QF - Lions v Crusaders
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Love it when the commentators make fools of themselves</p></blockquote>love it when the Crusaders make even more fools of themselves ... who cares about commentators? -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="JAF" data-cid="599510" data-time="1469290226"><p>love it when the Crusaders make even more fools of themselves ... who cares about commentators?</p></blockquote>
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They're acting like muppets. -
<p>Despite the refereeing, the Lions deserve to win this. Much better across the park. Crusaders simply have too many donkeys on the field.</p>
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<p>Pity the Blues were rebuilding this year under Tana, otherwise the Crusaders would have been rightly out of the finals.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="JAF" data-cid="599510" data-time="1469290226"><p>love it when the Crusaders make even more fools of themselves ... who cares about commentators?</p></blockquote>
Love it when saffas come outta the woodwork because they might actually sniff a tiny bit of success. Only to disappear when the inevitable loss happens eh.. -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Bones" data-cid="599511" data-time="1469290273"><p>Crusaders what a let down, just don't have the legs. Bye Blackadder.</p></blockquote>
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Lots of walking around by a couple of players since the 65-70th minute. Havili in particular. -
Picked this result. It all comes down to squad selection which has been generally poor by Blackadder.<br><br>
I for one look forward to a new coach.<br><br>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="antipodean" data-cid="599513" data-time="1469290310"><p>Despite the refereeing, the Lions deserve to win this. Much better across the park. Crusaders simply have too many donkeys on the field.<br><br>
Pity the Blues were rebuilding this year under Tana, otherwise the Crusaders would have been rightly out of the finals.</p></blockquote>
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Well done Lions. Excellent speed at the line. That young 2nd 5 played excellent and would be my MOTM.
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<p>I wonder if Blackadder got the senior ABs together at the start of every year and said what have you been doing with Hansen..?</p>
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<p>Well done Lions - deserved winners. Don't think we got much help from Joubert, but we were well short of the mark, really.</p>
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<p>Too much headless chookery in the second half when we'd given ourselves half a chance and - as antipodean says - in the final analysis - too many donkeys on the field.</p>
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<p>Thought McNicholl had a pretty good game and season, really. Mo'unga was better this week than the last several. Not many others who covered themselves in glory - Crotty was solid, Taufua tried hard.</p>
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<p>Thought most of our ABs came back from the ABs camp worse than they went in - enthusiasm and belief just seemed to sap away particularly last week and this.</p>
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<p>Definitely time for a change in coaching and a clean out of players - at least Toddy has left Razor with plenty of scope for improvement.</p> -
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<p>You called?</p>
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<p> :whistle:</p>
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I wouldn't mind watching a Landers v Lions final
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<p>I wouldn't mind watching a Landers v Lions final</p>
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<p>Deserved win by the Lions, but ...</p>
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<p>The Crusaders had the ref against them the whole fucking game. I hope the Chiefs won't share their fate in this respect.</p>
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<p>Crotty was excellent, Mo'unga & Havili also played well, Taufua also gets a pass mark and so does Taylor. Read disappointed me more than Romano (because Read is a far better player) and Dagg was too nervous. McNicholl & Todd had their moments; Macilai clearly didn't.</p>
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<p>All in all, I think the Crusaders have proved all the nay-sayers wrong. From the start of the season, everyone (media, many Ferners, others) said they wouldn't get anywhere near the play-offs because they lost Richie and all their first-fives. They were the underdogs from the start. But they <em>did</em> make the play-offs and the Crusaders only lost to one non-NZ team. In the fucken quarter final!</p>
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<p>Certainly, a lot has to improve next year. But this was a rebuilt year for the Crusaders as well (not just for the Blues)! I hope Razor will sign some great players; the Crusaders certainly need to improve their backline and a lot of players are leaving. But that also offers opportunities. </p>
