Hurricanes v Blues
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http://theblues.co.nz/team-line-up-blues-v-hurricanes-7-july/
The Blues team is:
15 Matt Duffie, 14 Melani Nanai, 13 Michael Collins, 12 Rieko Ioane, 11 Caleb Clarke, 10 Stephen Perofeta, 9 Augustine Pulu
; 8 Akira Ioane, 7 Blake Gibson, 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Matiaha Martin, 4 Gerard Cowley-Tuioti, 3 Ofa Tuungafasi, 2 Matt Moulds, 1 Alex HodgmanReserves: 16 James Parsons, 17 Pauliasi Manu, 18 Sione Mafileo, 19 Ben Nee-Nee, 20 Murphy Taramai, 21 Sam Nock, 22 Bryn Gatland, 23 TJ Faiane
Jerome Kaino will become the second most capped Blues player when he starts in Saturday’s Investec Super Rugby clash against the Hurricanes in Wellington. Kaino, who heads to France after the season, will play his 138th game for the Blues on Saturday, to go past Tony Woodcock, and sit second on the all-time Blues list behind Keven Mealamu. The Blues welcome back their two leaders, captain Augustine Pulu, who will start, and stand-in captain James Parsons, who will come off the bench. Pulu is the only change to the starting line-up from the team that beat the Reds handsomely at Eden Park last week, while Akira Ioane, who this week confirmed his commitment to the club, is the only Blues player to have started in every game to date in 2018. Coach Tana Umaga said Kaino will again be a key motivating factor for his side. “Jerome means a lot to this team and achieving the milestone is great for him. The team wants to send him on his way in the best way we can and that is with performance. And if we get a good performance, the results will come. “We get valuable leadership back in the squad with Augustine and James, which is important in derby games against the likes of the Hurricanes. That said, both Sam Nock and Matt Moulds performed well last week. “Our attitude around the breakdown was a key for us last week against the Reds, which created some front-foot ball for our backs. Our forwards really dug-in. There are some work-ons around set piece as there always is, but we need that same attitude on attack and defence again. “I am sure the Hurricanes will be looking at ways to rectify their situation after three losses in a row, but we have nothing to lose. We will go down there and throw everything at them, get some pride and respect back and also make sure we send our High Chief away on a good note.”Unsure what to make of this game. Have the Canes improved or was the improvement just due to the Blues defense
One plus was Goosen at center. Laumape was scoring the tries but Goosen defense and ball carrying with the limited chances he got was first rate.
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Does Laumape have the distribution skills to be the AB 12? (considering SBW is crocked again)
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@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
Fucking Tana - it's obvious! Tackle Laumape - stop him scoring tries.
Well, my evening as a Blues supporter was shit. I might not try that again!
Try three years of Tana’s shit selections and lack of accountability.
Look what happened to the Crusaders when you got rid of Blackadder.
There's one very clear path to success....
...follow Nepia and Crucial's example and head for the Crusaders.
It worked for the Hurricanes!
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
Fucking Tana - it's obvious! Tackle Laumape - stop him scoring tries.
Well, my evening as a Blues supporter was shit. I might not try that again!
Try three years of Tana’s shit selections and lack of accountability.
Look what happened to the Crusaders when you got rid of Blackadder.
There's one very clear path to success....
...follow Nepia and Crucial's example and head for the Crusaders.
It worked for the Hurricanes!
So 6 years later under a different coach is “worked”?
@Kirwan would be better off enticing me to the Blues. The Chiefs hadn’t done anything until I turned up and then bang two in a row.
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@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
Fucking Tana - it's obvious! Tackle Laumape - stop him scoring tries.
Well, my evening as a Blues supporter was shit. I might not try that again!
Try three years of Tana’s shit selections and lack of accountability.
Look what happened to the Crusaders when you got rid of Blackadder.
There's one very clear path to success....
...follow Nepia and Crucial's example and head for the Crusaders.
It worked for the Hurricanes!
So 6 years later under a different coach is “worked”?
@Kirwan would be better off enticing me to the Blues. The Chiefs hadn’t done anything until I turned up and then bang two in a row.
@nepia said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
Fucking Tana - it's obvious! Tackle Laumape - stop him scoring tries.
Well, my evening as a Blues supporter was shit. I might not try that again!
Try three years of Tana’s shit selections and lack of accountability.
Look what happened to the Crusaders when you got rid of Blackadder.
There's one very clear path to success....
...follow Nepia and Crucial's example and head for the Crusaders.
It worked for the Hurricanes!
So 6 years later under a different coach is “worked”?
@Kirwan would be better off enticing me to the Blues. The Chiefs hadn’t done anything until I turned up and then bang two in a row.
Us so called fair weather supporters bring our own fair weather.
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Thanks a lot Blues, for playing the Canes back into form.....
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@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
Fucking Tana - it's obvious! Tackle Laumape - stop him scoring tries.
Well, my evening as a Blues supporter was shit. I might not try that again!
Try three years of Tana’s shit selections and lack of accountability.
Look what happened to the Crusaders when you got rid of Blackadder.
There's one very clear path to success....
...follow Nepia and Crucial's example and head for the Crusaders.
It worked for the Hurricanes!
Nah, I’m a true fan. Got to take the bad times with the good.
It won’t last forever, insert rant about a new board, ceo and coach here.
Good Man!!
You've got to have some principles in Life!
Leon is coming! It will get better.
Hope he leads a coup!
And it can’t get worse, see Duluth’s stat on Blues vs NZ opposition under Tana? 5.3%
@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
Fucking Tana - it's obvious! Tackle Laumape - stop him scoring tries.
Well, my evening as a Blues supporter was shit. I might not try that again!
Try three years of Tana’s shit selections and lack of accountability.
Look what happened to the Crusaders when you got rid of Blackadder.
There's one very clear path to success....
...follow Nepia and Crucial's example and head for the Crusaders.
It worked for the Hurricanes!
Nah, I’m a true fan. Got to take the bad times with the good.
It won’t last forever, insert rant about a new board, ceo and coach here.
Good Man!!
You've got to have some principles in Life!
Leon is coming! It will get better.
Hope he leads a coup!
And it can’t get worse, see Duluth’s stat on Blues vs NZ opposition under Tana? 5.3%
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but 5.3% can become 5% which is worse
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@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
Fucking Tana - it's obvious! Tackle Laumape - stop him scoring tries.
Well, my evening as a Blues supporter was shit. I might not try that again!
Try three years of Tana’s shit selections and lack of accountability.
Look what happened to the Crusaders when you got rid of Blackadder.
There's one very clear path to success....
...follow Nepia and Crucial's example and head for the Crusaders.
It worked for the Hurricanes!
Nah, I’m a true fan. Got to take the bad times with the good.
It won’t last forever, insert rant about a new board, ceo and coach here.
Good Man!!
You've got to have some principles in Life!
Leon is coming! It will get better.
Hope he leads a coup!
And it can’t get worse, see Duluth’s stat on Blues vs NZ opposition under Tana? 5.3%
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but 5.3% can become 5% which is worse
@taniwharugby said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Blues:
Fucking Tana - it's obvious! Tackle Laumape - stop him scoring tries.
Well, my evening as a Blues supporter was shit. I might not try that again!
Try three years of Tana’s shit selections and lack of accountability.
Look what happened to the Crusaders when you got rid of Blackadder.
There's one very clear path to success....
...follow Nepia and Crucial's example and head for the Crusaders.
It worked for the Hurricanes!
Nah, I’m a true fan. Got to take the bad times with the good.
It won’t last forever, insert rant about a new board, ceo and coach here.
Good Man!!
You've got to have some principles in Life!
Leon is coming! It will get better.
Hope he leads a coup!
And it can’t get worse, see Duluth’s stat on Blues vs NZ opposition under Tana? 5.3%
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but 5.3% can become 5% which is worse
Sounds like you're talking about beer
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It can be tough being a canes supporter, consistency has never been their strong point despite the talent they’ve had in their ranks over the years. But when the chips are down and they are in a slump you can take solace by thinking “thank fuck I don’t have the misfortune to support the the blues”.
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It can be tough being a canes supporter, consistency has never been their strong point despite the talent they’ve had in their ranks over the years. But when the chips are down and they are in a slump you can take solace by thinking “thank fuck I don’t have the misfortune to support the the blues”.
@jegga said in Hurricanes v Blues:
It can be tough being a canes supporter, consistency has never been their strong point despite the talent they’ve had in their ranks over the years. But when the chips are down and they are in a slump you can take solace by thinking “thank fuck I don’t have the misfortune to support the the blues”.
Yeah, yeah. We’ve won the comp three times, and the Canes?
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@jegga said in Hurricanes v Blues:
It can be tough being a canes supporter, consistency has never been their strong point despite the talent they’ve had in their ranks over the years. But when the chips are down and they are in a slump you can take solace by thinking “thank fuck I don’t have the misfortune to support the the blues”.
Yeah, yeah. We’ve won the comp three times, and the Canes?
@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@jegga said in Hurricanes v Blues:
It can be tough being a canes supporter, consistency has never been their strong point despite the talent they’ve had in their ranks over the years. But when the chips are down and they are in a slump you can take solace by thinking “thank fuck I don’t have the misfortune to support the the blues”.
Yeah, yeah. We’ve won the comp three times, and the Canes?
Oh right, the last time you won there were six less teams then and my son was one . He’s about to start an apprenticeship.
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@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@jegga said in Hurricanes v Blues:
It can be tough being a canes supporter, consistency has never been their strong point despite the talent they’ve had in their ranks over the years. But when the chips are down and they are in a slump you can take solace by thinking “thank fuck I don’t have the misfortune to support the the blues”.
Yeah, yeah. We’ve won the comp three times, and the Canes?
Oh right, the last time you won there were six less teams then and my son was one . He’s about to start an apprenticeship.
@jegga said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@kirwan said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@jegga said in Hurricanes v Blues:
It can be tough being a canes supporter, consistency has never been their strong point despite the talent they’ve had in their ranks over the years. But when the chips are down and they are in a slump you can take solace by thinking “thank fuck I don’t have the misfortune to support the the blues”.
Yeah, yeah. We’ve won the comp three times, and the Canes?
Ob right, the last time you won there were six less teams then and my son was one . He’s about to start an apprenticeship.
It still counts
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Just watched game. Laumape was a beast.
Didn't think the Canes were very good tbh. Line out was a shambles. Scrum was good but too many errors. Still, better than the shit show of last week.
That BB intercept flick to Laumape had me blowing my load.
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Just watched game. Laumape was a beast.
Didn't think the Canes were very good tbh. Line out was a shambles. Scrum was good but too many errors. Still, better than the shit show of last week.
That BB intercept flick to Laumape had me blowing my load.
@rancid-schnitzel Great game plan from Boyd & Plumtree,attack the best left winger in the world that’s playing out of position..it’s does’nt help when your first five went to the Stephen Brett school of defending....
The fact that Tana has played Reiko at 2nd five whenever SBW has been unavailable suggests to me he doesn’t rate any of his midfielders to slot into that position,what I would’nt give to have a Micheal little in the squad..he’s an organiser,and he makes his tackles..another fuck up of epic proportions from Hanks and co.. -
"We knew that the behaviour of the 10, 12 and 13 [Stephen Perofeta, Rieko Ioane and Michael Collins] were such that, if we set up a structure, one of them would bite and that would leave an option for us somewhere else," Hurricanes coach Chris Boyd said after the team's 42-24 win. A rock-steady scrum, bodies in motion and then Laumape running off a short ball didn't just produce tries for him. The rampant Laumape was able to lay on another for wing Julian Savea as well. Just as the Hurricanes had expected. Perofeta is still learning his craft, with and without the ball, at first five-eighth, while there's debate about whether Ioane and Collins might be better left at wing and fullback. "Michael Collins played all his schoolboy football and all his youth football as a 13, so you could argue that he's in his natural position. If you ask me, I'm not sure what Michael's best position is," said Boyd. "And it would be fair to say Ioane is a very good winger, but he's played a lot of his football at centre as well. Not a lot at 12, but we weren't overly unhappy when we saw his name in the teamsheet at 12." -
"We knew that the behaviour of the 10, 12 and 13 [Stephen Perofeta, Rieko Ioane and Michael Collins] were such that, if we set up a structure, one of them would bite and that would leave an option for us somewhere else," Hurricanes coach Chris Boyd said after the team's 42-24 win. A rock-steady scrum, bodies in motion and then Laumape running off a short ball didn't just produce tries for him. The rampant Laumape was able to lay on another for wing Julian Savea as well. Just as the Hurricanes had expected. Perofeta is still learning his craft, with and without the ball, at first five-eighth, while there's debate about whether Ioane and Collins might be better left at wing and fullback. "Michael Collins played all his schoolboy football and all his youth football as a 13, so you could argue that he's in his natural position. If you ask me, I'm not sure what Michael's best position is," said Boyd. "And it would be fair to say Ioane is a very good winger, but he's played a lot of his football at centre as well. Not a lot at 12, but we weren't overly unhappy when we saw his name in the teamsheet at 12."@tim Haha so we have an opposition coach basically saying that our selections are horrendous.
