Hurricanes v Blues
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@Canes4life You're wrong. He has played plenty at both 12 and fullback. I think all his 4 games for the Magpies were at 12. At school level he played both.
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@Canes4life He seemed to play midfield mostly whilst at HBHS and I was mightly impressed with him when I took in the HBHS v Well Coll game at Well Coll a couple of years back. He oozed class playing second five that day.
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@Stargazer With all the games I've seen Lowe play I just don't get what all the fuss is about. Hopefully he gets more game time, because I would like to see if he can deliver at this level. Kudos to the kid if he does.
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@Higgins @Stargazer Oh right, so what would his best position be then?
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On the upside lads my TAB account is up by $160..5-24 at $8 was too good an opportunity to pass up..you just knew the Blues would find a way..!.
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@Steven-Harris I actually joked with a mate at halftime that the Blues would find a way, and sure enough.
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@Canes4life Lowe has been excellent during Canes preseason, M10 Cup and for the MABs. He scored plenty of tries. But also noteworthy is that he is best at centre, and they play him on the wing, which is unfortunate.
By the way, all the fuss I've made is about him not getting opportunities. I've never said he's a superstar (at SR level), because basically, we don't know yet how good he can be.
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@Stargazer I'm sure there will be a fair amount of competition next year for those wing positions - whether it's Goosen, Aso, Toala, Lowe, Rayasi or Lam - I guess whoever gets the chance will need to be playing bloody well. Good to have that competition and depth.
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@nzzp said in Hurricanes v Blues:
you can see what SBW brings. Big, fast, offloading machine, with the track record not to choke under severe pressure.
He goes AWOL far too often at Test level IMHO. He may be a great guy, but for every miracle pass there's a knock-on, offside, fumble or brain-fart. He almost cost us a game against France by idiotically knocking the ball over the dead-ball line.
You didn't see that with Nonu.
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@Victor-Meldrew and he cost us the Lions tour.
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@Stargazer said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes v Blues:
This was really satisfying win as a Canes fan. Bunch of rookies really stepped up and got the result. Really impressed with Peter Umaga-Jensen at centre, I would keep him there through the playoffs.
Really impressed at Fletcher Smiths cameo off the bench at Fullback.
And wow, the Canes had more wins than the Crusaders this year.
Also more losses.
Canes had a very good season YET they've been badly exposed in their 3 defeats to Crusaders and Jaguares
Let see if Canes can shed their rap this season of being flat track bullies
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@Stargazer did you have to torture us with the highlights so soon..!,lol
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@Steven-Harris Haha, sorry, but you really don't have to watch them if you don't want to.
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@Stargazer Nah, I am literally done for the super season ,not going to go and nail my genitalia to a piece of wood or bash my head repeatedly against the toilet bowl..but man alive it’s hard hard work following this franchise..
Just trying to figure out who my allegiances are with regarding the remaining NZ teams ..even my 2nd team the moon dogs have had it rough this year..but they have got some genuine reasons..compromised by having all their Japanese players pulled out along with several key injuries and I guess being told your going to be chopped did not help.. -
@Jaguares4real the Canes are a different beast with Coles in that front row. He adds the mongrel needed to take on big packs like the Crusaders and Jaguares. If the Canes can field Coles, Ardie, Perenara, B Barrett, J Barrett through the playoffs, they are a real chance for the title.
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@Steven-Harris jump on the Canes bandwagon, we have the Blues King in our coaching staff.
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I wasn’t fussed if we’d lost to the Blues I’m was just happy so other squad members got game time...was really weird seeing number 23 is he new
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@Canes4life said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@Stargazer With all the games I've seen Lowe play I just don't get what all the fuss is about. Hopefully he gets more game time, because I would like to see if he can deliver at this level. Kudos to the kid if he does.
All the games you've seen him play? How many is that really?
I've seen Goosen play way more games than Lowe (at all levels as Lowe's been injured pretty frequently) and it took him until mid way this year to reach the hype assigned to him (mostly from @Winger and Grint Nesbitt).
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@Steven-Harris dont worry bro you have the roller coaster ride of watching Northland coming up...
