Hurricanes v Drua
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@Winger said in Hurricanes v Drua:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes v Drua:
Good win by the Canes without Ardie and Jordie. Only the Drua so it will be great to see this against the Tahs next week in Aus.
Drua were terrible. Expected a lot more from them.
Think it was a hangover from the highs of playing first home game last week. Though as a Canes' man I happy.
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@Canes4life said in Hurricanes v Drua:
Good win by the Canes without Ardie and Jordie. Only the Drua so it will be great to see this against the Tahs next week in Aus.
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes v Drua:
Good win by the Canes without Ardie and Jordie. Only the Drua so it will be great to see this against the Tahs next week in Aus.
Brumbies, Crusaders and Blues will get a home playoff, you would think. Hurricanes, Reds, Waratahs and Chiefs are fighting for 4th. Hurricanes probably still need to win all remaining games.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Hurricanes v Drua:
@Duluth said in Hurricanes v Drua:
Hurricanes
Xavier Numia, Asafo Aumua, Tyrel Lomax, Isaia Walker-Leawere, Justin Sangster, Blake Gibson, Du'Plessis Kirifi, Tyler Laubscher, TJ Perenara, Aidan Morgan, Salesi Rayasi, Billy Proctor, Bailyn Sullivan, Wes Goosen, Josh Moorby
Reserves: Dane Coles, Tevita Mafileo, Owen Franks/Pasi Tosi, Caleb Delany, TK Howden, Cam Roigard, Jackson Garden-Bachop, Riley Higgens
Wouldn’t it be something if he scored a try off the bench
Man, he was so close to getting one today!
Drua failed to read any of the Canes set piece. A training run at best for the Canes.
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@hydro11 I’ve done the math and I think we will end up at 5 meaning we play the Chiefs in Hamilton in the quarter final. This is all assuming we win the rest of our games, the Reds lose to the Blues and Crusaders, the Waratahs obviously lose to us next week, and the Chiefs win all their remaining games.
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@Canes4life said in Hurricanes v Drua:
@hydro11 I’ve done the math and I think we will end up at 5 meaning we play the Chiefs in Hamilton in the quarter final. This is all assuming we win the rest of our games, the Reds lose to the Blues and Crusaders, the Waratahs obviously lose to us next week, and the Chiefs win all their remaining games.
Nope, the unflushables will be back next week, and we'll choke Vs Tahs
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@Machpants you’re right, Prinsep, Blackwell and Garden-Bachop will have to start next week. We played too well today, it must have made Holland uncomfortable.
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@Bones said in Hurricanes v Drua:
So Franks isn't very good eh? Best hope is to displace Laulala but prolly not gonna do that by going backwards in the scrum, walking around the field and dropping as soon as he gets the ball.
Give him a break it was his first game in ages, he’s very old and he was never dynamic to start with
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What’s next weeks team?
- Ben May
- James O’Reilly
- Owen Franks
- James Blackwell
- Walker-Leawere
- Reed Princep
- Duplessis Kirifi
- Ardie Savea
- Jamie Booth
- Jackson Garden-Bachop
- Bailyn Sullivan
- Jordie Barrett
- Billy Proctor
- Julian Savea
- Ruben Love
Thought Tyler Laubscher played too well on debut that he needs to be dropped to keep Princep higher on the pecking order. Aidan Morgan was far too threatening on attack to be considered next week, JGB it is. Thought Sullivan has been the form #13 in the country just about so it’s a good time to move him to a new position. Sangster had too much impact around the field and made too many meters so he’ll need to play for the B team this week. Billy Proctor scored a try so it’s a good chance for him to keep the 13 jersey for the next 2 years. Thought Rayasi was starting to hit form so it’s a good time to fuck with his head by dropping him too.
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Trying to find the record winning margin for the Canes
67-5 must be close-The highest ever score is 96 (Crusaders v Waratah 96-19 2002)
The biggest margin is 89 (Bulls v Reds 92-3 2007)Thanks Wikipedia)
Unsure about the Hurricanes though. Maybe against the Sunwolves
Ok found it on Thesilverfern
Highest score is 83 points
Biggest win is 66 pointsGame score was 83-17 Feb 25 2017 Tokyo vs Sunwolves
Edit These results are first rate. The biggest losing margin was way back in Feb 2002 60-7 v Blues
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My takeaways from the game yesterday without taking too much from the Drua.
Standouts were Moorby, Morgan, Sullivan and Laubsher.
Others that pushed their case for a starting spot moving forward were Sangster & Rayasi. I thought Howden and Roigard were really good coming on late aswell. Aumua also gets a mention, his set piece work was excellent.
Plenty of selection headaches for the trip to Aus but I really do hope we stay away from Prinsep at the very least. I know it was only the Drua but the Canes had a lot more go forward ball than they’ve had this year thanks in part to not having Blackwell and Prinsep in the 15, who rarely break the advantage line.
I also hope Love can make the trip, he will be the perfect reserve for us at the moment instead of Jackson Garden-Bachop (who was horrible coming off the bench).
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Good we got 5 points... Drua were appalling though, they try to play too much 7's rugby in this comp, that's never going to work well in 15's.
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