Force v Crusaders
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@Landers92 said in Force v Crusaders:
As a highlanders fan, I would like to welcome the crusaders fan to the annual struggle. You’ve been spoiled for years, welcome to the other side. 😂
Yeah it's been a pretty fun like twenty years of dominance or something, we'll allow youse all a couple weeks of schadenfreude for a bit.
We can still mathematically knock the Hurricanes out in the quarters.
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@sparky said in Force v Crusaders:
Cory Jane is doing a fantastic job as Hurricanes Assistant Coach and deserves a promotion to a Head Coaching gig.
What about the overrated Tamati Ellison? His selections for Wellington were Holland like
edit. Robertson truly will be a AB coaching genius if he can do well with his limited assistant coaches. Including Ellison
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@African-Monkey said in Force v Crusaders:
Lol they won't lose this week. The Force are about as good as a mid table NPC side.
That aged well
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@MiketheSnow didn't see the game but fuck me lol.
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Can't believe the Crusaders lost again. 😢
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Well I watched first 20 minutes and saw a couple of teams that seemed to be full of journeymen players etc stumbling from one thing to next and said bugger me it's bed time! There is nothing from the bit I saw that would make you think the Crusaders are a team that is on same page, I get impression that Franks and Moody in front row are just going through motions, and really feel they may of been around too long. The rest of forwards look to be just looking for someone else to do the hard work so they can get in behind them. Backs are pretty average altogether, starting with Drummond and Hohepa who both look NPC standard , and so it goes on!
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Hard to put your finger on why the Crusaders are so shit this year. The obvious reasons are the coaching and the "stem" of the team not up to it but still, they are much less than the sum of their parts. Shite in the areas what used to be strengths.
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@Chris said in Force v Crusaders:
Fucking clown show
Franks and moody starting should not be even in the squad.
Hohepa selected again he is just not up to it.
Penny needs to go Perrin can fuck off as well we can’t defend rolling mauls,don’t have a decent line out ,
Fuck up the kick off receives looking at you Perrin forwards coach you can’t fix fuck all.Razor must've done a fucking superb job of covering for the defeciencies of Perrin's abysmal forwards coaching last year.
I honestly think that given the substantial injury toll of 2023 and the losses of Jason Ryan & Andrew Goodman after 2022... Razor winning the title last year was his greatest achievement, by far.
Crusaders are now performing less than the sum of their parts after 3-4 seasons of Razor (in hindsight) massively overachieving considering all the average/limited players at his disposal.
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I think the Crusaders' arrogance has finally caught up with them. All that success meant some of the squad thought winning was a right not something you have to earn every step of the way. Without a few key individuals who drove standards in others, things have slipped and slipped badly.
