Final: Blues vs Crusaders

[Tim]

Congrats Crusaders. Awesome performance.

Blues choked big time and didn't fire a shot in the first half. Never got up for it. 9 and 10 didn't use the forwards or width well. Shithouse.

[Bones]

@mikey07 said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

As a Canes fan just want to say a big thank you for choking harder then us in 2015!

They were playing the reigning champs, not the reigning chumps...😉

[Toddy]

Holy shit I never expected that hiding. Thought the Crusaders might sneak it with their finals experience but not this. Beaten all across the park - except at number 8. Hoskins was awesome.

[Crucial]

@taniwharugby said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

Crusaders just too good, strangled the blues across the park, started with whitelock owning the lineout.

You mean that geriatric guy who shouldn’t be in the ABs anymore?

[Tim]

@Duluth yeah, the BS on here about him any time the Blues lose is laughable.

[Frank]

Both of the young Saders props should have been selected in the ABs.

[Old Samurai Jack]

Brilliant!

[taniwharugby]

@Crucial I never said that.

[Duluth]

The storyline of the final is the lineout. So much extra possession to the Crusaders from that set piece

[Tim]

@Bones thought perofeta was decent

[Machpants]

That is how you play finals, and test, rugby. Very impressive, and deserved winners.

Blues really choked in the big spotlight

[booboo]

I keep saying 'brutal'.

Am in awe.

Well done the bad guys.

[kev]

@Duluth said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

@Tim said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

Blues decision making has been terrible. Nock went missing several times. Awful play.

Nock is terrible. Always has been

The problem is the lineout though

10 lineouts lost

9/19 vs 11/11. An extra possession every 8mins. That’s the match

What is your problem. Stop blaming someone for the bounce of the ball. Being an Auckland supporter and seeing the Blues come up short year after year seems to make you bad losers.

[Gunner]

Well done Crusaders, clinical.

The Blues let stage fright get the best of them in the second half last week, and tonight they just picked up where they left off unfortunately.

[WillieTheWaiter]

@Duluth of course he’s going to make metres when he’s standing on the fucking wing!!

Did anything come from those metres? Nope.
Did you get smashed off the park in the collisions and breakdowns? Yep
Would having your biggest loose forward at the breakdown help?

[Tim]

@kev the problem is that Nock went missing at the base of the ruck, as he so often does.

[Hooroo]

@Duluth said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

The storyline of the final is the lineout. So much extra possession to the Crusaders from that set piece

@Duluth said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

The storyline of the final is the lineout. So much extra possession to the Crusaders from that set piece

That was the tassel on the humiliation but I reckon it was forward pack that fucking sucked on open play and scrum. Just crazy compared to the rest of the season they played.

[Bones]

@Tim said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

@Bones thought perofeta was decent

Missing for the first twenty minutes I reckon, but did get better. Some aimless kicking early on really didn't help, but might have helped if he had more support.

[WillieTheWaiter]

All you can say is that scoreline flattered the blues that was fucking lopsided

[Duluth]

@Hooroo

But the extra work required because of the lineout meltdown. They held on for 35mins. Zero chance without sorting it out