2014 National Rugby Championship

2014 National Rugby Championship
Date 21 August – 1 November 2014
Champions Brisbane City (1st title)
Runners-up Perth Spirit
Matches played 39
Attendance 87,704 (average 2,249 per match)
Highest attendance 13,700
Brisbane City 37 – 16 University of Canberra Vikings (18 October 2014)
Lowest attendance 500
NSW Country Eagles 26 – 32 Brisbane City (24 October 2014)
Top point scorer Jack Debreczeni (144)
 Melbourne Rising
Top try scorer Andrew Kellaway (9)
 NSW Country Eagles
Official website
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2015 →
NRC Competition Launch with Buildcorp MD Tony Sukkar and players from all nine teams.

The 2014 National Rugby Championship (known as the Buildcorp National Rugby Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the inaugural season of Australia's National Rugby Championship, involving nine professional rugby union teams from around Australia.[1] The competition kicked off on 21 August 2014. The final was held on 1 November 2014 and won by Brisbane City.

Teams and venues

SYD
Location of teams in the 2014 National Rugby Championship

Legend:
BRI – Brisbane City
MLB – Melbourne Rising
NSW – NSW Country Eagles
PER – Perth Spirit
QC – Queensland Country
UCV – University of Canberra Vikings

SYD – Sydney (see below)
Location of the Sydney-based teams in the 2014 National Rugby Championship

GSR – Greater Sydney Rams
NHR – North Harbour Rays
SYD – Sydney Stars

The nine teams for the 2014 NRC season included four from New South Wales, two from Queensland, and one each from Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, and Western Australia:[2]

State Team Coach(es) Captain(s)
ACT University of Canberra Vikings Australia Dan McKellar Australia Fotu Auelua
NSW NSW Country Eagles Australia Darren Coleman Australia Matthew Carraro
Australia Cameron Treloar
Greater Sydney Rams Australia Brian Melrose Australia Jed Holloway
North Harbour Rays Australia Geoff Townsend Australia Greg Peterson
Sydney Stars Australia Chris Malone Australia Pat McCutcheon
QLD Brisbane City Australia Nick Stiles Australia David McDuling
Queensland Country Australia Steve Meehan Australia Anthony Fainga'a
VIC Melbourne Rising Australia Sean Hedger Australia Nic Stirzaker
WA Perth Spirit South Africa David Wessels
South Africa Kevin Foote		 Australia Rory Walton
Australia Sam Wykes
Australia Ian Prior

Home match venues for the 2014 NRC season:[2]

State Team Match Venue Capacity City
ACT University of Canberra Vikings Viking Park 10,000 Canberra
NSW NSW Country Eagles Caltex Park 12,000 Dubbo
Central Coast Stadium 20,059 Gosford
Oakes Oval 10,000 Lismore
Wade Park 8,000 Orange
Coogee Oval 5,000 Sydney
Greater Sydney Rams Parramatta Stadium 20,700
North Harbour Rays Brookvale Oval 23,000
Sydney Stars Leichhardt Oval 22,000
QLD Brisbane City Suncorp Stadium 52,500 Brisbane
Ballymore 24,000
Queensland Country Ballymore 24,000
Bond University 5,000 Gold Coast
Cbus Super Stadium 27,000
Mike Carney Toyota Park 5,000 Townsville
VIC Melbourne Rising AAMI Park 29,500 Melbourne
WA Perth Spirit Adelaide Airport Oval 15,000 Adelaide
HBF Arena 16,000 Perth
Rockingham RUC 3,000
UWA Rugby Club 4,000

Experimental Law Variations

As part of the initial championship, the ARU was given approval by the IRB to conduct experimental law trials as part of the 2014 National Rugby Championship.[3] Proposed law variations were first considered by a panel composed of the current Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie, former Wallabies coach Bob Dwyer, former Wallaby Rod Kafer and former top referee Wayne Erikson. The variations were then put to the voting public, before returning to the panel.

The variations in place for the 2014 season are listed below.

Existing Law of the Game Variation
Law 9.A.1
Value of a Conversion goal - 2 points
Value of a Penalty goal - 3 points
Value of a Dropped goal - 3 points
Value of a Conversion goal - 3 points
Value of a Penalty goal - 2 points
Value of a Dropped goal - 2 points


Previously trialled in South Africa’s Varsity Cup.[3]

Law 5.7(e)
If time expires and the ball is not dead, or an awarded scrum or lineout has not been completed, the referee allows play to continue until the next time that the ball becomes dead. The ball becomes dead when the referee would have awarded a scrum, lineout, an option to the non-infringing team, drop out or after a conversion or successful penalty kick at goal. If a scrum has to be reset, the scrum has not been completed. If time expires and a mark, free kick or penalty kick is then awarded, the referee allows play to continue.		 Non-offending team is allowed to kick the ball into touch after being awarded a penalty kick, which has been blown after time expires, and the lineout will take place.
Law 19.6
The player taking the throw-in must stand at the correct place. The player must not step into the field of play when the ball is thrown. The ball must be thrown straight, so that it travels at least 5 metres along the line of touch before it first touches the ground or touches or is touched by a player.		 Latitude will be given to the throwing team if the opposing team does not compete for the ball near where the ball is received
Law 9.B.1(e)
The kicker must take the kick within one minute and thirty seconds (ninety seconds) from the time a try has been awarded. The player must take the kick within one minute and thirty seconds even if the ball rolls over and has to be placed again.		 Time limit reduced to 60 seconds for conversion kicks, and 45 seconds for penalty kicks.
Law 20.1(d)
No delay. A team must not intentionally delay forming a scrum.		 Team has 30 seconds to form a scrum from the time the referee gives the mark.
Law 20.12(c)
When a team has won the ball in a scrum, the scrum half of the opposing team is offside if that scrum half steps in front of the ball with either foot while the ball is still in the scrum.		 Opposing scrum half is not allowed to enter the gap between the flanker and number 8, even if they stay behind the ball
Law 21.2(a)
The kicker must take the penalty or free kick at the mark or anywhere behind it on a line through the mark.		 Increased latitude will be given to where penalty and free kicks are to be taken
Law 19.2(d)
For a quick throw-in, the player must use the ball that went into touch. A quick throw-in is not permitted if another person has touched the ball apart from the player throwing it in and an opponent who carried it into touch. The same team throws into the lineout.		 Players will be allowed to take quick throw-ins regardless of whether someone else has touched the ball
Law 17.2(d)
Keeping players on their feet. Players in a maul must endeavour to stay on their feet. The ball carrier in a maul may go to ground providing the ball is available immediately and play continues.		 Greater policing of this law, in order to discourage "hold up tackles", by ensuring that the tackler, who holds up a ball carrier in an effort to form a maul, does not collapse the maul as soon as it has formed.
Competition rule - Bonus point awarded for scoring 4 tries Bonus point awarded if winning team scores 3 or more tries than their opponents.

This particular system has been used in France's professional leagues since the 2007–08 northern hemisphere season.[4][5]
Television match official protocols Television match official to only be consulted about tries and in-goal plays.

Regular season

The nine teams compete in a round-robin tournament for the regular season. Each team has four matches at home and four away, and one bye. The top four teams qualify for the title play-offs with semi-finals and finals.[1][6]

Standings

National Rugby Championship
Pos Team Played Won Drawn Lost Points For Points Against Points Difference Try Bonus Losing Bonus Points
1 Melbourne Rising 8 8 0 0 399 184 +215 8 0 40
2 NSW Country Eagles 8 6 0 2 251 202 +49 2 1 27
3 Brisbane City 8 6 0 2 295 257 +38 2 0 26
4 Perth Spirit 8 3 0 5 301 259 +42 2 3 17
5 Greater Sydney Rams 8 3 1 4 254 265 −11 2 0 16
6 Canberra Vikings 8 2 2 4 210 238 −28 0 2 14
7 North Harbour Rays 8 2 2 4 240 327 −87 0 0 12
8 Queensland Country 8 2 0 6 208 281 −73 1 2 11
9 Sydney Stars 8 1 1 6 211 356 −145 0 1 7
Updated: 18 October 2014

Source: rugbyarchive.net[7]
 • Teams 1 to 4 (Green background) at the end of the preliminary competition rounds qualify for the Title play-offs.

Four points for a win, two for a draw, one bonus point for the winning team scoring three or more tries than their opponent (BP1), one bonus point for losing by eight or less (BP2), and no points for a bye.
If teams are level on points in the standings at any stage, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
 • Difference between points for and against
 • Total number of points for
 • Number of matches won
 • Aggregate number of points scored in matches between tied teams

    Round-by-round

    Team Progression – 2014 NRC season
    Team R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9
    Brisbane City 4
    (3rd)     		8
    (3rd)    		 8
    (4th)    		 12
    (3rd)    		 12
    (3rd)    		 16
    (2nd)    		 16
    (5th)    		 21
    (3rd)     		26
    (3rd)
    Greater Sydney Rams 0
    (9th)    		 0
    (8th)    		 4
    (6th)    		 9
    (6th)    		 9
    (5th)    		 11
    (6th)    		 16
    (4th)    		 16
    (5th)    		 16
    (5th)
    Melbourne Rising 5
    (2nd)    		 10
    (1st)    		 15
    (1st)    		 20
    (1st)    		 25
    (1st)    		 30
    (1st)    		 30
    (1st)    		 35
    (1st)    		 40
    (1st)
    NSW Country Eagles 5
    (1st)    		 10
    (2nd)    		 14
    (2nd)    		 15
    (2nd)    		 15
    (2nd)    		 15
    (3rd)    		 19
    (2nd)    		 23
    (2nd)    		 27
    (2nd)
    North Harbour Rays 0
    (7th)    		 0
    (6th)    		 0
    (8th)    		 4
    (7th)    		 8
    (6th)    		 10
    (7th)    		 12
    (7th)    		 12
    (7th)    		 12
    (7th)
    Perth Spirit 4
    (4th)    		 5
    (5th)    		 5
    (5th)    		 5
    (6th)    		 6
    (8th)    		 11
    (4th)    		 16
    (3rd)    		 16
    (4th)    		 17
    (4th)
    Queensland Country 0
    (6th)    		 0
    (7th)    		 1
    (7th)    		 2
    (8th)    		 6
    (7th)     		6
    (8th)    		 6
    (8th)    		 11
    (8th)     		11
    (8th)
    Sydney Stars 0
    (8th)    		 0
    (9th)    		 0
    (9th)    		 0
    (9th)    		 2
    (9th)    		 2
    (9th)    		 3
    (9th)    		 3
    (9th)    		 7
    (9th)
    University of Canberra Vikings 1
    (5th)    		 5
    (4th)    		 9
    (3rd)    		 9
    (4th)    		 11
    (4th)    		 11
    (5th)    		 13
    (6th)    		 14
    (6th)    		 14
    (6th)

    The table above shows a team's progression throughout the season.
    For each round, their cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets.
    Key: win draw loss bye

    Competition rounds

    Round 1

    Bye/s: Queensland Country

    Round 2

    Bye/s: North Harbour Rays

    Round 3

    Bye/s: Sydney Stars

    Round 4

    Bye/s: University of Canberra Vikings

    Round 5

    Bye/s: Brisbane City

    Round 6

    Bye/s: NSW Country Eagles

    Round 7

    Bye/s: Melbourne Rising

    Round 8

    Bye/s: Perth Spirit

    Round 9

    Bye/s: Greater Sydney Rams

    Title play-offs

    The top four sides in the regular season advanced to the knock-out stage of semi-finals and final to decide the National Rugby Championship title.

    Semi-finals

    Final

    1 November 2014 Brisbane City 37–26 Perth Spirit Ballymore, Brisbane  
    18:30 AEST Try: Liam Gill  8'
    penalty try  20'
    Pettowa Paraka  37', 58'
    Junior Laloifi  75'
    Con: Jake McIntyre  9', 20', 38', 76' (4/5)
    		 Report[91]
    Summary 1[92]
    Summary 2[93]    		 Try: Junior Rasolea  4'
    Dane Haylett-Petty  24'
    Robbie Abel  34'
    Davis Tavita  80+2'
    Con: Zack Holmes  5', 35' (2/4)
    		 Attendance: 7,889
    Referee: Australia Rohan Hoffmann
    FB 15 Brando Va'aulu
    RW 14 Chris Kuridrani
    OC 13 Toby White 80' to 80+2'
    IC 12 Jack Mullins
    LW 11 Matthew Feaunati  72'
    FH 10 Jake McIntyre  77'
    SH 9 Nick Frisby
    N8 8 Jake Schatz
    OF 7 Liam Gill
    BF 6 Curtis Browning  64'
    RL 5 David McDuling (c)
    LL 4 Marco Kotze  76'
    TP 3 Sef Fa'agase  66'
    HK 2 Andrew Ready
    LP 1 Pettowa Paraka  64'
    Replacements:
    HK 16 Matt Mafi
    PR 17 David Feao  64'
    PR 18 Phil Kite  66'
    LK 19 Tim Buchanan  76'
    FL 20 Adam Korczyk  64'
    SH 21 Will Thompson
    FH 22 James Dalgleish  77'
    WG 23 Junior Laloifi  72'
    Coach:
    Australia Nick Stiles
    FB 15 Dane Haylett-Petty
    RW 14 Luke Morahan
    OC 13 Junior Rasolea
    IC 12 Ammon Matuauto  77'
    LW 11 Marcel Brache
    FH 10 Zack Holmes
    SH 9 Ian Prior  63'
    N8 8 Alex Rovira
    OF 7 Richard Hardwick
    BF 6 Brynard Stander  63'
    RL 5 Brent Murphy  76'
    LL 4 Sam Wykes (c)
    TP 3 Ollie Hoskins
    HK 2 Robbie Abel  63'
    LP 1 Pek Cowan  56'
    Replacements:
    HK 16 Harry Scoble  63'
    PR 17 Joe Savage  56'
    PR 18 Chris Heiberg
    LK 19 Kieran Stringer  76'
    FL 20 Cian O'Connor  63'
    SH 21 Justin Turner  63'
    FH 22 Davis Tavita  77'
    WG 23 Christian Joubert
    Coach:
    South Africa David Wessels
    South Africa Kevin Foote

    Man of the Match:
    Liam Gill (Brisbane)

    Assistant Referees:
    Will Houston (Australia)
    Damien Mitchelmore (Australia)
    Television match official:
    Greg Milne (Australia)

    Season attendances

    Club Games
    Hosted    		 Attendance
    Lowest Highest Average Total
    Brisbane City 5 2,500 13,700 6,499 32,497
    Greater Sydney Rams 4 1,063 1,632 1,380 5,519
    Melbourne Rising 5 1,764 2,187 1,990 9,948
    NSW Country Eagles 5 500 2,000 1,150 5,750
    North Harbour Rays 4 1,852 2,900 2,230 8,921
    Perth Spirit 4 1,022 2,300 1,692 6,767
    Queensland Country 4 1,500 2,500 1,875 7,500
    Sydney Stars 4 750 1,500 1,076 4,302
    University of Canberra Vikings 4 1,500 2,000 1,625 6,500
    Totals 39 500 13,700 2,249 87,704

    Players

    The leading scorers in 2014 over the regular season and play-offs combined were:

    Leading try scorers

    Top 5 try scorers
    Pos Name Tries Team
    1 Andrew Kellaway 9NSW Country Eagles
    2 Telusa Veainu 8Melbourne Rising
    3 Jack Debreczeni 6Melbourne Rising
    Robbie Abel 6Perth Spirit
    Lopeti Timani 6Melbourne Rising
    Nic Stirzaker 6Melbourne Rising
    Jarrad Butler 6UC Vikings
    Chris Kuridrani 6Brisbane City
    Jarome McKenzie 6Greater Sydney Rams

    Source: rugby.com.au[94]

    Leading point scorers

    Top 5 overall point scorers
    Pos Name Points Team
    1 Jack Debreczeni 144Melbourne Rising
    2 Sam Windsor 88NSW Country Eagles
    3 Jake McIntyre 82Brisbane City
    4 Zack Holmes 77Perth Spirit
    5 Ben Volavola 72Greater Sydney Rams

    Source: rugby.com.au[94]

    See also

    Notes

    1. ↑ The Round 4 match of Queensland Country vs North Harbour was the curtain raiser for the Australia vs Argentina Test.[40]
    2. ↑ The Round 9 match of Brisbane vs Canberra was the curtain raiser for the Australia vs New Zealand Test. The attendance at the NRC match was 3,516 by half-time and 13,700 at full-time.[80]

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