Hurricanes vs Crusaders
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@frugby said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@African-Monkey said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@frugby said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
I remain unconvinced that this Crusaders side is actually any good in regards to winning this competition. They have some great individuals who won them that game, but their general team play on attack is shit. They did finally show some proper grit on defence, and they are one of the better sides in this comp, but they don't look like an obvious absolute threat to win this competition to me.
They're probably 2nd best by default, as there's a massive cluster or mediocrity, especially with the Blues and Canes being so bad this year.
Reds second best in the comp for mine.
Can't say I'm convinced by them either. They're 3rd for me. Crusaders still beat then 9 times out of 10.
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@Landers92 said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
Shalfoon flying in no arms. Fucking grub
I think he was offside at every defensive ruck in that passage of play.
Doleman is our version of Murphy with his officiating of the breakdown.
A few of the Crusaders ABs stood up big time while most of the Canes ABs were below par.
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@Bones said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
Bring back JGB
Anyone other than Hohepa at 10 would be nice.
Laidlaw with the stupidest comment I’ve ever heard post match when he said ‘I don’t think the change in 10 had much influence on the game in the second half’. WTF is he watching?
Does Hohepa know Laidlaw’s biggest secret or something?
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@KiwiInLondon said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@Landers92 said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@KiwiInLondon said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
Despite the endless praise from the media that this is the best super rugby season in years, it really is indicative of the poor overall quality when this Crusaders team is sitting in the top 2 and have demolished the force and reds who are sitting at 3&4
Force rested all their wallabies and the reds rested wallabies as well and a few players not travelling due to the cyclone that week. 2 well under strength sides. Not a fair reflection of how bad or poor it imo
Think it’s looking like anything other than a Chiefs Crusaders final?
I think if the Reds continue winning and get home field advantage they could beat anyone at home.
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@Bovidae said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@Landers92 said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
Shalfoon flying in no arms. Fucking grub
I think he was offside at every defensive ruck in that passage of play.
Doleman is our version of Murphy with his officiating of the breakdown.
A few of the Crusaders ABs stood up big time while most of the Canes ABs were below par.
I thought Lakai was the best player on the park in that second half. He was everywhere. Iose is not a 6 and was massively shown up tonight. Way too loose.
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@sparky said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
Scott Barrett was excellent. Hopefully, that shuts down the weird mutterings about the All Blacks Captain's form. He's a top Lock.
They weren't weird mutterings, he admitted himself he wasn't up to standard. He's been anon up until this game. His form was poor. Different from - let's ditch him from ABs
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@sparky said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@Machpants He's been hitting ruck after ruck after ruck because that's been what his coach has asked him to do. Don't blame the workhorse!
With no great effect
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Nah anyone saying Barrett has been good before tonight is delusional.
But he was very good tonight and when he plays like that he’s one of our top locks for sure.
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@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
I thought Lakai was the best player on the park in that second half. He was everywhere. Iose is not a 6 and was massively shown up tonight. Way too loose.
I was referring to Aumua and Love. Both had a chance to make a statement and didn't. Agree on Lakai.
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@Bovidae said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
I thought Lakai was the best player on the park in that second half. He was everywhere. Iose is not a 6 and was massively shown up tonight. Way too loose.
I was referring to Aumua and Love. Both had a chance to make a statement and didn't. Agree on Lakai.
Aumua still looks like he’s half injured. Definitely needs to get fit again fast.
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Moananu has spunk. Lots of spunk.
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@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@Bovidae said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
I thought Lakai was the best player on the park in that second half. He was everywhere. Iose is not a 6 and was massively shown up tonight. Way too loose.
I was referring to Aumua and Love. Both had a chance to make a statement and didn't. Agree on Lakai.
Aumua still looks like he’s half injured. Definitely needs to get fit again fast.
That Canes FR are coming into the season very slowly. Lomax seemed a bit better tonight but I only saw the first half really and he still looks like he ate Lomax in the off season.
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@Bones said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@Bovidae said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
I thought Lakai was the best player on the park in that second half. He was everywhere. Iose is not a 6 and was massively shown up tonight. Way too loose.
I was referring to Aumua and Love. Both had a chance to make a statement and didn't. Agree on Lakai.
Aumua still looks like he’s half injured. Definitely needs to get fit again fast.
That Canes FR are coming into the season very slowly. Lomax seemed a bit better tonight but I only saw the first half really and he still looks like he ate Lomax in the off season.
Hopefully a trip on the road will do this team good. Aumua and Lomax need to start playing well if the Canes want to make the top 6 from here.
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@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@Bones said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@Bovidae said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Crusaders:
I thought Lakai was the best player on the park in that second half. He was everywhere. Iose is not a 6 and was massively shown up tonight. Way too loose.
I was referring to Aumua and Love. Both had a chance to make a statement and didn't. Agree on Lakai.
Aumua still looks like he’s half injured. Definitely needs to get fit again fast.
That Canes FR are coming into the season very slowly. Lomax seemed a bit better tonight but I only saw the first half really and he still looks like he ate Lomax in the off season.
Hopefully a trip on the road will do this team good. Aumua and Lomax need to start playing well if the Canes want to make the top 6 from here.
If you look at it from a wider perspective, there appears to be a number of mainstay ABs that look as though they're struggling to get into the game and generally looking well off the pace. So hopefully it's just the change in the coaching regime has had an even bigger impact than usual on some players training schedule.
DMac, Ardie, Vaai notable exceptions.
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Yeah sorry Canes, you'll need to do better than that.
Quite a few things not quite ticking for the Crusaders yet but it is early in the season - shit handling, missed tackles, standing off turnover ball, but we certainly have the individuals and it will get better.
Shit Wallaby James O'Connor playing the best rugby of his life for the Crusaders. We are adding Moananu to Springer for nominations for Best Outstanding Breakout Crusader Performance Of The Year in the Fernies. Nice game from Dogroll.
The pass at 13:08 in the video above was forward.
