Hurricanes vs Blues
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@Winger said in Hurricanes vs Blues:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes vs Blues:
@Winger an easy Blues win, even after last week? You're confident.
I feel like we've got more experience across the board but I get what you're saying. Brett Cameron will need to take command.
6-15 the Blues look very strong.
It would also make more sense to throw Love the 10 jersey, bring Higgins into 12 and move Barrett back to fullback.
An easy ENOUGH win. Not a thrashing but say a 10-15 point win (due mainly to a superior backline. And without Savea loose forwards). And overall dominating the game. But Canes could still cause an upset even without Savea. Home advantage is one factor but this team if it clicks could beat anyone.
Don't forget that same backline struggled to dominate vs the Brumbies last week. If the Blues can sort out their set piece and hold onto the ball they should do much better but I think this could go either way.
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It'll be interesting to see if the Blues change their tactics at the breakdown.. on attack they've been sending minimal numbers to secure the ball and keeping more forwards as running options. When it works it looks pretty but it can go to shit very quickly. High risk
I think they can get away with it when they have an AB quality trio made up of Papali'i, Sotutu, Akira, Robinson. With Akira injured that puts pressure on the quality of the subs
The trio that ended the game last week was Choat, Suafoa & Sotutu. Choat is a strong defensive player but not much of a body shifter and I think they are asking a lot of Suafoa to have him move from lock to loosie during the match
That fact the starting xv stayed the same makes me think the tactics won't change
Hopefully Robinson is match fit now and can last 80mins
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@LABCAT said in Hurricanes vs Blues:
Why has everyone gone sour on Morgan?
At end of last season and during the NPC, most were suggesting he would be the next long term 10 for both Wellington and the Hurricanes.
Agreed. Not sure why we're in a panic about 10s.
Morgan can do a job, and let's see how Cameron goes this week before we throw him in the bin.
Love is the most talented of the 3, but he does seem more a fullback to me, and seems that's where he wants to play.
We certainly aren't at the point where we need to consider TJP or JB at 10. Not sure where that comes from!
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@foobaNZ said in Hurricanes vs Blues:
@LABCAT said in Hurricanes vs Blues:
Why has everyone gone sour on Morgan?
At end of last season and during the NPC, most were suggesting he would be the next long term 10 for both Wellington and the Hurricanes.
Agreed. Not sure why we're in a panic about 10s.
Morgan can do a job, and let's see how Cameron goes this week before we throw him in the bin.
Love is the most talented of the 3, but he does seem more a fullback to me, and seems that's where he wants to play.
We certainly aren't at the point where we need to consider TJP or JB at 10. Not sure where that comes from!
Teams need an excellent first to have any chance of being the overall winner . We are missing one. I want to have a winning team not one that just makes up the numbers
But we need to give Morgan and Cameron time first. But if they aren't good enough or are injured then we were looking at other options
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It’s one of those ‘you can’t beat Welly on a good day’ sort of days. Hopefully the Canes get a bit of a walk up crowd this evening as it should be an entertaining affair.
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Blues certainly have some good intensity
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Nice by Peter Lakai.
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Blues backs look way more menacing when BB is not involved
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Gee that was average from Lam , had no idea how to link with anyone once he got into space
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Rayasi looks to be rocks more than diamonds today so far.
