Super 14

Maybe this is what we should expect from a tournament that seems to go out of its way not to be spectator-friendly. After all, you need to have degrees in animal husbandry, medieval history, military war, horticulture and meteorology just to work out what the Super 14 team names mean. Then you have to be a master of geography to work out which names goes with which team and which city they hail from.

From Monday Maul, after two teams wore white jerseys for a match on the weekend.  I want so much to follow and enjoy Super 14, but at the same time, they've got massive marketing and communications issues.  I've complained for years (albeit, just to my friends) about how the teams are only ever referred to by their mascot names, which are essentially meaningless and contrived, and thus totally non-memorable.  Where the hell do the "Sharks", "Cheetahs" and "Bulls" come from?  I couldn't tell you.