@Kirwan said in Blues v Bulls:

The rain has been insane this morning. Is giving me fond memories of the NPC final, so there is that.

cleared up nicely, blue skies and a good afternoon. Will be crisp with the odd shower I expect, but still a pleasant night out at the Garden of Eden.

Rain is coming down hard right now at the ground....a flash of lightning....

Full time in the curtain raiser.
Blues A 52, Honda Heat 29. Only caught the last 15 mins. Reserve halfback Rilloy Sueuse looked very sharp, Hamdan Tuipulotu 19yo brother of Pat scored a powerful try from 22 metres out. The centre for the Blues made some good solid stops on D.

@Nogusta said in Blues v Bulls:

The centre for the Blues made some good solid stops on D.

Aoake or Aumua?

@Tim just checked the team list it was Asaeli Tikoirotuma
Halftime score was 40-7

@Nogusta Cheers.

Stadium to ourselves, lots of rain and lightning.

@Nogusta Nice to see 2 more St Peter's College boys showing their worth. Plenty of talent coming out of that great school over the last few years.

@African-Monkey Suesue played very well on Monday night as well by all accounts

Probably worse weather than the NPC final, with patches of drizzle , followed by torrential rain.

Lots of handling errors in Bulls warmup.

Nisbo on commentary instead of TJ - nice.

Plz stop hitting up Nonu off scrums.

Pouring with rain. Take quick tap and fumble.

Did someone forget to mention "play percentages in this weather"?

@antipodean yep and Mils goes 'smart play Faiane'. Wtf

@antipodean said in Blues v Bulls:

Pouring with rain. Take quick tap and fumble.

Did someone forget to mention "play percentages in this weather"?

Oh and the stupid chip kicks on the run

Jeez I'll be turning this one off soon, just awful

Blues playbook 101:
Pissing with rain, let’s run it from our 22.

Dumb rugby from the Blues to start this game.

Bulls taking the points. Wet weather 101.

Blues pay the price for trying to run it out of their 22. Dopey.

Bulls stole some blankets from the hotel

Dumb rugby 101

Try for all money there, Blues bumble it again though. On a brighter note, how good is big red? Put him in an All Blacks jersey.

Nice run Clarke.

Abysmal kick Ruru

Ruru cost the Blues. Thats why Blues need a better starting 9.

@KiwiMurph And it's cost us. It's shit like that which continues to fuck us over.

Jeez the blues do so little with so much possession

@African-Monkey yep. That was a Parsons level mistake. So poor.

@KiwiMurph Happens far too often from the same players.

@KiwiMurph said in Blues v Bulls:

Ruru cost the Blues. Thats why Blues need a better starting 9.

Even managed a high tackle straight to the head, lucky refs seem to ignore those of the try is scored.

Parsons poor tackle allowed the offload there

After watching the Blues for last few years..there are 3 words that always come out of my mouth when one of the Blues ball carriers is on the charge...get to him..!,referring to the cleaners..

And then Ruru on the high kick which went out on the full..
No set up with deep ruck, which gives you time clear but at least an extra metre...absolute dumb fucks..!
What do they look at their video sessions...?

Can someone remind me if Parsons has re-signed? The Blues really need someone more dynamic at rake.

@Canes4life unfortunately yes,2 more years of mediocrity..!

@Canes4life Yes, he has re-signed.

Sorry about the language

High tackles and neck rolls galore. What are the refs looking at?

Clever slowing the ruck ball down a few phases ago by the bulls player.
Pretended to dive back over to his own side of the ruck but didn’t go far enough and left his knees over the ball, perfectly slowing it down.
Wake up ref!

That's a try.