Blues v Crusaders
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Great game ..Crusaders without Jordon ,Goodhue,Havilli,Grace and Newall get the job done ..and then they bring on 3 new guys
Sam Whitelock was colossal..!
Ethan Blackadder a work horse
Hoskins Soututu adding consistency in performanceScott Barrett a real concern with discipline
Beauden Barrett doing my headGood teams will take their chances and ride their luck with the officiating
Best game in a very long time@Steven-Harris said in Blues v Crusaders:
Great game ..Crusaders without Jordon ,Goodhue,Havilli,Grace and Newall get the job done ..and then they bring on 3 new guys
Sam Whitelock was colossal..!
Ethan Blackadder a work horse
Hoskins Soututu adding consistency in performanceScott Barrett a real concern with discipline
Beauden Barrett doing my headGood teams will take their chances and ride their luck with the officiating
Best game in a very long timeAgree Steve. Great game. Lots of guys playing well.
Scott was around the ruck when Crusaders were penalised but generally it wasn’t him infringing. His work rate is so big he is bound to get a few. One of my favourite players because he always turns up.
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Heard ticket sales are not great only around 5k
@Steven-Harris said in Blues v Crusaders:
Heard ticket sales are not great only around 5k
Good sauce!
@Steven-Harris said in Blues v Crusaders:
@KiwiMurph looks more like 10-12 gaps all around the stadium
There was clearly over 20k there. The offical figure of 24k seemed right
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Watched on my phone while focusing on the Warriors
Two things
Crusader have some fucking ticker aye?
Hoskins Sotutu is really good at football. Can he play 6?
Wait, 3
Does Beauden think he's playing for the Carlton Blues?
One team was down on talent but big on heart. The other had talent but lacked brains.
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Best two players on the park for me were Blackadder and Whitelock, no nonsense from them tonight. The really showed how to boss it in the big games.
@Canes4life I think MaCloud was right up there to, completely outplayed Roger. I really don’t think Roger is a union mid fielder, he should be at fullback or head back to the Warriors.
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Does anyone think Razor is brilliant coach if the best he can do is this result?
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Kiwi refs are gonna bite the ABs in the arse again this year.
Crusaders only refereed half the game and given oodles of leeway when they are.
It's evident when they then struggle under other refs and come international time when they're miles off the pace and ill disciplined.
@Bones said in Blues v Crusaders:
Kiwi refs are gonna bite the ABs in the arse again this year.
Crusaders only refereed half the game and given oodles of leeway when they are.
It's evident when they then struggle under other refs and come international time when they're miles off the pace and ill disciplined.
I'll ignore the one sided comment because people get pissy about that. However there's no way a ref from any other country calls the breakdown like Doleman did. It's terrible preparation for our players
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@Bones said in Blues v Crusaders:
Kiwi refs are gonna bite the ABs in the arse again this year.
Crusaders only refereed half the game and given oodles of leeway when they are.
It's evident when they then struggle under other refs and come international time when they're miles off the pace and ill disciplined.
I'll ignore the one sided comment because people get pissy about that. However there's no way a ref from any other country calls the breakdown like Doleman did. It's terrible preparation for our players
@Duluth I mean it's pretty easy to call it one sided when you line up the Lay and Christie incidents next to each other.
But yeah I don't have a "thing" against the saders, more a thing against kiwi refs combined with the saders. It doesn't do anyone any good (well maybe Robertson).
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@antipodean 6 titles in a row probably does…
@Stag said in Blues v Crusaders:
@antipodean 6 titles in a row probably does…
No disrespect intended to the Crusaders, their coaching staff or the supporters, but doesn't that alone say something about the standard of the competition?
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@Duluth I mean it's pretty easy to call it one sided when you line up the Lay and Christie incidents next to each other.
But yeah I don't have a "thing" against the saders, more a thing against kiwi refs combined with the saders. It doesn't do anyone any good (well maybe Robertson).
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@Bones said in Blues v Crusaders:
Kiwi refs are gonna bite the ABs in the arse again this year.
Crusaders only refereed half the game and given oodles of leeway when they are.
It's evident when they then struggle under other refs and come international time when they're miles off the pace and ill disciplined.
I'll ignore the one sided comment because people get pissy about that. However there's no way a ref from any other country calls the breakdown like Doleman did. It's terrible preparation for our players
@Duluth said in Blues v Crusaders:
@Bones said in Blues v Crusaders:
Kiwi refs are gonna bite the ABs in the arse again this year.
Crusaders only refereed half the game and given oodles of leeway when they are.
It's evident when they then struggle under other refs and come international time when they're miles off the pace and ill disciplined.
I'll ignore the one sided comment because people get pissy about that. However there's no way a ref from any other country calls the breakdown like Doleman did. It's terrible preparation for our players
The ref definitely seemed well out of his depth. The ABs have also made a habit of not playing to the ref lately and you're right, that sort of performance doesn't do our players any favours. Not sure what's going on with the quality of reffing in NZ, just seems really poor at the moment.
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@Steven-Harris said in Blues v Crusaders:
Heard ticket sales are not great only around 5k
Good sauce!
@Steven-Harris said in Blues v Crusaders:
@KiwiMurph looks more like 10-12 gaps all around the stadium
There was clearly over 20k there. The offical figure of 24k seemed right
@Duluth that was from earlier in the week
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@Chris-B said in Blues v Crusaders:
I'm talking about since the pandemic pretty much. Who was the ref against the Drua?
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Fark..groundhog day for us.
Respect for the Crusaders, the greatest provincial side ever. But I am a sore loser so I hope the Crusaders lose..every..single..game.
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@Stag said in Blues v Crusaders:
@antipodean 6 titles in a row probably does…
No disrespect intended to the Crusaders, their coaching staff or the supporters, but doesn't that alone say something about the standard of the competition?
@antipodean no
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@Bones We won two world cups with Richie's well-known "cloak of invisibility" so I'm doubtful that your theory holds.
@Chris-B said in Blues v Crusaders:
@Bones We won two world cups with Richie's well-known "cloak of invisibility" so I'm doubtful that your theory holds.
Nah crusaders weren't blatantly reffed different to other teams by kiwi refs back then, so I can't see the relevance. Even just last year we saw how "good" guys like Taylor were in super rugby with kiwi refs...then dog awful and taking 5 games to get up to speed at international.
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@Chris-B said in Blues v Crusaders:
@Bones We won two world cups with Richie's well-known "cloak of invisibility" so I'm doubtful that your theory holds.
Nah crusaders weren't blatantly reffed different to other teams by kiwi refs back then, so I can't see the relevance. Even just last year we saw how "good" guys like Taylor were in super rugby with kiwi refs...then dog awful and taking 5 games to get up to speed at international.
