Super Rugby Pacific 2024 | Hurricanes v Blues | Round 3 Highlights

[@markshaw222]

How Christie was picked ahead of Cam last year will haunt every NZ rugby supporter for the end of time

[@mursyidomar6995]

Exactly! Roigard with his sniping could at least match Faf De Klerk's influence on that final...

[@nathanielfrancis8276]

On par with Ben Smith not playing 2019 Semi

[@markshaw222]

@@nathanielfrancis8276 was thinking same thing, theres alway one shocking selection

[@Badmansband]

​@@mursyidomar6995To be fair, no one would have had as big a influence as the TMO that day.

[@Sam-em1ic]

Was literally about to write the same thing. It just hurts to watch him play knowing the impact he could have brought

[@TheKnight886]

Cam Roigard needed game time in last yrs wc for Abz look how important he was for Hurricanes 🙌

[@chasey2327]

was Kini Naholo's shirt greased up or something? slippier than an eel lad :)

[@KiwiGraggle]

This Super Rugby season is wide open. This is what it needs, to be honest. I mean I did not expect the Chiefs to lose to the Reds as an example, but they did. This game, other games, this years Super Rugby is wide open I feel. About time.

[@mcconaloguecharlie1]

What it needs is more supporters near empty stadiums in Brisbane and Wellington not a good look for investors

[@KiwiGraggle]

@mcconaloguecharlie1 Yes, I agree. We use to see packed stadiums, 15 year ago odd, maybe a bit older, but I remember seeing pretty much full stadia back then.

[@ValHemi265]

​@@mcconaloguecharlie1 agreed. Maybe over time it'll pack again. Hopefully.

[@mrchillyphilli]

Cam Roigard my god

[@richardscanlan3419]

Fortunately he's been capped by NZ,so can't be poached by another country.

[@ermannosorricchiodivalfort4905]

@@richardscanlan3419 i mean i would imagine the ABs to be all over him anyway so that is a bit of a mute point, what with nuggy retiring and all, but if for whatever reason that does not happen, the new eligibility rules do not rule out the possibility for other countries to "poach" him as you say...

[@themanabroad7800]

Canes looking really good

[@JINXakaIsh]

Revenge was sweet

[@RICARDO_7991]

Everyone's talking about Cam but not Brett Cameron?? What a kicker. 🔥

[@terry_kennedy_]

Incredible kick from Cameron 🔥🔥 but the game and physics of Roigard is fire too

[@Cleisthenes2]

wait is roigard the new dupont

[@gerardbenson1844]

N0😊😂😂😂😂😂

[@purppwrld4950]

Could be honestly dupont is getting a bit overrated its been a while he hasnt been named player of the year and everyone is still acting like he is.

[@kingpower4631]

Nah dupont is leagues better playing well with such a poor defensive competition doesn't say anything see how well he does against france ireland or sa and then we can see

[@Tarod5]

Can't wait to watch him at the Olympics !

[@emosijougavule2561]

Not the new Dupont, but he has potential create his legacy in the coming future.

[@callumallison1662]

Not good to have half a full stadium for such a big game, but I at least respect Hurricanes choice to close a stand to make it look a bit better

[@Hatunrumioc]

These comments on every game. Southern hemisphere teams generally play in bigger stadiums than up north, with a much smaller population density. This crowd in a smaller stadium would fill it, but we don't have the population density needed to build stadiums that small. We mainly just have big ones and do everything in them.

[@reddragon1572]

​@@Hatunrumiocthis game, when I was a kid, had me up at 6am in the UK on a weekend morning, as a teenager that's a rare thing. Stadium would have been full to the brim. Is rugby interest dying in NZ and they are burying their heads in the sand?

[@3rdBestMJ]

There was still 15k there LOL. That's a good crowd for a regular season game on a rainy night

[@comicop2513]

​@@reddragon1572It's not dying, stadiums are full to the brim during the finals. It's more NZR got lazy and relied too hard on brand recognition to sell a product instead of marketing.

[@Annon.yamous]

Agree especially NZ no1 game

[@mikescudder4621]

Good game. Looked like Papalii played Roigard while on the ground at the very end of the 1st half. Deserved a look from the TMO.

[@altazuma]

I was surprised there wasn't more from that.

[@tainemarama423]

The way the Hurricanes shut down Mark Telea was absolutely incredible 🔥

[@mathias8443]

Canes played fast and good. It might be there year !!!

[@ManaBlack208]

Beat crusaders next week and I'll believe it

[@mathias8443]

@@ManaBlack208 They've never had so much chance of beating them.

[@ManaBlack208]

@@mathias8443 Yeah let's see it

[@kpm25]

Noholo, an AB this year for sure

[@nancyvenia5447]

Nanai Seturo ahead of him rn

[@kuk1m0n5ta8]

Naholo an AB?! Not happening this year.

[@markshaw222]

Im a canes supporter but thats a silly statement, there are a bunch of outside backs ahead of him, he's defensively inept

[@DrissZyani-bu5mo]

If he continues with this performance, Razor will select him

[@kuk1m0n5ta8]

@DrissZyani-bu5mo He's not making the ABs this year. That's the reality. And playing on the wing at International level is another beast altogether... He's raw and obviously talented but is a long way off even getting a sniff

[@Billcali]

The Cains deserved to win that one

[@James_Knight_Architecture]

Awful miscall at the end of the second half. It's a deliberate knock-on from a player laying on his back, offsides 5 meters from the goal line. A definite red for me. Have no idea how the side judge missed it

[@GrantMcLean]

Don't think there's a case for red, but it was absolutely a yellow and the Blues were very lucky to get away with it.

[@morrisanderson818]

Haven't been this excited about the Cane's,since their first ever game in Palmy, Good to see young guy's given a go Cam should have played more at th RWC,

[@nobrainer5117]

Something about that hurricanes no. 11 jumper man ...

[@DeathStroke-iw5jq]

Big gamble from the Blues coach to field only 2 backline subs

[@freedomxd2733]

Hurricanes look decent

[@johnhelms8226]

Huge win for the Canes, who have had so much trouble with the Blues since Beaudin left!

[@tuttyusbuttyus]

2:16 Dalton playing the ball on the ground. Penalty, and possibly a YC given how close to the tryline the 'Canes were.

[@ddddddddddjjjjjdddddddd]

Good game for both teams 🔵🌪️

[@mikedee171]

The Blues are talented but I question their mental strength under pressure.

[@alanhirsch1151]

Tackle practice all week for the Blues!

[@Joe_Kondeez]

The dynamic roigard brings to that position...... woww. Safe to say theres a clean transition into the 9 ABs jersey after the 🐐. Hurricanes defence was overwhelming, just wave after wave of brutal defence.. until akira touches the ball 😛

[@plimmerton3992]

until Akira lost the game 😂

[@Joe_Kondeez]

@@plimmerton3992 😂😂😭

[@rieske2000]

Fantastic stuff but why is the stadium not sold out ☹️ cheers from a supporter in the Netherlands.

[@ManaBlack208]

Viewing on tv and crowd attendances for rugby has declined in nz for a number of reasons,post covid effects,cost of living crisis,too many stoppages in play,too many rules,reset scrums not enough ball in play action but I think people are also searching for deeper meaning in life

[@3rdBestMJ]

NZ population is smaller than most countries and most people can't afford tickets. 15k is not at bad crowd at all

[@ilove100times]

yeah i think you need to realize the sport is dying in aust.. but in nz.. i think most people just don't see the game is as great in the past. why they don't bother going.. the quality of games of going down hill real fast

[@ilove100times]

lol nowhere near 15 000 more like under 10 000.. the warriors game had a crowd just under 20 000 and it looked near to capacity stop lying lol@@3rdBestMJ

[@watsonmuaau483]

@@ilove100timesbro mt smart is no where near as big as this staduim😂, the capacity is close to 35k

[@fiji82bad]

Damn Cam 🎉

[@ValHemi265]

Dear blues. "This is our house..."

[@tmaktmak1464]

Naholo has bulked up big time

[@vburau7]

Remind me of Caucau size

[@RugbyScout]

Why New Zealand Stadiums are not full?

[@TwinnyAhiao]

Why is a problem to you?😂

[@RugbyScout]

@@TwinnyAhiao who said it was a problem? I am just asking why New Zealand Stadiums are not full? People don't support the local teams?

[@IsaiaBrown]

I see it good 👍

[@jdoggbyc]

Roigard is a different beast, strong and fast. He has to be #1

[@Nathan-n4j]

Nice the canes

[@shinlanten]

Wow, huge swaths of the stadium are empty for a game involving two North Island teams 😬

[@poerava]

Roigard mowing down Telea though. He’s quick.

[@mattdickie4696]

Agreed. He made Telea look average on that rundown.

[@TrinityMentality]

Cam Roigard is the truth.

[@TheKnight886]

My favorite player😍

[@mikescudder4621]

Up the canes! The should have had a couple more tries on the board.

[@ITSAGIRRAFE1]

Can’t wait to hear what JK has to say hahahaha

[@handeltaufalele759]

TJ Perenara?

[@carpusbarsum]

Wellington vs Auckland and crowd of about 3,000.

[@KiwiGraggle]

You a whiny Brit, aint ya?.

[@ilove100times]

that low huh... that be worse than college football lol

[@3rdBestMJ]

It was literally 15k

[@noahc8997]

Get your eyes checked

[@Sotanath86q]

21 upvotes for blatant misinformation.

[@shotbro-]

After all these years, the craziest thing about Super Rugby is commentators still calling them the “Hurrikins”

[@hannotn]

That's always been the English pronunciation and it's how it's always been pronounced in NZ. The US pronounces it with the long a. So yeah, the commentators pronounce it correctly.

[@shotbro-]

Nope. Hurricane has to rhyme with Rain. It's in the song.

[@andreafranceschini3889]

How good Is Naholo???

[@Nic0909]

Good crowd 😂

[@3rdBestMJ]

Yeah 15k

[@Ismailaskari4567]

can someone pls tell me who this commentator is?

[@johnhelms8226]

Grant Nisbett, who is an absolute legend. The best of the best.

[@TheMalcolm1986]

The legendary Grant Nisbett

[@Ismailaskari4567]

thank youu

[@corz7263]

blues woeful defence

[@hrep14]

💛💛💛😎😎😎👍👍👍

[@garyandrews746]

Where very sorry to report January 2024 was a terrible month.

[@billhammond1003]

Blues need to work on their defence I reckon... :)

[@SamuelJohnsonYT]

Blues should have performed better in this game

[@d_uzooo3972]

Didn’t help when they lost Zarn and Lam early on

[@SamuelJohnsonYT]

​@@d_uzooo3972yeah I know

[@williamva9058]

​@@d_uzooo3972 canes without kirifi, shields and Barrett still got the job done😂

[@d_uzooo3972]

@@williamva9058 well the hurricanes were smart they exploited the backline knowing a halfback is on the wing💀

[@raymond7451]

Wow , a good product . Yet the crowds are rubbish . Warriors Rnd 1 SOLD OUT . Game needs to have a good look at itself . The NRL can smell blood back home .

[@john-leeroberts8099]

Canes playing some good rugby this season

[@ManaBlack208]

We'll see how good next week hopefully they can beat the crusaders

[@kwolfgramm1]

Why does Naholo look like a prop 😂

[@LuisAndrade-vg1hf]

No he podido acertar a ningún resultado 😂

[@eels4life-px9ru]

Blues got what they deserved

[@Kilteddavid]

Blues stopped tackling in the second half. Basic stuff.

[@mikewoods4584]

I was at the match. This was a boring match when there was real fire power in both back lines. Neither team ran into space. Poor kicking game. Crash bash. Poor advert for running rugby.

[@JP.Travelz]

telea is SLOW AF

[@stefanrusu6597]

Yeah, this is very surprising

[@haydenviles3317]

I couldn’t believe that too. I Was at the game, he was absolutely gased. Must have carried the ball 30 times and spent a bit of time on all fours. Too much mahi or unfit

[@JP.Travelz]

@@haydenviles3317 he may have just been gassed …

[@reddragon1572]

I think it was a bit of arrogance with the interception. Thought he could coast it in and nobody would bother, or couldn't, catch him. Def got a knock from that tackle that he will regret. Bet he doesn't make that mistake again.

[@Whiskeyjack-c8z]

Poor fella had a back strain from trying to carry his team😅

[@TaigaSibirskaya]

lovely rug muncher try by the blues there. johnny toogoze does it again.

[@Geezweez788]

Lead up to hurricane's last trie,If those were South African forwards, Naholo doesn't cut through our forwards like that, he gets smashed.

[@therugbyfanatic3379]

Probably said the same thing abt Telea didn’t stop him wrecking havoc 😂.

[@skux20]

The same South Africans that used to get destroyed in super rugby?

[@Geezweez788]

@@skux20 yes, and go but on to win the world cup. Yes , those South Africans.

[@yealandsmarl]

@@Geezweez788 Goal post moving, you never mentioned anything about World Cups in your original comment

[@richardscanlan3419]

hush,let the saffer troll have his moment in the sun@@yealandsmarl

[@ilove100times]

where da crowds wow! more fans in fiji than nz and aust combined

[@3rdBestMJ]

There was 15k at this game and 17k at the reds LOL

[@ilove100times]

really half the staduim was like empty that stadium only hold 30 grand@@3rdBestMJ

[@ilove100times]

you do know the nz warriors game had around 18 000 fans and the stadium hold 30 000 sounds fishy if you ask me@@3rdBestMJ

[@3rdBestMJ]

Yeah it's a 30 thousand seat stadium. Pretty unrealistic to expect it to be full for a regular season game on a rainy night@@ilove100times

[@ilove100times]

you act as thou this don't happen on sunny days too.. all im saying we should be getting the same attendance as NRL rugby league games minimum.. all clubs.. thats not hard to achieve you know if you really look at it 18 000 avg not 5000 avg@@3rdBestMJ

[@finchy3375]

Some of that tackling from the blues is shameful

[@scran7346]

Stadium is half empty, they still under COVID restrictions over there or something?😂

[@3rdBestMJ]

The stadium seats 30k LOL

[@watsonmuaau483]

@@3rdBestMJ34.5k

[@Sbu_Phakathwayo]

so many empty seats

[@ericlondonmuwazijimmy1221]

Telea is slow

[@TwinnyAhiao]

Slow but play good footy. Not like you behind keyboard running your mouth like you better than him😂😂

[@tdtdtd1826]

Quality,quality according to this useless commentator.

[@Sokol17029]

What is wrong with the kiwis and the empty stadium? If I had a privilege being born in Aotearoa I would attend every SR match there is.

[@HeeniKeke]

I have no clue what country you come from, however NZ has small population. Do you really have the need to criticise people in NZL? Try just enjoy the actual game!

[@Sokol17029]

@@HeeniKeke I'm not criticizing. Kiwis are some of the best people I know. But I do not understand the low attendance of stadiums. You have the best rugby competition in the world and nobody comes to watch it. That is all. 🤷‍♂

[@navahchapman8793]

​@@Sokol17029Tickets are expensive my bro. Most can't afford to go to every game and are lucky if they get to go to 1

[@ManaBlack208]

It's not empty there's abit of people there not a full house but not too bad

[@3rdBestMJ]

It's not empty at all there was 15k there

[@daramaccarthy]

Empty stadiums

[@norpera]

Most games are 😅

[@khankake9576]

It wasn't empty, empty means there was no one there.

[@therugbyfanatic3379]

This was actually one of the most filled stadiums this round.

[@DisAstra-qx9gq]

Cant think of any non international rugby team that fills a 34000 seater stadium for a regular league game. Tbf the majority of sports teams struggle to fill the ground. It tends to be nfl n football (excluding motorsport) that attract the 30k plus fans week in week out. Also need to think of demographics nz has a population of 3 million people compared to the US 350million.

[@therugbyfanatic3379]

@@DisAstra-qx9gq I would agree with you if there was at least 10k in the crowd. Apart from this hurricanes game, there wasn’t. NRL, Top14 both manage to pack stadiums. The Irish provinces manage to as well.

[@ApisaiVuki-wx9vx]

Even better results this week! Alot of good upsets all around!🫡🔥