Highlanders v Crusaders
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@tim said in Highlanders v Crusaders:
That was a pretty scrappy game. Worst I've seen the Crusaders. Understandable given the injuries of course.
Doesn’t matter who they didn’t have on the field, they still managed to put out a bloody decent team that would beat most comers, so poor excuse IMO.
Still, what a bloody good game to watch.
Pity that we now have to either watch the boring Brumbies or boring Storm.... -
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@no-quarter said in Highlanders v Crusaders:
@tim said in Highlanders v Crusaders:
@gt12 I don't. They need someone who can run straight at 12.
Yeah, Bateman is extremely limited as a player. The Canes under Hammett replaced Nonu with Bateman in the dark old days... sheesh talk about polar opposites.
Bateman is a poor mans version of Owen Farrell. Not really an extra playmaker, not a penetrating centre. A SWB.
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@tim said in Highlanders v Crusaders:
@chris-b Worst recently ... so this year or last.
Blues level ball security.
I thought we were arguably worse against the Canes last week - certainly I was more disappointed, but I had pretty low expectations this week.
Certainly seen much worse than this from the Crusaders in the past.
At no point tonight was I shouting, "You f#cking useless c#nts", at the TV.
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@tim said in Highlanders v Crusaders:
@chris-b Why the hell is Chris King in the squad?
Because there's no more loosehead props in the country and he's potentially marginally better than the third choice Mako's loosehead.
Our loosehead prop rotation is supposed to be Moody, Crockett, Perry.
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@chris-b said in Highlanders v Crusaders:
@tim said in Highlanders v Crusaders:
@chris-b Worst recently ... so this year or last.
Blues level ball security.
I thought we were arguably worse against the Canes last week - certainly I was more disappointed, but I had pretty low expectations this week.
Certainly seen much worse than this from the Crusaders in the past.
At no point tonight was I shouting, "You f#cking useless c#nts", at the TV.
Well that's why you lost. You need to up your game.
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Pretty entertaining game.
Best game from Elliot Dixon in about 3 years. Best game ever for Li.
Luke Whitelock was huge on defence.Marshall had his cheerleading going tonight which is funny because he is usually over egging the "neutral" perspective. That drop from Bateman was a knock on every day of the week. It would be opening an inconsistent can of worms to call that a strip.
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@no-quarter said in Highlanders v Crusaders:
@wally said in Highlanders v Crusaders:
Not enough impact or size for a lock.
Not enough impact or skill for a 6.
Too many stupid penalties.
Yeah, seems like one of those players that can play wither 6 or lock, but neither to the highest standard. Like a cricket all-rounder that is only competent at batting/bowling without being a standout.
The All Blacks very own Mitch Santner.....
But the All Blacks are too good to have Mitch Santners....they should be full of Imran Khans and Jaques Kallis's.
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Moody franks whitelock read Mo’unga Crotty Dagg. Too much quality injured for the saders
Li owned goodhue.
If only Luke whitelock had a bit more bulk. His work rate can’t be faulted. Hopefully not a false dawn for Elliott Dixon.
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@billy-tell Whitelock was listed in the pre game stats at around 116kgs. That's not bad.
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@crazy-horse said in Highlanders v Crusaders:
@billy-tell Whitelock was listed in the pre game stats at around 116kgs. That's not bad.
On a weight to height ratio that stat makes him the heaviest Whitelock and yet he STILL needs to put on weight. There's just no pleasing some people.
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@crazy-horse said in Highlanders v Crusaders:
@billy-tell Whitelock was listed in the pre game stats at around 116kgs. That's not bad.
The limitation on Luke Whitelock is what he does with the ball in hand as he's not very dynamic like we expect our AB no.8s to be. With his workrate and punishing tackling I think he'd go OK at 6 for the ABs playing the tighter role.
Speaking of AB no.6s, Squire is out for 6 weeks with a broken thumb so Dixon should get an extended run now for the Highlanders.
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@bovidae said in Highlanders v Crusaders:
Speaking of AB no.6s, Squire is out for 6 weeks with a broken thumb so Dixon should get an extended run now for the Highlanders.
If the ABs were playing a test today the pack would be without Moody, Coles, Franks, Whitelock, Squire, Read, Hames and Laulala.
I guess they'd have to ask Wyatt to rescind his retirement to play loosehead prop.
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It’s only Canterbury B’s.....
We looked way off the pace for large parts of that game. There were good moments but our intensity waned. We lacked go forward up front and Mitch, whilst a decent player doesn’t have the class of Mo’unga the deal with that. At least with Richie, even when our forwards aren’t dominating he still stands pretty flat and has his running and kicking game that the opposition need to worry about.
Kicking game was poor as well. Landers did very well to keep us pegged in our own half for most of the 2nd 40.
Some interesting comments about Elliott Dixon. Sure he played well if he had an 11 or 14 on his back.... I thought he spent far to much time out wide. Luke Whitelock and the two locks were the standouts for me.
