Final - Crusaders v Chiefs
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Well I called it at the start of the thread, all my teams lost this week. Congrats Crusaders. Back to the future. Penney finally wins at Super Level.
That was easily Reihana's best game of pro rugby, his best game since his schoolboy days. Jordan looks like a fullback these days. Taylor is in cracking form. Skafoon was really good too.
I can't be too nice to the Crusaders though so for the spice I'll say Reece is a dickhead and Blackadder was his usual busy but largely ineffective self.
Terrible game by the Chiefs. The bot called it correctly, QT was the only Chief with a good game.
There's been some hysterical commenting on this thread though, you'd think no team or player had ever had a bad game before tonight.
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@MajorRage said in Final - Crusaders v Chiefs:
Reihana, Jordan and saders front row were immense.
Every scrum in the 2nd half was a penalty opportunity. Chiefs had no answers.
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Colin Mainsbridge looking like a genius keeping Penney around now. Fair play to them, they deserve to enjoy it and I’m sure a lot of people eating a lot of words. Proud burnside men getting it done on club day. Written in the stars some would say
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See, LJ still thinks it was a one point loss. Should never have come back on
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Well I called it at the start of the thread, all my teams lost this week. Congrats Crusaders. Back to the future. Penney finally wins at Super Level.
That was easily Reihana's best game of pro rugby, his best game since his schoolboy days. Jordan looks like a fullback these days. Taylor is in cracking form. Skafoon was really good too.
I can't be too nice to the Crusaders though so for the spice I'll say Reece is a dickhead and Blackadder was his usual busy but largely ineffective self.
Terrible game by the Chiefs. The bot called it correctly, QT was the only Chief with a good game.
There's been some hysterical commenting on this thread though, you'd think no team or player had ever had a bad game before tonight.
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@KiwiMurph said in Final - Crusaders v Chiefs:
Jacobson not knowing the score...another sign he should have stayed off....
That's malpractice in my eyes and I am even more angry about sam cane's red now as rugby obviously doesn't really give a fuck about player safety
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@KiwiMurph said in Final - Crusaders v Chiefs:
Jacobson not knowing the score...another sign he should have stayed off....
He also spoke like it was a home game when referring to the fans.
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@KiwiMurph said in Final - Crusaders v Chiefs:
Jacobson not knowing the score...another sign he should have stayed off....
That's malpractice in my eyes and I am even more angry about sam cane's red now as rugby obviously doesn't really give a fuck about player safety
@mariner4life said in Final - Crusaders v Chiefs:
@KiwiMurph said in Final - Crusaders v Chiefs:
Jacobson not knowing the score...another sign he should have stayed off....
That's malpractice in my eyes and I am even more angry about sam cane's red now as rugby obviously doesn't really give a fuck about player safety
Yup not a great look at all - as someone said in the thread - they are more interested by the cards... at the end of the day if there is a head clash worthy of a card surely both heads need assessing --
As for Jobcobson - I could see he was knocked out from Invercargill so what they hell were the officials looking at
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@Mattasaurus said in Final - Crusaders v Chiefs:
If Ethan was anything but a Crusader, people would love his work rate on both sides of the ball ..... never seen such a prolific tackler get so maligned.
Prolific tackler? Plenty of tackle assists but not a single dominant tackle or turnover.
And 30 carries for less than a meter...It's not "maligned" if it's an accurate reflection of the actual results.
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I've often wondered even from a match point of view - do you even gain from having someone back out there who likely isn't thinking clearly.
@Donsteppa first thing he did was knock it on from Ah Kuoi in the lineout. Poor fluffybunny didn't know where he was.
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@antipodean said in Final - Crusaders v Chiefs:
I think we've seen the end of calls for Stevenson to be an All Black based on that performance.
And Beaudy is now clear first choice 10.
I would still have DMac as first five. No his fault their front row wasn’t up to it.
@kev said in Final - Crusaders v Chiefs:
@antipodean said in Final - Crusaders v Chiefs:
I think we've seen the end of calls for Stevenson to be an All Black based on that performance.
And Beaudy is now clear first choice 10.
I would still have DMac as first five. No his fault their front row wasn’t up to it.
I see those errors most weeks. The difference was the Crusaders set piece was so dominant the Chiefs didn’t have the attacking opportunities they usually do. Probably the missing thing in DMacs game was goal kicking - conversion wide out and a penalty from 45m. Small margins.
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That was a Good result...
I can Die happy, unless I'm still around this time next year in which case the Sadders will just have to do it again. -
The small things often matter in games like this. And there were plenty of small moments from both sides that built up to impact opportunities.
Impressed with our D to cut off many opportunities the Chiefs wanted to move it wider. The conditions and the gruel took its toll on the chiefs forwards in that second half and they looked gassed playing a lot of ball in their own half.
Not a great game by any stretch of the imagination but at least it was close (I guess)
Stoked for Penny, Havili, Taylor and all the boys.
@ACT-Crusader said in Final - Crusaders v Chiefs:
Stoked for Penny
Quite the coaching Lazarus story isn't it?
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I wonder if the Chiefs long bouts of passivity coincided with LJ's Knock because his fellow loosies didn't stand out for me (but I suspect Sititi had a decent tackle count, not sure about Finau).
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That was a Good result...
I can Die happy, unless I'm still around this time next year in which case the Sadders will just have to do it again.
