Round 6: Waratahs v Crusaders - Sunday 2 April 2017 4pm

[Froggy]

All good by me, give the kid a crack, we've really got nothing to lose, with the other options known to be not up to it!
Love the Mack the Knife thing by Nick on the main page!!!

 

[Braveheart81]

Rob Horne out with a hamstring injury.

 

[fatprop]

Wow, who would have thought that would be a run on Tahs side this season

 

[Blackadder]

Rob Horne out with a hamstring injury.

That is a very weak defensive backline.

 

[Blackadder]

Tahs need to recruit a defensive centre to cover Horne.

 

[fatprop]

Horwitz is no slouch in defence

 

[RugbyReg]

Tahs need to recruit a defensive centre to cover Horne.

Check out who's playing 12 for Sydney Uni this weekend.

 

[Blackadder]

Check out who's playing 12 for Sydney Uni this weekend.

Didn't he retire from Sydney uni last year?

 

[Blackadder]

Horwitz is no slouch in defence

Not the best defensive player.

 

[RugbyReg]

Didn't he retire from Sydney uni last year?

clearly not.

 

[Froggy]

Interesting Gibson is playing Kellaway on the wing and Clarke at FB, rather than the other way around.

 

[fatprop]

Not the best defensive player.

He isn't crap and doesn't miss many

 

[Scrubber2050]

Dunno - if a bloke misses a few (in that position) his team often ends up getting flogged.

 

[I like to watch]

Wow, who would have thought that would be a run on Tahs side this season

Yep!
I was planning to go, not now.
I'd rather mow the neighbours lawn.
Very disappointing

 

[KiwiM]

BNZ Crusaders team to play the Waratahs:

1. Joe Moody
2. Codie Taylor
3. Owen Franks
4. Scott Barrett
5. Sam Whitelock (C)
6. Jordan Taufua
7. Matt Todd (VC)
8. Whetu Douglas
9. Mitchell Drummond
10. Mitchell Hunt
11. George Bridge
12. Ryan Crotty (VC)
13. Tim Bateman
14. Digby Ioane
15. David Havili

RESERVES
16. Ben Funnell
17. Wyatt Crockett
18. Michael Ala'alatoa
19. Luke Romano
20. Pete Samu
21. Bryn Hall
22. Marty McKenzie
23. Manasa Mataele

 

[Braveheart81]

Only 9 All Blacks.

Hopeless. Tahs by 50.

 

[fatprop]

RESERVES
16. Ben Funnell
17. Wyatt Crockett
18. Michael Ala'alatoa
19. Luke Romano
20. Pete Samu
21. Bryn Hall
22. Marty McKenzie
23. Manasa Mataele

Benches often win matches and that is some very solid bench

 

[Lee Grant]

Deegan got upgraded in August, Mason signed in November.

Both are in the 36 man squad this season. Deegan was outside that last year so it is the first year in the main squad for either of them.

Anyway, let's hope Mason goes well on Sunday.

When I wrote earlier that he was in the Supplementary Squad I was going by the Tahs team profiles, but they obviously don't update them.

If Hegarty were to be overlooked I thought Deegan would have been given the nod but now it's official that Mason is starting - and as you say, good luck to him. It will be absorbing watching it, just as always as when a young flyhalf plays in his first game - and starts, at that.

They must be keen to have a longer look at Cameron Clark. When Horne was crocked and they moved the Rubik Cube of the backs around they could have started big Naiyaravoro on the wing and played Kellaway at fullback again but they opted for Clark.

He wasn't the worst when he had a long stint against the Sharks - though that would have difficult.

PS - I like the comment of TV commentator Greg Clark to Greg Martin when young Cameron came on at the end of the Rebels' game: "Do you know anything about this fellow?".

Martin answered with a straight face - or I suppose it was.
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[KOB1987]

Tahs by 1 holding on at the death

 

[cyclopath]

Tahs by 1 holding on at the death

Holding on to what?