Highlanders vs. Hurricanes
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Canes should feel even worse than last week.
Its one thing to be smashed by Crusaders in the wet - its another to be smashed by the Landers under the roof - including conceding a try when the opposition is down to 14. Title hopes in real danger now.
Canes powderpuff pack smashed. Evans played his worst game of the season - did not look AB quality.
Franklin awesome.
Frizell with 6 minutes gametime lol.
Squire might be in danger of a citing with that hit on Perenara.
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@No-Quarter track wasn't flat enough
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@chris-b said in Highlanders vs. Hurricanes:
Nice result. My weekend is intact whatever happens from here. Crusaders have a mulligan vs the Chiefs @ Hooroo.
So that was Boyd vs Hammett?
Looks like I was right all along.
LMAO!
Looked like the Canes were being coached by Hammett tonight. Was getting flashbacks.
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@rancid-schnitzel It's a bit poor of me to be rubbing it in, really. But,I thought I'd take the chance.
Still no-one won an away derby match except against the Blues.
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@rancid-schnitzel you should've seen them at training. Was a thing of beauty. I'm not sure why they aren't bringing it on match day.
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Entertaining game even if some of the rugby wasn't the best.
Canes pack got bullied for the second week in a row. He will get shit on here but i thought Ardie was the only one that stood up.
Naholo showed why he is an AB and Lam isn't. He was anonymous as was Laumape, TJP, J Savea and NMS.
Jordie and BB not much better.
Ricky ricky probably the worst of the bunch.Think Squire will be very lucky if he doesn't get sat down for a few weeks. That tackle that led to the Savea punch is a straight red these days. But again the bullshit inconsistency of reffing strikes.
Just on the "punch", from that wide shot it didn't look like he was punching anywhere near Squires head because RR was in the way. Did he punch him in the guts? I think i saw the first Squire clean out that people have mentioned but didnt catch a replay. Anyone notice what time it occured?Not that it matters but Jordie wasn't offside for that non try. Ball deflected off bus who was retiring but there was no ruck. Ball went back to Jordie who ran away with it.
AB Frizell got all of 7mins. I stilldon't know how the fuck he gets in ahead of Akira.
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On Squire. Really? Play that at full speed and tell me he's intentionally hit Savea high.
Poor call to give him a yellow IMO.
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@pukunui said in Highlanders vs. Hurricanes:
Just found the squire clear out at 11:30mins.
He is fucking gone for that. Should have been straight red also if they are being consistent with other cards this year. How the hell did the tmo miss it? The ref even penalised him.Considering that Shag has already said in public that stupid behaviour has to go and that he is disappointed that 'his' players are involved, that will be a black mark against Squire.
Maybe bringing back Messam would fill any gap from suspension? He is playing as well as any other 6/8 in the country at the moment and has enough experience to slide back into the AB camp.
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@pukunui it’s not the first time the Canes pack has been bullied this year,not just the Saders game last week,but if you think back to the Sharks game,they were totally owned by the Sharks pack,and even in home games against the Sunwolves and Reds for long periods they were more than matched..but when you have got some rock star backs,they can get you out of a jam.
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@chris-b said in Highlanders vs. Hurricanes:
On Squire. Really? Play that at full speed and tell me he's intentionally hit Savea high.
Poor call to give him a yellow IMO.
Since when does it need to be intentional ?
Swinging arm to the head is meant to be red these days. Well according to what they tell us the rules are now anyway.
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@pukunui @Toddy There's just nothing in that.
The guy he's tackling is at his knee level when he's hit him and he has no chance of pulling out.
Haven't seen what you guys are suggesting on Perenara, but IMO that one doesn't deserve a yellow and I'll be amazed and disappointed if he gets banned for that.
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@chris-b said in Highlanders vs. Hurricanes:
@pukunui @Toddy There's just nothing in that.
The guy he's tackling is at his knee level when he's hit him and he has no chance of pulling out.
Haven't seen what you guys are suggesting on Perenara, but IMO that one doesn't deserve a yellow and I'll be amazed and disappointed if he gets banned for that.
I do actually agree with you. The way i want it to be reffed that is a penalty at most. However, we are repeatedly told by Sanzaar that the head is off limits and any direct contact with the head with force is Red. Contact with shoulder and ending up on the head tends to be yellow.
I will be surprised if he doesn't get cited for it. Actually no i won't, the consistency is fucked so we probably won't hear a thing about it.
He is in deep shit for the perenara clean out though. That is shoulder to face.So frustrating from an AB perspective.
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@chris-b said in Highlanders vs. Hurricanes:
On Squire. Really? Play that at full speed and tell me he's intentionally hit Savea high.
Poor call to give him a yellow IMO.
What the hell? That's a card? That's a penalty?
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@pukunui said in Highlanders vs. Hurricanes:
So frustrating from an AB perspective.
Most frustrating thing about that is that AB's won't get let off by refs in tests (especially in the NH), but they might be used to a different standard of refereeing.
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@pukunui I haven't seen anything like that hit by Squire result in a ban, so hopefully that won't occur.
In all honesty, I don't see too many bad calls by the judiciary once they're looking at all slo-mo angles - as well as playing them in normal time to anticipate what people actually could have done to avoid contact with the head.
Haven't seen the other contact on Perenara you guys are talking about.
