Drua vs Hurricanes

@Canes4life said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

@Higgins said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

@Canes4life said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

Can we bin Fiji as a playing destination. Absolute bullshit conditions on a not fit for purpose field.

Come on, be fair there had been heavy rain in the preceding 24 hours that would have challenged any field. Even as I type this it is the heaviest rain there has been in the last 40 hours with it fair bucketing down accompanied with lightening flashes and thunder. Probably heavy enough to cause some injuries to anyone caught out in it.

What's more the conditions were the same for both teams and there is no guarantee that the result would have been any different had it been a bone dry field with mid to late 20s temperature and very low humidity.

Using you logic the Caketin should be banned because of the swirling of the wind attributable the stadium's design.

The playing surface was not up to standard. You’re only running the risk of injuring people playing in below par grounds like that. It’s not good enough, and they need to get better draining facilities in place. I see better playing surfaces in club rugby. This is Super Rugby we are talking about, not amateur rugby.

The weather is the weather, that’s fine but you can’t have guys running through puddles like that at this level. It’s crazy.

it's the tropics in summer mate, get over it

@Higgins Clearly you are closer to the scene of the crime than most but the cynic in me thinks the Drua were quite happy to schedule a curtain raiser on a ground that was forecast to receive heavy rain prior, during and after the game. Reminds me of when the Welsh used to leave the roof open at their stadium for the week prior to an AB test match when rain was forecast. Who let the curtain raiser even start, and since when are their ever curtain raisers prior to a Super game? Shouldn't have been allowed to go ahead.

@SecFid said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

@Higgins Clearly you are closer to the scene of the crime than most but the cynic in me thinks the Drua were quite happy to schedule a curtain raiser on a ground that was forecast to receive heavy rain prior, during and after the game. Reminds me of when the Welsh used to leave the roof open at their stadium for the week prior to an AB test match when rain was forecast. Who let the curtain raiser even start, and since when are their ever curtain raisers prior to a Super game? Shouldn't have been allowed to go ahead.

Wasn't the curtain raiser cancelled?

@canefan My understanding from what the Aussie commentator said was that a decision was made to call it off at halftime

@SecFid said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

@Higgins Clearly you are closer to the scene of the crime than most but the cynic in me thinks the Drua were quite happy to schedule a curtain raiser on a ground that was forecast to receive heavy rain prior, during and after the game. Reminds me of when the Welsh used to leave the roof open at their stadium for the week prior to an AB test match when rain was forecast. Who let the curtain raiser even start, and since when are their ever curtain raisers prior to a Super game? Shouldn't have been allowed to go ahead.

FYI, I've played in a few curtain raisers to SR games (which shows the quality isn't always all that) and they're organized a long time beforehand.

Quibble with the fact they decided to go ahead with it, but at least they stopped.

The irony of Canes fans whining about the weather conditions at other grounds.

@Nepia said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

The irony of Canes fans whining about the weather conditions at other grounds.

It's not the weather conditions, it's the condition of the pitch. Not having any sort of draining on a ground like that is amateur as fuck.

For a professional level competition at the standard of Super Rugby, it's pathetic. Super Rugby should be supporting them to up their facilities if they want them to host games.

Meh, we've all played on pitches like that before, that's when you have to adjust tactics, tighten the fuck up, and grind the other team into the mud. Drua did that better than us and deserved to win. If we can't win in all conditions we are not a serious title contender.

@Canes4life said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

@Nepia said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

The irony of Canes fans whining about the weather conditions at other grounds.

It's not the weather conditions, it's the condition of the pitch. Not having any sort of draining on a ground like that is amateur as fuck.

For a professional level competition at the standard of Super Rugby, it's pathetic. Super Rugby should be supporting them to up their facilities if they want them to host games.

have a sook fluffybunny

the only long term knee injury the Canes have had this year happened on what ground again?

@mariner4life said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

@Canes4life said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

@Nepia said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

The irony of Canes fans whining about the weather conditions at other grounds.

It's not the weather conditions, it's the condition of the pitch. Not having any sort of draining on a ground like that is amateur as fuck.

For a professional level competition at the standard of Super Rugby, it's pathetic. Super Rugby should be supporting them to up their facilities if they want them to host games.

have a sook fluffybunny

the only long term knee injury the Canes have had this year happened on what ground again?

Give me a break, you'd be harping on about it if the NRL or AFL supplied those sort of pitches yah fluffybunny.

i would? interesting.

do you have any idea what tropical monsoon rains look like? Barlow park is international standard and i nearly drowned on the fucking thing one preseason.

you're sooking because the Canes lost and you've found a nice convenient excuse. I also love the suggestion that the Drua wanted conditions that make handling and running harder.

@mariner4life said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

i would? interesting.

do you have any idea what tropical monsoon rains look like? Barlow park is international standard and i nearly drowned on the fucking thing one preseason.

you're sooking because the Canes lost and you've found a nice convenient excuse. I also love the suggestion that the Drua wanted conditions that make handling and running harder.

Tropical weather is unavoidable in Fiji, I get that, but a professional stadium should be engineered to handle those conditions. The way the pitch at Churchill Park deteriorated during that match on Saturday demonstrates limitations in drainage and surface management - this is where I think Super Rugby needs to support the Drua if they see them as a legitimate long-term Super side.

Of course, my knee jerk reaction to the game was to have a sook, but I've been at games where it's rained just as hard as what it did in Fiji on Saturday and the surface still wasn't the dominant factor in the outcome of the game.

By the way, the Canes were absolutely garbage and deserved to lose, I'm not debating that. And yes, I've experienced monsoon conditions plenty of times traveling Asia and the Pacific.

@mariner4life said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

@Canes4life said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

@Nepia said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

The irony of Canes fans whining about the weather conditions at other grounds.

It's not the weather conditions, it's the condition of the pitch. Not having any sort of draining on a ground like that is amateur as fuck.

For a professional level competition at the standard of Super Rugby, it's pathetic. Super Rugby should be supporting them to up their facilities if they want them to host games.

have a sook fluffybunny

the only long term knee injury the Canes have had this year happened on what ground again?

The conditions prevented the Drua playing with the full free flowing panache we come to expect from them at home. Also take away they normal overpowering humidity that sees you break out in a massive sweat doing just the simple art of taking a deep breath also denied them of the big advantage it brings.

Had it been normal type conditions the visitors could well have been in for a real flogging, but then that would be used to try to show "unfairness" reasons in an attempt to explain away a loss.

@Canes4life said in Drua vs Hurricanes:

And yes, I've experienced monsoon conditions plenty of times traveling Asia and the Pacific.

Good euphemism for lad weekends in Phuket.