SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil)
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Bryce Heem didn't help his chances..what was BB doing during the LF try at 47 min? Looked like he was taking a dog for a slow run, RI looked like he tripped, I'm not quite sure what happened to the rest of the backline either..
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Bryce Heem has no chances. You have to be a true Blue fan to think that a guy that has bounced around clubs looking pretty average is suddenly going to make the ABs based on one season.
He's 34 for goodness sake, so not even an investment in the future.
Proctor, Nankivell and the Umaga-Jensens are all well in front of him. Guys who are least well enough regarded to have played for NZ XVs in recent years.
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@Chester-Draws great call, the UJs are having astounding careers and Heem hasn't even made NZXV.
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@nostrildamus said in SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil):
Bryce Heem didn't help his chances..what was BB doing during the LF try at 47 min? Looked like he was taking a dog for a slow run, RI looked like he tripped, I'm not quite sure what happened to the rest of the backline either..
It's hard to think of a Blues player who did. The backs especially got cut up quite badly.
I've been wondering what the AB selectors would be thinking about Jack Goodhue this year and thinking he wouldn't have played enough - but, now I'm thinking they might well pick him.
Five midfielders? Jordie, Rieko, Jack, ALB and Braydon? Pretty consistent with what they've picked previously.
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@Chester-Draws Bryce Heems a hell of nice bloke but to me he was never gping to wear an All Black jersey with great respect ,i suspect if PUG and Quinn Tupaea were’nt injured last year i doubt wether he would have toured with the NZ XV
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@george33 said in SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil):
@Bones Heem was in NZ15 end year tour
Apologies. I went off his Wikipedia page.
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@Chester-Draws said in SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil):
@george33 said in SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil):
@Bones Heem was in NZ15 end year tour
Apologies. I went off his Wikipedia page.
This reeks of a Foster selection tactic.
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@Chris-B said in SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil):
@nostrildamus said in SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil):
Bryce Heem didn't help his chances..what was BB doing during the LF try at 47 min? Looked like he was taking a dog for a slow run, RI looked like he tripped, I'm not quite sure what happened to the rest of the backline either..
It's hard to think of a Blues player who did. The backs especially got cut up quite badly.
Yes but isn't BB supposed to be the experienced AB back and field general of the backline? The leadership element wasn't clear to me but I may have missed it.
I've been wondering what the AB selectors would be thinking about Jack Goodhue this year and thinking he wouldn't have played enough - but, now I'm thinking they might well pick him.
He seems to have regained ok if still not top pace and his ability to know where the action seems to have masked the pace issue. I've always liked him because he makes the players around him look good but I don't know at international level if his injuries and relative lack of pace will be exposed.
Five midfielders? Jordie, Rieko, Jack, ALB and Braydon? Pretty consistent with what they've picked previously.
Ennor has played better than I gave him credit for but at AB level he gives me the heebie-jeebies. Hopefully just PTSD.
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@His-Bobness said in SF: Crusaders (Good) v Blues (Evil):
Now that I think about the Blues’ shellacking this morning, I was struck by the Sky interview with Beauden Barrett ahead of the game. Asked about the game day ritual he sounded exceedingly chilled - talking about a nice lie-in and the extra space granted by being away from home and the kids. There was time for a leisurely breakfast and catchup with the US Open on TV before a team chat around lunch. Maybe this was their way of not being overawed by the occasion. But from what we saw on the field the result was they came on so ‘underawed’ and mentally unprepared they had no answer for the Crusaders’ intensity.
That sounds like BB's intensity for the last 3 years regardless of who he's playing for tbh.
"Clown's in a minefield" was headline put out by one journo which gave me a good laugh.
The Blues were just beaten soundly at every contact area in the game, lacked physical intensity to match or mental fortitude to dig in and fight in the trench's and instead went for the miracle off-loads just gifting the ball back to the Crusaders.
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