Hurricanes v Blues
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@No-Quarter said in Hurricanes v Blues:
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@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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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.
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@Old-Samurai-Jack fair enough, we all see things how we see them
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@Bones funny I mentioned to my bro after last weeks game that I thought Dalton ran heavy. Doesn’t appear light on his feet say like Ardie or even Akira. Like you say it might be just the way it comes across, but he got stood up a couple of times tonight. He’s got damn good shoulders though in how he hits. Did he play league as a kid?
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@ACT-Crusader yeah he makes Cane look like a hot stepper but considering that, he's got a great eye on defence as he gets it right a lot and certainly makes it stick.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Hurricanes v Blues:
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.
Just finished watching the game. And watched JGB closely. I thought he had one of his better games for the Canes. He certainly didn't stifle the Canes backline. His mistakes were giving away one penalty (not releasing), passing the ball forward re Jordie's non try (but he was being tackled as this happened) and dropping one ball from Goosen (in a tight situation). But otherwise he was good. Took the high balls, passing was good, tried a few thing a bit different. Some came off and a few didn't
Blackwell was back to passing to the ground again, But otherwise the team went well and was a good game to watch. Kirifi is a good player now. One of those I never expected much from (when he was first signed) but has really stepped up. Armstrong has a much better game too. PUJ had a game he can be very happy with. As can his midfield mate who maybe had his best ever Canes match.
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I saw nothing to suggest that Mounga should not retain number 10 jersey for the All Blacks.
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Only saw bits of the game as I was out but from what I saw, we were dominated for large parts of it. Please get Plummer out of the 12 spot immediately. He looked lost out there. Suprised it was so close in the first half. Laumape looked like a prime Jonah Lomu out there.
@Canes4life ya proved to be correct on this occasion ya bastard
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@ACT-Crusader wasn't there a bit of tug and war between the Warriors and the Blues for Papalii? Or am I thinking of someone else?
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@African-Monkey had my heart in my mouth when the Blues scored theat last try. Thankfully the boys brought it home.
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@Canes4life said in Hurricanes v Blues:
@African-Monkey had my heart in my mouth when the Blues scored theat last try. Thankfully the boys brought it home.
The olds went last night along with the rest of the 20,000. Said it was a great game and the crowd was into it
