Blues 2024
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@cgrant Suafoa probably suits Cotter's style of play more, but at the same time, I like what Segner brings but he isn't as strong in the contact areas as others.
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@Tim said in Blues 2024:
So, who plays 6 next year? That's a huge hole to fill.
Suafoa or Clark. I prefer Segner as a 7 or 8
Depends how the NPC goes
It'll be interesting to see where Segner plays for Auckland. I hope we see a a trio of: 7 Choat, 8 Segner & 6 Clark.
I assume Suafoa will mostly start at 8 for Harbour again. He probably has the inside running at this stage
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If you skim back in thread the main concern before the season kicked off was the locks. The area of weakness became a strength very quickly
Happy with any combination of Tuipulotu, Darry, Beehre, McWhannell.
Thompson had some very useful cameos. Suafoa only got a handful of mins at lock but he's still a handy loosie/lock (in 2023 he started 9 times at lock but is seems to be considered more of a loosie now)
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16 wins in a row at home now. That includes wins against all the other NZ sides
The Blues record is 21 from the first few years of SR
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@Duluth said in Blues 2024:
The Blues record is 21 from the first few years of SR
genuine questio: are you sure? I just went back and checked 96-98; I got 17 for proper comp games ... did they count preseason as well?
Edit: yes, am nerd.
Is there an error here? Blues at home 96-98
Maybe you're only counting Eden Park? That was
1817 in a row. There were34 games at Pukekohe tooThe current streak includes a Whangarei match
[edit] there was a small error, one of the Pukekohe games had Auckland as the location[/edit]
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Is there an error here? Blues at home 96-98
Maybe you're only counting Eden Park? That was
1817 in a row. There were34 games at Pukekohe tooThe current streak includes a Whangarei match
[edit] there was a small error, one of the Pukekohe games had Auckland as the location[/edit]
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Is there an error here? Blues at home 96-98
Maybe you're only counting Eden Park? That was
1817 in a row. There were34 games at Pukekohe tooThe current streak includes a Whangarei match
[edit] there was a small error, one of the Pukekohe games had Auckland as the location[/edit]
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@Duluth said in Blues 2024:
There were 4 games at Pukekohe too
Back when Pukekohe got regular super rugby.
@mikedogz Yeah the Blues were good like that.
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@Tim said in Blues 2024:
So, who plays 6 next year? That's a huge hole to fill.
What's Sititi's contract at the Chiefs like?
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350321200/numbers-how-2024-blues-compare-past-super-rugby-champions
Comparing to previous winners
Best average points for since 2005 (35.24)
Fewest average points against since 2008 (15.76)
Best ever average win margin (19.47) -
The final MOTM table
20 Dalton Papalii
15 Akira Ioane
14 Patrick Tuipulotu
11 Hoskins Sotutu
11 Mark Telea
10 Harry Plummer
8 Caleb Clarke
8 Taufa Funaki
4 Bryce Heem
4 Sam Darry
3 AJ Lam
3 Ofa Tu'ungafasi
2 Zarn Sullivan
2 Ricky Riccitelli
2 Josh Beehre
2 Laghlan McWhannell
1 Finlay Christie
1 Kurt EklundLoosies prominent as usual
Tuipulotu had a great season. He missed 7 matches but still finished in 3rd spot
This year some of the better performers didn't finish high on this table. Guys that consistently played well for some reason happened to get a lot of 4th, 5th or 6th places. Players like Lam, Rieko and most of the tight forwards
