Crusader fans doing their absolute best to single handedly bring the super rugby average fan attendance down

Nice break. Surely Hotham was offside a couple of phases later?

10 minutes in. Blackadder extends this season's onfield time by nearly 10%...

Great carry by Havili. Nonu like power, stepping and passing.

Really nice hands from Ennor too.

World class fullback play. Brilliant work to maneuver himself to not make any tackles on the reds break then kicks it into touch with his winger in space.

@antipodean said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

The more I watch Tate, the higher I consider the chances of Lions success if he's starting.

A good runner of the ball but that's basically it. There's a reason why he's never locked down the 9 jersey for Australia... There must be better options for the bench still.

Havili follows it up with an adroit kick into touch forcing the Reds to a defensive lineout five metres out.

Subsequent lineout the Reds fuck it up and Crusaders score

Where's the crowd?

Barrett for AB captain.

Reds should have mauled themselves out of if trouble there.

@NTA said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

Where's the crowd?

At home

5 degrees and a southerly

Having been there I can confirm the stadium is an absolute shithole.

@KiwiMurph said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

@NTA said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

Where's the crowd?

At home

5 degrees and a southerly

Having been there I can confirm the stadium is an absolute shithole.

I'm told Cantabs are stoic, hardy people and don't care about such things

@KiwiMurph said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

@NTA said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

Where's the crowd?

At home

5 degrees and a southerly

Having been there I can confirm the stadium is an absolute shithole.

Yep, a shithole alright but not exactly their fault.

With the roofed stadium opening up next year, the Crusaders will lose their biggest advantage of freezing their opposition to death.

@NTA said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

@KiwiMurph said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

@NTA said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

Where's the crowd?

At home

5 degrees and a southerly

Having been there I can confirm the stadium is an absolute shithole.

I'm told Cantabs are stoic, hardy people and don't care about such things

They also claim to watch rugby with both eyes......

The Reds are going to lose this not because they're cold, and getting bashed physically, but because they are taking the dumbest options possible

@NTA said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

The Reds are going to lose this not because they're cold, and getting bashed physically, but because they are taking the dumbest options possible

And they keep dropping it cold.

Red’s undoing some good work with handling errors

Brial not having a good time of it in the wintery conditions. That's two handling errors.

@Steven-Harris said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

Red’s undoing some good work with handling errors

It's double trouble when their scrum is getting absolutely destroyed too