlanders |
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Referee: Jaco Peyper (South Africa)
Assistant referees: Garratt Williamson (New Zealand), Kane McBride (New Zealand)
TMO: Aaron Peterson (New Zealand)
Try awarded to Perenara, Canes
Nuggety scrumhalf!
Hurricanes 13 / 6 Highlanders
Just For Kicks wrote:
As opposed to Ricky January who was a scrumhalf who was on nuggets?
nortierd wrote:
LOL, yup, it’s all in the definition
nortierd @ 59
did you change you avatar this morning after the incident?
Kickable penalty for the Landers after the halftime hooter… over.
Hurricanes 13 / 9 Highlanders
Lemoenetyd
Just For Kicks wrote:
Hehehe, only at Zuma’s, you just can’t make this stuff up, can you!
‘Inevitable’ Springboks will join Europe says Saracens chief
May 16, 2014 – 1:26PM
Julian Guyer
South Africa will join a European-based competition “sooner or later” because of the commercial demands of television, according to the chairman of English Premiership side Saracens.
At present, South Africa’s main annual international event is the Rugby Championship, also including fellow southern hemisphere sides Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, with the European equivalent the Six Nations featuring England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.
But while aware of the potential pitfalls for southern hemisphere rugby were South Africa to withdraw from the Rugby Championship, Saracens chairman Nigel Wray believes such a move is bound to happen.
“Clearly, sooner or later, South Africa will play with France, England, Ireland etc. because we are in the same time zone,” Wray told AFP in an interview.
“At the moment, South Africa have to tramp over to a completely different time zone, which takes a long time to get accustomed to.
“They play their games at the wrong time of day, at breakfast time, which is the worst TV time.
“I don’t know when, but it is inevitable the game will go like that. It’s just so logical,” added Wray who, speaking before world champions New Zealand’s match against the United States in Chicago on November 1 was announced, also said “rugby should be played in the US, Boston on St Patrick’s Day”.
“If you play in Argentina (in the evening), I think English or South African time, you probably kick off about 11:00pm (2200GMT) or something like that.
“If I tell anybody we are going to open a shop in (London’s) Marylebone High Street and are going to open from 11 at night until four in the morning, they’d think we were completely stark, staring bonkers.”
– ‘TV is the master’ –
Given their deep-rooted history as one of rugby union’s pre-eminent nations, Wray was under no illusions about the effect of a South Africa ‘switch’ on fellow southern hemisphere giants New Zealand and Australia in particular.
“It’s a problem for rugby, because that implies New Zealand and Australia will have to move towards Japan and Hong Kong to play in the same time zone, at the optimum television time.
“Whether you like it or not, TV is the master.”
Saracens have long had a close connection to South Africa, with Francois Pienaar, the Springboks’ 1995 World Cup-winning captain, one of several players from the Republic to have played for the north London club where former Test centre Brendan Venter was also once the director of rugby.
Behind the scenes, former South Africa Rugby Union chief executive Edward Griffiths now holds a similar role at Saracens while, since 2008, Wray has split his ownership with Johann Rupert, a wealthy South African businessman.
“Johann Rupert and his family, they own 50 percent of the club, I own 50 percent of the club. It’s been a fantastic partnership,” said Wray, who had previously been in sole charge of Saracens since rugby union turned professional in 1995.
“They’ve been incredibly supportive and I can’t think of one South African player who has come to this club, who hasn’t been a real gentleman. They are outstanding people and have made an outstanding contribution.
“It’s always great in life to have a partner, and to do things with people because being on your own is a lonely road,” Wray added.
Meanwhile Wray also called on the Rugby Football Union to compensate Premiership teams for the fact they will have to “close down” during next year’s World Cup in England, which will take place at what would normally be the start of the domestic top-flight season.
“The reality is we’ve got to close down in September/October or the best part of during the World Cup because that’s the rules of the World Cup,” he said.
“If a factory or an office had to close down for two months, who pays the wages, who pays the bills?
“The RFU should sort that out properly — and haven’t yet. Ian Ritchie (the RFU chief executive) is a decent man and, in all fairness, we should be able to reach an accommodation.”
AFP
58 @ grootblousmile:
Nope been up at 6am. Just doing last of the snag work then all done finally today. After 12 weeks with ao many workers in and out the house was hectic. Then some paving around the side, but that can wait for now, just need a rest from too many workers around the house.
@ Ashley:
Lekker om jou raak tr loop Vaaljan…wens ons vanmore liewer daar tussen Darling se blomme innie groen veld met n lekker koue drieman kannetjie…
faark, ek is lus vir wyn jong, my bek is vol stof van in die sand rondhol hier in Saudi.
@ nortierd:
or like the zoomer:
“I didn’t know”
@ Pietman: The Oxford English Dictionary is toying with changing one of the most historic words – Comedy will, from 2015, change to Zoomady
pietman @ 71
wel as jy oopbek sit soos oppi foto
gaanit mos vol sand wees!!
@ Puma:
Pumas Nkandla!
pietman @ 75
Ashley wrote:
Ha ha
I should have
75 @ Pietman:
Puma’s house makes Nkandla look like a shack… which it still is, with lots of loose hut villages, as a “House”
Ashley wrote:
Kyk mooi daar agter oppie rak, by die Stormers vlag, ek praat van daai goete, moenie jy nou kom kerse doodblaas hier nadat jy klaar n lekker vroemore dop in hettie
2nd Half ON!
69 @ kaksioek:
Really don’t care what he says the Boks will never ever break away from playing New Zealand not ever. They have always been our biggest rivals and will be for many years. That is the only team that I am truely interested in our Boks to play. We could play our other rugby up north as that does now finally make sense. The super Rugby is far more travel and with so many of our teams playing there the time zone does affect the players and suppoerters both sideds of the pond. RC there is not that amount of travel and only play Nz, Arg and Oz once away from home.
pietman @ 79
is nooit ñ goeie idee om kerse dood te blaas as jy spirits inhet nie!!
jy mag dalk hier wakker skrik!!
78 @ grootblousmile:
@ Puma:
Yip, I think Nigel Wray is actually referring to Super Rugby – he is the chairman of Saracens and not the RFU after all. The headline would have been added by an uninformed sub editor.
We only have 1 Super Rugby game today, but we also have the Vodacom Cup Final tonight at 19:10 and we have scheduled a Live Game Article for that one too.
Saturday sees 4 Super Rugby games (from 09:35 SA Time).
Sunday at 08:05 SA Time is the Waratahs / Lions game.
Hurricanes 13 / 12 Highlanders
Andre Taylor slots a Canes penalty.
Hurricanes 16 / 12 Highlanders
gbs @ 85
good chance that sa may go winless this weekend, isn’t it?
88 @ Ashley:
Yip, unfortunately… all 4 Super Rugby games could go against the SA sides.
@ Ashley:
Ek sien hoeka daar is n dooie kers op jou avatartjie…
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