Highlanders v Brumbies

[taniwharugby]

Highlanders miss Frizzells carrying, so many times they have gone multiple phases without getting over the gain line

[akan004]

Why go for a lineout when there's no time left

[antipodean]

That's amazingly dumb play.

[taniwharugby]

@akan004 need a try for a bp, but why playbthe narrow side

[Damo]

Brumbies deserved winners.

Highlanders can play better than that.

[KiwiMurph]

Brumbies deserving winners

Aussie rugby needed that.

Landers remind me of some of the Aussie sides - a real lack of talent amongst the odd star.

[antipodean]

Best Aussie team limps to a nine point win against the worst NZ team. There needs to be an improvement next week across the board or that crowd will be the sum total of Australian viewers in a month.

[Bones]

@antipodean said in Highlanders v Brumbies:

worst NZ team

Playing like donkeys too

[Bones]

My favourite part of TUJ's game was that big break near the end when he arrived 2nd to do the pick and go - he was the tackled player at the previous ruck.

[Mattasaurus]

Brumbies deserved it and probably should have put more on us.

Landers
Scrum ok
Showed a bit of desire to get back in the game... But need to shelve the aimless kicking

[taniwharugby]

@Mattasaurus plus kick better when they needed to kick

[Bones]

@taniwharugby said in Highlanders v Brumbies:

@Mattasaurus plus kick better when they needed to kick

Fakatava needs to get height or kick shorter. Easy pickings.

[taniwharugby]

@Bones Banks was missing touch, Hunt was getting them out but no distance...thier 3 kicking options weren't much help out there

[Bones]

@taniwharugby said in Highlanders v Brumbies:

@Bones Banks was missing touch, Hunt was getting them out but no distance...thier 3 kicking options weren't much help out there

If only there was a decent kicker in the coaching staff?

Oh and like DMac, Hunt should be a 9 (utility).

[Duluth]

[Old Samurai Jack]

Kick it long to Hunt and when he pop kicks it back you gain at least 40 meters.
Important positions covered by Marty Banks and Hunt combined with a pretty disappointing Fakatava will not win you many kicking battles or matches. It is a hard watch for a long-suffering Clan fan.

[Kiwiwomble]

lovely day in the sun, biggest gripe was how poor RA handled promoting it, sitting next to some brumbies fans, they had come down for it and were shocked at how small the crowd was, pointed out there had been next to no advertising

Wore my old Dunedin RFC jersey and Fakatava and Vahaakolo came over for a photo, both seem like really good blokes, Freedom was just chatting away about how disappointing the results was, letting the fans down, but how thankful he was to be getting a shot at that level, even more of a fan