Hurricanes vs Highlanders
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@Frank said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
How did Ruben Love go at 10?
Excellent IMO, despite a question on his game management but his forwards delivered slow ball, which allowed the Highlanders defence to react accordingly. 100% success in his goal kicking and pretty solid in every department. Brillant with ball in hand.
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Best performance I've seen from the Highlanders for a very long time.
Belief, determination and big balls courage saw the Hurricanes home when lesser teams would have thought "it wasn't their night." Wins you have to work hard for are extra sweet.
Happy days!
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Best performance I've seen from the Highlanders for a very long time.
Belief, determination and big balls courage saw the Hurricanes home when lesser teams would have thought "it wasn't their night." Wins you have to work hard for are extra sweet.
Happy days!
@sparky said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Best performance I've seen from the Highlanders for a very long time.
Belief, determination and big balls courage saw the Hurricanes home when lesser teams would have thought "it wasn't their night." Wins you have to work hard for are extra sweet.
Happy days!
Best team in the fucking world, unbeatable.
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Best performance I've seen from the Highlanders for a very long time.
Belief, determination and big balls courage saw the Hurricanes home when lesser teams would have thought "it wasn't their night." Wins you have to work hard for are extra sweet.
Happy days!
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@Bones said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@sparky also, calm down.
Damn I didn't even think about the possibility of the Highlanders getting the spoon.
I'm sure they'll give the Crusaders a touch up next week.
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Tavatavanawai and Tele'a did very well against the much vaunted Higgins - Proctor combo. Actually, they played far better, Big Jim in defence and Tele'a in attack where his power was awesome. I wouldn't mind seeing one of those two or the two in the future AB squad.
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@Bones said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@sparky also, calm down.
Damn I didn't even think about the possibility of the Highlanders getting the spoon.
I'm sure they'll give the Crusaders a touch up next week.
@African-Monkey said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@Bones said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@sparky also, calm down.
Damn I didn't even think about the possibility of the Highlanders getting the spoon.
I'm sure they'll give the Crusaders a touch up next week.
With the Drua winning big today the Landers are officially in 11th spot. Let’s hope they give the Saders a hiding next week.
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Love was fairly solid at 10. Nailed a couple of critical goal kicks from out wide, general play kicking was also good with penalty line kicks in particular good. Squared up and ran onto the ball nicely and distribution was excellent creating time and space for his midfield. Not sure if his balance of kick vs pass vs run is quite there yet in terms of game management though. His defence was good but sometimes he comes up a bit too hard acting like a rush midfielder so quick recycles then gave space to the Highlanders due to his eagerness. Arguably even better at fullback (and funnily enough defensively he played a lot of fullback taking many of the high balls sent through by the Highlanders even prior to Cameron coming on) with a critical scorching run towards the end of the game that got the Canes right where they needed to be to win it.
@steelpotato said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Love was fairly solid at 10. Nailed a couple of critical goal kicks from out wide, general play kicking was also good with penalty line kicks in particular good. Squared up and ran onto the ball nicely and distribution was excellent creating time and space for his midfield. Not sure if his balance of kick vs pass vs run is quite there yet in terms of game management though. His defence was good but sometimes he comes up a bit too hard acting like a rush midfielder so quick recycles then gave space to the Highlanders due to his eagerness. Arguably even better at fullback (and funnily enough defensively he played a lot of fullback taking many of the high balls sent through by the Highlanders even prior to Cameron coming on) with a critical scorching run towards the end of the game that got the Canes right where they needed to be to win it.
I'm not 100% it was Love, but I thought it was him who gave Lowe his second try. Lowe drew a defender and passed to JRK - but the defender didn't complete the tackle, leaving Lowe in position to take the return pass and score. Whoever it was, it was pretty poor play and undid the good work from the other cover to get JRK.
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@steelpotato said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Love was fairly solid at 10. Nailed a couple of critical goal kicks from out wide, general play kicking was also good with penalty line kicks in particular good. Squared up and ran onto the ball nicely and distribution was excellent creating time and space for his midfield. Not sure if his balance of kick vs pass vs run is quite there yet in terms of game management though. His defence was good but sometimes he comes up a bit too hard acting like a rush midfielder so quick recycles then gave space to the Highlanders due to his eagerness. Arguably even better at fullback (and funnily enough defensively he played a lot of fullback taking many of the high balls sent through by the Highlanders even prior to Cameron coming on) with a critical scorching run towards the end of the game that got the Canes right where they needed to be to win it.
I'm not 100% it was Love, but I thought it was him who gave Lowe his second try. Lowe drew a defender and passed to JRK - but the defender didn't complete the tackle, leaving Lowe in position to take the return pass and score. Whoever it was, it was pretty poor play and undid the good work from the other cover to get JRK.
@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@steelpotato said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Love was fairly solid at 10. Nailed a couple of critical goal kicks from out wide, general play kicking was also good with penalty line kicks in particular good. Squared up and ran onto the ball nicely and distribution was excellent creating time and space for his midfield. Not sure if his balance of kick vs pass vs run is quite there yet in terms of game management though. His defence was good but sometimes he comes up a bit too hard acting like a rush midfielder so quick recycles then gave space to the Highlanders due to his eagerness. Arguably even better at fullback (and funnily enough defensively he played a lot of fullback taking many of the high balls sent through by the Highlanders even prior to Cameron coming on) with a critical scorching run towards the end of the game that got the Canes right where they needed to be to win it.
I'm not 100% it was Love, but I thought it was him who gave Lowe his second try. Lowe drew a defender and passed to JRK - but the defender didn't complete the tackle, leaving Lowe in position to take the return pass and score. Whoever it was, it was pretty poor play and undid the good work from the other cover to get JRK.
It was Punivai, he was the reason for both of Lowe’s tries
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@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@steelpotato said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Love was fairly solid at 10. Nailed a couple of critical goal kicks from out wide, general play kicking was also good with penalty line kicks in particular good. Squared up and ran onto the ball nicely and distribution was excellent creating time and space for his midfield. Not sure if his balance of kick vs pass vs run is quite there yet in terms of game management though. His defence was good but sometimes he comes up a bit too hard acting like a rush midfielder so quick recycles then gave space to the Highlanders due to his eagerness. Arguably even better at fullback (and funnily enough defensively he played a lot of fullback taking many of the high balls sent through by the Highlanders even prior to Cameron coming on) with a critical scorching run towards the end of the game that got the Canes right where they needed to be to win it.
I'm not 100% it was Love, but I thought it was him who gave Lowe his second try. Lowe drew a defender and passed to JRK - but the defender didn't complete the tackle, leaving Lowe in position to take the return pass and score. Whoever it was, it was pretty poor play and undid the good work from the other cover to get JRK.
It was Punivai, he was the reason for both of Lowe’s tries
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@steelpotato said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Love was fairly solid at 10. Nailed a couple of critical goal kicks from out wide, general play kicking was also good with penalty line kicks in particular good. Squared up and ran onto the ball nicely and distribution was excellent creating time and space for his midfield. Not sure if his balance of kick vs pass vs run is quite there yet in terms of game management though. His defence was good but sometimes he comes up a bit too hard acting like a rush midfielder so quick recycles then gave space to the Highlanders due to his eagerness. Arguably even better at fullback (and funnily enough defensively he played a lot of fullback taking many of the high balls sent through by the Highlanders even prior to Cameron coming on) with a critical scorching run towards the end of the game that got the Canes right where they needed to be to win it.
I'm not 100% it was Love, but I thought it was him who gave Lowe his second try. Lowe drew a defender and passed to JRK - but the defender didn't complete the tackle, leaving Lowe in position to take the return pass and score. Whoever it was, it was pretty poor play and undid the good work from the other cover to get JRK.
It was Punivai, he was the reason for both of Lowe’s tries
Hmm, not sure about that - I'm not 100% sure, but I'm not Nisbo either mate.
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@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@steelpotato said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Love was fairly solid at 10. Nailed a couple of critical goal kicks from out wide, general play kicking was also good with penalty line kicks in particular good. Squared up and ran onto the ball nicely and distribution was excellent creating time and space for his midfield. Not sure if his balance of kick vs pass vs run is quite there yet in terms of game management though. His defence was good but sometimes he comes up a bit too hard acting like a rush midfielder so quick recycles then gave space to the Highlanders due to his eagerness. Arguably even better at fullback (and funnily enough defensively he played a lot of fullback taking many of the high balls sent through by the Highlanders even prior to Cameron coming on) with a critical scorching run towards the end of the game that got the Canes right where they needed to be to win it.
I'm not 100% it was Love, but I thought it was him who gave Lowe his second try. Lowe drew a defender and passed to JRK - but the defender didn't complete the tackle, leaving Lowe in position to take the return pass and score. Whoever it was, it was pretty poor play and undid the good work from the other cover to get JRK.
It was Punivai, he was the reason for both of Lowe’s tries
Hmm, not sure about that - I'm not 100% sure, but I'm not Nisbo either mate.
@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@steelpotato said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Love was fairly solid at 10. Nailed a couple of critical goal kicks from out wide, general play kicking was also good with penalty line kicks in particular good. Squared up and ran onto the ball nicely and distribution was excellent creating time and space for his midfield. Not sure if his balance of kick vs pass vs run is quite there yet in terms of game management though. His defence was good but sometimes he comes up a bit too hard acting like a rush midfielder so quick recycles then gave space to the Highlanders due to his eagerness. Arguably even better at fullback (and funnily enough defensively he played a lot of fullback taking many of the high balls sent through by the Highlanders even prior to Cameron coming on) with a critical scorching run towards the end of the game that got the Canes right where they needed to be to win it.
I'm not 100% it was Love, but I thought it was him who gave Lowe his second try. Lowe drew a defender and passed to JRK - but the defender didn't complete the tackle, leaving Lowe in position to take the return pass and score. Whoever it was, it was pretty poor play and undid the good work from the other cover to get JRK.
It was Punivai, he was the reason for both of Lowe’s tries
Hmm, not sure about that - I'm not 100% sure, but I'm not Nisbo either mate.
I remember Punivai making a really poor read in that second try, will have to watch it again.
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@steelpotato said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Love was fairly solid at 10. Nailed a couple of critical goal kicks from out wide, general play kicking was also good with penalty line kicks in particular good. Squared up and ran onto the ball nicely and distribution was excellent creating time and space for his midfield. Not sure if his balance of kick vs pass vs run is quite there yet in terms of game management though. His defence was good but sometimes he comes up a bit too hard acting like a rush midfielder so quick recycles then gave space to the Highlanders due to his eagerness. Arguably even better at fullback (and funnily enough defensively he played a lot of fullback taking many of the high balls sent through by the Highlanders even prior to Cameron coming on) with a critical scorching run towards the end of the game that got the Canes right where they needed to be to win it.
I'm not 100% it was Love, but I thought it was him who gave Lowe his second try. Lowe drew a defender and passed to JRK - but the defender didn't complete the tackle, leaving Lowe in position to take the return pass and score. Whoever it was, it was pretty poor play and undid the good work from the other cover to get JRK.
@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@steelpotato said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Love was fairly solid at 10. Nailed a couple of critical goal kicks from out wide, general play kicking was also good with penalty line kicks in particular good. Squared up and ran onto the ball nicely and distribution was excellent creating time and space for his midfield. Not sure if his balance of kick vs pass vs run is quite there yet in terms of game management though. His defence was good but sometimes he comes up a bit too hard acting like a rush midfielder so quick recycles then gave space to the Highlanders due to his eagerness. Arguably even better at fullback (and funnily enough defensively he played a lot of fullback taking many of the high balls sent through by the Highlanders even prior to Cameron coming on) with a critical scorching run towards the end of the game that got the Canes right where they needed to be to win it.
I'm not 100% it was Love, but I thought it was him who gave Lowe his second try. Lowe drew a defender and passed to JRK - but the defender didn't complete the tackle, leaving Lowe in position to take the return pass and score. Whoever it was, it was pretty poor play and undid the good work from the other cover to get JRK.
i believe you are correct . thought same thing at the time
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@reprobate Just looked at it again and it was Love, Punivai was the one that got pumped by Tele’a.
Funny though when you watch it closely the Tele’a pass to Lowe could easily have been called forward.
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Forgot to have my little rant on my current irritant. This game had a particularly egregious example of ref coaching infringing player to detriment of game: Kirifi illegally had his hands in a ruck, slowing the ball down. Ref told him to get out, which he did, but because of the slow ball caused by his illegal play, he was able to shuffle out, and made a turnover on the next ruck, a couple of seconds later. Good play by him, but just horrible reffing and a shit outcome for the game. He couldn't have even been at that ruck if he hadn't slowed the previous one down illegally.
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Forgot to have my little rant on my current irritant. This game had a particularly egregious example of ref coaching infringing player to detriment of game: Kirifi illegally had his hands in a ruck, slowing the ball down. Ref told him to get out, which he did, but because of the slow ball caused by his illegal play, he was able to shuffle out, and made a turnover on the next ruck, a couple of seconds later. Good play by him, but just horrible reffing and a shit outcome for the game. He couldn't have even been at that ruck if he hadn't slowed the previous one down illegally.
@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Forgot to have my little rant on my current irritant. This game had a particularly egregious example of ref coaching infringing player to detriment of game: Kirifi illegally had his hands in a ruck, slowing the ball down. Ref told him to get out, which he did, but because of the slow ball caused by his illegal play, he was able to shuffle out, and made a turnover on the next ruck, a couple of seconds later. Good play by him, but just horrible reffing and a shit outcome for the game. He couldn't have even been at that ruck if he hadn't slowed the previous one down illegally.
Lol get over it, the game was completed days ago. He also missed Landers players being offside at the ruck on a few occasions so horses for courses. I wasn't happy with his refing either but no point going on about it five days later. The game is well and truly done and dusted.
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@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Forgot to have my little rant on my current irritant. This game had a particularly egregious example of ref coaching infringing player to detriment of game: Kirifi illegally had his hands in a ruck, slowing the ball down. Ref told him to get out, which he did, but because of the slow ball caused by his illegal play, he was able to shuffle out, and made a turnover on the next ruck, a couple of seconds later. Good play by him, but just horrible reffing and a shit outcome for the game. He couldn't have even been at that ruck if he hadn't slowed the previous one down illegally.
Lol get over it, the game was completed days ago. He also missed Landers players being offside at the ruck on a few occasions so horses for courses. I wasn't happy with his refing either but no point going on about it five days later. The game is well and truly done and dusted.
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Forgot to have my little rant on my current irritant. This game had a particularly egregious example of ref coaching infringing player to detriment of game: Kirifi illegally had his hands in a ruck, slowing the ball down. Ref told him to get out, which he did, but because of the slow ball caused by his illegal play, he was able to shuffle out, and made a turnover on the next ruck, a couple of seconds later. Good play by him, but just horrible reffing and a shit outcome for the game. He couldn't have even been at that ruck if he hadn't slowed the previous one down illegally.
Lol get over it, the game was completed days ago. He also missed Landers players being offside at the ruck on a few occasions so horses for courses. I wasn't happy with his refing either but no point going on about it five days later. The game is well and truly done and dusted.
Get over what? I couldn't give the slightest shit who wins a game between the highlanders and the hurricanes.
The post is about the reffing trend to allow infringing in one part of the game to go unpunished if players stop when they are told to - I'd be stoked if that finished 5 days ago, but I somehow doubt it. -
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Forgot to have my little rant on my current irritant. This game had a particularly egregious example of ref coaching infringing player to detriment of game: Kirifi illegally had his hands in a ruck, slowing the ball down. Ref told him to get out, which he did, but because of the slow ball caused by his illegal play, he was able to shuffle out, and made a turnover on the next ruck, a couple of seconds later. Good play by him, but just horrible reffing and a shit outcome for the game. He couldn't have even been at that ruck if he hadn't slowed the previous one down illegally.
Lol get over it, the game was completed days ago. He also missed Landers players being offside at the ruck on a few occasions so horses for courses. I wasn't happy with his refing either but no point going on about it five days later. The game is well and truly done and dusted.
Get over what? I couldn't give the slightest shit who wins a game between the highlanders and the hurricanes.
The post is about the reffing trend to allow infringing in one part of the game to go unpunished if players stop when they are told to - I'd be stoked if that finished 5 days ago, but I somehow doubt it.@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Forgot to have my little rant on my current irritant. This game had a particularly egregious example of ref coaching infringing player to detriment of game: Kirifi illegally had his hands in a ruck, slowing the ball down. Ref told him to get out, which he did, but because of the slow ball caused by his illegal play, he was able to shuffle out, and made a turnover on the next ruck, a couple of seconds later. Good play by him, but just horrible reffing and a shit outcome for the game. He couldn't have even been at that ruck if he hadn't slowed the previous one down illegally.
Lol get over it, the game was completed days ago. He also missed Landers players being offside at the ruck on a few occasions so horses for courses. I wasn't happy with his refing either but no point going on about it five days later. The game is well and truly done and dusted.
Get over what? I couldn't give the slightest shit who wins a game between the highlanders and the hurricanes.
The post is about the reffing trend to allow infringing in one part of the game to go unpunished if players stop when they are told to - I'd be stoked if that finished 5 days ago, but I somehow doubt it.Players usually get penalised when they are told and then don't listen, I didn't see any issue in the example you provided. Kirifi did the right thing and then moved on and stole the ball at the next ruck. It's his job to be a nuisance, maybe the Landers players should have blown him out which would have fixed the issue you are referring to.
The commentors even mentioned at the time it was a high IQ play by Kirifi which lead to a vital turnover in the game.
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@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Forgot to have my little rant on my current irritant. This game had a particularly egregious example of ref coaching infringing player to detriment of game: Kirifi illegally had his hands in a ruck, slowing the ball down. Ref told him to get out, which he did, but because of the slow ball caused by his illegal play, he was able to shuffle out, and made a turnover on the next ruck, a couple of seconds later. Good play by him, but just horrible reffing and a shit outcome for the game. He couldn't have even been at that ruck if he hadn't slowed the previous one down illegally.
Lol get over it, the game was completed days ago. He also missed Landers players being offside at the ruck on a few occasions so horses for courses. I wasn't happy with his refing either but no point going on about it five days later. The game is well and truly done and dusted.
Get over what? I couldn't give the slightest shit who wins a game between the highlanders and the hurricanes.
The post is about the reffing trend to allow infringing in one part of the game to go unpunished if players stop when they are told to - I'd be stoked if that finished 5 days ago, but I somehow doubt it.Players usually get penalised when they are told and then don't listen, I didn't see any issue in the example you provided. Kirifi did the right thing and then moved on and stole the ball at the next ruck. It's his job to be a nuisance, maybe the Landers players should have blown him out which would have fixed the issue you are referring to.
The commentors even mentioned at the time it was a high IQ play by Kirifi which lead to a vital turnover in the game.
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
@reprobate said in Hurricanes vs Highlanders:
Forgot to have my little rant on my current irritant. This game had a particularly egregious example of ref coaching infringing player to detriment of game: Kirifi illegally had his hands in a ruck, slowing the ball down. Ref told him to get out, which he did, but because of the slow ball caused by his illegal play, he was able to shuffle out, and made a turnover on the next ruck, a couple of seconds later. Good play by him, but just horrible reffing and a shit outcome for the game. He couldn't have even been at that ruck if he hadn't slowed the previous one down illegally.
Lol get over it, the game was completed days ago. He also missed Landers players being offside at the ruck on a few occasions so horses for courses. I wasn't happy with his refing either but no point going on about it five days later. The game is well and truly done and dusted.
Get over what? I couldn't give the slightest shit who wins a game between the highlanders and the hurricanes.
The post is about the reffing trend to allow infringing in one part of the game to go unpunished if players stop when they are told to - I'd be stoked if that finished 5 days ago, but I somehow doubt it.Players usually get penalised when they are told and then don't listen, I didn't see any issue in the example you provided. Kirifi did the right thing and then moved on and stole the ball at the next ruck. It's his job to be a nuisance, maybe the Landers players should have blown him out which would have fixed the issue you are referring to.
The commentors even mentioned at the time it was a high IQ play by Kirifi which lead to a vital turnover in the game.
Jesus mate, I said "Good play by him" in the original post, you play to the ref.
Kirifi was doing something illegal, that's why the ref told him to stop. Refs communicating with players is great, but if the action crosses over the line where the other team has already been disadvantaged by having their ball slowed down, it shouldn't just be play on.
None of this is a criticism of your hurricanes.
