Figured I’d start a thread in honour of the initiative nobody asked for, and seemingly hardly anybody wants. The Super Round!
All of this weekend’s games are held at AAMI park in Melbourne; so yeah, of the 12 teams, 6 of them are missing a home game. But I believe they’re compensated by the Victoria State government so they go along with it.
Last weekend the Melbourne Rebels had 4000 in the crowd for a home derby against the Brumbies. It’ll be interesting to see if they get much of a crowd for any of these games which for the home fans are all bar 1 neutral games.
First game up on Friday night is Auckland Blues vs Otago Highlanders. Both coming off decent wins last weekend against the Drua and Pasifika respectively. First pictures on the telly are showing a sea of green. But that’s the empty seats, not thousands of fans wearing the Highlanders old away strip.
Rhys Patchell looks made for Southern Hemisphere footy.
Zarn Sullivan looks like a player who’s finally realised that at 6’4" he’s a big lad. One big shot in defence against Tavatavanawai, and another decent clean out not long afterwards as well. If he can work on that part of his game he would be a perfect like for like player at 12 for the ABs alongside Jordie Barrett. Heck, they’re both over the ton and Sullivan is only 1 keg lighter than Jordie too.