Are the Hurricanes title favourites? | The Breakdown: April 14, 2023

What a change of mood with this blokes (without JK). Finally a breakdown show focusing on Super Rugby not “what JK things of the Blues” show

Great to see Justin there, enjoyed his pod appearances during world cup.

congrats Kirsty & family! 👶

The Canes front row of 1-Numia 2-Aumua 3-Lomax has been the best I've seen in sometime, Lomax at tighthead has matured into an absolute weapon at scrum time & is up there with the best tightheads in the World, Aumua has always had the potential just his lineout throwing needed improvements but Aumua's a wrecking ball, theres no one more devastating with ball in hand & he's a weapon on defense, no doubt if he keeps improving his throwing he will be devastating for the Abs, then there's young Xavier Numia who has made huge strides this year taking his game to another level & his performance on the weekend destroying Chiefs scrum, I've never seen a prop get lifted in the air the way Numia absolutely destroyed O'Neil... What a scary thought for opposition to think that not long ago Abs scrum looked shaky & unreliable but now we have great depth at Prop both loose & tighthead, so add "DeGroot, Tamaiti Williams, Newell, Bower & the experience of Moody, Ta'avao & Tu'ungafasi & others on the fringe like Jermaine Ainsley, Ollie Norris, Aiden Ross, Saula Ma'u also Taukieaho, Taylor with Bell, Thomson, Riccitelli at hooker Abs front row are primed for at least the next two RWCs!

Bloody good up-tempo show guys; great content, great vibe; thank you. Congrats to Gareth and Kirsty on the birth of your boy: Splann!👍 God bless New Zealand🤟🏴‍☠☘

Honestly if the Hurricanes aren't the favorites, who are? I know they've only won the thing once but credit where credit's due!

I watch BD program every week during SR & loved the insight shared by the professionals in the rugby business. Looking forward to the Hurricane's game with the Drua this weekend

It's crazy that NZ pundits always overlook the Canes. They have been building their young team for 3 years within both Super Rugby and NPC. Most of the leadership has led the team through both comps. We will never get the credit but that's ok

I’d love to see Aupiki expanded to include the Super W teams and more closely mirror the men’s Super competition.

Katelyn Vaha'akolo Blackfern quality 💙💙

The most fantastic thing about the Hurricanes /Chiefs was the quality of the officiating. A ref who took charge, explained his decisions to players,listened and acted firmly on advice from his assistants and told the man with the technology he was in charge Amazingly refreshing and the game was a joy. WG

after watching chasing the sun 2 epi 4, i think scrums are amazing. The passion and strategy that goes into it. PHENOMENAL!

Painful for a lot of non hurricanes fans to admit how good they are 💪🏽🌪️.

Leaving super rugby turned into a kinda blessing in disguise for my Stormers team, we won the first next international title for which we vied, the URC and made the final the following year. That said I do miss the sheer spectacle one might sometimes witness playing in Super Rugby. Some fun encounters between us and your Kiwi teams.

I was calling the downfall of the Crusaders and rise of the Hurricanes during the final last year, the only surprise for me is that it took 7 wins for anyone to acknowledge it. They had a young, promising squad last year, mostly held back by the coach, came into this season with a better coach, one of the best props in the world, ridiculous quality in the loose forwards even without Ardie, the two best Scrumhalves in the country (although Roigard is out now), the 2nd best Flyhalf in the country, the best selection of midfielders of any team and some potent outside backs. As a Hurricanes fan I wasn't worried about this season, I was worried for next year when this depth results in players looking to other teams for game time.

Got to say love Kimberlee in the hot seat don't get me wrong love kirsty too but sometimes she let's the boys especially Goldie and JK talk over her when she try's to get her say. Where Kimberlee has valuable input as well as good back and forth with the panel.

We LOVE SCRUMS , SCRUMS IS RUGBY!! Learn it!!

Congratulations Stanway-Thorne's on lil man to your family♥️🍼

Yes Geoff and Justin! The Super Rugby players should be spending a lot of time at their Clubs 1/ To give the patrons time at their club ground to see their home club players come back to keep 2/ giving that club acknowledgement of club of origin and 3/ give those new “Grassroots” player(fans) get some personal game time advice and secrets from their favourite players. Having their short conversations with these Super Rugby players could be the difference between them wanting to stay or leave Rugby Union. The power of “Grassroots” Rugby.

I said it to my brother last week. Aussie are ahead of the game at the moment. We are slightly behind. Aussie have a good chance this year and I agree, that WC disaster has been good for them.