Crusaders v Highlanders
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@stockcar86 said in Crusaders v Highlanders:
This loss is on you Mitch Hunt. Missing that penalty kick at goal from the 15, and the penalty you kicked dead
Can’t punish him either because all they’ve got is a geriatric as a replacement.
Won’t give Koroi a chance.
But Ioane was the problem. Yeah right.
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Also, how average were the Crusaders. I feel the better team lost tonight.
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@crucial Josh Ioa… oh wait.
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@kiwimurph said in Crusaders v Highlanders:
@gt12 said in Crusaders v Highlanders:
You absolutely have to respect the Saders.
Almost all weeks this is a great call. I'm not sure it is this week. Landers handed that W to Crusaders.
Mitch Hunt did.
But when the Saders got a chance, they’d find their GOOJFC - steal a re-thrown line out, get a guy over the ball to make a steal, time your attack on the HB.
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@canes4life said in Crusaders v Highlanders:
@crucial Josh Ioa… oh wait.
How quickly people forget how shit ioane got, he made hunt look like the best option for a good 12 months
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Well done Crusaders. Holding on against the odds and playing to the letter of the law vastly better. Far too many errors from Highlanders midfield. Why oh why did Fakatava not grubber and chase when he got isolated after a great run? Blackadder was superb while other forwards looked ponderous. And Reece was great too.
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I thought it was going to be a hiding so I’m nothing more than disappointed with how close we got
We’ll done to the saders, easy to point all the faults with people but we had a lot of ball and territory and they managed to hang on, that take it’s own kind of skill
I’ll take Winning when playing poorly over failing to win when given every chance
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Pretty average display from a pretty average Crusaders against the bottom side at home. They're there for the taking if anyone's good enough.
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Bitch Hunt played like he used to for Canterbury. A. Smith had one of his A. Smith bad-decision-making (tm) nights bigtime. Tony Brown's parties always suck.
Sevu Reece was top value, but because Will Jordan only got the ball about 3 times MOM goes to Future All Black Captain Ethan Blackadder.
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@arhs thought Fletcher Newall was good while he was on the paddock ,looks one for the future Usually there’s a certain inevitability that the Crusaders will run over the top of the visiting team when playing at home but it never eventuated
It looked like one team who was throwing everything at the game but lacking the polish or the accuracy to get the job done
And a home team that was nowhere their best but still somehow hung on to win .
For all its closeness I found it a very poor game in terms team activation especially in and around the backline play -
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