Hurricanes v Crusaders
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@kiwimurph said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@booboo the Stan feed didn't cut out - they just cut to a stadium camera in place of the ads. Once the 'ad' break was over they carried on the coverage.
Wasn't watching live, but my feed cut back to menu about a minute after the Dg.
Edit: dg not dr
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@chris-b spot on with your summary, small moments come down to having the leaders making the right decisions.
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@stargazer said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@canes4life I think he's in the Chiefs Dev squad, but still or again injured? @Bovidae can maybe confirm.
Naholo must be training with the Chiefs as he was in a photo last week. You can check their SM pages if you want. He didn't play for Taranaki in the CCCC or for the Chiefs Dev team.
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@act-crusader said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@arhs said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
Campbell was much better than Hall too. Thought Whitelock and Bridge both went well.
For some reason, Hall looked really laboured out there.
Bridge started really well. I noticed him less as the game went on. Will Jordan was the opposite - which makes me wonder if they play the same role a bit much and Big Leicester is a better fit if Jordan is at fullback?
Maybe the converse when Havili is at fullback.
Leicester at centre was a real handful for the Canes defence. He always seems to beat the first tackle (or at the very least stand them up).
Yeah. Liked him at 13
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@act-crusader said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@crazy-horse Douglas is a good NPC player and that’s it in my opinion.
We are missing Todd’s breakdown work and more importantly his link play. None of our current crop seem to support in attack.
Been good enough in previous years. Super I'd his ceiling if he's playing to capacity and those around him are too.
I terms of 6/8 at the Sader's he's being Grace (even given second season syndrome). Bkackadder and Sanders. At least.
Good player, but just there only.
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@act-crusader said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@crazy-horse Douglas is a good NPC player and that’s it in my opinion.
We are missing Todd’s breakdown work and more importantly his link play. None of our current crop seem to support in attack.
Thought Christie looked like he had some mongrel about him.
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@cantab79 said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@act-crusader said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@tim said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@act-crusader Sione Havili is a good tackler but is more of a 6.5 type of player.
I agree. He’s active in defence but we need a bit more attack from our loosies.
His problem is that he isn't a pilfering threat at the breakdown and he doesn't feature with ball in hand. Which to be honest you could say the same about all our backrow options
Liked how Bkackadder had been carrying
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@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@act-crusader said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@crazy-horse Douglas is a good NPC player and that’s it in my opinion.
We are missing Todd’s breakdown work and more importantly his link play. None of our current crop seem to support in attack.
A few years back Dunshea had a storming game for an invitation XV vs the B&I Lions, yet he's barely featured in the loose forwards since as far as I can recall. They're shifting SBarrett to 6.
He's been excellent from the bench the last couple of games has Dunshea.
Sanders should be better for his run.
Dunshea
Loose forwardsQue?
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@foobanz Rayasi is on the outer as they didn't like that he made himself available for the 7s last year and Holland hates a showboat. And hes been offered an extension (not sure how long hes currently signed for) but hasn't re-signed which has seen him slip down the pecking order.
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@nogusta said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@foobanz Rayasi is on the outer as they didn't like that he made himself available for the 7s last year and Holland hates a showboat. And hes been offered an extension (not sure how long hes currently signed for) but hasn't re-signed which has seen him slip down the pecking order.
Rayasi's contract expires after this SR season.
The Hurricanes are the franchise with the most player contracts expiring this year; quite a lot more than other franchises (disclaimer: as far as contract duration has been made public).
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@nogusta said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@foobanz Rayasi is on the outer as they didn't like that he made himself available for the 7s last year and Holland hates a showboat. And hes been offered an extension (not sure how long hes currently signed for) but hasn't re-signed which has seen him slip down the pecking order.
Holland sounds like a retard if that is the attitude.
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@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@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.
Couple of times I have seen him at 12 he has fairly good. Used to be his preferred position.
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@booboo said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@chris-b said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@act-crusader said in Hurricanes v Crusaders:
@crazy-horse Douglas is a good NPC player and that’s it in my opinion.
We are missing Todd’s breakdown work and more importantly his link play. None of our current crop seem to support in attack.
A few years back Dunshea had a storming game for an invitation XV vs the B&I Lions, yet he's barely featured in the loose forwards since as far as I can recall. They're shifting SBarrett to 6.
He's been excellent from the bench the last couple of games has Dunshea.
Sanders should be better for his run.
Dunshea
Loose forwardsQue?
I missed out the crucial point that he was playing No. 8 that day - and he was a stand out.
Barbarians name side to take on Lions
The New Zealand Provincial Barbarians will be the first Kiwi side to face the Lions.
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@nogusta that's complete stupidity from Holland if that's the case
@Canes4life I hope they don't see Proctor there long term, he is good on D, but a lot of attacking plays die with him. Seems like one of those players who gets nervy when the line has been broken and throws a poor pass, or gets the dropsies / runs a bad support line when players try to find him
Hopefully we select IWL + Scrafton/Mitchell moving forward
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@chris-b Few? 11 are playing Super Rugby, 2 are playing Top League, 1 Top 14, 1 Top 10 (Italy), 2 are back playing NPC after stints in Japan, 1 has returned from MLR (thanks to Covid, so probably hopes to be back playing NPC), 1 has retired (having played SR etc), 1 has retired due to injury (career cut short), 1 (with 5 SR caps) was about to play in the SLAR, but then Covid happened, and 1 was a Heartland player who was never expected to play at a higher level than that. Basically, Inga Finau is the only one who didn't end up playing professionally, without injury preventing him from doing so.
Or did you expect all/most of them to become All Blacks? I certainly didn't, as they were selected from provincial teams, not SR franchises. In that case, one AB (Reece), one in the AB fringes (Dunshea) and one Maori AB (Lowe) is indeed few, but maybe you expected too much?
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@stargazer I probably would have expected a few more ABs - BUT also a few more who are now genuine first choice players in their Super franchises.
Four years later and I'd say only Ross, Goodhue and Reece fall into that category.
