Super Rugby Final 2018
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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
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Do we really think Perry is that much better than Crockett??
Not convinced myself.
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@act-crusader said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
@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
And our second best fullback played at centre ...
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@billy-tell said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
Do we really think Perry is that much better than Crockett??
Not convinced myself.
IMO it's a close call. I thought Razor was giving Perry the semifinal so that Wyatt would get the final.
But, since sentiment says you'd give the game to Wyatt if it's even, you'd have to think Razor thinks Perry is better - and he's the man on the spot.
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Leon MacDonald cost us two world cups
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@mariner4life Carlos Spencer, Luke MacAlister.
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@mariner4life said in Super Rugby Final 2018:
Leon MacDonald cost us two world cups
Yet he will be the saviour of the Blues
