SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs
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@Donsteppa said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
It'd be a completely different score if DMac was at 10 for the Canes.
Bodes well for the ABs whatever happens tonight
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@No-Quarter said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
Finau is a hell of a player, and that would have been amazing if he'd kept that in for that final try. But the AB coaches will need to get his love of cheap shots on smaller players out of his game, they end in cards every day if the week at test level and it'll cost us.
I wouldn't call his hit on Perenara a cheap shot
He didn't intend to head butt him
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@KiwiMurph Has a history of it though doesn’t he?
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@antipodean said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
@Winger said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
@MajorRage said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
4 disallowed tries.
Has the rule changed that you can now run out of play on purpose?
Or has that always been ok and I’ve been listening to dodgy comms.
2 were togh (one for each team)
But how wasn't the Chief player in front for their 2nd try. Need to watch the replay
Let it go unless you're going to call the Canes' try back for the obvious forward pass from Rayasi in front of the blind fluffybunny of an AR.
But the first Chiefs try final pass looked forward to me too so that's life
Whereas the last non try Chiefs were very unlucky. My view is the reffing is poor. Including a Chiefs players diving into a Canes player head for no reason and its not a Red card
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@KiwiMurph said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
@No-Quarter said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
Finau is a hell of a player, and that would have been amazing if he'd kept that in for that final try. But the AB coaches will need to get his love of cheap shots on smaller players out of his game, they end in cards every day if the week at test level and it'll cost us.
I wouldn't call his hit on Perenara a cheap shot
He didn't intend to head butt him
It was clumsy, but there is a pattern of marginal hits. He's mostly on the right side of the line, but it's going to come back to haunt him sometime.
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@mikey07 said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
@KiwiMurph Has a history of it though doesn’t he?
Got penalised once for smashing a 10 late. Then a lot of crying on other hits that weren't even penalties
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@mikey07 said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
Cameron having an absolute shocker.
He is who he is. He’s peaked as a player.
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@KiwiMurph cheers. Reeks of me being sucked in by dodgy comms
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@Machpants said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
I used to be no team of DMac, but man he's matured. Such a good ten now, I hope he can carry it to international
Would start for any other international team in the world. Unfortunately as Kiwis we have incredibly high standards for 10s
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@MajorRage said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
@KiwiMurph cheers. Reeks of me being sucked in by dodgy comms
Can't blame you. Commentary in rugby sucks
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@Landers92 said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
@Machpants said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
I used to be no team of DMac, but man he's matured. Such a good ten now, I hope he can carry it to international
Would start for any other international team in the world. Unfortunately as Kiwis we have incredibly high standards for 10s
Now, yes. Even last year he wasn't as DC like, more Carlos like
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@KiwiMurph said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
@MajorRage said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
@KiwiMurph cheers. Reeks of me being sucked in by dodgy comms
Can't blame you. Commentary in rugby sucks
Should go to the grumpy old man thread, but I was thinking this before - feels like more and more commentators who aren't providing smart insights.
I would love to hear from Conrad Smith, Richie McCaw - people with some game smarts and intelligence.
Early Marshall was really interesting, but we miss proper analysts.
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@KiwiMurph said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
@mikey07 said in SF - Hurricanes vs Chiefs:
@KiwiMurph Has a history of it though doesn’t he?
Got penalised once for smashing a 10 late. Then a lot of crying on other hits that weren't even penalties
He has a habit of lining up smaller players, especially when they are in a vulnerable position, and trying to hit them as hard as he can to rattle them. That leads to clumsy/reckless play that we saw on TJP. That could well have been a red at test level.
He needs to look at how Kaino and McCaw played (I know that's a high bar but hey). Consistently making dominant tackles often forcing mistakes without that element of recklessness.
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I think Dmac is going to be the difference here.
