Sharks vs Blues
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The entire Blues forward pack was very average. Parsons was outright bad. Goodhue, Akira, invisible; Robinson ineffective (spilling his energy); Papali'i some dumb stuff (giving away penalties).
Nanai best Blues player; midfield very average; Collins bad. Ruru trying, definitely better than Pulu, but making mistakes. Black gets a pass mark. Good cameo off the bench for Tele'a with a good try.
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@Rebound I know what you mean. Shit ref.
It's wierd - last season the Kiwi teams came roaring out of the blocks. This year, WC year, (where you would expect us to be firing on all cylinders) and most of our teams (Saders excepted) look like they're still on holiday at the beach, or at worst in the bach at the Coromandel. -
@ShadowTrooper Maybe the focus this year is too much on the RWC? Those ABs protocols are also a burden. It's affecting all teams, Saders included.
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@Stargazer Yeah, reckon you are on the money. Watched a Chiefs game from a couple of years ago where DMac was fantastic. An absolute lynchpin. This year, he looks like the weight of the world is on his shoulders.
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@ShadowTrooper I would expect our ABs to be slow out of the blocks in a RWC year considering they have had fuck all of a pre season and most will be pacing themselves this year...but the non ABs are a worry. I am certainly not looking forward to next year when the exodus truly kicks in, our emerging players don't look to be of the same quality compared to other world cup cycles.
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@Tim said in Sharks vs Blues:
Maybe making all ABs miss preseason training was a mistake. Maybe a big guy like Karl T needs to be training more to maintain fitness. He's looked really off the pace so far.
Hmmm... To be fair I'm not sure the point of them missing preseason is to have them firing in the first couple of rounds of super rugby...
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@Bones said in Sharks vs Blues:
@Tim said in Sharks vs Blues:
Maybe making all ABs miss preseason training was a mistake. Maybe a big guy like Karl T needs to be training more to maintain fitness. He's looked really off the pace so far.
Hmmm... To be fair I'm not sure the point of them missing preseason is to have them firing in the first couple of rounds of super rugby...
Yes, but you need them firing....
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@ShadowTrooper sure, in a few months!
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Slept in..just seen the score ..bugger here we go again
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Akira Ioane, Karl T and Dalton Papali'i need to wake the f*** up and realise that they all have a chance to play for the All Blacks in the Rugby World Cup if they hit top form. But there is no chance of that if they keep playing as poorly as they did today.
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Just watching it now. Geez another long season ahead. If anything, the Sharks left plenty of points out there themselves. As @Tim said, we still have massive holes in our squad and it's holding us back.
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Boy that was a hard watch, very flat first half. Good fitness in the second, something that has improved from last year. Yep, that’s how far down I had to look for positives.
Surely that is the last chance for Collins. Unbelievably awful and basically the Blues start with a -7 handicap.
Ruru’s passing was really bad. I guess the ball really was slippery from the humidity because both teams were dropping it all the damn time, made for a very stop start game.
SBW and Nonu to a less extent are g oing to cause us problems as we have to play one of them. TJ is a 12, and needs to play there above both the old guys.
Awful weekend from most of the Kiwi teams.
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@KiwiMurph said in Sharks vs Blues:
@antipodean said in Sharks vs Blues:
Starting to wonder if Tana was the problem...
Its not Leon's squad.
I fail to believe that Leon had absolutely no input on the recruitment of backs in particular since he was signed on as an assistant in May last year. If there were genuine difference making players that Leon felt strongly about he certainly would have had the stroke to get them in the door.
It's as much Leon's squad as any other first year coach in a non-succession situation.
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@Kirwan Yeah 3 second fives and no centre in the squad it's really fucking our midfield up. Yet another blunder from our recruitment team. There's guys in this squad from the previous regime that we desperately need to move on at seasons end.
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Weren’t the blues supposed to be good this year. Same old useless over hyped crap.
