Blues vs Crusaders

[Kirwan]

Rieko is a freak. Without him we’d be losing by thirty

[Machpants]

More if Seta actually passed it

[Kirwan]

24-32 final score. Crusaders should be embarrassed by that

[antipodean]

I thought you couldn't get turnovers holding yourself up off the ground by your forearms?

[Kirwan]

Imagine if super coach played Rieko on the wing all season, we might have got a few more trys.

[Tordah]

Matt Todd's voice is unusually high pitched

[Donsteppa]

Crusaders haven’t switched on for 80minutes the last couple of weeks.

[Tim]

@antipodean said in Blues vs Crusaders:

Leger

He was a 21 yo who was in the development team, and has been played out of position. Only in the team because of injuries.

He'll probably be a good 12 soon.

[Duluth]

@kirwan said in Blues vs Crusaders:

24-32 final score. Crusaders should be embarrassed by that

Blues 12-3 second half

Some good efforts from a few individuals in that second half (Papalii and Rieko in particular)
Helped by the Crusaders dropping their standards and a yellow card though

[kev]

Better second half from Blues fowards. Crusaders set piece work not clinical in second half.

[KiwiMurph]

Rieko what a player. Holy shit.

Mounga with some unbelievable skills too. Amazing.

Akira quiet first half but really lifted defensively in the second. Some impressive stuff.

Quite a good game in the end.

[Kirwan]

@duluth said in Blues vs Crusaders:

@kirwan said in Blues vs Crusaders:

24-32 final score. Crusaders should be embarrassed by that

Blues 12-3 second half

Some good efforts from a few individuals in that second half (Papalii and Rieko in particular)
Helped by the Crusaders dropping their standards and a yellow card though

And the weather/conditions caused more handling issues than normal.

[Kirwan]

@kiwimurph said in Blues vs Crusaders:

Rieko what a player. Holy shit.

Mounga with some unbelievable skills too. Amazing.

Akira quiet first half but really lifted defensively in the second. Some impressive stuff.

Quite a good game in the end.

Made all the more enjoyable with commentators that enjoyed the game and didn’t wank on like TJ does.

[Kirwan]

Taufua was invisible out there.

[Kirwan]

Holy shit, Razor has the worst comb over.

[Machpants]

@donsteppa said in Blues vs Crusaders:

Crusaders haven’t switched on for 80minutes the last couple of weeks.

Neither have the canes, sadly

[taniwharugby]

@machpants saving all the good stuff for the ABs

[Damo]

@kirwan said in Blues vs Crusaders:

@kiwimurph said in Blues vs Crusaders:

Rieko what a player. Holy shit.

Mounga with some unbelievable skills too. Amazing.

Akira quiet first half but really lifted defensively in the second. Some impressive stuff.

Quite a good game in the end.

Made all the more enjoyable with commentators that enjoyed the game and didn’t wank on like TJ does.

Shame Swannell didn't get another go. I thought she was excellent last week. Probably just a rotation issue. I hope it isn't a backlash to the reaction last week from some quarters.

[Tim]

From 1.6M people they could probably manage to get one Auckland commentator for the Blues games. It would be good to have some one who actually knows the players.

[Chris B.]

Crusaders lost some focus in the second half - some soft errors - scrum penalties, pushing passes.

First half was pretty good - most of the starting players, went well.

Most concerning are the injuries - we need most hands on deck to beat the Canes.

Hansen's going to be sweating a few bullets through that game - and then he's got Hurricanes-Highlanders and Chiefs-Crusaders to get through the following week.

Not sure all is going to be lost for those who are close but just miss out tomorrow.