Super Rugby Final 2018
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@chris-b and if we hadn't given an intercept we might have won again.
I didn't say we were bad. We were flakey.
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@chester-draws Though the Aussies were even more-so.
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@chris-b said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@chester-draws We'd beaten the Wallabies twice that year, though. Once was a thumping.
And it was perfectly obvious after the reverse fixture in Sydney that Eddie had worked out the gameplan - stop kicking it to the All Black's back three, boot it out into row Z.
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@antipodean said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@chris-b said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@chester-draws We'd beaten the Wallabies twice that year, though. Once was a thumping.
And it was perfectly obvious after the reverse fixture in Sydney that Eddie had worked out the gameplan - stop kicking it to the All Black's back three, boot it out into row Z.
Yeah that second match was pretty close too.
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@chris-b said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@crucial 1582 all over again.
But which year are you referring to?
I think there were some Groundhog Days!
2003 was mentioned, but I think that similar calendar anomalies occur in 1999 and 2007. Must be something to do with black holes or something as there is a pattern there.
If Stephen Hawking was still wheeling around we could ask him. In lieu of scientific explanation I will put it down to 'unexplained mystery' -
@crucial We should have a new national holiday called "Stephen Hawking Day".
Celebrated several times a year to commemorate unmentionable days that have been lost into the space-time continuum.
Chief Scientist Brian Lochore can propose the dates to be celebrated.
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@chester-draws said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@chris-b and if we hadn't given an intercept we might have won again.
I didn't say we were bad. We were flakey.
No we weren’t. Our games against Oz and the Boks saw us turn a corner.
What happened is that our best centre got injured and our second best centre was played at fullback
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Do we really think Perry is that much better than Crockett??
Not convinced myself.
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@act-crusader said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@chester-draws said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@chris-b and if we hadn't given an intercept we might have won again.
I didn't say we were bad. We were flakey.
No we weren’t. Our games against Oz and the Boks saw us turn a corner.
What happened is that our best centre got injured and our second best centre was played at fullback
And our second best fullback played at centre ...
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@billy-tell said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
Do we really think Perry is that much better than Crockett??
Not convinced myself.
IMO it's a close call. I thought Razor was giving Perry the semifinal so that Wyatt would get the final.
But, since sentiment says you'd give the game to Wyatt if it's even, you'd have to think Razor thinks Perry is better - and he's the man on the spot.
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Leon MacDonald cost us two world cups
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@mariner4life Carlos Spencer, Luke MacAlister.
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@mariner4life said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
Leon MacDonald cost us two world cups
Yet he will be the saviour of the Blues
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@act-crusader said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@chester-draws said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@chris-b and if we hadn't given an intercept we might have won again.
I didn't say we were bad. We were flakey.
No we weren’t. Our games against Oz and the Boks saw us turn a corner.
What happened is that our best centre got injured and our second best centre was played at fullback
I've seen an awful lot of "corners turned" that were merely wishful thinking. England thought they'd turned one under Eddie Jones just recently, for example.
I'm not a big believer in teams being able to make sharp turns (especially when coach and players and game plan haven't changed much).
We didn't lose the game in 2003 at centre or fullback.
