Crusaders vs Blues

African Monkey

Can someone tell me how the Crusaders have only won 2 games with that lineup?

Tim

@African-Monkey Very weak backline, poor locks, mediocre loose forwards, and a has-been loosehead prop. Don't forget the coach ...

African Monkey

@Chris said in Crusaders vs Blues:

I think Barrett,Blackadder,Amua or McLeod will feature this game unless there is a major change in their injury status by tomorrow.

Fixed haha.

African Monkey

@Tim Haha but gee, they should be THAT bad, certainly not 2 from 12.

Chris

@African-Monkey said in Crusaders vs Blues:

@Chris said in Crusaders vs Blues:

I think Barrett,Blackadder,Amua or McLeod will feature this game unless there is a major change in their injury status by tomorrow.

Fixed haha.

Surprised they are named to start I would not be surprised if there were changes come kick off time.
2 of those players haven’t trained as yet.

African Monkey

@Chris Fair call, and it has happened a fair bit for you guys this year, the late scratchings.

chimoaus

Has Segner fallen out of favour?

Tim

@chimoaus Good young player. Not as good as Papalii or Choat, and Ioane, Sotutu, and Suafoa offer a different style and size.

African Monkey

@Tim Yeah, the others are better, not that Segner goes badly himself.

Duluth

@Tim

Yeah he’s mostly competing with Choat. He was winning that battle earlier in the year but Choat has been in great form recently

Chris

@Tim said in Crusaders vs Blues:

@chimoaus Good young player. Not as good as Papalii or Choat, and Ioane, Sotutu, and Suafoa offer a different style and size.

I though Choat had a belter of a game last week very impressive.

Ruginmel

When will the Crusaders backline be set to a regular side, chop and changing them has been ridiculous

Tim

Weather forecast is fine with a high of 14C and a low of 1C. Judging on recent weather, the temperature might be about 7C at kick-off.

Crusaders will target the scrum. Should be a good contest. Expect them to spoil and disrupt at the ruck. Probably be a pretty tight game.

Lots of contestable kicks?

Tim

TAB odds:

Crusaders $2.80
Blues $1.40

Spread: 7.5 points

Bovidae

@Tim said in Crusaders vs Blues:

Expect them to spoil and disrupt at the ruck.

With Doleman as the ref the breakdown will be messy.

Chris B.

Fix the lineout and lineout drive, Rob.

Keep kicking with ambition into the corner - despite the fuck-up last week. No use setting up 15 metres from the line.

Everyone who has sent up jumpers against us has done so with success (weirdly the Brumbies didn't really and nearly came unstuck), so you need to do something they don't expect. Meanwhile, the lineout drive (when we've actually managed to secure our own ball) has been about as effective as the Blues under JK. Give Jason Ryan a ring - I don't know how to fix that. Send up- jumpers on their ball.

To paraphrase Grizz Wyllie - "Come on - it's only the fucking Blues!"

*When Grizz said it, it was only fucking United. The Seniors of club team I was playing under 14s for at the time. Glenmark was behind but they ended up winning by 20+!

BorderJB

Now with teams named this match should be great, the backrow for the Crusaders looks pretty good, last time these three were together they destroyed the Rebels!

KiwiMurph

Some exciting match ups in this game

Ofa vs Newell
Papalii (edit woops... Choat) vs Blackadder
Sotutu vs Lio Willie
Funaki vs Hotham
Tele'a vs Reece (even though both players spend a lot of time off their wing)

MN5

@KiwiMurph said in Crusaders vs Blues:

Some exciting match ups in this game

Ofa vs Newell
Papalii vs Blackadder
Sotutu vs Lio Willie
Funaki vs Hotham
Tele'a vs Reece (even though both players spend a lot of time off their wing)

Jeepers, he’s actually getting on the field ????

Duluth

@KiwiMurph said in Crusaders vs Blues:

Papalii vs Blackadder

Choat v Blackadder

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