Blues v Highlanders

Kirwan

@Kirwan said in Blues v Highlanders:

@Hooroo said in Blues v Highlanders:

@Kirwan said in Blues v Highlanders:

@Frank said in Blues v Highlanders:

@Duluth
Wonder when and if DC gets a run.

He was three weeks away from even being considered for selection when they announced his signing. And then was looked as midfield and maybe fullback cover (basically the role that Plummer is doing I guess).

Be nice to have him off the bench in one game at Eden Park.

Be nicer f he came off the bench when you're 3 points up away at Canterbury!

Or comes on and wins the game with a last minute drop goal?

and then does a Mhertz salute running off the field!!

Any excuse

Duluth

Not a fan of giving Marchant a run.

It weakens fullback cover for this match and it's a change that doesn't improve squad depth

Machpants

@Kirwan pure class

Bones

@Kiwiwomble yeah. Yet tomkinson is a great winger, Walden is ten times the 12 he is, Hunt is a passable fullback and shit ten, Gatland is a decent ten.

Selection is an absolute farce but has to be expected in teams infected with Hammett.

Kiwiwomble

@Bones im not sure i'd even say sio is he was a great winger but walden is better in the midfield definitely

Koroi is actually a really good 10, very attacking/creative....yeah...nervous

voodoo

Frizell to put this Auckland pretender loose trio to the sword...

Bones

Matchup at 8 will be a cracker, winner takes all.

Kiwiwomble

really happy with our forward pack, think we can at least go toe to toe if not win...only issue will be the new rules and if they will hinder us and then we'll either

try and go wide and get a bit caught out
try a kicking game and that blues back three will punish us

Duluth

The Highlanders have won 5 of the last 6 matches between the sides. Including 2 of the last 3 at Eden Park

Clearly they should be favourites. I think the underdogs have a reasonable chance though

Kiwiwomble

@Duluth said in Blues v Highlanders:

The Highlanders have won 5 of the last 6 matches between the sides. Including 2 of the last 3 at Eden Park

Clearly they should be favourites. I think the underdogs have a reasonable chance though

....have you seen how the blues are playing compared to how we've been playing?...thats a much better gauge for who is the fav

Stargazer

@Duluth Haha, nice try, but the Highlanders are clearly not the favourites this year.

Machpants

@Kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:

@Duluth said in Blues v Highlanders:

The Highlanders have won 5 of the last 6 matches between the sides. Including 2 of the last 3 at Eden Park

Clearly they should be favourites. I think the underdogs have a reasonable chance though

....have you seen how the blues are playing compared to how we've been playing?...thats a much better gauge for who is the fav

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Duluth

@Stargazer said in Blues v Highlanders:

Haha, nice try, but the Highlanders are clearly not the favourites this year.

Rubbish. You're using feelings. I'm using logic. The undefeated Highlanders are favourites

Bones

Not to mention the blues will get penalised off the park in the first half and Josh is yet to miss a kick in SRA.

Kiwiwomble

@Duluth said in Blues v Highlanders:

@Stargazer said in Blues v Highlanders:

Haha, nice try, but the Highlanders are clearly not the favourites this year.

Rubbish. You're using feelings. I'm using logic. The undefeated Highlanders are favourites

it feels like your trolling but i'll bite a little...undefeated in one game, compared to two games for the blues

we just scraped past the chiefs...at home...when the blues beat them comfortably

its at home for the blues

TAB have blues as favs

and before covid the blues we riding high on the table and we were struggling with largely the same squads...except we had ioane then

facts = blues favs to win

Duluth

@Kiwiwomble

Half trolling

I’ve been to almost every Blues home game since I returned to NZ in 2013. Think of all the shitty performances I sat through during the Kirwan/Umaga years.. then there were the cruel games where the Blues outplayed the opposition but still manage to lose in the last 5mins

It’s going to be a long time before I watch a game confident of a win.

This year has been fun so far

Blues favourites, but the Highlanders are a lot more dangerous than most people think

Siam

@Kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:

@Bones im not sure i'd even say sio is he was a great winger but walden is better in the midfield definitely

Koroi is actually a really good 10, very attacking/creative....yeah...nervous

What's the oil on Walden missing out altogether. Couldn't see him on the injured list. Any idea?

Bones

@Siam said in Blues v Highlanders:

@Kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:

@Bones im not sure i'd even say sio is he was a great winger but walden is better in the midfield definitely

Koroi is actually a really good 10, very attacking/creative....yeah...nervous

What's the oil on Walden missing out altogether. Couldn't see him on the injured list. Any idea?

He was injured to start the super season and then they stuck with the (doomed from the start) failed experiment of Ioane at 12 and Misery Hunt at 10. It's starting to smell like something else now with the ridiculous selections going on seemingly just to ensure our 2nd best back last year doesn't even make the bench.

nzzp

@Duluth said in Blues v Highlanders:

@Kiwiwomble

Half trolling

I’ve been to almost every Blues home game since I returned to NZ in 2013. Think of all the shitty performances I sat through during the Kirwan/Umaga years.. then there were the cruel games where the Blues outplayed the opposition but still manage to lose in the last 5mins

Oh god, yes. They have been super long years, except it's been since 2007 for me. All of the Shawshank, so little redemption

Bones

@nzzp wrong movie, that's the Reds.

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