Rugby Union

468 readers

13 users here now

Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby. This instance is for news, analysis and discussion of the sport of rugby.

Rules:

No Advertising or Self Promotion

No NSFW or Disruptive Content

No Disrespect or Drama

No Spamming or Off-Topic Content

Be Respectful

Sister Community:
!usmlr@lemmy.world

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

8ohighdef@sh.itjust.works

Olap@lemmy.world

New Zealand Super Rugby 2025 Squad Announcements (lemmy.nz)

submitted 5 days ago by TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz to c/rugby@sh.itjust.works

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The NZ based franchises & Moana Pasifika are all announcing their squads for the 2025 season today. On the hour, in NZDT:

Hurricanes 10am
Crusaders 11am
Chiefs 12pm
Moana Pasifika 1pm
Highlanders 2pm
Blues 3pm

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 1 points 5 days ago

Quite a few players leaving the Blues looking for game time, a bit surprised nobody made a play to get either Plummer or Perofeta as they'd be keen on playing more, but then why would you want to leave the champs?

AJ Lam is listed as an outside back here, but I would expect he'll be playing in the midfield with Ioane which would be quite a formidable pair. The big loss for the Blues is obviously Akira Ioane as its hard to see any of the remaining loosies having the sort of impact he did this year, but Vern was able to get the best out of him & Sotutu so maybe he'll get some of these other lads to step up too.

A back 3 of Clarke, Sullivan and Tele'a is very, very good and they've got a good balance of young and experienced. Like the Chiefs on the basis of the squads alone, the Blues look the goods.