@Crucial said in Blues 2019:

@kev said in Blues 2019:

@Steven-Harris Moulds was pretty good. Disappointing that some can’t acknowledge this. In a game that saw a shit load of mistakes all over the park his two mistakes were relatively unimportant and he was constructive around the field. Just to remind some of you of other more critical mistakes that let the pressure off...Akira dropping the ball from an uncontested attacking lineout, Faiane running away from his support and knocking the ball on in multiple attacking situations, Plummer who was quite good but can’t kick goals, Ruru who is slow and couldn’t execute his box kicks, Tuipulotu’s non tackle on the fast running elusive Ta’avao, Nonu who turned into traffic at every opportunity (AB discussions must be over) Rieko who decided passing on his goal line under pressure was a good idea. The only reason the Blues won was because the Chiefs are a broken team. This was a game between the also-rans. For all their endeavours, most of the Blues important mistakes on Saturday came from their so called leaders.

Interesting to note that those players you singled out above are also players that have, in the past, be cited as examples of poor team selection by the coach if they weren't used.
Maybe the coaches see error rates at training?

What?

There was an article by RugbyPass a week or so ago citing that Faiane had among the lowest error rate in the comp for a midfielder. He made errors against the Chiefs but it was one game.

Plummer had a great game around the field. Sure his goal kicking needs work and he has a tendancy to get charged down but he's a 20 year old rookie ffs. The exciting thing is there looks to be plenty to work with.

Ruru - whilst he has his weaknesses - was still a huge improvement on Pulu's shocking effort the week prior v Canes.

@Dice said in Blues 2019:

Moulds has to be close to the most talked about Blues player on this board this year.

A player who has signed overseas.

@Yeahtheboys Naholo

I must say Apisai has improved this year - admittedly he started from a very low base - he was not Super standard last year but has been much better this year. He had good impact off the bench last week including being part of that huge scrum under the own Blues posts and nailing the final lineout throw for the bonus point try.

@Chris or the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

@Steven-Harris Parsons was a huge reason why the Chiefs won the first game between the two teams - he threw the intercept to Weber for his try and he missed a one-on-one tackle with ALB for his try.

Reuben Foster tore his ACL in the 2nd play of OTAs today. That's him done for the season. Even disregarding the off-field stuff the dude just cannot stay healthy.

Clearly the punishment should be that the Crusaders are forced to start Brett Cameron at 10 this week vs the Blues.....

Crusaders management have denied accusations that players made homophobic 'attacks' against patrons of a Cape Town McDonald's outlet over the weekend.

The team are currently flying from South Africa back to Christchurch, but NZ-based management has spoken to travelling officials, who confirmed the incident took place, but not as detailed by complainants.

The franchise is expected to issue a formal statement today.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2019/05/super-rugby-2019-crusaders-deny-allegations-of-queerphobic-attack-in-south-africa.html