Super Rugby Round 12: Team of the Week & More
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Man of the Match
Highlanders vs Sharks: Patrick
Osborne
Brumbies vs Waratahs: David
Pocock
Blues vs Force: Akira
Ioane
Hurricanes vs Crusaders: Beauden
Barrett
Rebels vs Chiefs: Jordy Reid
Cheetahs vs Stormers: Michael
van der Spuy
Bulls vs Lions: Arno
Botha
Team of the Week
15 Clayton Blommetjies, 14 Ruan Combrinck, 13 Malakai Fekitoa, 12
Michael van der Spuy, 11 Patrick Osborne, 10 Beauden Barrett, 9 Aaron Smith, 8
Arno Botha, 7 David Pocock, 6 Akira Ioane, 5 Mark Reddish, 4 Will Skelton, 3
Frans Malherbe, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Reggie Goodes.
Best of the Week
Best Game:
Hurricanes vs Crusaders – a high quality game, with absolute class from both teams
Team Performance:
Hurricanes – scoring four tries to two to win a cracker of a game against a Crusaders team giving what captain Kieran Read believes was their best performance of the season
Player:
Beauden Barrett
Back:
Patrick Osborne
Forward:
Arno Botha
Tries:
Best team try:
Blade Thomson for the Hurricanes (62nd minute): accurate and perfectly timed passing by Hurricanes players running into space from a counter-attack launched by Beauden Barrett 70 metres out from a Crusaders kick, with Thomson finishing in the corner
Best individual try:
Akira Ioane for the Blues: using pace and elusive skill to beat one Force defender after another in a solo run from 55 metres out
Best quote:
“I can guarantee you the people did not come to see collapse after collapse.”
- referee Marius van der Westhuizen to the Bulls and Lions front rows
