SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil)
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@antipodean he was exactly as I expected, evenly shared his weird calls.
We would have lost by 80 if Ben was reffing his mates.
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@Kirwan said in SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil):
@antipodean he was exactly as I expected, evenly shared his weird calls.
We would have lost by 80 if Ben was reffing his mates.
I think the Blues completely took the ref out of the game, didn't matter who reffed.
Some of the "counter-ruck" was rather interesting from the Crusaders, I don't think they would've got away with that under Ben, but it ended up not being important anyway.
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@Bovidae said in SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil):
You have to accept that the breakdown is a mess with Gardner. Best to try to be dominant/physical and take your chances.
Exactly. And for some strange reason, after weeks of playing people like Akira close to the ruck Leon moved him out wide, same with Dalton.
Ok, find for the first 20, but for gods sake change it when it doesn’t work.
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@kev said in SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil):
@Canes4life said in SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil):
Well Foster has plenty to ponder after that one.
That’s the interesting thing for me. No one expected that score line but I think everyone would say that for large % of their games this year the Blues have been poor but still good enough to sink teams with 20 minutes of runaway rugby. So what do you do with the AB Blues players that were on the end of that hiding? So hard to say…systems, skills, decision making.
But if someone likes Laulala makes the AB squad I would be surprised.
The skill for the ABs coach is to take players who may have not shown their best in their Super squad and get a tune out of them at the next level
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Great by Crusaders. Ennor and LF were terrific again. Forwards were very good indeed.
But what the heck is going on with Blues gameplan and onfield leadership. They just seem to lose composure in all facets and keep taking risky options.
Thought Akira had easily his best game this year and Tucker was effective around the ball in first half. But some of the AB's looked way out of form. Sotutu was ineffective as were props. Clarke made bad defensive decisions and Christie played with limited vision.
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@kiwi_expat yea, they made a huge difference…
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@taniwharugby completely and utterly outplaying them.
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It all feels so insipid. The blues don't even look that disappointed to be out.
No heads in hands. No distraught bodies scattered around the field.
Beaudy looks like he is on holidays already. Didn't look arsed and shovelled a load of shite balls to his outsides.
Akira, Sotutu, Clarke look flat track bullies to me.
Christie and Beaudy at 9/10 are a pair of Jack Russells....helter skelter.
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@Steve said in SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil):
It all feels so insipid. The blues don't even look that disappointed to be out.
No heads in hands. No distraught bodies scattered around the field.
Beaudy looks like he is on holidays already. Didn't look arsed and shovelled a load of shite balls to his outsides.
Akira, Sotutu, Clarke look flat track bullies to me.
Christie and Beaudy at 9/10 are a pair of Jack Russells....helter skelter.
Contrast it with a Munster vs Leinster game. Its trench warfare and they genuinely look heart broken to lose.
Some of the Blues trundled off the field at the end without a hair out of place.
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@antipodean said in SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil):
@Canerbry said in SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil):
Mo'ounga's gotta be MoM, big game from a big game player.
Codie Taylor was massive and set the standard that gave Mo'unga the platform to shine.
He def had the rolls royce in front of him today, so his job was easy compared to Beaudy's - not saying that BB did anything but turds
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WOW
Blues midfield made Ennor look like Philippe Sella
Two horse race now for the ABs number 10 shirt
Based on this performance, RM in pole
Jordan is a thoroughbred
