Hurricanes v Crusaders
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@canes4life said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@bovidae and the man in charge of the lineout is Blackwell, yet Holland still can’t see it.
That loose forward balance of Prinsep, Savea and Flanders was brilliant - let’s hope they keep it like that.
2/3 were brilliant. as I mentioned in the thread I didn’t even realise Prinsep was there mid way through the match.
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@bovidae yeah but our lineout was horrible all night. Good to see our scrum go well. Lomax and Numia really held their own.
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@canes4life said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
Good to see our scrum go well. Lomax and Numia really held their own.
Yes.
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@steven-harris said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
Be remiss not to mention Joe moody ,Nga mihinui ki a koe Joe..100 games nothing to be sneezed at
His Trademe jersey is past $10K now.
Jordie and Ardie had whales of games for the Hurricanes.
Through the middle 40 minutes, I thought the game had shades of that AB-England game, where the smaller Crusaders backs were struggling to contain the bigger Canes backs - and the Canes were making lots of ground playing direct.
Canes' lineout definitely cost them.
Once Ardie went off the Canes just had a few too many holes in the dyke and with the rookie halves it always seemed likely the Crusaders would finish over the top.
Scott Barrett made the right decision to kick off in extra time, I think. You don't want to risk the early penalty - or charge down, as it turned out.
Nice cool finish from David Havili.
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@chris-b nice summary.
Ruben Love can hold his head high for the Canes aswell, he had the best 10 performance by any Canes first five this year even when he was definitely held back by the Canes.
R Mo was superb and he really showed why he should be selected at 10 for the A.Bs.
Jordie showed exactly why he deserves the 15 jersey for the ABs. He was brilliant and I would love to see him form a combo with Jordan in the outsides.
All in all a bloody good game of code. Both games last night were excellent aswell.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
Ah poo bum wee. But, can’t expect to win a game without a functioning lineout. At least that was a step up from the recent Hammetesk performances.
Blackwell appears to be one of those players who somehow inhabit a form of alternate dimension when viewed by commentators and coaches as opposed to the fans. The way the coms were fapping on about him today you’d think he was AB material. FFS he’s an undersized lock who tries really hard, but has zero positive impact on a game. You could replace a Blackwell highlights package with someone trying to knock down a brick wall with a rubber hammer.
A particular low point was when they subbed off IWL, and the commentators saying that Scrafton adds some size, so should help the problem lineout...
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I’m not convinced that Jordie was that good. If you took away TJs gushing over everything he did and just watched his play criticality there is a huge amount to criticise.
His clearing and decisions in the 22 were very poor. I’m not sure if it was coaches instructions but he sp nt more time bullying Love out of position than he did at 15.
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@stockcar86 IWL is our best lock by a long way, why can’t the commentators or the coaches see it. It’s quite baffling.
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@crucial said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
I’m not convinced that Jordie was that good. If you took away TJs gushing over everything he did and just watched his play criticality there is a huge amount to criticise.
His clearing and decisions in the 22 were very poor. I’m not sure if it was coaches instructions but he sp nt more time bullying Love out of position than he did at 15.
The kid makes highlight reels and gets his name called out a lot for sure but that was a mixed bag out there today.Tell you what crucial, Jodie was clearly the best 16 on the field today!
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@nzzp said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
Crusaders very lucky that Canes out brain-farted them tonight. Just consistnetly stupid play unfortunately, and poor kicking from JB.
Ah well, another Crusaders win. Looks like it's Blues or Chiefs in teh finals ... go the Blues next weekend.
Well not as lucky that the idiots somewhere decided we needed this adomnation of thinking that ended up with extra time with a draw. I know it's aimed at the TV viewers who don't have the ability to understand that a draw is actually a very valid result!
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@canes4life I thought Jordie was pretty good at 10 today!
I don't mind if he plays fullback - he's not fast enough to play wing.
Where the AB coaches have missed a trick, IMO, is shifting him around wing, first five and fullback - when if they were going to try any experiments with him - I'd love to see him playing 2nd five.
Size-wise he could play a sort of SBW game, with better kicking and probably passing skills.
However, if they put him there now - they'll look like they're really fucking him about.
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@crucial said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
I’m not sure if it was coaches instructions but he spent more time bullying Love out of position than he did at 15.
I'd be pretty confident it was the coaches instructions.
Love out there with his training wheels on - if I were the Canes coaches I'd certainly have had him playing second fiddle to Jordie wherever possible.
Not really apropos to your post (though I think Jordie is in this category), but I think you've got to give a lot of ABs a bit of latitude in some of the stuff they try at Super level, that they're hopefully not going to try in tests when they've got better players around them.
The pressure comes on to make the big play that's going to win the game. When those plays don't come off they can look stupid - but, when the plays do - they look like geniuses.
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Would prefer to see Jordie as a 12 longer term. Thought he was a bit indecisive at times today but still great impact. Just watched most of game then read posts here. Mystified by the excessive negativity about some players and blinkers on others. My upset if I supported Canes would be at Mafileo who showed distinct lack of energy when most needed. He should have protected his 9 better for the clearance and ambled through the last few minutes. I felt the game was won when Barrett called correctly on the toss.
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@taniwharugby agree on that. Canes live and die on individual bursts but too often they are reckless
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I dont mind the golden point. Maybe I don't care enough about the purely of the table and the comp anymore given how little I watch? But I liked the drama, even though my team was on the wrong side of it today. it also gives the players a little of that big-game feel, the need to score next, the need to get into the right part of the field and set up for a droppie. I think it could provide good pressure experience for the bigger stage.
Love was fun to watch tonight, really enjoyed seeing a young guy play with confidence. So much to be said for that first touch of the ball going well! But we should also give JB some credit for helping the young guy. For a 10, he really had to do limited 10 duties. No kicking for goal, no restarts, no responsibility for exits. He also barely played 1st receiver in phase play.
None of that is a criticism of the young fella, it's a really good way to introduce him, just an observation that he didn't really lead the team around the park as a 10 is typically expected to do, he just had free reign to play with energy.
