Highlanders v Hurricanes

[Canes4life]

@antipodean He's been superb all season but that Bye will be a big relief. I think a lot of our All Blacks will be held back the week after aswell when they travel to the Sunwolves. So two weeks off for Ardie I would think.

Massive win for our season as I think the likes of Smith, Cridge, Evans, Coles, Skudder, Marshall etc will return after the bye/Sunwolves game so that experience will be a big boost.

[Stargazer]

@Canes4life The Canes really missed Coles and Evans.

[African Monkey]

@Machpants To be fair to him it's pretty hard when he's playing on his own most of the time.

[Canes4life]

@Stargazer Yup can't wait to have them two back. That last two showed what we can do with a bigger pack. And Toby Smith is such an anchor for us aswell.

[hydro11]

@Kirwan said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:

How did the Clan lose this?

If we lost, you would say the same thing. We had three opportunities in the last 5 minutes to shut the game down and couldn't do.

[Duluth]

[Frank]

Who was better - Frizell or Fifita ?

[Stargazer]

@Frank IMO, clearly Frizell

[KiwiMurph]

@Frank said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:

Who was better - Frizell or Fifita ?

Frizell.

What an entertaining game as a neutral. Frantic but exciting.

Ardie is a machine.

[Rembrandt]

Best game I've seen this year. Shame they are duking it out for a distant 2nd in the conference.

[ACT Crusader]

@Canes4life said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:

Ardie is insane. Imagine if he was in the Crusaders.

He’d provide a good backup to Matt Todd

[ACT Crusader]

@KiwiMurph said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:

What an entertaining thread as a neutral. Frantic but amusing.

Fixed

[Bones]

@Rembrandt I take it you're not referring to the highlanders 😔

[Wairau]

@Kirwan said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:

How did the Clan lose this?

taking that third lineout, too predictable, should have scrummed it with man advantage

[cgrant]

Exciting game to Watch for a neutral. Once the Landers starting front row went off, the Canes fared better. Best individual display of the Super Rugby season so far by Ardie Savea. BB's second half was much better than the first when he had a mare. Lam outstanding in attack.

[Machpants]

I was surprised to see Beaudy had the most metres run in the game!

[nzzp]

@Machpants said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:

I was surprised to see Beaudy had the most metres run in the game!

His gas is still there - tracking back on a Landers breakout he looked like he was gliding on fast forward compared to everyone else. Was stoked to see it, now we just need him fit at the end fo the season for the fast tracks in Japan

[Machpants]

Oh I hope so too

TJ 50 tries, that's ninth on the all time list, everyone else above or close is an outside or midfield back

[ACT Crusader]

@Rocky-Rockbottom said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:

wow dont tell me Fakatava isn't already putting heat on TTT for RWC 3rd halfback spot? The kid looks the goods.

Although ffs really he should be playing for Tonga

Nope can’t make. He doesn’t fit our Maori quota for halfbacks.

[Dice]

@ACT-Crusader said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:

@Rocky-Rockbottom said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:

wow dont tell me Fakatava isn't already putting heat on TTT for RWC 3rd halfback spot? The kid looks the goods.

Although ffs really he should be playing for Tonga

Nope can’t make. He doesn’t fit our Maori quota for halfbacks.

What if he changed his name to Whakatava?