@Bones said in Crusaders v Chiefs:
Hannah really reminds me of a young Whitelock. And not just because he's a 21yo white guy playing at lock.
Big engine and just does the little stuff right. He was very good tonight.
@Bones said in Crusaders v Chiefs:
Hannah really reminds me of a young Whitelock. And not just because he's a 21yo white guy playing at lock.
Big engine and just does the little stuff right. He was very good tonight.
We actually look half decent when we put numbers into the ruck and then drive over and create better ball for Hotham and Hohepa to use.
@Mattasaurus said in Crusaders v Chiefs:
Both hookers throwing poorly
Bells best 40 minutes in terms of his play around the park. Running great support, being a playmaker and taking the line on.
Just need to sort the whole lineout out.
Brumbies have genuine speed across a number of positions and Bernie’s gameplan has looked pretty solid to start the season. Actually looking forward to the Aussie derby between them and the Reds next week.
@mariner4life said in AFL 2024:
or not? Collingwood go 0-3 to start after falling to St Kilda of all teams.
Hey hey, we almost snagged a win in the hardest venue to win a game last week.
We had way too much run for Collingwood down the stretch. I was feeling pretty confident going in even if our record against the Pies sucks.
@bayimports said in NRL 2024:
@Nepia I’m looking for positives 😁 and DWZ is one, love his effort, has had a couple of good games at fullback for sure, referring to overall career in NRL especially at the doggies
Almost gave the game away. I ran into him in Canberra a few years ago, his missus family lived there and it’s chalk and cheese how he now plays and also the confidence.
@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@ACT-Crusader is Luke Whitelock available
No, but Adam and George are
@mariner4life did you hear the one about George Bridge….
@Duluth Harmon seems a very different player since his days in the Saders squad. His fitness is several notches up and his impact at the tackle and with ball in hand is far greater.
From what I’ve seen over the last little while, both Harmon and Segner run excellent lines on both sides of the ball, so I think we could do a lot worse if one of these two were running around in an AB 7 jersey.
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
have a read of this tripe
did i blink and miss where RM somehow turned in to this all-conquering test match 10 we desperately can't live without?
Even the rest of the list of names he references sounded like last year's news.
C’mon bro, you know not to read this rubbish.
Haven’t read the article and won’t, but all I’ll say is that the QF and Final were the two best tests I’ve seen RM play.
Doesn’t mean he is DC or any other extraordinary test player or that he hasn’t had highlight reel moments from other tests, but his control, defensive effort, awareness and doing the basics right along with the odd piece of brilliance was great.
Showed a far more rounded game that we have missed at 10 for a while, but I was pleased to see it come right on the biggest stage.
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
that's two 10s he's taken out in 3 weeks
Victor Matfield would be proud…
Finau will be in the squad no doubt about it.
For me a big problem to solve is who plays at openside. We need to settle on a player that we can build a combination with our other loose forwards (whoever they are).
If the Blues can’t….
@kiwiinmelb said in NRL 2024:
The tactic of continually kicking to Coates was an interesting one given his reputation of being elite under the high ball , had to be to reduce his involvement by tackling him early .
And he was having a relatively quiet game , then scores that try which was the biggest moment of the game
That has to be the most spectacular try of that type from a winger ive seen , he got so much air
The hit by DWZ propelled him higher than the height he got on the leap.
Was a sweet finish.
@nzzp said in Waratahs v Blues:
that's a good game to miss most of by the sound of it. Still, winning ugly is winning right????
And any road win is also worth gold when it comes to building team confidence
Was supposed to be at the game tonight on some corporate junket but now I’m glad I didn’t go.
Proud of that second half though.
@canefan to me that was just dumb. The probability of a 40+ metre droppie going after Pap ran backwards to go behind the 40m mark, is next to zero.
Why try and charge that drop kick???? If he hits you just shake his hand and say well done and play golden point.
I’ve watched the two previous games today and this half and the officiating of the ruck has been so different, you’d almost think they were three different sports.
This guy is so quick to blow the whistle, whereas in the Drua/Chiefs match, the player over the ball had to have at least in grasp before the whistle blew.
I get the whole playing to the ref and planning for it, but I don’t think it’s too hard to ask for the same competition to have something that resembles consistency in ruck interpretation.
The Storm get away with so much at the ruck it’s not even funny
Classic Melbourne stitch up