Blues 2025
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@SBW1 said in Blues 2025:
Blues will want to start some good recruiting for next year, that is a hell of a lot of sting taken out of their backline.
I find that comment funny when Reiko Ioane has provided no sting for the Blues in the last few seasons.
The Blues centre that should be in the ABs is AJ Lam. He’s been consistently very good for you blokes and his big frame would suit test level. Definitely prefer him over Havili as well.
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@Chris said in Blues 2025:
@pakman said in Blues 2025:
Based on how we bullied Chch I doubt any of the others would fancy meeting Blues in playoffs.
Yep Bullied yourself to another Loss even bullied the Crusaders in the last scrum to lose the game.
Well going forward the hope would be Renata is the tighthead in that situation and not a greenhorn on debut
Reds up for the Blues will be very tough. No NZ team has won in Aus and Reds off a bye.
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The Blues making the top six will require them to improve. I am seeing a lot of ignorance across the board from NZ fans, that the Blues/Canes/Highlanders are just going to magically turn things around, but I am yet to see any evidence that this is the case.
Blues the best chance of those three, might come down to whether they can win in Fiji.
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@frugby said in Blues 2025:
The Blues making the top six will require them to improve. I am seeing a lot of ignorance across the board from NZ fans, that the Blues/Canes/Highlanders are just going to magically turn things around, but I am yet to see any evidence that this is the case.
Blues the best chance of those three, might come down to whether they can win in Fiji.
I agree the lack of smarts in all our teams is really worrying, and is especially bad in those three
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@KiwiMurph said in Blues 2025:
@Chris said in Blues 2025:
@pakman said in Blues 2025:
Based on how we bullied Chch I doubt any of the others would fancy meeting Blues in playoffs.
Yep Bullied yourself to another Loss even bullied the Crusaders in the last scrum to lose the game.
Well going forward the hope would be Renata is the tighthead in that situation and not a greenhorn on debut
Reds up for the Blues will be very tough. No NZ team has won in Aus and Reds off a bye.
Yeah I think the Reds need to win as well,I still think the Blues will make it the Force,Reds and Waratahs will all take points off each other,One or maybe two will miss out.
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Not an easy run in for the Blues. The Reds, Drua and Tahs away with the Force who are going well and MP who can beat anyone on their day.
I feel like we drop at least 2 in there. Previous seasons you'd back us to win all 5, but it ain't so easy this year.
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@African-Monkey said in Blues 2025:
Not an easy run in for the Blues. The Reds, Drua and Tahs away with the Force who are going well and MP who can beat anyone on their day.
I feel like we drop at least 2 in there. Previous seasons you'd back us to win all 5, but it ain't so easy this year.
you have the Tahs at home.
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@Chris said in Blues 2025:
@African-Monkey said in Blues 2025:
Not an easy run in for the Blues. The Reds, Drua and Tahs away with the Force who are going well and MP who can beat anyone on their day.
I feel like we drop at least 2 in there. Previous seasons you'd back us to win all 5, but it ain't so easy this year.
you have the Tahs at home.
Ahhh fuck true, I'll back us there then as the Tahs aren't great on the road (so far).
The Reds and Drua games are season defining for me.
Sorry @Chris not trying to drag you into a Blues chat here, but is it just me, or could next year be a proper rebuild season for us? This year certainly hasn't gone to plan, and looking at what our side could be looking like next season, I must say, there are a lot of holes in our squad. The 2020-2024 period has been a successful one for us, but that side is slowly splitting apart, and it might take a year or 2 at least to build our next generation up.
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@African-Monkey said in Blues 2025:
@Chris said in Blues 2025:
@African-Monkey said in Blues 2025:
Not an easy run in for the Blues. The Reds, Drua and Tahs away with the Force who are going well and MP who can beat anyone on their day.
I feel like we drop at least 2 in there. Previous seasons you'd back us to win all 5, but it ain't so easy this year.
you have the Tahs at home.
Ahhh fuck true, I'll back us there then as the Tahs aren't great on the road (so far).
The Reds and Drua games are season defining for me.
Sorry @Chris not trying to drag you into a Blues chat here, but is it just me, or could next year be a proper rebuild season for us? This year certainly hasn't gone to plan, and looking at what our side could be looking like next season, I must say, there are a lot of holes in our squad. The 2020-2024 period has been a successful one for us, but that side is slowly splitting apart, and it might take a year or 2 at least to build our next generation up.
You are spot on I think with the WC in 2027 every team will Lose more experience.
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@Chris said in Blues 2025:
@pakman said in Blues 2025:
Based on how we bullied Chch I doubt any of the others would fancy meeting Blues in playoffs.
Yep Bullied yourself to another Loss even bullied the Crusaders in the last scrum to lose the game.
The impotence of Chch was clear when at 19-7 they were powerless to stop the Blues onslaught.
Blues with starting props had the nudge, albeit one sloppy scrum where Chch got the shove.But once Angus left Blues were lambs to slaughter and Newell then asserted himself like a test tighthead, which was something.
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@pakman said in Blues 2025:
@Chris said in Blues 2025:
@pakman said in Blues 2025:
Based on how we bullied Chch I doubt any of the others would fancy meeting Blues in playoffs.
Yep Bullied yourself to another Loss even bullied the Crusaders in the last scrum to lose the game.
The impotence of Chch was clear when at 19-7 they were powerless to stop the Blues onslaught.
Blues with starting props had the nudge, albeit one sloppy scrum where Chch got the shove.But once Angus left Blues were lambs to slaughter and Newell then asserted himself like a test tighthead, which was something.
I think the game in shocking conditions ebbed and flowed both teams got on top at different times.
Impotence well that was the impotence of Auckland to close out the game with Barrett having a brain fade ran the ball back Ioane dropped it cold and Aucklands scrum collapsed to lose the game I think that ending was the impotent part of the game. -
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