Hurricanes vs Rebels

[Jailbreak7]

Nah sorry no way that was a penalty

[hydro11]

How are we second on the table? Seriously!

[Donsteppa]

Ha! Can always count on Qwade...

[Jailbreak7]

Ardie might well shake his head, half the team went MIA after half time

[hydro11]

Another point blown, really. Being up 26-0 you should be able to convert that into five points. It's really important that we get a home playoff (or maybe it doesn't matter because we aren't good enough to win the competition this year).

[Machpants]

Yeah no way we're going anywhere in the finals series, just nice to win some the way there. A tight game = a loss in the finals

[MrDenmore]

Can someone get Brad Shields on the phone?

[Stargazer]

Hopefully, the Canes have Evans back soon. He's sorely missed.

[Machpants]

@Stargazer yes but really it's our tight forwards letting us down, the scrum is a joke. Maul defence almost as bad, but at least then ardie can get in there and do all the work. Not even he is awesome enough to do the scrum himself. The defence from the backs was pretty porous too, disorganised once things got hard

[Stargazer]

@Machpants That's why it would be good if he (Ardie) can get some help from Evans.

[African Monkey]

@Machpants Exactly. Their tight 5 is pathetic. Evans is solid but their issues lie up front.

[canefan]

We canes fans should enjoy winning while we can, because we are going to be found out come playoff time

[Machpants]

@canefan hard to enjoy that last 55 minutes

[sparky]

Need to hope Fidow and Aumua improve next year. Need to sign a decent tightness, a reserve tighthead and some locks before next season too.....

[Rembrandt]

fell asleep in the 2nd half when we were up 26 - zip. Woke in time to see Quade's conversion miss at 26 - 19. Wtf?

Clearly it's bad luck to sleep through a canes came.

[Canes4life]

@canefan funny that out of all players to miss, I felt we really missed May at scrum time tonight. Man JTA is such a fluffy bunny. He's the biggest weakness in this Canes side IMO. How he became an All Black will forever be one of lifes mysteries.

Aumua and IWL showed plenty of promise but they still have a fair bit of maturing to do.

We need Coles back asap.

[Higgins]

"showed plenty of promise" doesn't always win you games. Neither does it always translate into a polished finished product.

[Canes4life]

@Higgins yeah but they are young so obviously still not the finished product. I'm liking what i'm seeing from those two and if you add in the fact that Numia has probably been one of our better scrum operators at the raw age of 20 means that we have plenty of talent coming through.

Toomaga Allen was a massive weakness for us and the sooner he heads overseas the better IMO.

[Snowy]

@MrDenmore said in Hurricanes vs Rebels:

Can someone get Brad Shields on the phone?

I tried for you but he dropped it.

[Chris]

@Canes4life I don't Rate Eves either May is mid 30's now so you need to contract a decent TH for next Season.
Amua,Smith,Fidow are up to it but you need more than 3 adequate props in a squad now .
Crusaders may have the same problem coming need a TH.So any young TH or Overseas Prop may have SR contract options for next Season.