Final: Blues vs Crusaders

antipodean

@kiwiinmelb said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

I guess in hindsight the writing was on the wall at the end of last weeks blues brumbies game ,

Blues continued on in this game with the same deer in the headlights look about them

For me this is a McDonald choke. The Blues game is running. Aimless kicking from Christie and BB, and a lineout that fell apart. He has the best props, and loose forwards in the game ( useful locks ) and they were owned not just this game but the last 40 mins against the Brumbies. Wrong game plan, poor attention to detail, and use of bench.

To give Ronald an excuse; you wouldn't expect to lose so much possession. And I'd be loathe to remove a halfback having such a stinker if Nock was the option too.

Mattasaurus

@kev said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

@kiwiinmelb said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

I guess in hindsight the writing was on the wall at the end of last weeks blues brumbies game ,

Blues continued on in this game with the same deer in the headlights look about them

For me this is a McDonald choke. The Blues game is running. Aimless kicking from Christie and BB, and a lineout that fell apart. He has the best props, and loose forwards in the game ( useful locks ) and they were owned not just this game but the last 40 mins against the Brumbies. Wrong game plan, poor attention to detail, and use of bench.

Best props 🤔

Chris

@Mattasaurus said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

@kev said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

@kiwiinmelb said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

I guess in hindsight the writing was on the wall at the end of last weeks blues brumbies game ,

Blues continued on in this game with the same deer in the headlights look about them

For me this is a McDonald choke. The Blues game is running. Aimless kicking from Christie and BB, and a lineout that fell apart. He has the best props, and loose forwards in the game ( useful locks ) and they were owned not just this game but the last 40 mins against the Brumbies. Wrong game plan, poor attention to detail, and use of bench.

Best props 🤔

The two 21 year old Crusaders went pretty well.

kev

@antipodean said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

@kev said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

@kiwiinmelb said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

I guess in hindsight the writing was on the wall at the end of last weeks blues brumbies game ,

Blues continued on in this game with the same deer in the headlights look about them

For me this is a McDonald choke. The Blues game is running. Aimless kicking from Christie and BB, and a lineout that fell apart. He has the best props, and loose forwards in the game ( useful locks ) and they were owned not just this game but the last 40 mins against the Brumbies. Wrong game plan, poor attention to detail, and use of bench.

To give Ronald an excuse; you wouldn't expect to lose so much possession. And I'd be loathe to remove a halfback having such a stinker if Nock was the option too.

Nothing wrong with Nock. Not using the bench is stupid. He backed himself into a corner. It almost cost them the game last week. It was a contributing factor to the loss tonight.

Jailbreak7

Ireland have named a pretty strong squad, and a decent scrummaging unit. At least we may get an insight as to what they will bring with the MABs first up on the 29th. Lets hope Fozzie is watching.

kev

@Mattasaurus said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

@kev said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

@kiwiinmelb said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

I guess in hindsight the writing was on the wall at the end of last weeks blues brumbies game ,

Blues continued on in this game with the same deer in the headlights look about them

For me this is a McDonald choke. The Blues game is running. Aimless kicking from Christie and BB, and a lineout that fell apart. He has the best props, and loose forwards in the game ( useful locks ) and they were owned not just this game but the last 40 mins against the Brumbies. Wrong game plan, poor attention to detail, and use of bench.

Best props 🤔

Well they should have been…

Steven Harris

@Duluth the problem with Tuipulotu , he’s not a line-out option …for me the biggest disappointment was there was no change of tactics to go to short lineouts , 2 or 4 man lineouts , first long throw did not come until the 60th minute .
We kept going to full lineouts , and the Crusaders kept putting pressure on Eklund.
The Crusaders had so many lineout options , Grace is the number 1 on opposition ball .
The passing from the Blues was woeful, for me the Blues need far more work out of their props , if you think about how all the Crusaders props performed , they were awesome .
Too many of the Blues All Blacks did not front .

KiwiMurph

@kev said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

Nothing wrong with Nock

Nock has a history of underwhelming bench performances.

Obviously tonight had almost nothing to do with him - but he's a better starter than bench player.

Steven Harris

@KiwiMurph hopefully he moves on next year .

Duluth

@WillieTheWaiter said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

Just a great team vs a team of individuals

Imagine losing to these guys by 25-0

You didn’t post after that game for some reason

Hooroo

The trophy is a collared anal bead. How the fuck are you supposed to drink out of that

Mattasaurus

@kev
Here's one of the best

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KiwiMurph

Not really sure he needs to do the breakdance on Eden Park.

ARHS

Where is the Blues Mom thread? Just watched last few minutes on tv and sounds like Christie had a whopper of a game before being subbed late. Ofa prominent all over the show too like we want from our props. And pots and penalties and no tries from Crusaders pack so they must have shied away from attacking the Blues dominant lineout and scrum when in attacking positions. And run away stats from Akira to boot.
So many contenders to choose from. Might have to watch the replay to choose correctly.

Bones

@Steven-Harris said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

he’s not a line-out option

Huh? He's excellent at the lineout. A feature of him on the bench for the ABs used to be waltzing on the field and immediately getting a lineout steal.

kev

@KiwiMurph said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

@kev said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

Nothing wrong with Nock

Nock has a history of underwhelming bench performances.

Obviously tonight had almost nothing to do with him - but he's a better starter than bench player.

I thought he played well when they played their B team and won. Didn’t get much game time other than that. Trouble is once you feature negatively in an Auckland centric Blues Silver Fern feed then your number is up on this forum. The criticism at the end of this game was just petty and reflected bias rather than what happened on the field.