1996 Super 12 season
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The 1996 season of the Super 12, the rugby union competition, was the inaugural season and was won by the Auckland Blues. It was a notable season because it was the first 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 in-bound tours and test matches and in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as well as provincial competition matches. The deal was collectively worth $550,000,000 USD.
The teams from Australia and New Zealand were regionally-based franchises, 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 franchise system used by the other two participating countries.
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[edit] Final Standings
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Pos Name Pld W D L F A +/- BP Pts 1 Queensland Reds 11 9 0 2 320 247 73 5 41 2 Auckland Blues 11 8 0 3 408 354 54 9 41 3 Northern Transvaal 11 8 0 3 329 208 121 6 38 4 Natal Sharks 11 6 0 5 389 277 112 9 33 5 ACT Brumbies 11 7 0 4 306 273 33 4 32 6 Waikato Chiefs 11 6 0 5 291 269 22 4 28 7 NSW Waratahs 11 5 0 6 312 290 22 8 28 8 Otago Highlanders 11 5 0 6 329 391 -62 6 26 9 Wellington Hurricanes 11 3 0 8 290 353 -63 5 17 10 Transvaal 11 3 0 8 228 299 -71 4 16 11 Western Province 11 3 1 7 251 353 -101 1 15 12 Canterbury Crusaders 11 2 1 8 234 373 -139 2 13
[edit] Leading try-scorers
| Top 3 try scorers | ||||||||
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| Pos | Name | Tries | Team | |||||
| 1 | James Small | 14 | Natal Sharks | |||||
| 2 | André Joubert | 12 | Natal Sharks | |||||
| 2 | Joeli Vidiri | 10 | Auckland Blues | |||||
[edit] Leading point-scorers
| Top 3 points scorers | ||||||||
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| Pos | Name | Points | Team | |||||
| 1 | Matthew Burke | 157 | NSW Waratahs | |||||
| 2 | John Eales | 155 | Queensland Reds | |||||
| 2 | Jannie Kruger | 148 | Northern Transvaal | |||||
[edit] Playoffs
- Home team listed first.
[edit] Semi-Finals
| May 18, 1996 | |||||
| Queensland Reds | 25–43 | Natal Sharks | Ballymore, Brisbane | ||
| Tries: Horan, Foley, Penalty Try |
Tries: van der Westhuizen (3), Joubert (2), Thomson, van Heerden |
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| Conversions: Eales (2) |
Conversions: Honiball (2), Joubert (2) |
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| Penalties: Eales (2) |
| May 19, 1996 | |||||
| Auckland Blues | 48–11 | Northern Transvaal | Eden Park, Auckland | ||
| Tries: Lomu (2), Ngauamo, Vidiri, Tonu'u, R. Brooke, Fitzpatrick, Cashmore |
Tries: Breytenbach |
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| Conversions: Cashmore (4) |
Penalties: Kruger (2) |
[edit] Final
| May 25, 1996 | |||||
| Auckland Blues | 45–21 | Natal Sharks | Eden Park, Auckland | ||
| Tries: Blowers (2), Clarke, Lomu, Spencer, Riechelmann |
Tries: Joubert, Small |
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| Conversions: Cashmore (3) |
Conversion: Honiball |
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| Penalties: Cashmore (3) |
Penalties: Honiball (3) |
[edit] References
- McIlraith, M. (2005).Ten Years of Super 12, Auckland: Hodder Moa. ISBN 1-86971-025-8
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