Blues v Drua

taniwharugby

@chimoaus has cooled down a bit, was near 30 just before kick off.

KiwiMurph

We look organised on attack and defence, very different pattern from last year

Agreed. Also players look to be in good nick and working hard

Really pleasing half

KiwiMurph

Good steal Darry

Christie tidied up the poor pass brilliantly

One of the better Darry halves I can remember. Cotter impact perhaps

taniwharugby

@chimoaus you made a comment earlier about the pitch, I've never seen Okara cut up like this, usually such a great surface

African Monkey

Impressed with the Blues physicality, especially Darry and Segner. Drua have looked handy with ball in hand but we've also muscled up as well.

chimoaus

Blues forwards seem to be very fit and mobile at getting to each breakdown. Front row seems to be playing like loose forwards in terms of work rate.

Chris

Sotutu for all his work misses a lot of tackles.
A work on for him from last season looks like it hasn’t got much better.

chimoaus

@taniwharugby Is it a new surface? Maybe the heat has dried it out or something.

Duluth

Bad start, back to back penalties

Kirwan

Blues tackling has been very good.

chimoaus

@Duluth Especially considering they are a man down.

Duluth

Three soft penalties in a row

Kirwan

Yeah, that was coming. Hopefully that wakes them up

Kirwan

And of course Ben is much faster to give us a yellow.

Kirwan

29-10

Kirwan

FFS.

Kirwan

Lucky there, good play from Plummer

Machpants

Fucking iaone thinks he's much better than he is, he's the worst blues player in the field

Duluth

Clean on Segner looked a bit dodgy

Kirwan

Clean on Segner looked a bit dodgy

Absolutely

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