Crusaders v Chiefs
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I know it's a contact sport but gee the injury wards for each super team seem to get bigger and bigger. Of course no evidence to prove that but I would be interested to see the number of games missed via injury by year. If you total all the players who are injured it must be a lot.
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What a game from Weber, biggest difference maker by far. He especially looks to have worked really hard on his distribution, what a difference from last year.
Retallick and Stephenson honourable mentions in the difference making stakes.
Glad the Chiefs won, BOK seemed to only be reffing one side a lot of the game. Cane gets yellow carded for being offside and innocuously picking up a ball that bobbled towards him - cut to a crusader deliberately going off his feet at a ruck 5 metres out from his own line and then playing the ball from offside on the ground... just a penalty. The 50-22 from Dmac not even discussed (it was passed back twice but didn't think it was that evident that they wouldn't even check). The crusaders spending the first 40 consistently with a guy lying on the chiefs side at what seemed like every ruck, only the chiefs getting penalised for it (think cru finally got pinged once at like 65 mins or something). Not surprised to see another season of it but great to see a team absolutely dominate in spite of it.
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@Stargazer said in Crusaders v Chiefs:
@chimoaus I won't be surprised if speeding up the game under these new law application guidelines contributes to an increase in injuries.
Yeah the not often raised flip side of trying to get rid of the bigger and slower game is more tired players and bodies, fatigued and making mistakes on both sides of the collision.
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@Stargazer said in Crusaders v Chiefs:
@chimoaus I won't be surprised if speeding up the game under these new law application guidelines contributes to an increase in injuries.
... Or player sizes getting smaller of course, and impacts dropping. We will have to see, but injuries in the pro game do seem to be getting worse each year
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Some brutal stats here from this game highlighting a few issues for the Saders.
For the good guys:
Stevenson: 152 metres, 14 runs, 16 passes, 3 clean breaks, 9 defenders beaten, 2 offloads, 5 tackles made, 1 missed, 1 turnover
Nankivell: 72 metres, 14 runs, 6 passes, 3 clean breaks, 6 defenders beaten, 3 tackles made, 1 missed, 1 turnover
BBBR: 15 tackles made, 2 missed, 8 runs, 4 defenders beaten, 1 offload
Sami: 14 runs, 20 metres, 13 tackles made, 1 missed.
For the Sith:
Havili: 6 tackles made, 7 missed, 3 turnovers conceded
Mo'unga: 4 made, 2 missed, 3 turnovers conceded
Reece: 5 made, 4 missed, 4 turnovers conceded
A few others with some misses as well, not a good night for the Saders on D.
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@Bovidae said in Crusaders v Chiefs:
A couple of other stats from Breakdown last night:
Linebreaks: Chiefs 18 - 2 Crusaders
Defenders beaten: Chiefs 37 - 12 Crusaders
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@gt12 said in Crusaders v Chiefs:
Havili: 6 tackles made, 7 missed, 3 turnovers conceded
Mo'unga: 4 made, 2 missed, 3 turnovers conceded
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@Nepia said in Crusaders v Chiefs:
@gt12 said in Crusaders v Chiefs:
Reece: 5 made, 4 missed, 4 turnovers conceded
I think he was getting some love in the match thread for his defence, or am I miss-remembering?
He was really busy, especially on defensive kicks, so stood out I guess?
I originally had him in my team of the weekend ahead of Clarke alongside Telea, so I was pretty surprised when I saw these stats (and clearly I can't select for shit).
Edit: They also only had one missed tackle from LF, so I wonder whether some that I thought were Leicester were actually on Reece. Or, it could be that LF was so far away to not even get in an attempt?
