Crusaders vs Blues

[Mattasaurus]

Marshall is an idiot -- surely you bank the win ffs

[Machpants]

@gt12 said in Crusaders vs Blues:

Hats off to the Saders, really rolled their sleeves up.

Blackadder and Lio Willie were excellent.

Indeed, crazy different from every other game this season, bar one!

[Tim]

Congrats Saders.

[Tim]

Blues were very messy

[African Monkey]

Well played Crusaders. Good wake up call for the Blues.

[Frank]

Glad for Penney. He's been a portrait of suffering.

[sparky]

What an incredible choke by the Blues.

They had the chance to nail the Crusaders out of the competition but couldn't take it.

[hydro11]

@Mattasaurus said in Crusaders vs Blues:

Marshall is an idiot -- surely you bank the win ffs

Unless you are a Hurricanes fan, I guess.

[Dan54]

@African-Monkey said in Crusaders vs Blues:

Well played Crusaders. Good wake up call for the Blues.

Blues could even get passed by Brumbies next week too can't they?
That was a good tough game.

[KiwiMurph]

Unfortunately I'm not surprised.

Same old story for Blues in Chch.

Crusaders deserved winners.

At least it's not a knock out game.

[Gunner]

Blues discipline just absolutely shocking, kept the Crusaders in the game.

Also poor play under pressure, generally rushing things leading to poor passing.

Poor goal kicking didn’t help either.

[hydro11]

So Crusaders have a genuine chance at the playoffs. However, if there is a tie break it comes down to most wins. Crusaders have a lot of bonus points, but one less win than the teams they would be level with. So they need to hope other teams aren't picking up bonus points.

[Canerbry]

@KiwiMurph said in Crusaders vs Blues:

At least it's not a knock out game.

Kinda was for us...

[Tim]

Well I guess we won't be starting Eklund again.

[KiwiMurph]

@Tim said in Crusaders vs Blues:

Well I guess we won't be starting Eklund again.

You'd think you would learn after the last 2 seasons

Probably the oddest selection of the season by Cotter.

[antipodean]

@African-Monkey said in Crusaders vs Blues:

Well played Crusaders. Good wake up call for the Blues.

Ta'avao is a bench scrummager despite his size. Eklund is too small to start when Riccitelli is available. Choat and Sotutu were poor. Perofeta stunk up the place.

[KiwiMurph]

@Gunner said in Crusaders vs Blues:

Also poor play under pressure, generally rushing things leading to poor passing.

You could copy and paste this for nearly every Blues game in Chch in the last 20 years

[Tim]

Papalii makes a huge difference to this team.

[African Monkey]

Thankfully we shouldn't encounter another scrum as good again, they beat us badly there.

[Duluth]

@Tim said in Crusaders vs Blues:

Papalii makes a huge difference to this team.

Clarke and Heem were missed too