Hurricanes v Blues
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1st thing, an away win first up is great.
2nd thing, a rather scrappy game, that never got going.
3rd thing, A Ioane best player on the park, A Savea bloody good too.
It's good to have two All Black props on the bench.
Blues need to be a lot sharper if they want to challenge for the title.
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Blues MOTM voting
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/4472/blues-motm-v-hurricanes
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@mikey07 said in Hurricanes v Blues:
Talea was on fire.
Started slowly but gained confidence, which was good to see.
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@chris-b I think you’ve summed that up perfectly.
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Pretty comfortable win, nice to start with an away bonus point win.
Scrum was huge, defence was mostly good and we dominated them in the physical exchanges. Canes probably lucky not to leave more cards for some pretty cynical play.
Black looked nice and composed out there.
My highlight was Akira swotting away Ardie Savea for one of his good runs.
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Pretty comfortable win, nice to start with an away bonus point win.
Scrum was huge, defence was mostly good and we dominated them in the physical exchanges. Canes probably lucky not to leave more cards for some pretty cynical play.
Black looked nice and composed out there.
My highlight was Akira swotting away Ardie Savea for one of his good runs.
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My two cents
Firstly How the actual hell Blackwell got a contract extension is beyond me he conceded 3 penalties has buckets for hands and got carded...YET stayed on the field before Scranton’s injury.
For the Canes. I was Teally impressed with Julian Savea he played nothing like he did during the NPC, Aumua was incredible really put his hand up, disappointed in Kirifi when he came on really tried to hard. I thought Ardie and Flanders and Taumateine played really well,Campbell looked really nervous which Is understandable.
For the Blues was impressed the way Black ran the game the blues loosies really stood up and I also thought Talea was on fire.
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@mikey07 said in Hurricanes v Blues:
Blackwell got a contract extension is beyond me
He was poor even by his standards in this game. But hes loved by the coaches for god only knows what reason
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@tim said in Hurricanes v Blues:
Nisbett with another cheapshot at an Ioane brother. Time to retire you parochial moron.
It’s amusing how bitter some people can be, particularly against an All Black that’s scored heaps of trys.
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Canes of recent seasons have done well with a handful of gun players surrounded with lots of glue.
With both Beaudy and TJ gone, they might be a bit short on guns and have a bit too much glue.
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@kirwan Especially when they're paid to promote the game. A lot of very mediocre people in NZ rugby.
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@tim said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@kirwan Especially when they're paid to promote the game. A lot of very mediocre people in NZ rugby.
At least it wasn’t Tony Johnson
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@kirwan Especially when they're paid to promote the game. A lot of very mediocre people in NZ rugby.
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@tim Since when are commentators paid to promote the game? They're paid to provide commentary.
