@Jnr said in Chiefs v Blues:

@KiwiMurph said in Chiefs v Blues:

Never fear Blues BB will be back next week.....

Good lord, I can imagine the meltdown if he came back and beat the Sadists.

3 weeks until first squad naming.

In a game of 3rd vs 4th, between two teams with the same number of wins this season, who've played each other twice this year for one win each... bringing back the 140 cap incumbent AB 10 ought to make a big difference, don't you think?
I think he'll make a positive difference, he can't be as bad as he has been every week and it is a young Blues team who were poor without him - but the fact that in these circumstances you think it would be a massive surprise/upset and cause a meltdown says it all really.

@reprobate said in Chiefs v Blues:

he can't be as bad as he has been every week

that reads more as optimism than as solid logic...

Please, please, may Eklund be starting hooker on Saturday.

@reprobate said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Jnr said in Chiefs v Blues:

@KiwiMurph said in Chiefs v Blues:

Never fear Blues BB will be back next week.....

Good lord, I can imagine the meltdown if he came back and beat the Sadists.

3 weeks until first squad naming.

In a game of 3rd vs 4th, between two teams with the same number of wins this season, who've played each other twice this year for one win each... bringing back the 140 cap incumbent AB 10 ought to make a big difference, don't you think?
I think he'll make a positive difference, he can't be as bad as he has been every week and it is a young Blues team who were poor without him - but the fact that in these circumstances you think it would be a massive surprise/upset and cause a meltdown says it all really.

He can certainly be randomly good.

@brodean said in Chiefs v Blues:

@reprobate said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Jnr said in Chiefs v Blues:

@KiwiMurph said in Chiefs v Blues:

Never fear Blues BB will be back next week.....

Good lord, I can imagine the meltdown if he came back and beat the Sadists.

3 weeks until first squad naming.

In a game of 3rd vs 4th, between two teams with the same number of wins this season, who've played each other twice this year for one win each... bringing back the 140 cap incumbent AB 10 ought to make a big difference, don't you think?
I think he'll make a positive difference, he can't be as bad as he has been every week and it is a young Blues team who were poor without him - but the fact that in these circumstances you think it would be a massive surprise/upset and cause a meltdown says it all really.

He can certainly be randomly good.

Yeah, he certainly can still do good things on the field. The issue is that this (arguably) isn't even happening enough to outweigh the bad stuff at Super level, and certainly is not happening anywhere near consistently enough for him to be a contender to start at 10 for the ABs.
This is what irritates me when people point to him making a good play or having a reasonably positive game: our expectations simply ought to be a massive amount higher than that.

@reprobate said in Chiefs v Blues:

@brodean said in Chiefs v Blues:

@reprobate said in Chiefs v Blues:

@Jnr said in Chiefs v Blues:

@KiwiMurph said in Chiefs v Blues:

Never fear Blues BB will be back next week.....

Good lord, I can imagine the meltdown if he came back and beat the Sadists.

3 weeks until first squad naming.

In a game of 3rd vs 4th, between two teams with the same number of wins this season, who've played each other twice this year for one win each... bringing back the 140 cap incumbent AB 10 ought to make a big difference, don't you think?
I think he'll make a positive difference, he can't be as bad as he has been every week and it is a young Blues team who were poor without him - but the fact that in these circumstances you think it would be a massive surprise/upset and cause a meltdown says it all really.

He can certainly be randomly good.

Yeah, he certainly can still do good things on the field. The issue is that this (arguably) isn't even happening enough to outweigh the bad stuff at Super level, and certainly is not happening anywhere near consistently enough for him to be a contender to start at 10 for the ABs.
This is what irritates me when people point to him making a good play or having a reasonably positive game: our expectations simply ought to be a massive amount higher than that.

He was actually had a period of consistently good form earlier in the season but then it went down hill and it had all disappeared by the end. Not in my AB squad.

Eklund has a back issue, not sure how bad.

Bugger. We need a hooker who can throw accurately.

@pakman said in Chiefs v Blues:

Bugger. We need a hooker who can throw accurately.

Yeah. Mullan's throwing is not up to standard currently.

@African-Monkey Time to throw Odenryn into the fray perhaps? Can't throw any worse than the other guys.

@Rugbyman said in Chiefs v Blues:

@African-Monkey Time to throw Odenryn into the fray perhaps? Can't throw any worse than the other guys.

He's an awesome player. Just young.

Put him in. Who gives a shit about his age, he was clearly the better player last week.

if you are good enough you are old enough.

@Rugbyman said in Chiefs v Blues:

@African-Monkey Time to throw Odenryn into the fray perhaps? Can't throw any worse than the other guys.

Scrummaging needs time.

@pakman But given the Blues scrum has been abject without him most of the season...?

Slater should be back.

@reprobate said in Chiefs v Blues:

@pakman But given the Blues scrum has been abject without him most of the season...?

If Ofa and Marcel alongside Kurt, with Paddy and Sam locking we're fine.

@taniwharugby said in Chiefs v Blues:

if you are good enough you are old enough.

That old Northland pickup line...

@pakman yup so the question is: with those guys playing, is mullan or oudenryn the better option?

@reprobate said in Chiefs v Blues:

Put him in. Who gives a shit about his age, he was clearly the better player last week.

Play the one with the potential, Blues aren't winning it this year or probably next...

@nostrildamus and if results go with seedings, they get another crack anyway?