Waratahs v Blues

@Steven-Harris with Patty T returning it comes down to Choat or Suafoa who were on 1 year deals to make way. Suafoa is weighing up an offer in Japan so it'll probably him

number9

@Derpus why ot say the Blues are well prepared? Depth in the squad is on show.

Dice

@Nogusta Is Plumtree sticking around?

Derpus

@KiwiMurph yeah fair criticism. I'll cop that, they exceeded themselves in that game.

But you are snorting shard if you think the second best Aus side beating the, by far, worst NZ side means we suddenly have a sustainable competition.

And yeah - if I'm wrong I'll be happy. All I want is a proper professional rugby comp to watch. I love rugby and I know you fluffybunnies get sick of my shit but at least I know enough to moan. Reality is, most Aussies don't even know what Rugby is.

booboo

Haha

We'll take that

kiwiinmelb

Just watched a replay , enjoyed that second half,

Blues first team lose that game a few years ago, what a turnaround in culture .

NTA

@NTA said in Waratahs v Blues:

I'd like to go to the game, but I'll probably be on the couch, recovering after too many minutes at hooker for both grades on Saturday.

Hopefully survive the 2nd Grade match in order to run on for First Grade in what would be my 100th game at the club.

Only taken 15 years...

Lost Game 99 in Second Grade 36-32 after the fullback - not realising it was full time - chipped ahead and they conceded a try. Played 65 of 70 minutes.

Won Game 100 in First Grade 68-24 and played the whole thing BUT it was uncontested scrums. Thank fuck. I missed a dropgoal conversion that would have been my first points in about 10 years

Copped a facepalm in 2s early on which took a while to come good.

Other than that, I'm alright. Off to ref womens 7s this morning over in Killara.

NTA

Tahs their own worst enemies at times - when down in that corner with 2 opposition flankers missing, get the fucking ball out of the scrum and use the extra space. As it was, the Blues tight five had clearly practiced a lot together and were better all night. Tahs have a real THP issue at the moment.

I'm not sure putting Hanigan in there helped the scrum TBH. Sure, Holz is a kid and was getting snapped, but we didn't have the same stability we did most of the year. Losing Porecki early didn't help.

Last penalty to level it up: why? Go for the corner, use your superior lineout, and try to come away with 5. Also uses up more time and the whole golden point thing is the last thing you need heading into finals.

The Blues are clearly doing good things in terms of culture and building depth. There were a LOT of errors - particularly the kicking game - but winning ugly is a good sign. Much better at the ruck as Gordon said post-game.

The Tahs played fairly well but it only coalesced in a short period after half time with the two tries. After that they fell away and just weren't accurate enough in the rest of the game.

Ultimately it changed nothing about the finals makeup at that point, the Ponies having lost but now we face the prospect of any Aussie teams left being knocked out in the first week.

Rebels need to do the Force a favour and win today by a lot.

Nepia

So I only watched the highlights. Was the 2nd Blues yellow Zarn Sullivan?

Tim

@Nepia Akira Ioane.

Nepia

@Tim said in Waratahs v Blues:

@Nepia Akira Ioane.

I saw his yellow. I thought there was another one. I must have misread the visuals on the screen.

Kirwan

@Nepia said in Waratahs v Blues:

@Tim said in Waratahs v Blues:

@Nepia Akira Ioane.

I saw his yellow. I thought there was another one. I must have misread the visuals on the screen.

Choat was first, both for head high tackles.

Nepia

@Kirwan said in Waratahs v Blues:

@Nepia said in Waratahs v Blues:

@Tim said in Waratahs v Blues:

@Nepia Akira Ioane.

I saw his yellow. I thought there was another one. I must have misread the visuals on the screen.

Choat was first, both for head high tackles.

Ah cool, I saw the ref admonishing Choat but the highlights package didn't show him walking off.

Thanks guys. :thumbs_up_medium_skin_tone:

taniwharugby

@Kirwan both looked pretty soft to me, the Choat one the attackers knee was almost on the ground, the Akira one looked like a scrag of the collar (although highlights didnt replay his one)

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Waratahs v Blues