Highlanders v Drua
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Have a mate who manages some stuff at Christchurch airport, they’ve had to send some staff down to Dunedin to help out tomorrow because the Drua have a charter flight from Fiji and are landing into Dunedin airport at around 11.30am to go straight to the stadium and play. Their flight leaves again about 80mins after the game.
I thought that was pretty interesting and extremely poor planning by either the Drua or super rugby. How does that happen at this level?!
Anyway, huge advantage for the Landers because that kind of stuff throws off any kind of normal preparation and pre game routines players have. Let’s hope it works in the Landers favor.
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@Landers92 Fuck me that is rather sad,poor buggers, no wonder they struggle away from home so much.
What do they do when they go to Perth? Turn up half an hour before the game to go with the 4/5 hour time difference?
Obviously doing things this way is cheaper than paying for accommodation.
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@African-Monkey said in Highlanders v Drua:
@Landers92 Fuck me that is rather sad,poor buggers, no wonder they struggle away from home so much.
What do they do when they go to Perth? Turn up half an hour before the game to go with the 4/5 hour time difference?
Obviously doing things this way is cheaper than paying for accommodation.
Yeah mate I thought that bit of info was really interesting. Maybe not worthy of a post in here but thought I’d share it anyway haha
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@Landers92 I found it interesting for what it's worth haha. Crazy tough preparation and it shows the difficulties the PI nations still have financially. Most teams spend about 2 days for overseas fixtures (maybe longer in Perth).
Still, like the Jaguares said with their tough schedule when they were in it and I'm sure the Drua will say the same, they're just happy to be there.
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@Landers92 they were already in Dunedin yesterday if you check their Instagram as it shows them having captain's run under the roof ( seems as tho it's thier fans that have flown over this morning!
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@Grooter said in Highlanders v Drua:
@Landers92 they were already in Dunedin yesterday if you check their Instagram as it shows them having captain's run under the roof
Interesting. I wonder if my mate has his wires crossed and they are flying a flight of fans over. I’ll be sure to let him know. Cheers for that mate!
Disregard my above message everyone haha
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Goooo the Landers
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Really impressive start and then the man with soap on his hands Jake Te Hiwi drops it.
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Another raid and no result, Landers have started strongly. Nareki looking good on the left.
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Interesting clash between the two 10s. Faleafaga was selected ahead of Armstrong-Ravula for the NZ U19s in 2022
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Lol what's Te Hiwi doing??
