1996 Super 12 season
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use New Zealand English Template:Infobox Super Rugby season The 1996 Super 12 season was the inaugural season of the Super 12, contested by teams from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The season ran from February to May 1996, with each team playing all the others once. At the end of the regular season, the top four teams entered the playoff semifinals, with the first placed team playing the fourth and the second placed team playing the third. The winner of each semifinal qualified for the final, which was contested between the Auckland Blues and Natal Sharks, with the Blues winning 45–21 to win the first Super 12 title.
This was the first season of professional rugby union in the Southern Hemisphere (the Northern Hemisphere had their first season a few months earlier due to the seasonal differences). The season was also the first of 10 under the deal between SANZAR and News Corporation which gave all broadcasting rights to News Limited for the Super 12, Tri-Nations, all inbound tours and test matches and in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as well as provincial competition matches. The deal was collectively worth $550 million USD.[1]
The teams from Australia and New Zealand were regional teams, a system that has continued to this day. South Africa used a different system for determining its Super 12 teams. The top four sides from the previous season of the country's domestic competition, the Currie Cup, were granted berths in the Super 12. This system would continue through the 1998 competition; only in 1999 did South Africa adopt the same system used by the other two participating countries.
Table
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Regular season
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
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Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Finals
Semifinals
Final
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Statistics
Top 10 points scorers
| Player | Team | Total | Points per game | Details | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Semis | Final | ||||
| Matt Burke | Template:Flagicon NSW Waratahs | 157 | 22 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 22 | DNQ | DNQ | 5 try; 27 con; 26 pen |
| John Eales | Template:Flagicon Queensland Reds | 155 | 2 | 16 | 22 | 7 | 20 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 10 | DNQ | 25 con; 33 pen |
| Jannie Kruger | Template:Flagicon Northern Transvaal | 139 | 15 | 2 | 39 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 20 | 15 | 18 | 10 | 6 | DNQ | 1 try; 16 con; 32 pen; 2 dg |
| Henry Honiball | Template:Flagicon Natal Sharks | 136 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 21 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 16 | 29 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 3 try; 23 con; 25 pen |
| Joel Stransky | Template:Flagicon Western Province | 120 | DNP | 17 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 7 | 11 | 21 | 20 | 10 | 0 | DNQ | DNQ | 12 con; 34 pen |
| Gavin Lawless | Template:Flagicon Transvaal | 111 | 0 | 3 | DNP | 11 | 16 | 18 | 5 | 25 | 13 | 14 | 6 | DNQ | DNQ | 4 try; 14 con; 21 pen |
| André Joubert | Template:Flagicon Natal Sharks | 101 | 18 | 2 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 11 try; 11 con; 8 pen |
| Jamie Cameron | Template:Flagicon Wellington Hurricanes | 91 | 23 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 19 | 7 | 8 | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNQ | DNQ | 14 con; 21 pen |
| Ian Foster | Template:Flagicon Waikato Chiefs | 89 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 14 | 5 | DNQ | DNQ | 1 try; 18 con; 14 pen; 2 dg |
| Matthew Cooper | Template:Flagicon Otago Highlanders | 86 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 14 | DNP | DNQ | DNQ | 4 try; 12 con; 14 pen |
Top ten try scorers
| Player | Team | Total | Tries per game | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Semis | Final | |||
| James Small | Template:Flagicon Natal Sharks | 13 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| André Joubert | Template:Flagicon Natal Sharks | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Joeli Vidiri | Template:Flagicon Auckland Blues | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | DNP | DNP | DNP | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Alistair Murdoch | Template:Flagicon NSW Waratahs | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | DNP | DNP | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | DNQ | DNQ |
| Andrew Blowers | Template:Flagicon Auckland Blues | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | DNP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ben Tune | Template:Flagicon Queensland Reds | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | DNQ |
| Jonah Lomu | Template:Flagicon Auckland Blues | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | DNP | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | DNP | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Justin Swart | Template:Flagicon Western Province | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | DNQ | DNQ |
| Joe Roff | Template:Flagicon ACT Brumbies | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | DNQ | DNQ |
| Jeremy Thomson | Template:Flagicon Natal Sharks | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | DNP | DNP | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Christian Cullen | Template:Flagicon Wellington Hurricanes | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | DNP | DNP | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | DNQ | DNQ |
| Eroni Clarke | Template:Flagicon Auckland Blues | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
References
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- ↑ "Showpiece event kicks off today, "New Straits Times", 1 March 1996. Retrieved on 18 September 2010.
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Further reading
- McIlraith, M. (2005). Ten Years of Super 12, Auckland: Hodder Moa. Template:ISBN
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