Waratahs v Blues
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@African-Monkey said in Waratahs v Blues:
@Bones Hmmm as much as I'd like for that to be the case, I'm not convinced so far.
Blues at home against a worse crusaders team than 96? You're not fooling anyone bud.
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@Bones I also got laughed at for talking up their chances against the Canes, saying it would be 5 points either way, and it was, whilst everyone else was slagging them off from all angles, and the Canes are travelling a lot better than us currently.
We've also won once in our last 18 games against them, and despite our good record, we haven't been great.
It'll be another tough contest, the Cantabs always get up for us no matter the situation.
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@African-Monkey how many of those games were were under razor with Taylor, Whitelock, Hall, Mounga etc? Straw man argument comparing to that.
It will be an epic failure if the blues lose. Just like it would've been if the canes lost.
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@Bones Not buying it. They could have easily had wins over the Chiefs and Canes. They've had one shocking performance against the Tahs with a loss in Fiji which is up there with the hardest place to play in the world if not the hardest.
They have enough there to win and kick start their season.
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@African-Monkey said in Waratahs v Blues:
They could have easily had wins over the Chiefs and Canes
Nah, canes and chiefs played down to their level.
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The shame about this game? It ws the FTA game in Aus last night, and not the kind of game that will attracy eyeballs. Here in NZ we had the Chiefs/Drua which was pretty entertaining, I kind of feel for RA , if they didn't get bad luck sometimes it seems they get none at all.
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Wowser, glad I got free tickets for that. Did neither team actually want to win? Also, what has happened this weekend, the standard of games has plummeted from a great start to the season.
Blues, you have Plummer and Sullivan on the field, let one of them take the goal kicks. Also, why, before anyone realised Perofeta's aim was worse than a stormtrooper's, were the Blues not taking penalty kicks?
@NTA Has whistling always been a thing at Tahs games? I thought I was in France or Italy for a while there.
Was Dalton injured? I couldn't tell live whether it was injury or straight sub. Segner looked the business when he came on, is that his best effort at this level?
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@NTA said in Waratahs v Blues:
@Nepia said in Waratahs v Blues:
@NTA Has whistling always been a thing at Tahs games? I thought I was in France or Italy for a while there.
Dunno. Have been to like... 3 Tahs games in the last few years.
It would therefore be relatively new
It was weird, they started doing it during one of Perofeta's attempts at a kick (why waste the effort when he's going to miss anyway) and then carried on for about 5 minutes after that. Was bizarre.
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@Nepia said in Waratahs v Blues:
Was Dalton injured? I couldn't tell live whether it was injury or straight sub. Segner looked the business when he came on, is that his best effort at this level?
Looks like Dalton took a knock early in the game. Got treatment a few times.
Segner has been playing well all year, including the preseason. There's four loosies about the same level now. Segner can play all three positions, Dalton 6/7, Ioane 6/8 and Sotutu is the only specialist. So there's plenty of options to rotate and Vern has said that's what he wants to do.
Although it appears Dalton may not get rotated to the bench until Patrick returns
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@nzzp said in Waratahs v Blues:
that's a good game to miss most of by the sound of it. Still, winning ugly is winning right????
And any road win is also worth gold when it comes to building team confidence
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@ACT-Crusader said in Waratahs v Blues:
@nzzp said in Waratahs v Blues:
that's a good game to miss most of by the sound of it. Still, winning ugly is winning right????
And any road win is also worth gold when it comes to building team confidence
And we keep losing key backs to injury early doors. Need to stop that!
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@ACT-Crusader said in Waratahs v Blues:
@nzzp said in Waratahs v Blues:
that's a good game to miss most of by the sound of it. Still, winning ugly is winning right????
And any road win is also worth gold when it comes to building team confidence
Esp. in Aussie where everything seems to be against you.
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@nzzp Yes it was, and yes, I guess so, as long as we don't play like that every week.
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@African-Monkey said in Waratahs v Blues:
@nzzp Yes it was, and yes, I guess so, as long as we don't play like that every week.
you just know how this goes.
Black Caps to Aus, is like post -02 Blues to Crusaders....
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@chimoaus said in Waratahs v Blues:
@Nepia Segner has been good all year. Deserves to start over Akira.
I’d be more worried if I was Dalton, Segnar is more a seven than a six. He’s setting a high standard, and being used in the lineout.
As Duluth said, we are going to need all of them, it’s a good problem to have.
Be nice if we could stop injuring locks and backs.
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@African-Monkey I think if it was a dry track on Friday the Canes would have won by a fair amount. The weather was definitely an equaliser but when you think how much the Canes dominated from a stats POV it could have been a long night if it wasn’t cold and pissing down with rain.
The Blues should be heavy favourites next weekend, especially if it’s a good night because the Saders just have nothing on attack. If it rains though and becomes solely forward orientated then I think the Crusaders could definitely tip the Blues up.
