Match thread

Mr Fish

Really nice hands from Ennor too.

Bones

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.

Mr Fish

@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.

antipodean

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

NTA

Where's the crowd?

Bones

Barrett for AB captain.

NTA

Reds should have mauled themselves out of if trouble there.

KiwiMurph

@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.

NTA

@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

Canes4life

@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

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

Canes4life

@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

antipodean

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

KiwiMurph

@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

Bones

I was just about to say Reihana has a great boot...

Canes4life

Williams injured.

NTA

@Steven-Harris said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

Red’s undoing some good work with handling errors

And it's because after the initial break, the Crusaders are recovering defensively and they're having a glance.

Nonggor is such a shit scrummager. No idea why he keeps getting selected

ACT Crusader

@Canes4life 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.

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.

The new stadium does have a fog machine installed though….

Our midfield looking pretty good so far.

Fraser McReight is a damn good player. Just watching how active he is on both sides of the ball.

nostrildamus

@Canes4life said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

@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.

well they're not going to drop it hot

@ACT-Crusader said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

@Canes4life 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.

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.

The new stadium does have a fog machine installed though….

Our midfield looking pretty good so far.

Fraser McReight is a damn good player. Just watching how active he is on both sides of the ball.

one of the form loosies of the comp - he's been impressive all year.

KiwiMurph

Nice defence Reds

KiwiMurph

Awful pass Tate

Canes4life

Maybe the reds should have trained with a slippery ball. Horrible handling.

NTA

@ACT-Crusader said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

Fraser McReight is a damn good player. Just watching how active he is on both sides of the ball.

Would love a McReight cam

Landers92

Williams does not look good. As an AB fan, please take him off.

Bones

@Mr-Fish said in QF Crusaders v Reds:

@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.

Good communication though.

SamTheEagle.jpg

Canes4life

Awful to watch. Get a roof already Canterbury.

@Landers92 💯 just aggravating it even more

taniwharugby

Haha how was that a tough penalty on the reds

Tate literally on his knees and arms... and that's a "tough penalty" .....comical stuff

Landers92

Get ‘Tamarty’ off ffs

Canes4life

lol classic commentary ‘seems to have recovered from that knee injury’ as Tamaiti proceeds to limp and grimace his was back to halfway.