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.
Been watching the Moana Pasifika v Fijian Drua game and it’s been a decent match. Some of the TMO intervention has been a bit iffy though. Really don’t think the Ah Wong tackle warranted an upgrade to a red. It was a pretty soft not much arms tackle, but no head contact. And now he’s sin binned Sekope Kepu for making a tackle in an offside position when both of his feet were clearly behind the try line at which point I’m fairly sure its irrelevant where he’s come from that’s as far as the offside line can go.