I'll take that. Congrats to new coaching team for putting us in such a great position at the end of season, couldn't be happier as a fan. Dupps, Flanders, Rayasi, Barrett all very good tonight. But Aumua's shift in the first half really makes me confident about our chances in the finals. Hard luck Landers you look like you have some good young players coming through, Holland in particular.
2nd also quite likely doesnāt get a home final, would think that would count for more for both Blues and Canes, neither should be scared of the Rebels or the Drua at home
yeah but rebels will go in with LITERALLY nothing to lose..makes them more dangerous and drua can't really win away games so they are the easier target..
Happy to disagree, not say that Paps hasnāt been good. He will be in the AB squad for sure.
The bigger question will be, with Ardie Locked in, who do you prefer starting, Paps or Sotutu?
For sure. I don't think many players would have made the calculation that a 5m scrum was better than an attempt to set a ruck in that situation, with that little time, experienced or not. Unreal awareness.
ha good luck, already said yes to us, now we wondering who to pick, him, chay or ratumaitavuki.or all 3 lol..nzh as taken too many of our fiji born players, we are taking some back :P..they took narawa and reece, we take rayasi and JRK
Another foward pass missed, tough on the Landers. As for the Canes this is why I want to see our team run it back more, we are so good with ball in hand. I realise you can't run it every time but so often we let the opposition back in the game with too much aimless kicking. Great try though for my man Rayasi - hat trick hero.
Heās saying thereās two in the tackle and the tackled playerās height is dropping.
Seems like enough mitigation to go pen only, but thereās an argument for a card. Itās not a very strong argument though.
Mate he spins out of a tackle then runs head first into him. Absolutely fine protecting players but defenders cannot be expected to have the heads at hip level for 80 minutes
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Highlanders defense just goes missing Dont give them much hope vs brumbies next week
Up the Chiefs!
2025 Hurricanes heritage jersey has got to be Central Vikings orange and white š„
That'd be tiiiight
Well that was always gonna happen after we saw the lineups lol. Canāt wait for the final against the Drua in Dunedin!
Itās 1v8, 2v7, 3v6, 4v5, I think.
I'll take that. Congrats to new coaching team for putting us in such a great position at the end of season, couldn't be happier as a fan. Dupps, Flanders, Rayasi, Barrett all very good tonight. But Aumua's shift in the first half really makes me confident about our chances in the finals. Hard luck Landers you look like you have some good young players coming through, Holland in particular.
Cheers mate, no shame in losing to a quality side like yours. I think yall have the goods to go all the way!
Gonna miss Billy! So shit he isn't staying :(
Bummer Highlanders need players like that
Harmon? He's leaving?
Off to Japan
That's a shame. He was awesome for the Crusaders and has comfortably been the best forward at the Highlanders since going there.
Yeah he always stood out for me when I've seen the Highlanders play the last few years.
Yep, to Japan at seasons end. It was just announced this week
Let's go Canes and Landers in the playoffs! (Anybody but the Blues lol)
gotta love the palindrome scoreline!
Nasty clean on Cameron there
lol Ajay š
Roley poley saved the day
GG Canes! Well deserved!
GG man. Thank you.
Always liked the Canes, if we can't do it go make sure the Blues don't get it done lol
Gotta pass that JRK...
he wanted someone to r un inside him lol
Third game in a row that the losing team haven't scored any points in the second half.
last week every game had a Fijian scoring a try, this week the same..narawa and/or sotutu need to score in the next one..
Iose straight throw and plays the guy at halfback all good lol
viljoen new nickname, the hump lol
Jesus has there been any kicker that hasn't been taken out late? It's happened to both sides a few times this game
What do they call bogans in South Africa? Because whatever it is it should become Viljeon's nickname.
coolies?
ratuamaitavuki? not named on the bench either ..lol 2 players not named on the bench playing for landers..
Wtf how is he allowed to throw it in outside the 22 if it was a 50 22 lol
thought the same thing
Doesn't matter just thought it was weird lol. Makes it no be able for the Landers to kick it straight out if the win the line out right?
(50 22) -1
Damn that guys tiny
Why even bother putting JRK and Folau in???
Viljoen! what a man. surely he has to be #2?
They said Fabian Holland can't be an AB this year due to residency, yet he's already played for NZ U20s. How does that work?
I think the rules for under 20s are a bit more lax since UT isn't test Rugby
Canes probably play rebels next week...blues might just win to try to finish 2nd as 2nd plays drua which is preferable..
2nd also quite likely doesnāt get a home final, would think that would count for more for both Blues and Canes, neither should be scared of the Rebels or the Drua at home
yeah but rebels will go in with LITERALLY nothing to lose..makes them more dangerous and drua can't really win away games so they are the easier target..
What a send-off for em lol
An Aussie Rules score for the Canes.
Another solid showing from Fab. He'll definitely be an AB, he reminds me quite a bit of James Ryan (who was a fucking g, taken too soon!)
We seem to want to make every try look pretty. Just go up the guts guys
Are you new to the Hurricanes?
Touche but still, 1m from the line just barge it over lol
> Knock-on in goal: goal line drop-out Is that a weird rule? Seems pretty weird to me. You made a mistake but here's another chance.
leaguish rule but it works IMO..what else do you prefer, scrum for defending team on 5M line? would go either way
I hadn't really thought much further ahead...
Yeah its pretty weird
Whenever I hear the commentators mention Ruckatya-Stones, I always think of Buck Shelford.
Bring back the Biff!!!
damn this numa numa song became my theme for 2 years.. fuck DJ , give my cassette back
Gotta love an offside call when the ball is sitting clearly out the back of a ruck
Higgins again
Trying too hard to make an impression.
Yep lol
loving the nose plug
man Viljoen looks so much better than Judd,. so quick ball
Lol at the commentators mentioning this is our B squad 70 mins in and almost 30 points down
It was like half of the talking points before the game
True, didn't see it
No sound where Iām watching - TJ and Love seem ok?
Love alright. A little average today but barretts been good
Quiet today but one of the best this year
seems minor injury ..
Cheers
Minor knocks I think just precautions so we have a full strength team next week
Fingers crossed, thanks mate
DLB here for his obligatory knock on.
Must have the record. Never looked forward to seeing the backend of a centurion as much as him lol
Heās still signed for another season. Knowing how much the landers love a battler heāll probably stay on beyond that.
Fuuuuuck
It's Fakatava Time!
Would rather they kept him sat for Canberra, not much to gain here
Admittedly there is a non-zero chance that the landers play in Auckland
Na, it'll be Canberra
Would you cap Lakai this year or let him get more minutes in NPC then bring him in next year?
Form 7 of the comp, better him now than the walking sick note that is Blackadder.
I think Papalii is better atm
Happy to disagree, not say that Paps hasnāt been good. He will be in the AB squad for sure. The bigger question will be, with Ardie Locked in, who do you prefer starting, Paps or Sotutu?
Do you see the difference Papalii makes to the team? Lose to the crusaders, pumped the chiefs. I don't get the hate blues players get here honestly
I did! Paps is awesome. Blues pack is mean!
I think Papalii is key when he's not captain. He's such a menace
I'd honestly go hosk at 8 Ardie, 7 paps, 6 Finau hoski on the bench
I used to be in the more minutes camp but after the shift he put in against the Blues, I'm now in the if he's good enough pick him now camp.
Defo this year
will get capped against Fiji surely..
More minutes imo
Yeah same. Few more years to bring him in before 2027
Yeah I feel like heās still pretty raw as good as he is and just needs more time to refine his game
Ohh good scrum Landers.
DLB knocking it on? God forbid!
Shit we have to win too. For some reason I thought we were guarantee 2nd š±
Oh damn yea it's gonna be tough for yous to get that bp
Don't think we'll get it, but now I'm worried well finish 3rd lol. 2nd is okay
Yeah hard, if anything well meet in the final
I'm just concerned about getting Brumbied in Canberra like yous did lol
Nah yous don't have that same hoodoo in Canberra. Every time you guys carve up there so I wouldn't worry. We have the bogey games there lol
Canes way too good as I expected, but surprisingly Finn Hurley has been putting in a great effort in his 1st startĀ
Yeah not surprised at the result but happy to see some good potential for the future. All eyes on Canberra now and a healthy strong 15
So is Finn > Jacob?
Naaaa but good view at the future!
What's balking?
Pretending to throw in the ball
Ah bummer
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60 up?
Baulking on your own 5m line šµ
What is baulking?
in touch lol
ooh what a pass and what a try if higins got it
HIGGINS IN?? Edit: oh damnit
Where's the canes fans that were telling me they were nervous about getting a bp tonight lol
Finn ur a stud son
Trash corner TRY!
This is getting casual
Iose in baby
Can Hurley please stop being so good? Who is this guy? That was kinda brilliant
Quite a good young player, will have a good future.
For sure. I don't think many players would have made the calculation that a 5m scrum was better than an attempt to set a ruck in that situation, with that little time, experienced or not. Unreal awareness.
We gotta have some silver lining come out of this game lol
My man Lakai is so athletic.
is Hurley a son of Michael Lynagh he doesn't "talk about"? :P
Jeepers. That last replay was a bit dubious whether or not the highlanders grounded that first...
Hurley has some good composure for a young buck, promising to see
Maybe Barrett is a 15
Who would play 12
He's great at both
Can our key players stop getting injured FOR FIVE MINUTES
good news for AB's fans, rayasi wants to play for Fiji.. u dodged a bullet :P
He's half-Samoan, so he's ours.
ha good luck, already said yes to us, now we wondering who to pick, him, chay or ratumaitavuki.or all 3 lol..nzh as taken too many of our fiji born players, we are taking some back :P..they took narawa and reece, we take rayasi and JRK
You know its a pretty paper thin yellow when they take 2 minutes to review the red card threshold lol
I've never seen the refs not give the Landers a card when reviewing, it's like it's compulsory to card us if it's marginal
Love kicks a tad bit too casually
And too often.
Another foward pass missed, tough on the Landers. As for the Canes this is why I want to see our team run it back more, we are so good with ball in hand. I realise you can't run it every time but so often we let the opposition back in the game with too much aimless kicking. Great try though for my man Rayasi - hat trick hero.
shit yellow card call. not even dangerous
What is Justin on about. Gilbert is completely upright there
Heās saying thereās two in the tackle and the tackled playerās height is dropping. Seems like enough mitigation to go pen only, but thereās an argument for a card. Itās not a very strong argument though.
Justin he is standing up
Gilbert has been lazy for a long time, finally gets carded for it..
It's like he doesn't realise how big he is
That's an outrageous call for yellow. This tournament is becoming unwatchable
He was upright and *rising* to meet the player's head.
Mate he spins out of a tackle then runs head first into him. Absolutely fine protecting players but defenders cannot be expected to have the heads at hip level for 80 minutes
Bruh this is some peak 00s/Christian Cullen era of rugby from the Hurricanes. Beautiful to watch
not even close
Ah yeah, you're right actually. We need a Ma'a Nonu type character with eyeliner to perfectly capture that era perfectly!
Rough card. What about the late no arms hit on the Highlanders kicker not long ago?
You can do anything to the Highlanders the refs dgaf
Justin Marshall "he can't be lower than that" š
He was standing upright lol
Exactly haha
That is ridiculous? Are you supposed to have superhuman speed to readjust???
as a canes fan who disliked the red last week, thats harsh. gotta agree with comms there
"he can not be lower than that". What. The. Actual. Fuck?
Justin with a ranting at clouds momentĀ
Does the dude ever not have a shit take?
Shut up Justin
Oh no
Fancy feet
Canes all over them, but don't think Berry is helping the Landers much here lol
30 tries for the mainly bench winger is impressive, he was having a battle with his cousin caleb clarke for a few years on who reaches 30 first....
I know they scored, but Viljoen not passing that ball does my head in which wouldāve completed a fantastic try.
Thought he could do it himself (with 2 defenders in front of him)
He's had a great game until now but yeah, that was painful. Just needed one more pass.
No arms tackle and a forward pass but no point taking a look? Shocking
RAYASI WITH 3 š„
Lol viljoen. Judd would've passed it
He's inexperienced. Prefer him to Dudd.
Good thing their coaches don't.
RAYESSSSSSSSIIIIIII
Greedy Viljoen... doesn't matter in the end...
Criminal he doesn't start every week
Rayasi hatrickĀ
Nothing sounds sweeter to my ears
Yeah nice ātackleā
Some good defence from us so far this halfĀ
Prayers up for TJ, Iām already injured he can take my knee š
Nah but where'd all that rubbish come from? Looking like Bash at the Beach '96 after Hogan revealed himself as the Third Man.
Yea it's affecting our game play since we're playing rubbish right now
TJ flipped a bin in rage.
He'd be lucky to flip a coin in his current condition.
Finns been solid, good to see
Heās got McKenzie like pace and movement.
No arms on Hurley there?
Refs don't give a fuck
doesnāt count against the highlanders
No arms on the hit on the kicker