The Silver Fern

@Kirwan all year the blues loosies have cleared their own ball in 1 seconds and hold oppositions for up to 3 secs. That power at contact just gets them over the top of teams eventually.
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@taniwharugby Eddie is possibly the best at getting a team to improve/turn around in his first year. Biggest years for him with all of Japan, Tahs, Wallabies, South Africa and England all came in his first years with those teams. But a 5 year gig ….

Thank Christ Dalton is out there. Mostly Rubbish apart from Perefota at points, the scrum and loose forward defence by our 7 and 9.

No Christie in ab xv.

@KiwiPie be fair mate. The old boy is finally having a knee surgery from an old playing injury so he did pretty well I think.

@ploughboy

Yes all players in Nz who appeared at rwc weren’t to train pre Christmas with super squads. Lord and finau would have had their bronco/strength testing base with the chiefs for example.

4-5 big hits in the last 60 seconds. Including winning the turnover . Impact was huge @No-Quarter

@MN5

He’s still got that weak glass shoulder that was identified in his all black review when he was one of 65 players that played in Covid year 1 … his 65 - 70 percent tackle rate accuracy in his super career at least it makes Tom Christie get noticed covering up for him.

Busted hand. Cane let it slip that the loosies had an injury when he said earlier in the week that everyone was ready with injury cloud.

@kiwi_expat Yes and the team drivers were not the most professional either. We had a gaping hole in the 10 channel on defence that the French had splintered to pieces in '99 and it was very much even leakier in the Smith year and a bit.

@KiwiMurph what attack?

People forget the controversial leadership meeting razor had before departure to France with last years blues captain down in Chch (amongst 4-5 others including a barret back).

@KiwiMurph agree. Great lines on support. We’ve got some great support runners in our halves atm with him Ratima and TJ. Cam R is excellent at this too.

Blues at the breakdown - like all year faster to release their ball and slowing down the hurricanes. I think they need to pick and go more.