Blues v Highlanders

Snowy

Kudos to Tom Coventry for fixing a huge weakness.

Amen.
Some great mental fortitude that has been severely lacking in the past as well as some, well, fortitude.

Coaching team doing well and the new talents like Sotutu and Clarke are being picked and playing lots of minutes. Really enjoying this comp.

Winning helps of course.

mofitzy_

@trodthesod

The most beautiful pickup of a ball at speed from Beauden Barrett,just class.

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booboo

@Frank said in Blues v Highlanders:

Just realized Caleb Clarke is the son of Eroni.
It clicked when I saw him thanking Jesus for the try.

Turns out he was chatting to Grandpa.

Crucial

@mofitzy_ said in Blues v Highlanders:

@trodthesod

The most beautiful pickup of a ball at speed from Beauden Barrett,just class.

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Rupeni like.

Kirwan

Weather at that point was pretty wet too, other players were dropping it just running with it and he does that.

nzzp

@Kirwan BB was immense for us last night. Really good kicking, and gave us confidence from the back. The contrast with the interview with Michael Collins was chalk and cheese.

Snowy

@nzzp said in Blues v Highlanders:

The contrast with the interview with Michael Collins was chalk and cheese.

You are talking about the great communicator?

Bones

I'm struggling to compare an interview and a running pick up? Is this the politics forum?

ACT Crusader

@trodthesod best game of SRA so far.

gt12

I’m watching the replay now, and I can’t understand how the landers try was disallowed? It was clearly kicked out of his hands by Ioane but it turns out that’s not what he was carded for (offside apparently)

Why the fuck have video refs if they can’t step up and make the right calls?

It should be another penalty advantage and the try should stand and Ioane should get ten.

Edit: I see it wasn' game changing at least, as they scored pretty much straight away, which is good.

pakman

@mofitzy_ said in Blues v Highlanders:

@trodthesod

The most beautiful pickup of a ball at speed from Beauden Barrett,just class.

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Beaudy is just so skillful in the way he can do little things when space is at a premium. Makes things look so easy.

sparky

@pakman said in Blues v Highlanders:

@mofitzy_ said in Blues v Highlanders:

@trodthesod

The most beautiful pickup of a ball at speed from Beauden Barrett,just class.

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Beaudy is just so skillful in the way he can do little things when space is at a premium. Makes things look so easy.

BB is some player as I've been saying for some time.

Sam Cane, Sam Whitelock, Aaron Smith and Beauden Barrett. All going to be picked for the ABs (if injury free) for a little while more yet.

African Monkey

@gt12 Worked out better for the Highlanders funnily enough haha. Ioane gets binned and they end up scoring closer to the posts.

nzzp

@African-Monkey said in Blues v Highlanders:

@gt12 Worked out better for the Highlanders funnily enough haha. Ioane gets binned and they end up scoring closer to the posts.

100%

If it was a yellow card before scoring, it was a YC after scoring. But you have to be clear and consistent on what gets you a YC

Dice

Really impressed with our prop depth - might be as good as I've ever seen it. We now have 6 solid props to work with.

Who knew Renata could scrum so well at loosehead? Small sample, but he's looked real dominate there.

KiwiMurph

@Dice said in Blues v Highlanders:

Really impressed with our prop depth - might be as good as I've ever seen it. We now have 6 solid props to work with.

Who knew Renata could scrum so well at loosehead? Small sample, but he's looked real dominate there.

Afeaki has done a really nice job since taking over.

He's brought the Blues scrum a long way since the dark days of Sam Prattley!

trodthesod

Now the dust has settled on that great battle last Saturday,and watching a replay of that maul where the Blues held the ball up.,the question I have is this.Given that Sotutu was legal,are the backs coming in from the side ok? If they are not the reaction of Tom Coventry in the box is understandable.Phew!

Kirwan

@trodthesod said in Blues v Highlanders:

Now the dust has settled on that great battle last Saturday,and watching a replay of that maul where the Blues held the ball up.,the question I have is this.Given that Sotutu was legal,are the backs coming in from the side ok? If they are not the reaction of Tom Coventry in the box is understandable.Phew!

Nope! Got away with a little there

Kiwiwomble

@trodthesod said in Blues v Highlanders:

Now the dust has settled on that great battle last Saturday,and watching a replay of that maul where the Blues held the ball up.,the question I have is this.Given that Sotutu was legal,are the backs coming in from the side ok? If they are not the reaction of Tom Coventry in the box is understandable.Phew!

i didn't think they were legal, looked like Clarke, christie and black all just flew in the side once they saw the ball was being held up.

I've heard people say that once the ball is held up its a free for all, maybe if it was still a tackle but my understanding is he had called Maul and until he blows up the maul they should have come from the back

I'me bias thought so who knows

antipodean

@Kiwiwomble said in Blues v Highlanders:

I've heard people say that once the ball is held up its a free for all

Those people don't know what the fuck they're talking about. There's always an offside line for a maul in the field of play.

OFFSIDE AT A MAUL

Each team has an offside line that runs parallel to the goal line through the maul participants’ hindmost foot that is nearest to that team’s goal line. If that foot is on or behind the goal line, the offside line for that team is the goal line.

A player must either join a maul from an onside position or retire behind their offside line immediately. Sanction: Penalty.

JOINING A MAUL

Players joining a maul must:

Do so from an onside position.
Bind on to the hindmost player in the maul.

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Blues v Highlanders