Preseason - Highlanders v Hurricanes
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So many neck roll clean outs, crazy how that is now ignored after what it was like a few years ago
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Brett Cameron has been a bit average so far.
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@Canes4life said in Preseason - Highlanders v Hurricanes:
Brett Cameron has been a bit average so far.
The attack is very conventional. Pod, wrap around, wrap around pod. I guess they are just going through the basics, because there is nothing that the Landers can't deal with
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James O’Reilly can’t bloody throw the ball in straight. My biggest pain watching rugby is when hookers can’t hit their marker.
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@Canes4life said in Preseason - Highlanders v Hurricanes:
James O’Reilly can’t bloody throw the ball in straight. My biggest pain watching rugby is when hookers can’t hit their marker.
Insert random quote about straight white lines
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Good work by CGB and folau
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Forward pass leading up to that, possibly. But Landers all over canes
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Bad miss there by Filipo. Canes looking like they should of had a game lst week. They look well off it.
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Canes in. Sangster, Howden and Moorby have been solid for the Canes. O’Reilly, Cameron, Sinkinson and Filipo have been piss poor.
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I always through Brett Cameron had a bigger boot. He’s hopeless.
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Filippo is the worst, but a bit of a shower
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Good start to the half by the Canes. Higgins with a good carry, and then the Canes dominated the scrum led by Mafileo and Tosi. Good to see.
Canes warming into their work.
17-12 to the Landers.
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Ref still warming up lol, no way that's a try
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@Machpants yeah should have gone back for the penalty.
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That shouldn’t have been a try either. Clear knock on.
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Kirifi
A slick new hair color.
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Happy with the Landers so far. Ricky Jackson has surprised me. Patchell, Harmon, Nareki, CGB and DLB have been good.
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I'm a bit behind. But Canes lineout has been dreadful so far (first 20 minutes)
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Typical pre season game. So many mistakes and players pushing passes etc.
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I’m real worried about our 10s aye. Morgan is garbage, Cameron looks crap. Give the young gun Godfrey a run.
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Nice Try Tele'a
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Not much trust in canes defence, players joining tackles unnecessarily, leaving space near the ruck all the time
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PPP was hobbling before he was subbed. Hopefully for his sake he isn't injured again.
That's some mullet on Tele'a.
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@Bovidae said in Preseason - Highlanders v Hurricanes:
PPP was hobbling before he was subbed. Hopefully for his sake he isn't injured again.
That's some mullet on Tele'a.
Good to see him out there again, looks in good shape.
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Hurricanes look like they are in a training run, not in a good way. Not committing to tackles fully, laboured running into contact and not fully committing to the breakdown.
I’m not too worried because pre-season results never mean anything but you’d expect a little bit more two weeks out from the start of the comp.
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some good defence by the landers
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Flanders has f all impact to him for his size aye. He runs hard but literally makes no impact on contact. Obviously lacks power.
Brayden Iose looks much better at 8 for me.
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Canes have far too many under 20s players out there. So young and dumb.
I don’t get the point in having such a big squad. Players in there that are clearly not going to ply for the Canes this year so why even bother.
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Good smart play from a very young Highlanders team. The vast majority would only be only in their early 20s.
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@Canes4life said in Preseason - Highlanders v Hurricanes:
Canes have far too many under 20s players out there. So young and dumb.
I don’t get the point in having such a big squad. Players in there that are clearly not going to ply for the Canes this year so why even bother.
To see who's ready to cover for inevitable injuries, when else do they get a chance to look at them?
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Well played Landers, completely dominated the Canes today. I expect the Canes to look very different next week though and I hope we utilise a smaller squad. Having guys coming on every two seconds ruins any momentum.
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@SouthernMann said in Preseason - Highlanders v Hurricanes:
Good smart play from a very young Highlanders team. The vast majority would only be only in their early 20s.
Good structure, certainly hit the rucks in a more organised way. First 30 the Canes were off their feet an awful lot.
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@Canes4life said in Preseason - Highlanders v Hurricanes:
Well played Landers, completely dominated the Canes today. I expect the Canes to look very different next week though and I hope we utilise a smaller squad. Having guys coming on every two seconds ruins any momentum.
UJ is one of the dumbest, and he's not got the excuse of youth
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@Machpants he’s been dumb for a few years now. Never reached his potential that’s for sure and I hope he doesn’t get in the way of Higgins.
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Landers bell looks good. Canes doing well in the half back position, with the top two out
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lol is that Keruru-Symes getting bumped? He wasn’t even in the wider training squad initially.
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That result, albeit a pre-season game will help sell tickets
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@SouthernMann Landers played well. They look better than lst year. Good to see.
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Sinkinson looks a lot bulkier. Not saying he's good or not (I wrote him off last year) but he needed to bulk up and he has.
Iose looks good.
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So far Filipo will be disappointed. He's been poor
But Kirifi, Iose have been VG, Judd looks a VG third option (after the dreadful Booth last year) and Higgins looks the goods. Cameron has been only so-so.
Now keen to see what Viljoen can do.
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