Super Rugby Final 2018
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Lions a real chance with a disrupted starting lineup and a debutante at backup hooker. Crusaders without experienced All Blacks Wyatt Crockett and Israel Dagg.
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Lions chances given a further boost with the Crusaders being far too emotional this close. Should be more business as usual like.
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@act-crusader We should take heed at Shag's warning.
No-one thought the ABs would lose in 1999, 2003 or 2007 until they did.
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@taniwharugby said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@mariner4life yep, only 12 capped players in the starting lineup, they should default now, save everyone the embarrassment.
And some Ferners firmly believe that number is too low.
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@cgrant It is a bit sad for Wyatt, but on the other hand - if Razor believes that Perry is better and given that Perry will be with the Crusaders next year - I'm going to applaud his ruthlessness.
I have a recollection of Toddy, early in his tenure, giving Ben Franks a start in a play-off game when he wasn't the No.1 option, on the grounds that he "deserved it". Pretty sure we lost.
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@chris-b said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@act-crusader We should take heed at Shag's warning.
No-one thought the ABs would lose in 1999, 2003 or 2007 until they did.
Eh? 2003? The holes in that team were well known.
The way we lost was gut-wrenching. But we'd been flakey all season.
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@chester-draws We'd beaten the Wallabies twice that year, though. Once was a thumping.
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@chris-b and if we hadn't given an intercept we might have won again.
I didn't say we were bad. We were flakey.
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@chester-draws Though the Aussies were even more-so.
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@chris-b said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@chester-draws We'd beaten the Wallabies twice that year, though. Once was a thumping.
And it was perfectly obvious after the reverse fixture in Sydney that Eddie had worked out the gameplan - stop kicking it to the All Black's back three, boot it out into row Z.
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@antipodean said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@chris-b said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@chester-draws We'd beaten the Wallabies twice that year, though. Once was a thumping.
And it was perfectly obvious after the reverse fixture in Sydney that Eddie had worked out the gameplan - stop kicking it to the All Black's back three, boot it out into row Z.
Yeah that second match was pretty close too.
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@chris-b said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@crucial 1582 all over again.
But which year are you referring to?
I think there were some Groundhog Days!
2003 was mentioned, but I think that similar calendar anomalies occur in 1999 and 2007. Must be something to do with black holes or something as there is a pattern there.
If Stephen Hawking was still wheeling around we could ask him. In lieu of scientific explanation I will put it down to 'unexplained mystery' -
@crucial We should have a new national holiday called "Stephen Hawking Day".
Celebrated several times a year to commemorate unmentionable days that have been lost into the space-time continuum.
Chief Scientist Brian Lochore can propose the dates to be celebrated.
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@chester-draws said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@chris-b and if we hadn't given an intercept we might have won again.
I didn't say we were bad. We were flakey.
No we weren’t. Our games against Oz and the Boks saw us turn a corner.
What happened is that our best centre got injured and our second best centre was played at fullback
