Final: Chiefs v Crusaders

[Tim]

Big games from Whitelock and Barrett.

[Mattasaurus]

@Tim Some good games from a lot of the ABs

[Chris]

@Frank said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:

ALB should have been red-carded.
Chiefs got lucky there.

[gt12]

@kev said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:

@gt12 said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:

@KiwiMurph said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:

Wonderful game.

Chiefs choked at the end - Cane and Dmac blew it.

I had to laugh at suggestions crusaders would win easy.

Congratulations Crusaders. Deserved winners.

They had no plan to attack from that 53 out. Needed to go to the corner and secure the ball. Terrible by the game leaders to not try to make the right call there.

It’s the thing NZ teams need to learn. Corners and pressure.

I agree, winning is winning. But it's shit. If that's the game, I'm ready to stop watching.

I don't mind mauling if you can go straight away, but if you get two chances, it's a rigged game.

[akan004]

Whitelock outplayed BBBR pretty comprehensively.

[Tordah]

best part of the game was there were zero scrum collapses and/or penalties.

[Chris]

@Chris

100%

[Damo]

@Tordah said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:

best part of the game was there were zero scrum collapses and/or penalties.

How many scrums were there? I can remember 1??

[kev]

@gt12 agree I hate the way the maul dominates.

[Chris]

@akan004

Yep I don’t think we would win without Whitelock
Barrett owned Vaa’i as well.

[ACT Crusader]

@ACT-Crusader said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:

I really want the Chiefs to win because if they don’t the whinging about the ref and blaming others will be unbearable….

Bump…

Commiserations Chiefs whanau. Lots of changes coming for both these sides for 2024.

[RoninWC]

@akan004 said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:

Happy for Razor and well deserved too. With the injuries they had this year it's an unbelievable achievement really.

Deserved how?

Deserved goes to the team who set the standard all year.

Deserved goes to the team who had a ref decisions go against them all night. Chiefs got pinged for stuff the Crusaders kept doing.

Not to mention forward passes leading to a try.

Not sorry at all but that was a totally undeserved result.

[Tordah]

@Damo said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:

@Tordah said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:

best part of the game was there were zero scrum collapses and/or penalties.

How many scrums were there? I can remember 1??

about five or six or so, I think. Probably can't remember them because they went so smoothly

[akan004]

Vaii was nowhere to be seen. He's not an international standard forward. Really don't know what the selectors see in him.

[Old Samurai Jack]

Great game. Both teams deserved to win it really.

[Dan54]

Well I thought it was great, Crusaders won, did the business when needed, I think as in last week's game I find it hard to go past Scott Barrett as MOTM

[Dan54]

So as I say Big Sam W get's it

[kev]

@Chris said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:

@akan004

Yep I don’t think we would win without Whitelock
Barrett owned Vaa’i as well.

Lineout work was great by those two. Thought Barrett was huge around the park.

[Damo]

@RoninWC said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:

@akan004 said in Final: Chiefs v Crusaders:

Happy for Razor and well deserved too. With the injuries they had this year it's an unbelievable achievement really.

Deserved how?

Deserved goes to the team who set the standard all year.

Deserved goes to the team who had a ref decisions go against them all night. Chiefs got pinged for stuff the Crusaders kept doing.

Not to mention forward passes leading to a try.

Not sorry at all but that was a totally undeserved result.

Geeze mate have a lie down and come back with some class.

[gt12]

Barrett was the difference, in my opinion. He was everywhere.