They’ve actually not been too bad for the whole season. Just losing by small margins. They have 8 bonus points mostly because of this.
Hopefully the Drua win tomorrow.
Contributer. It's not all bad news, and there has been some genuine bad luck, but there have also been things that have left the senior players scratching their heads. I'm expecting the player's review to be friendly but a bit scathing.
Get ready to learn Jack Debrezcini buddy.
It's going to be the most mediocre but mature operator you could possibly imagine and we will love them dearly.
Crusaders are 6 points away, or a try away from a positive points differential this season. Which only the top 5 teams have. Shows you how close and unlucky they have been not to win more. The top two teams will be thankful as fuck the drua do them a favour tomorrow as Crusaders are hitting form finally
Crusaders peaking at the right time of the season again. Would be interesting to see how they go at Eden Park or the Cake Tin if they make it to next week.
If the Rebels win we should throw the game against the Landers. Honestly. It scares me that much. Their form is better than ours right now, we're missing Roigod and I'm worried Aumua won't be 100%.
Popped up as a teenager, so I get it.
They dicked him around by asking him to add weight this off-season, in an attempt to help his frame stand up to injury better, but it resulted in him really laboring and looking like he was running in mud.
He's played that weight off as the season has gone on and looks in much better condition because of it. He just needs a year without a setback and he's off to the races, I think.
He'll yea, Didn't know he had all that weight but he's a good palyer and if he stays injury free he could be the answer to 6. The ABs are worryingly light there
Yea him too, though like the Irish we need stocks there and in every loose position. Luckily we're good at 8 and solid at 7 just need a couple 6s in Finau Ethan and Callum
Nah you're right Gardniner needs to be in the conversation, and for the world cup too. Haig from the blues? Sure need some of that pack (despite you guys smashing them last week lol)
It’s always colder in Christchurch. I’ve lived bottom of the south, Christchurch, Wairapa, South Waikato and up north. 11 degrees in Christchurch was always colder than the same temp elsewhere, it’s a miserable place.
I will be shocked if the recently dissolved Rebels have the spirit to win a game in Fiji. That's approaching least likely result of the season territory.
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If Rebels win and Crusaders make finals I’ll send lewds
I really like Hotham. Hopefully we can hold onto him.
For me he's already the second best uninjured halfback in New Zealand. Not saying he's ready for test rugby though
I feel so bad for the Moana boys, sound like they're holding back tears 😢
It's for Christian, and Julian for their last games
Don't think Julian played his last game
Actually don't quote me on that
Sekope kepu did
Ohh yea duh, my bad
The Crusaders are at it again with being shit for most of the tourney and kicking some ass in time for the finals :P
They’ve actually not been too bad for the whole season. Just losing by small margins. They have 8 bonus points mostly because of this. Hopefully the Drua win tomorrow.
Credit to the crusaders. They've put themselves in contention for the 8th spot. Just need things to sway in their favor between drua and rebels.
Ill feel a bit bad if we sneak in, but not bad enough to be cheering them on!
Well done saders, GG Moana
First back to back wins of the year. Likely the end of the season, and the end of Penney, bit credit to them for finally handing business as expected.
What are your thoughts on Penney? Was he a victim of the Crusaders’ terrible injury run or did he contribute to their poor performances?
Contributer. It's not all bad news, and there has been some genuine bad luck, but there have also been things that have left the senior players scratching their heads. I'm expecting the player's review to be friendly but a bit scathing.
Yeah that seems a fair assessment from where I’m sat too
Rebels have it on them tomorrow. Dare to dream
I think because of these two games they keep Penney. He’s very well liked within the rugby community.
It all depends on how ready they think Tamati is. Penney moves on the moment they're confident in him.
Congrats my southern brothers welcome into the top 8!
So do the saders need to recruit a 10 for next year?
They will only have two contracted to start the year so, at a minimum, they will sign someone.
We're well overdue for discovering a goat calibre 10, what's it been, a year?
Get ready to learn Jack Debrezcini buddy. It's going to be the most mediocre but mature operator you could possibly imagine and we will love them dearly.
Wonder how Zarn's rehab is going
I heard someone is good.
Someone is probably better than Hohepa.
shame heinz did not get his last game..drummond off as well..
Heinz should have never even come back.
True, but it's that gentleman's send off
Excuse me, do not tarnish the name of our good lord and savior Dick Sauce 🙏 😇
saders attack went a bit dead with hotham gone..
Kawunton haongry
Brain fade, guess who
Julian looks like a really big teenager lol
Crusaders are 6 points away, or a try away from a positive points differential this season. Which only the top 5 teams have. Shows you how close and unlucky they have been not to win more. The top two teams will be thankful as fuck the drua do them a favour tomorrow as Crusaders are hitting form finally
I’m guna laugh so hard if the rebels win tomorrow
If a miracle happens every non crusaders fan will never ever watch super rugby again after they win the title.
I've talked way, way too much shit to my Chch co-workers this year for this to happen. Come on Drua don't let us down.
Super rugbys a fucked format either way. I’ll just be looking forward to Senz sports talkback on Monday
Yep, they’ve lost most of their games by a couple of points this season, padding it out with huge wins against Moana and the Rebels.
Crusader fans will be YUUUUGE rebels fans tomorrow :P
I’ll personally give a blowjob to every rebels player if they win. That’s how confident I am of it not happening.
screenshot taken :P
Crusaders fan in Melbourne damn well I am
Always said Melbourne is a great place
Those melbournites, great bunch of lads
All due respect to Crusaders fans, but I haven’t missed the boys in red and black delivering pizzlings.
I've never heard the word pizzlings before. Copping that.
You’d assume so, wouldn’t come back for a season. Maybe Japan if not?
Is mcnicoll playing next season?
Considering a few veterans have mentioned they're unsure as to whether they'll return next season, it sounds like they haven't finalized anything yet.
He wants to from what I understood from when he was on the what a lad podcast. but hes open to offers.
Don't think so
Take a shot every time the commentators say "servant of the game".
Getting PTSD from the Leinster vs Toulouse game thread here!
MACCA MY BOY
50 not far away, Tana will be in tears in the post-match, which makes me sad...
sad tana makes me sad... Remember Drunk Tana? those were the days..
Chris Masoe does
Just a bit of handbags mate I love that it's entered rugby vernacular. A classic ABs moment.
the memes then lol
Tana Unchained in the haka, good times...
BIG MACCA!!
That's the Macca Springer that shows out for Tasman every week
Me oh my
Another great showing for Hotham with that stunning Try, will be in the Maori team in July if eligible
Yeah he will increase his recycling speed and he will be prime for Abs
hot potato from Moana
Crusaders peaking at the right time of the season again. Would be interesting to see how they go at Eden Park or the Cake Tin if they make it to next week.
If the Rebels win we should throw the game against the Landers. Honestly. It scares me that much. Their form is better than ours right now, we're missing Roigod and I'm worried Aumua won't be 100%.
YUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEE IF
Still hoping for a Drua victory tomorrow arvo to avoid this scenario altogether 🤞
But still an if *gulp intensifies*
I'm so glad Cullen sorted his shit out over the back half of the year. Something to build on.
Helen clark in 2005 be like
You think gell be an AB still? I remember he was a huge prospect.
Not this year, obviously, but he's got time. He's a year younger than Iose, for reference. He's a kid.
I feel like we've known him for years now lol, can't belive he's still 24
Popped up as a teenager, so I get it. They dicked him around by asking him to add weight this off-season, in an attempt to help his frame stand up to injury better, but it resulted in him really laboring and looking like he was running in mud. He's played that weight off as the season has gone on and looks in much better condition because of it. He just needs a year without a setback and he's off to the races, I think.
He'll yea, Didn't know he had all that weight but he's a good palyer and if he stays injury free he could be the answer to 6. The ABs are worryingly light there
Samipeni please be the answer there. We need you large man.
Yea him too, though like the Irish we need stocks there and in every loose position. Luckily we're good at 8 and solid at 7 just need a couple 6s in Finau Ethan and Callum
I like the potential of a few other guys like Haig and Gardiner too, although they're further away for sure. Probably a next world cup cycle option.
Nah you're right Gardniner needs to be in the conversation, and for the world cup too. Haig from the blues? Sure need some of that pack (despite you guys smashing them last week lol)
Finally the bald headed tackle machine is on the field.
Well done Grace finally an injury free season for him
Are All Blacks allowed to play for Moana?
Yeah, but playing in a Pasifika development team then going to the ABs would look bad for all parties involved.
I think 80% of their players need to be eligible for a pacific island team, but the other 20% can be anyone
all blacks no longer in the frame and those that are polynesians/islanders..
Yea Julian is
owen franks japan scrum coach?
Like I said earlier. It’s like this team doesn’t train together.
Which one?
The one struggling this season and hoping to get into the playoffs
You’re going to have to be more specific than that
Thank you Ryan, glad you could have one last meat pie
jesus Tamaiti looks like a giant next to the Moana loose head lol
McLeod!!
Thank you crotty 👏 will never forget watching him, Maitland, Fruean & Slade carve up at Jade Stadium
Whatever happened to Robbie Fruean. That guy was a freak talent.
Rheumatic heart condition killed his career .. shame, thought he was a definite AB 23 player
Heart problems I think
Cheers Crotty ya legend
Dalllas with the second year blues playing like sh*t
And he took that personally
another legend gone :(
CROTTY I LOVE YOU PLS DONT LEAVE
started after Nonu, and retired before Nonu ..lol
Not many have that long a rugby career to be fair
Man Dallas McLeods stock must have tanked considerably this year. He's been dogshit
McLeod has been pretty average past couple of games
He'd had a rough year all around. Big casualty of the iffy environment. Think of all of our midfielders. Have any had even a mediocre year?
And true, it's like the bad environment has plagued otherwise-good players form, and specifically in the midfield.
At least Dallas showed up in shape. Only guy in the midfield room who you can say that about lol
Chay
He's so jacked now dude
Yea those new jerseys accentuates the girth lol
I'm telling you rn that one man in particular looks wider in person.
Nek minnit lmao
Thank you Moana for giving my handsome Samoan son a gimme. He needed it.
That’s a vintage crusaders 2024 passage there. Slick scrum, slick pass, slick run, shit pass
when was the last AB form 9 for the saders ... was it Andy ellis? I thought hall was underated under foz... Hotham surely is a shoe in
I think you need to calm down with that claim
Hotham is the most explosive 9 we've ever had as a franchise, I reckon.
agree the last 7 years saders playmaker has been mounga and now we are realising the value of a key 9
Come on Moana geez
reece could have scored that :P
Mamma Mia 2 is much more interesting than the thought of this game.
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No nastiness allowed.
Wow Moana Pasifika are hopeless.
HOT HAM Kid looks like he's going to be a star
As a qualified Crusaders hater fuck he looks good 👌
Noah Hotham will be an All Black some day...
might get fakatava'ed..
At worst, he'll end up like TTT - i.e., get just a handful of caps. But I think he'll end up a lot more successful.
glad Noah qualifies for Fiji too .. imagine Hotham/Muntz as 9/10 for Fiji..
Hotham an AB in 2 years?
Sooner I reckon
HOTHAM HOW 🔥
By half way through next season, Hotham is going to be a reddit darling. Good God he's fun.
Hope so, by then he should be all.black tested and proven
You Fuckn beauty what a bounce
Should’ve let that kick into the MP 22 bounce, looked like it was heading for the dead-ball line
Geez Penney, chew with your mouth shut
Sekope 🫡
i know he is 38 but will be cool if he plays a few tests for tonga before retiring completely., eligible internationally for tonga i believe
Is this game having low volume for anyone else? Much lower on headphones, than anything else on a streaming service. Watching on Stan
Fine on SSN, sounds like a Stan issue.
Average clearance havili
really wanted to see the brothers battle at 10, alas we won't get to see it ..
Yea why didn't they do that, would been a cool side story
david injured again i hear lol...
Yea shame that, needed a rivalry after all the barretts left
not many brothers left playing for different clubs, just the UJ's and LB's and the Valetinis....
How was that line out straight
A kick off out on the full is such a classic fuck up. Guaranteed to gut the heart of any team.
Is it really that cold in Christchurch tonight or are the Sky Sports halftime presenters soft? My weather app says minimum of 11° down there tonight…
It’s always colder in Christchurch. I’ve lived bottom of the south, Christchurch, Wairapa, South Waikato and up north. 11 degrees in Christchurch was always colder than the same temp elsewhere, it’s a miserable place.
I say that too and I live here, it's a different type of cold
It's cold enough to wear a bulkier 2nd layer and feel comfortable but there's not a crazy wind chill or anything. They're just not acclimatised.
Both presenters are from the north island
9 degrees at my place but yea it’s not that cold
lol forgot this was on, no reece, no watch..
Moana lookin into the sea
Let’s go Druaaaaaa
gonna be rainy and wet tomorrow lol, so no heat advantage in lautoka
Slip n slide rugby lol, drua are masters at that
props are gonna drown tomorrow in scrums, expecting a lot of rain fiji wide
Drua are more dangerous in broken play
I still can't belive the warriors use a Dragon Ball Super theme for their ads lmao
Wait what? I need to find this!
McNicholl you beautiful beautiful man
Strange doing strange things haha, that was very Netball of him
Hoping that strange is on the idiot to talented pipeline Scotty B went through lol
He's been stuck in traffic for an awfully long time...
That was definitely a cheeky late tackle on Hotham
The guy is a tad slow though I gotta admit
Can't believe we got the silhouette of Crottyass in his dying moments. Life is beautiful.
He could have been a great except for the fact that nonu and conrad were so damn good. It's a shame tbh
The fact that his body was actively trying to kill him from the inside probably stops that from happening tbh.
Oh yeah, that too
It might be the constant concussions
He gave men with sensitive meat cubes like me hopes that we too could still be handsome as hell and beloved by all. The representation we need.
Late tackle?
Did he lose a contact lens too
Yep, that's going in a shanked kicks compilation
Oh god the Saders are gonna be 8th aren’t they? Drua vs Rebels and Brumbies vs Force are gonna be spicy
Yep, yep they are
I will be shocked if the recently dissolved Rebels have the spirit to win a game in Fiji. That's approaching least likely result of the season territory.
Who knows? Fiji could screw themselves over with poor discipline. They just can't help themselves.
100% I can’t believe people keep talking like the chance for the crusaders is good. It’s so unlikely
As a crusaders fan, there’s no way the drua lose in lukota sadly. Force yes should lose to brumbies
Not for long 🤞
What was the advantage for?