Brumbies vs Blues
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@Northlandallday said in Brumbies vs Blues:
Honestly I’m happy Blues lost! Management aren’t worried about winning! They want to give lollipops to lads for trying hard.
Good to see Apisai play well
@African-Monkey Coventry the coach of harbour whose captain is Parsons.
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@Canes4life and @Chris , take to PMs please and stop cluttering up the thread
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@Canes4life and @Chris , take to PMs please and stop cluttering up the thread
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@Canes4life and @Chris , take to PMs please and stop cluttering up the thread
@Kirwan allgood mate.
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@Northlandallday said in Brumbies vs Blues:
Honestly I’m happy Blues lost! Management aren’t worried about winning! They want to give lollipops to lads for trying hard.
Good to see Apisai play well
@Duluth said in Brumbies vs Blues:
@Northlandallday said in Brumbies vs Blues:
Honestly I’m happy Blues lost! Management aren’t worried about winning! They want to give lollipops to lads for trying hard.
Good to see Apisai play well
It is he’s had to gain a lot of confidence back from some very poor games.
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Yeah I'd like to see Nock and Plummer paired together next week. Might as well see what they have in those two. Black deserves to get dropped for that rubbish.
@KiwiMurph Yeah, Black plays at one very slow pace which really does affect our attack. I thought his goalkicking was important so I could see why he got the nod but even that went to pieces tonight.
Man it sucks losing so much haha. Will we ever make the playoffs again?
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@Steven-Harris There was a long period where all we did was defend. He was involved in all that.
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@Tim cheers ,I will check out the replay in the morning,the official sounded like the Brendan Pickerall of Australian rugby..!
@Steven-Harris said in Brumbies vs Blues:
@Tim cheers ,I will check out the replay in the morning,the official sounded like the Brendan Pickerall of Australian rugby..!
Man, you ain’t going to enjoy the scrum Armageddon.
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@Rocky-Rockbottom bring it on. I will change my avatar to the Blues logo if we lose and you change yours to the Canes logo if you lose?
@Canes4life said in Brumbies vs Blues:
@Rocky-Rockbottom bring it on. I will change my avatar to the Blues logo if we lose and you change yours to the Canes logo if you lose?
It would be way more fun for the rest of us, if you didn't just change your avatar but also changed your username to "Blues4life" (Canes4life) or "BluesRockbottom" (@Rocky-Rockbottom).
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@KiwiMurph Yeah, Black plays at one very slow pace which really does affect our attack. I thought his goalkicking was important so I could see why he got the nod but even that went to pieces tonight.
Man it sucks losing so much haha. Will we ever make the playoffs again?
@African-Monkey said in Brumbies vs Blues:
@KiwiMurph Yeah, Black plays at one very slow pace which really does affect our attack. I thought his goalkicking was important so I could see why he got the nod but even that went to pieces tonight.
Man it sucks losing so much haha. Will we ever make the playoffs again?
Agreed.
I was pleased by Nock's service for the most part. Pairing his service and Plummer's flat attack and passing game looks like the Blues best bet for now.
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@Canes4life said in Brumbies vs Blues:
@Rocky-Rockbottom bring it on. I will change my avatar to the Blues logo if we lose and you change yours to the Canes logo if you lose?
It would be way more fun for the rest of us, if you didn't just change your avatar but also changed your username to "Blues4life" (Canes4life) or "BluesRockbottom" (@Rocky-Rockbottom).
@Stargazer i'm all game if you are @Rocky-Rockbottom. Just for the week though aye?
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@African-Monkey said in Brumbies vs Blues:
@KiwiMurph Yeah, Black plays at one very slow pace which really does affect our attack. I thought his goalkicking was important so I could see why he got the nod but even that went to pieces tonight.
Man it sucks losing so much haha. Will we ever make the playoffs again?
Agreed.
I was pleased by Nock's service for the most part. Pairing his service and Plummer's flat attack and passing game looks like the Blues best bet for now.
@KiwiMurph thing I liked most from Nock, other than the fast passing, was the box kicks were huge. That’s been a problem area.
Ruru coming on at the end would be a huge improvement on Pulu, who at this point is a complete waste of time. Me might as well get the next rookie in for him, they can’t be worse.
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@nzzp Fair enough but I don't see it myself. This team just reminds me of the first 2 years under Tana where we're competitive but lack in the technical aspects up front. Jackson copped plenty of criticism for our failure at set piece time yet Coventry hasn't seemed to make any improvement in that area.
@African-Monkey said in Brumbies vs Blues:
@nzzp Fair enough but I don't see it myself. This team just reminds me of the first 2 years under Tana where we're competitive but lack in the technical aspects up front. Jackson copped plenty of criticism for our failure at set piece time yet Coventry hasn't seemed to make any improvement in that area.
Even though the scrum got done tonight, most of the time it's been solid - and the lineout has been OK as well.
The thing I don't understand, is why you guys haven't constructed some sort of lineout drive? Even though some of the drive defence was OK at times tonight, you still conceded three tries against it. And I think I'm right in saying it is one and two thirds seasons that you haven't managed a pure maul drive over the line?
Huge men in the Blues pack as well!
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@African-Monkey said in Brumbies vs Blues:
@nzzp Fair enough but I don't see it myself. This team just reminds me of the first 2 years under Tana where we're competitive but lack in the technical aspects up front. Jackson copped plenty of criticism for our failure at set piece time yet Coventry hasn't seemed to make any improvement in that area.
Even though the scrum got done tonight, most of the time it's been solid - and the lineout has been OK as well.
The thing I don't understand, is why you guys haven't constructed some sort of lineout drive? Even though some of the drive defence was OK at times tonight, you still conceded three tries against it. And I think I'm right in saying it is one and two thirds seasons that you haven't managed a pure maul drive over the line?
Huge men in the Blues pack as well!
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Fuck you guys suck at game scoring! Was reading through the thread to see the commentary but it was a whiner fest rather than play fest.
You need tips from @Stargazer on how to live update
Off to stuff to see the result
@Hooroo Oh the Brumbies won 26-21 incase you didn't know.
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Well, crap.
Brumbies game plan so simple - milk penalties, score tries against our shithouse maul defence.
In general, I think our general play defence has been solid this year. It's taken a bit to break down, and we've scrambled really well. We just have no answers to rolling mauls, and can't set one to save our life. Really don' tknow why - but it's been bloody years.
Anyway, some positives - we did enough to win (missed kicks), even with 14 players for 20 minutes. When we kept the ball in hand we looked good. I particularly like (@African-Monkey ) the direct running we do from time to time. When we do it, hard running onto the ball, it just opens up space outside. Three phases just after one of the tries and we made 40 m.
Ma'a seems to be getting better and better. His gas is probably still not there, but I'm wavering on him as a fringe squaddies for the RWC. He's no ALB at this stage, but still playing really really well.
Otere had a shocker. Can see why he got yanked ... but now we still don't know who our number 1 ten is. Sound familiar?
Scrum was a real concern. Seeing KT getting manhandled was unusual. Really not sure why - think loosies had a lot to do with it. Scrum's been weird - dominant against Chiefs and Landers (except for one PT vs landers), but absolutely smoked last night.
Ah well, that was one of the critical games to win and we dropped our bundle. Baby steps, and we go backwards after a few going forward. I'm still happier to go and support these lads - they may play dumb rugby from time to time, but by crikey no shortage of effort for teh 80. That's going to pay off at some stage (optimstic, I know)
