12-7 at the half.

Flattering the Blues

Blues up but have a bit of work to do. Force probably had the better of the play.

I wonder if Leon MacDonald has pointed out a few defensive weaknesses in the Blues.

@Tim said in Blues v Force:

I wonder if Leon MacDonald has pointed out a few defensive weaknesses in the Blues.

The coaching rejects of Mcdonald and Donnelly are showing they can produce results with a mismatched and scrappy squad... Maybe the Highlanders and Blues players were just stupid.

@KiwiInLondon said in Blues v Force:

@Tim said in Blues v Force:

I wonder if Leon MacDonald has pointed out a few defensive weaknesses in the Blues.

The coaching rejects of Mcdonald and Donnelly are showing they can produce results with a mismatched and scrappy squad... Maybe the Highlanders and Blues players were just stupid.

Or Vern Cotter ain't that great.

@Frank said in Blues v Force:

@KiwiInLondon said in Blues v Force:

@Tim said in Blues v Force:

I wonder if Leon MacDonald has pointed out a few defensive weaknesses in the Blues.

The coaching rejects of Mcdonald and Donnelly are showing they can produce results with a mismatched and scrappy squad... Maybe the Highlanders and Blues players were just stupid.

Or Vern Cotter ain't that great.

Really!?!?! Wait Scotland were world beaters with him as their coach?!

Force didn't do too much in the second half last week, so will be interesting to see if anything has changed...

@Frank said in Blues v Force:

Or Vern Cotter ain't that great.

Sir Vern Cotter. Always welcome back at the Bay in a heartbeat.

This Blues back 3 have been hopeless, not covering backfield, or chasing kicks.

There we go! Good hard direct running from our seniors.

Blues will take that start to the half.

There’s our AB 10

These bloody interviews are always ill timed

Rieko did good

@Mattasaurus said in Blues v Force:

Rieko did good

I was just about to say he's having a good game

Rieko's had a decent night so far on attack and defence.

That's not a yellow either.

@African-Monkey said in Blues v Force:

That's not a yellow either.

Hah! Penalty reversed. Fair call.

Bugger. Good try Force.

That was grealy ,grealy well done

Unforced errors ...

Blues doing their best to lose this

Good chase Rieko.

AJ in again, off a powerful Blues scrum led by Fusitu'a there.

Or not....

@African-Monkey Scrum's been good tonight. Fusitua is developing well there.

Fair call.

@Tim said in Blues v Force:

@African-Monkey Scrum's been good tonight. Fusitua is developing well there.

He is. He's become a reliable player this year.

Was going to ask how the Force defence leave so much space of first phase off a scrum...?

Kuenzle should be penalised for diving in with the knees at Lam. Surprised he didn't get a free mouthguard test for that piece of filth.

Nice

Bit of feeling ..

Great line McWhannell! Great hold up play Funaki.

Beautiful line by McWhannell and nicely delayed pass by Funaki.

I fucking hate hate that penalty call on Patty T.
Why the fuck are they trying to encourage more box kicks and up and unders?

How many officials do you need to miss 2 players in front of a kick ..?

Three on two so Evans kicks down the middle of the field. Just brainless rugby.

There we go! Force can't cope with the Blues scrum.

Cross field kick has to work sometimes!

@Tim said in Blues v Force:

Cross field kick has to work sometimes!

Poorly executed but at least he had the vision to see it.

The problem is, it is generally a low percentage play - that typically results in giving good attacking possession away