Hurricanes v Blues
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Thought Jordie and Laumape both had great games for the Canes. Having five big outside backs is hard to contain if they can put it together.
Canes just about deserved to win that, though it nearly got away from them in the final quarter. Should have scored more points in the first half.
A couple of seasons ago the Blues didn't score a try from a lineout drive all season - two tonight. Definitely some things moving in the right direction for them.
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@voodoo said in Hurricanes v Blues:
So I'm sitting at the pub on my own here in Wanaka watching this game.
I've just noticed that 2 tables away is Steve Hanson with a mate and their wives.
Any questions for him?
He's barely watching the game BTW.
Why did he leave out Sam Cane against England?
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@Chris-B said in Hurricanes v Blues:
Thought Jordie and Laumape both had great games for the Canes. Having five big outside backs is hard to contain if they can put it together.
Canes just about deserved to win that, though it nearly got away from them in the final quarter. Should have scored more points in the first half.
A couple of seasons ago the Blues didn't score a try from a lineout drive all season - two tonight. Definitely some things moving in the right direction for them.
When is Holland going to give us an TJP, JB, Laumape inside back axis? Against the Saders I say. We aren't going to come close with JGB or probably even F Smith
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JGB lack of class really showed tonight. He’s not a bad player but I thought he stifled some of the line breaks the Canes were making. He just couldn’t take advantage of those situations. He’s a little predictable in attack which makes it easy for the defence.
I think Smith needs another shot.
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@ACT-Crusader It was a "stand up and take notice of me" night for Umaga-Jensen . You hear names and see snippets but tonight it was "who is this man?". Big bruising munter!
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@taniwharugby Mmm... maybe hyperbole (I can veer towards that with red wine in the mix) but you don't see inside backs that influential so often with the defense systems they have in place these days. I think he needs to be in the ABs mix.
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@kiwiinmelb said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Hurricanes v Blues:
Two points
As dominant a game from a second five eighth as you will ever see. Damn that man is good.
Also, Akira's problems of drifting in and out of games seems to be a thing of the past. He was everywhere tonight. Not flash but 100% for effort.I’m liking him as a bruising 6
I've always liked him as a bruising 6. He showed he had what it takes in that regard against the Lions, but for whatever reason didn't kick on from then.
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@sparky said in Hurricanes v Blues:
Remember when Beuaden used to be King of the Foot Race? He's not any more:
To be fair on Beauden, he was closing in he'd just given away too much of a head start over the distance and possibly went for the covering tackle too early
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@taniwharugby said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Hurricanes v Blues:
As dominant a game from a second five eighth as you will ever see. Damn that man is good.
great to see hyperbole still alive and kicking on here!
I thought he had a good game, but nothing special.
Laumape tore the Blues a new one tonight. They simply couldn't contain him. He was the difference in the end.
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@No-Quarter said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@kiwiinmelb said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Hurricanes v Blues:
Two points
As dominant a game from a second five eighth as you will ever see. Damn that man is good.
Also, Akira's problems of drifting in and out of games seems to be a thing of the past. He was everywhere tonight. Not flash but 100% for effort.I’m liking him as a bruising 6
I've always liked him as a bruising 6. He showed he had what it takes in that regard against the Lions, but for whatever reason didn't kick on from then.
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I found that a strange game to watch.
Blues were well off the boil, spent a fair bit of time missing tackles early and shovelling shit well behind the advantage line.
I think the Blues are missing Nock, he seems to organise his forwards better than the ginga, and I guarantee he wouldn’t have let TJP bully him on his own scrum ball like we witnessed tonight.
Kirifi is a hard man to tackle, he’s like a clone of Ardie. Wouldn’t mind seeing how he goes in black, but I don’t think he’s the style of player they’ll be looking for in a 3rd string 7.
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modules:composer.user_said_in, @cgrant, Hurricanes v Blues
I haven't watched the game yet. How was the confrontation between Lomax and Hodgman ?
Who had the upper hand ?From my untrained halfbacks eye, I’d have to say Lomax won that one.
Surprisingly the Canes scrum dominated the Blues for most of the game.
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Someone else who'd make a fine bruising 6 is Papalii. Just kept going and going today too.
What the fuck is up with 2nd 5 selections in NZ? Canes the only ones selecting a proper 12 at 12 consistently and look what happens.
Nice win canes, just held onto that ball all day and it counted in the end. Huge fight from the blues to hang in there though and definitely seemed to take their chances much better than the canes.
Eklund looks like a keeper. Christie doesn't.
Weird moment in the game when they flashed up Ngani's running stats and he had 92m, cut to ten or so minutes later after he's made a 30m charge and they flash them up...93m....what the?
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As good as the improvement in the Blues game is,a certain inability to control games is evident.The first ten minutes was a nightmare for them,and to their credit fought back to be even at half time.From my point of view the Blues were very lacklustre all night and looked to be just hanging in.Strangely though at five to go they had the lead.If ever they needed to fizz it was tonight with regard to the points table.All things being equal the Champioship is now the Crusaders to lose I feel.The fight will be for places on the table.Hold onto second should be the Blues target.
