Final: Blues vs Crusaders
-
Over 45,000 tickets have already been sold for the season finale of Super Rugby Pacific between the Blues and Crusaders on Saturday night - the first fixture to fill every seat at Eden Park since the opening Bledisloe Cup test last August - but this morning Eden Park Trust chief executive Nick Sautner told Newstalk ZB that the stadium has worked out a unique way to pack a few more fans in. "We've been working with the Blues and we've implemented a standing-room area on the field of play - something unique, given the demand for the event has been unprecedented," Sautner said. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, 20 years since the Blues' last success in 2003 so we're just excited to be able to provide this limited area and opportunity for fans." The chance to watch a premier rugby event from the sidelines, surrounded by over 45,000 screaming rugby fans, can be taken up at midday today via the Ticketmaster website. Along with the sideline-based tickets, Sautner said that there would also be a limited release from the stadium's members and corporate areas.@KiwiMurph said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
Over 45,000 tickets have already been sold for the season finale of Super Rugby Pacific between the Blues and Crusaders on Saturday night - the first fixture to fill every seat at Eden Park since the opening Bledisloe Cup test last August - but this morning Eden Park Trust chief executive Nick Sautner told Newstalk ZB that the stadium has worked out a unique way to pack a few more fans in. "We've been working with the Blues and we've implemented a standing-room area on the field of play - something unique, given the demand for the event has been unprecedented," Sautner said. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, 20 years since the Blues' last success in 2003 so we're just excited to be able to provide this limited area and opportunity for fans." The chance to watch a premier rugby event from the sidelines, surrounded by over 45,000 screaming rugby fans, can be taken up at midday today via the Ticketmaster website. Along with the sideline-based tickets, Sautner said that there would also be a limited release from the stadium's members and corporate areas.Gumboots , Swannie , Long Neck Lion Red ( its been a long time since I watched rugby from the sidelines in NZ)
-
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
-
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
-
@Crazy-Horse We have brain washed you!
@Tim said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Crazy-Horse We have brain washed you!
Cumulative effect of seeing Dan Carter and Romano in Blues jerseys!
-
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
Climb on, there's room
-
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
You Should fell ashamed.
-
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
You Should fell ashamed.
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
You Should fell ashamed.
posting drunk already?
-
This game really feels like a case of good vs evil.
The Blues, the plucky but positive underdogs trying to do something good for NZ rugby and the world as a whole vs the cold, calculating and ruthlessly efficient Crusaders determined to preserve the status quo and crush all dissent. (much like Communist China)
-
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
You Should fell ashamed.
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
You Should fell ashamed.
I do. Dirty and ashamed.
-
@Tim said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
That reminds me of the good old days in front of the embankment at Lancaster Park during the Shield reign. They used to allow people to stand in front of the embankment because it was so full. A
-
This game really feels like a case of good vs evil.
The Blues, the plucky but positive underdogs trying to do something good for NZ rugby and the world as a whole vs the cold, calculating and ruthlessly efficient Crusaders determined to preserve the status quo and crush all dissent. (much like Communist China)
@Frank said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
This game really feels like a case of good vs evil.
The Blues, the plucky but positive underdogs trying to do something good for NZ rugby and the world as a whole vs the cold, calculating and ruthlessly efficient Crusaders determined to preserve the status quo and crush all dissent. (much like Communist China)
Yes. But I can see the efficiency of the Saders mauls winning the game for them.
We'll still have the best stadium in NZ, but I'd love another title to go with it
-
This game really feels like a case of good vs evil.
The Blues, the plucky but positive underdogs trying to do something good for NZ rugby and the world as a whole vs the cold, calculating and ruthlessly efficient Crusaders determined to preserve the status quo and crush all dissent. (much like Communist China)
@Frank said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
This game really feels like a case of good vs evil.
The Blues, the plucky but positive underdogs trying to do something good for NZ rugby and the world as a whole vs the cold, calculating and ruthlessly efficient Crusaders determined to preserve the status quo and crush all dissent. (much like Communist China)
WHAT????
The team from New Zealand's largest and richest city, that has plundered the cream of the nation's coaching and playing stocks - playing in their home stadium against a bunch of poor boys from the back blocks - in a competition where 26 teams have consecutively won their home matches.
It will be an undoubted crushing of the Southerners, unless...unless....one man.... can stand for all of us...
What do you mean, Flash Jordan approaching....
-
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
You Should fell ashamed.
I do. Dirty and ashamed.
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
You Should fell ashamed.
I do. Dirty and ashamed.
there is still hope for you yet.
-
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
You Should fell ashamed.
posting drunk already?
@nzzp said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
You Should fell ashamed.
posting drunk already?
That’s tomorrow night when I will get banned from the fern for life.
-
Not sure what the TAB are paying but surely the Blues should be the favourites? Top qualifiers
and playing at home.If we look at the respective teams the only advantage the Saders have on paper is in the second row with two AB locks and at 15. I reckon the front row evens itself out (possible advantage Blues on the bench), and the Blues on paper have it over the Saders in the loose forwards (3 current ABs v 1 Puma). Half Back has advantage to Blues given they have a current AB there. First five is even (two erratic but at times brilliant players). Blues have the advantage in the midfield, the wings even themselves out and the Saders have the edge at 15.
-
@nzzp said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
You Should fell ashamed.
posting drunk already?
That’s tomorrow night when I will get banned from the fern for life.
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@nzzp said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
You Should fell ashamed.
posting drunk already?
That’s tomorrow night when I will get banned from the fern for life.
I'm resigned to mauls being the difference, and the Crusaders winning. It's our curse.
-
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
Awesome post and I’d feel the same way if the chiefs were there.
I think its a good recognition of the fact that Blues are also just fucking entertaining, in a way that no other team is even close to at the moment.
They are well captained and really hard to hate.
-
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@nzzp said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
You Should fell ashamed.
posting drunk already?
That’s tomorrow night when I will get banned from the fern for life.
I'm resigned to mauls being the difference, and the Crusaders winning. It's our curse.
@nzzp said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@nzzp said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
You Should fell ashamed.
posting drunk already?
That’s tomorrow night when I will get banned from the fern for life.
I'm resigned to mauls being the difference, and the Crusaders winning. It's our curse.
Mate I think the Blues will win,They have been the best team all season,the Crusaders have been inconsistent for large parts of the season.They have frustrated me this year with some sloppy handling and rushing passes.
If the Blues win and there is no BS Ref decisions either way then good on them.
No grumbles from me if they do. -
@nzzp said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@nzzp said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
You Should fell ashamed.
posting drunk already?
That’s tomorrow night when I will get banned from the fern for life.
I'm resigned to mauls being the difference, and the Crusaders winning. It's our curse.
Mate I think the Blues will win,They have been the best team all season,the Crusaders have been inconsistent for large parts of the season.They have frustrated me this year with some sloppy handling and rushing passes.
If the Blues win and there is no BS Ref decisions either way then good on them.
No grumbles from me if they do.@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@nzzp said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@nzzp said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Chris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Crazy-Horse said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand, being a Sader supporter, I want the Saders to win. But, and I feel very dirty for admitting this, I wouldn't mind seeing the Blues get up. Blues have a number of players that I am hoping will help turn the ABs around and if they don't win I will find it a tad disconcerting.
You Should fell ashamed.
posting drunk already?
That’s tomorrow night when I will get banned from the fern for life.
I'm resigned to mauls being the difference, and the Crusaders winning. It's our curse.
Mate I think the Blues will win,They have been the best team all season,the Crusaders have been inconsistent for large parts of the season.They have frustrated me this year with some sloppy handling and rushing passes.
If the Blues win and there is no BS Ref decisions either way then good on them.
No grumbles from me if they do.Good for you sir, respect. I rationally understand the Blues have been the best side in the comp, but I'm waiting for the choke. Can't help myself. I used to support the Canes for my sins... I can't imagine a side I support actually winning a game. It feels ... weird. Plus, the Crusaders are the cheatiest, smartest, cynicalist side in the comp - not sure we have the nous to keep up.
All to play for tomorrow. Can't wait - it should be a titanic tussle
