Hurricanes v Brumbies
-
@Crucial Your sentence "For a while you were happy to send your players to ..." made me laugh because it seems to suggest that we supporters have a say in which players get a contract at which franchise.
Fact is that I've never changed supporting a franchise because I don't support one particular franchise and never have. I prefer to support individual SR players (especially, but not only, players from HB). My supporters tent is pitched in Hawke's Bay and I don't see any reason to move it to, or to and from, the Super franchises. Even if personal circumstances force me to work and live outside the Bay in the real world.
Hawke's Bay happens to be in the Hurricanes catchment, so I think the Canes should regularly play at McLean Park (it's a much better stadium than that hell hole in Palmerston North btw). The time that franchises only hired players from their catchment is well and truly over; if players are signed and (from my subjective viewpoint) don't get enough game time at their "home" franchise, then I have no problem with them moving to another one (in NZ) if they can expect to progress there.
At age grade level, however, the link between franchises and provinces are different and most HB players will end up with the Canes (if they don't go to, for example, Uni in another franchise's catchment). So at that level, I'm mostly focused on black and yellow.
-
@Stargazer said in Hurricanes v Brumbies:
@Crucial Your sentence "For a while you were happy to send your players to ..." made me laugh because it seems to suggest that we supporters have a say in which players get a contract at which franchise.
Don't take my quickly typed comments so literally.
I should perhaps have said 'For a while you were happy your players were sent....'
-
9 Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi
#TripleT
There's been a few double barrelled names over the years, but this could be the first triple I've seen
-
That comical article should have been posted in this match thread @Stargazer . Also, I don't even think most of our age grade players go to the Canes anyway. At least not the good ones. I wonder where Lowe will eventually wind up?
@Crucial said in Hurricanes v Brumbies:
@Stargazer said in Hurricanes v Brumbies:
@Crucial Your sentence "For a while you were happy to send your players to ..." made me laugh because it seems to suggest that we supporters have a say in which players get a contract at which franchise.
Don't take my quickly typed comments so literally.
I should perhaps have said 'For a while you were happy your players were sent....'
We were just happy our players got selected anywhere when the Canes overlooked them ... the Chiefs and Highlanders have had decent numbers in the recent past. We're so shit at the moment we're lucky to have very many.
-
@ACT-Crusader said in Hurricanes v Brumbies:
9 Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi
#TripleT
There's been a few double barrelled names over the years, but this could be the first triple I've seen
I take it you don't watch boxing? Triple G
Triple H doesn't count cos it's his ring name lol -
@ACT-Crusader said in Hurricanes v Brumbies:
9 Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi
#TripleT
There's been a few double barrelled names over the years, but this could be the first triple I've seen
That's because in Crusader land when they don't know who the dad is it has no effect on the surname anyway.
-
Not impressed with TripleT so far - gets to the ruck, and looks both ways before picking up the ball - seems to take far too long
-
Great try ruined by the dab.
-
AFL style!
I actually think Triple T has potential. His pass looks pretty damn good.
-
superb
-
@Stockcar86 said in Hurricanes v Brumbies:
Not impressed with TripleT so far - gets to the ruck, and looks both ways before picking up the ball - seems to take far too long
I thought he looks good.. But I'm comparing him to the Blues halfbacks..
-
The thing with that first try, it appears Barrett did very little to create it. But just because he had the ball, all three Brumbies players panicked and went to cut him down while completely ignoring Aso. If that's anyone else with the ball they would cover Aso as well. So tough to defend against, give him an inch and he skins you, try to swarm him and it opens up space for others.
