Brumbies vs Hurricanes
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@Canes4life said in Brumbies vs Hurricanes:
@Stargazer yeah, plus they could have rested
him next week anyway. Ffs Holland. Why couldn’t Sangster replace Blackwell instead.Because he's one of Holland's unflushables
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The Hurricanes don’t post too much about injuries to players but from this post you can see that Prinsep is already back in NZ, joining Love, Moorby, Coles, Flanders and Kirifi in the broken ward, including the suspended Aumua.
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Has Holland finally settled on a midfield? We can only hope.
Funny how 90% of fans would have told him that's his midfield post the Blues game, but he needed another month to figure it out himself!
Do you think when he picks the team Ardie or Blackwell is 1st choice? lol.
A Scrafton/IWL/Sangster combo would be so much better.
Apart from that, I like the team although like most I'd have Morgan at 10 given Love is injured.
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@foobaNZ said in Brumbies vs Hurricanes:
Has Holland finally settled on a midfield? We can only hope.
Funny how 90% of fans would have told him that's his midfield post the Blues game, but he needed another month to figure it out himself!
Do you think when he picks the team Ardie or Blackwell is 1st choice? lol.
A Scrafton/IWL/Sangster combo would be so much better.
Apart from that, I like the team although like most I'd have Morgan at 10 given Love is injured.
Do you really think any coach in rugby reall knows or cares what fans think. I mean I quite sue non of them are dumb enough to think before naming a team, Oh hang on I better check what the posters think on Silver Fern??
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@Duluth said in Brumbies vs Hurricanes:
@foobaNZ said in Brumbies vs Hurricanes:
Funny how 90% of fans would have told him that's his midfield post the Blues game
It's seemed a large %age of the fans were happy with Jordie in the midfield too?
Well - all fans like Jordie and PUJ, so either is good. Although I think we'd agree that having them both on the park is a better option?
I don't mind Jordie, Sullivan with Moorby at full back. But not having PUJ would be dumb.
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@foobaNZ said in Brumbies vs Hurricanes:
I don't mind Jordie, Sullivan with Moorby at full back. But not having PUJ would be dumb.
PUJ could squeeze into the team as a winger (although there's other good options). He's not linking well at the moment, playing as a finisher might help his form
Someone mentioned Moorby was injured. I wonder if the Canes will go back to Jordie in the midfield when he's back?
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@foobaNZ said in Brumbies vs Hurricanes:
Hmm, not sure I agree re: PUJ - I think his short passing is really good. And he threatens the line with an offload game.
It's the decision making of when to pass, when to have a crack etc. He's a long way behind Sullivan as a 13 on current form
12? I don't think he's better than Jordie, but now he's needed at fullback
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@Duluth said in Brumbies vs Hurricanes:
@foobaNZ said in Brumbies vs Hurricanes:
Hmm, not sure I agree re: PUJ - I think his short passing is really good. And he threatens the line with an offload game.
It's the decision making of when to pass, when to have a crack etc. He's a long way behind Sullivan as a 13 on current form
12? I don't think he's better than Jordie, but now he's needed at fullback
I think we can all agree that:
PUJ, Sullivan, Jordie
or
Jordie, Sullivan, MoorbyAre better than the other chopping and changing midfields Holland has used earlier in the season.
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The Hurricanes have finally named their squad (officially).
Here's the media release:
Unavailable for selection due to injury or suspension: Asafo Aumua, Du'Plessis Kirifi, Devan Flanders, Ruben Love, Owen Franks, Dane Coles, Brayden Iose, Reed Prinsep, Pepesana Patafilo.
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@foobaNZ said in Brumbies vs Hurricanes:
Hmm, not sure I agree re: PUJ - I think his short passing is really good. And he threatens the line with an offload game.
I can't see a wing spot, all of Rayasi, Goosen & J Savea are playing well.
Has he? To me he’s been very up and down.
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@Canes4life As much as I love Colesy it doesn’t look like he’s going to get a run at this stage were 2/3 the way through the comp.
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I was pleased to see PUJ play well last week and so stay in this week, hope he keeps it up, another who I thought went well was Adam Gibson, so pleased to see him there again (even if only because of injury), he plays a bloody good game at 7. Also good to see Howden getting another run.
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@ACT-Crusader he had a mare against the Landers but he's been very good otherwise in my eyes.
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@foobaNZ said in Brumbies vs Hurricanes:
@ACT-Crusader he had a mare against the Landers but he's been very good otherwise in my eyes.
A big thing for Rayasi is he needs to get involved more. More often than not he just waits for the action to come his way.
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@Canes4life He gets a lot of touches with Auckland, but we probably game plan for him to get more touches because he's our best attacker.
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@Canes4life said in Brumbies vs Hurricanes:
@mikey07 I hope we see Colesy at some point, he always helps the Canes take their game up a notch purely by the way he plays. Who knows, he may make a surprise return against the Drua next week.
Agree. In the meantime its good to have James O'Reilly back and starting. Something that I thought I wouldn't say before the year kicked off. Im surprised that he is our third hooker. I thought he only made the squad as an injury replacement
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@Dice said in Brumbies vs Hurricanes:
@Canes4life He gets a lot of touches with Auckland, but we probably game plan for him to get more touches because he's our best attacker.
it's also a bit easier at NPC level to get him more touches - Super being that level above it's not so simple.