Poor
@waiopehu oldboy must be having an aneurysm in his gruds right about now.
That fucking Cantabs backline tonight:
- Hotham. Big. Fucking. Deal. More like Coldham.
- Grannypants Aumua: "Mercenaries. Useless. Nothing more to keep them in a battle other than a meagre wage. Which is just about enough to make them want to kill for you. But never enough to make them want to die for you"
- Brainfart Havili: not an All Blacks arsehole.
- Sevu Reece: slower than Stranger Things Edmed in a footrace ffs
- 1st 5 Kumara: lol@ his funny little stumpy legs when he takes a shot at goal. Fucking thing has no hope of even making it to the goalposts ffs
Havili also looked to be well over weight too I thought. The big difference between the two backlines was in the 9/10 spots. Tahs with a couple of experienced Super players, while the Cru two looked and played like they came straight from school.
I was just as surprised, though, by the lack of endeavour in the Crusaders' pack. Grace was pretty much invisible and was replaced rather early. Gardiner did very little. Tahs backrow was much more involved and effective. Cru front row won the scrum battle with more than a little help from the ref (in my opinion). Holloway tore their lineout to shreds. Where was the second row at lineout time? Barrett otherwise went ok in general play but had very little support from the rest of his pack.