Force v Blues

[nzzp]

<p>Blues seem to be playing into a strongish wind in the first half.</p>
<p>
Conditions don't seem too bad - despite the comms at the start of the match.  Wettish ground, but no rain visible.</p>
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<p>West kicks one over, 3-3.</p>

[nzzp]

<p>Blues D holding up well.  ood line speed, taking away space and time and putting in some good physical hits.</p>
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<p>Still 3 all after 18</p>

[nzzp]

<p>Billy Guyton (magnificent beard) snipes well, and then throws a no-look pass behind that is interecepted.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Hmmm.</p>

[Tordah]

<p>Blues getting out kicked every which way, dire game to watch so far</p>

[nzzp]

<p>Blues score!  Jerome with 5 soon to be 7.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Good team buildup, sustained pressure.  Guyton showed some toe in the open ifeld... looked good</p>

[Tordah]

<p>finally a good passage of play from the Blues (Luatua and Faumuina offloading and combining on the touchline) and then a few phases and Kaino in from in close</p>

[nzzp]

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<p>Blues getting out kicked every which way, dire game to watch so far</p>
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<p>Comms said strong left to right breeze... makes kickers look excellent for 40 minutes.</p>
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<p>Who knows though</p>

[Tordah]

<p>Moala with a very good run and good offloading by him and Latimer and Li runs around a farcical Farce fullback and scores under the sticks</p>

[Crucial]

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Tordah" data-cid="581380" data-time="1463825922"><p>Moala with a very good run and good offloading by him and Latimer and Li runs around a farcical Farce fullback and scores under the sticks</p></blockquote>
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Earlier the Comms were saying Cheika should give him the Wallaby 15 jersey.

[Tordah]

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<p>Earlier the Comms were saying Cheika should give him the Wallaby 15 jersey.</p>
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<p>Well I hope he does. Who needs Folau?</p>

[African Monkey]

<p>They way these commentators go on about the Force at times you'd think they were top of the table.</p>
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<p>Must say Guyton making a massive difference. If we avoid giving them silly penalties we should win. Not conceding at the end there was huge for us.</p>

[hydro11]

<p>Haylett-Petty should probably be in the Aussie squad, especially with no Beale. He's a good player.</p>

[Nepia]

<p>Bloody hell, Nutbrown even gave the Force penalty advantage when Ihaia was trying to get the ball from the Force player holding it on the ground.</p>

[Nepia]

<p>I don't remember Duffie looking so skinny at the Storm.</p>

[Tordah]

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<p>Bloody hell, Nutbrown even gave the Force penalty advantage when Ihaia was trying to get the ball from the Force player holding it on the ground.</p>
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<p>apart from the shambolic not giving Luatua a YC for blatantly coming in from the side and collapsing a maul that was aobut to score, Nutbrown has been pretty tough on the Blues</p>
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<p>Ihaia Western Farce misses an easy penalty</p>

[Tordah]

<p>Matt Hodgson with the play of the day, unnecessary quick tap to knock on</p>

[Tim]

Three terrible kicks from West in the past few minutes. Jesus Christ.

[Tordah]

<p>it's like Umaga said at half-time "you're doing well, good D and some great offloads. Stop doing all that"</p>

[Tim]

Yeah, I thought they might get tired, but not like this.

[Nepia]

<p>FFS Nutbrown, that ball clearly went forward!</p>