Super Rugby finals Week 1 fixtures: Who plays who, where and when?

"the closeness of this table was mainly due to the rubbish reffing.." :roll: Good grief, CUW...

The difference in classification between the pantherinae and felinae is in the structure of the hyoid bone (which helps the various muscles in the throat in sound production). The purrers have a fully ossified (properly bony) hyoid, while the roarers have a partially ossified, more flexible hyoid. There is argument about what truly constitutes a purr - it's argued that the big cats "purr" is only on exhalation. Here's a spaced-out link to a decent recent bit about it: https:// www. sciencealert. com/these-are-the-largest-cats-known-to-purr (to use the link, just paste it into your browser and removed the spaces). (the embedded youtube clip has lots of different types of cats to see and hear - good for youngsters)

I don't know about tigers, leopards and jaguars, but lions can purr (or at least make a sound very like it). I was camping in Africa and woke up needing a pee, but also heard deep purring. Unzipped tent, and the ranger called out not to make sudden moves. He was sitting, gun across his knees, while on the other side of the campfire half a dozen lions were watching (you could see the reflection of the fire in their eyes). They'd already killed and eaten that night, so weren't dangerous, just curious, and were fed cats sitting near a warm fire. Lions do 'purr'!

Jajajja good one

Ah, 2000, what a season that was. We went right into the heart of the Lion's den that game. Brumbies won the regular season, had beaten us two weeks previously, were playing at home and their team included such names as; Joe Roff and Andrew Walker at the back. Rod Kafer and Stirling Mortlock in the centres. Larkham and Gregan steering the ship. Big Jim Williams running off the back of the scrum. Justin Harrison and David Giffin for tall timber. Patricio Noriega, Jeremy Paul and Bill Young - how's that for a front row. And George Smith was on the bench! Eddie Jones up against Robbie Deans. Nobody gave us chance for that game. No one had ever won a super title away from home. But Larkham didn't ghost anywhere that day and we were equal to the freezing night air (like hardy Cantabrians should be). Mortlock found no room through the middle and Roff saw not enough ball for his famous chip and chase. The headline ran, 'Brumbies humbled, Larkham injured'. We smothered them with defence and they had no plan 'B'. Merthens kicked us home for a famous one point win, 20-19. First away win ever. First three-peat.

"Who plays whom", surely? ????

Loftus pick 3 games played in aus or nz where the penalty count was 60-6 against the travelling teams! Then tell us about why you’re upset but don’t complain

Never ever seen a black puma.

Here in Southern California, we have two types of cougars. Ones are called mountain lions, the others are two legged creatures that also purr and take your wallet's contents with them.

Final to be in Christchurch against Jags...

The jaguares play home

The puma can be black

I read that with a David Attenborough accent. Brilliant

travel will affect them for sure even if they win in Argentina , have to come back and play Hurricanes. Crusaders managed the travel one time - cannot remember many others who did...

Crusaders have won it. The rest are just their for show.

The first four were locked in. Mathematically, there wasn’t much room for placing elsewhere for some teams but it’d be interesting to entertain other matches. Jaguares Sharks Hurricanes Highlanders Brumbies Bulls Crusaders Chiefs Not sure any of the home fans for those matchups would be too happy about that but as a neutral they’d make for enthralling entertainment.

Editor may want to change the article to reflect that too.

The SA teams feel the same playing in Aus or NZ under their hometown refs. We just don't moan about it all the time here

Comment that the brumbies didn't earn a home quarter final is BS. They cleared number 5 by 7 points and 2 wins.

Chiefs to beat jags,brumbies and crusaders in chch in final.