Crusaders v Hurricanes

Toddy

They should've gone upstairs for that try. There must have been a mistake in the lead up.

Crucial

They should've gone upstairs for that try. There must have been a mistake in the lead up.

The mistake was not carding the Crusader that killed the ball just before hand

Steven Harris

@chris it’s frightening ..you have got to be at your very best to stay in the fight against the Saders unfortunately for the Canes ,poor passing and kicking has ensured they always going to finish 2nd ..
Showing some fight at the finish, but far too little too late

KiwiMurph

JGB might be at 10 next week

Chris

Canes will get better they will win more than they lose

Chris

Jordie felt that

African Monkey

@chris Hmmm not sure about that, unless you count the Aussie teams?

Chris

Job done

Chris

@african-monkey said in Crusaders v Hurricanes:

@chris Hmmm not sure about that, unless you count the Aussie teams?

Those too, there is 6 wins plus MP there is 8 wins maybe

hydro11

That was a decent performance. Crusaders were clinical and very good in defence (despite conceding 32 points). We just needed to take our chance when the Crusaders were down to 14 men.

Machpants

@african-monkey said in Crusaders v Hurricanes:

@chris Hmmm not sure about that, unless you count the Aussie teams?

Better than chiefs and Landers last game. Not that it means anything, but that performance was better than last game.

Stag

Very disappointing from the Crusaders, same defensive frailties that plagued them last year and it looks like they have made no progress in fixing it over the off season.

Steven Harris

@chris there loose forward mix looked better when Savea,Flanders and Iose were the back 3 , best front row is definitely Rakete Stones ,Lomax and Coles when he’s available , I don’t see them as top 3 but they should improve and will win more than what they lose ..once the passes started to stick and players got into open space they looked a good team ..

Chris

@steven-harris said in Crusaders v Hurricanes:

@chris there loose forward mix looked better when Savea,Flanders and Iose were the back 3 , best front row is definitely Rakete Stones ,Lomax and Coles when he’s available , I don’t see them as top 3 but they should improve and will win more than what they lose ..once the passes started to stick and players got into open space they looked a good team ..

Yep totally agree.

Duluth

ARHS

Canes should start someof their bench players next game. Iose v good. JGB far better than Love. Sullivan was sharp. Sangster looks a very good buy. Crusaders were solid but got rub of the green at times I felt.

Bones

Haven't read the thread.

Good to see the kiwi refs carrying on with their untouchable Crusaders theme from last year, no doubt that will be great for the AB's yet again come test rugby season.

Don't think I'll bother with too many Saders games this year.

Bones

Liked what I saw from Jordan though, handling through the roof compared to last year.

Great to see the refs looking to play on if a player is down injured - unless a Crusader player then goes down injured.

Extremely clear and obvious knock on from May, just a shame he never touched it due to Barrett batting it out of the way.

Funny to see the 50/22 lineout resulting from Drummond's kick being taken well outside the 22.

NTA

Watching this back today.

Pickerill positions himself differently depending on who has the ball. So many times he is facing the sideline with every Crusaders player behind him in front of last feet. He's watching a ruck which has already been decided, and doesn't set expectation from the A line consistently.

Then that 50/22 in the 55th minute that absolutely wasn't. And the AR sets a line inside the 22 but the throw is taken from outside. The fuck?

Mike Fraser looking for reasons not to give a try against the Crusaders at every opportunity. Wow.

NTA

I stopped watching after Fraser denied a try based on maybe a knock on halfway up the park.

The Silver Fern

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