Crusaders 2023
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@SBW1 Aumua is contracted to MP until the end of the 2023 SR season. Not until the end of MP's participation in it. It's not going to happen and rightly so. It might have been different if he'd been signed by MP on a short-term injury replacement contract and had only played a few games for them, but he's still on a full contract with them.
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@Crazy-Horse said in Crusaders 2023:
@Billy-Tell said in Crusaders 2023:
@Crazy-Horse said in Crusaders 2023:
@SBW1 said in Crusaders 2023:
Wonder if they could bring in Levi Aumua. MP are out of the playoffs, he is with Ta$man at NPC.
That would be pushing it.
Is that an attempt at a joke?
Huh?
Bringing in a prop - that would be pushing it
It’s the kind of humour I would attempt…
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As long as no rules are bent, they can add in who they want.
Other teams have suffered injuries over the years and had to deal/not deal with it. No reason the Saders can't do the same.
Chiefs had a couple of seasons using backrowers as locks, in years gone by the Saders have stockpiled meaning that others have had weak depth.
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@Chris said in Crusaders 2023:
@Crucial said in Crusaders 2023:
locks, in years gone by the Saders have stockpiled meaning t
Mate I think The chiefs are guilty of that one with Locks at least.
They are. They learned their lesson from previous seasons.
I’m not criticising the Saders just saying that squad situations happen and sometimes you’re on the right side sometimes the wrong. Sometimes you have depth to cover sometimes you don’t.
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@Tim said in Next Blues, Crusaders, Hurricanes coach discussion:
Weird, so to Colin Mansbridge understanding the Crusaders region & their 'DNA' is more important than previous success, surely he must be conscious of the fact Penney was the worst NSW Waratahs coach in Super Rugby's history?
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@Stargazer said in Crusaders 2023:
@Chris-B Yeah, that's what I was thinking, but I remembered that Messam case and then there's that media article. So now I'm not so sure what the rules are at the moment.
I think the rules are you have to be resident in NZ from end ofMarch or some such thing to play in finals, it's not to do with games played but resdidency, suppose it to stop players sneaking home as soon as their team knocked out of finals up north. It's not like Afoa was flown home just for Crusaders, he just left his digs in France 3 days early, he didn't just suddenly decide to come home, he was on his way anyway.
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Are all Crusaders supporters happy with that announcement?
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@Canes4life Works for me. I thought he should've been giving the gig when they went with Blackadder instead.
The Tahs are a black mark against his name but Aussie SR has been a mess for a long time and he's not he only coach who's rep has taken a hit while trying to sort Aussie rugby teams out.
I can't see how long his appointment is for. Is it just two years to wait for Goodman to be available?
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Crusaders Confirm 2024 Coaching Group
The Crusaders have finalised their coaching group for 2024. Rob Penney has been confirmed as the new Crusaders Head Coach, while Crusaders centurion Matt Todd takes up the last position in the group.
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I understand why they went for Rob Penny,
He is well respected in the region as a Coach and a decent bloke,Well immersed in the Culture and an understanding of how the Crusaders work,Not likely to come in and try to restructure to much.A lot of overseas experience as a coach.
Has been a mentor to Razor so fits into the structure well.A mentor type coach to an inexperienced coaching group they have already have.
Tamati Ellison will be the one set up to take over in 2 years so continuity flows on.Were the Waratahs right in sacking him or are the Crusaders right in hiring him, time will tell.
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crusaders fans thoughts?....id forgotten he was out there as an option
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I understand why they went for Rob Penny,
He is well respected in the region as a Coach and a decent bloke,Well immersed in the Culture and an understanding of how the Crusaders work,Not likely to come in and try to restructure to much.A lot of overseas experience as a coach.
Has been a mentor to Razor so fits into the structure well.A mentor type coach to an inexperienced coaching group they have already have.
Tamati Ellison will be the one set up to take over in 2 years so continuity flows on.Were the Waratahs right in sacking him or are the Crusaders right in hiring him, time will tell.
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@Chris said in Next Blues, Crusaders, Hurricanes coach discussion:
Were the Waratahs right in sacking him or are the Crusaders right in hiring him, time will tell.
Coud be both?! Did he have any interviews afterwards where he reflected on what went wrong?
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Feels a bit like taking the safe option. I'm not unhappy about this decision, but also not as excited as I was when razor got hired. I hope we're hiring him for what he's going to do in the next few years and not for what he did a decade ago with Canterbury.
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@Wurzel said in Crusaders 2023:
The Tahs are a black mark against his name but Aussie SR has been a mess for a long time and he's not he only coach who's rep has taken a hit while trying to sort Aussie rugby teams out.
His record for the Tahs was worse the previous coach Daryl Gibson
From memory I think the Tahs made some strange player contract decisions during his tenure though. I think that was the board trying to save money more than Penney screwing up
