Crusaders Vs Waratahs

Crazy Horse

Maybe the Scots are sniffing around Mathis too!

taniwharugby

You'd be pretty frustrated if you were an actual 7 in that squad.

Chris

Leicester Fainga'anuku, at 7 this will be interesting one of his strengths is getting on to the ball for turn overs he is hard to move.
This may go down in history as the biggest most stupid mistake EVER made by the Crusaders, or a piece of pure genius.
Intriguing to say the least.
I have no idea which one it will be.

nostrildamus

@Chris said in Crusaders Vs Waratahs:

Leicester Fainga'anuku, at 7 this will be interesting one of his strengths is getting on to the ball for turn overs he is hard to move.
This may go down in history as the biggest most stupid mistake EVER made by the Crusaders, or a piece of pure genius.
Intriguing to say the least.
I have no idea which one it will be.

ah yes good point.

KiwiMurph

@Chris said in Crusaders Vs Waratahs:

This may go down in history as the biggest most stupid mistake EVER made by the Crusaders, or a piece of pure genius

Or neither of these two things and a footnote in future.

and thought the craziest thing crusaders have done was the team they run out last week.Next week they may have topped it

@Chris said in Crusaders Vs Waratahs:

Leicester Fainga'anuku, at 7 this will be interesting one of his strengths is getting on to the ball for turn overs he is hard to move.
This may go down in history as the biggest most stupid mistake EVER made by the Crusaders, or a piece of pure genius.
Intriguing to say the least.
I have no idea which one it will be.

I think it's an interesting punt. He has quite a high error rate though - particularly around defence which isn't ideal for 7.

@taniwharugby

There are virtually no trad 7s on SR rosters atm.
The coaches dont seem to be deeming them as essential, and did not bother with any of the NPC25 7s.

Was wondering how the teams were going to fill this position as the season rolled on.
So a move like this is not overly surprising.
The SR26 hookers are starting to look more like a trad 7 than the other SR26 looseforwards do.
Leicester will be fine; except maybe at lineout time, that might be worth a watch.

Someone like Mathis probably would have had more chance at making a full SR roster this season as a winger.

antipodean

@Chris said in Crusaders Vs Waratahs:

Leicester Fainga'anuku, at 7 this will be interesting one of his strengths is getting on to the ball for turn overs he is hard to move.
This may go down in history as the biggest most stupid mistake EVER made by the Crusaders, or a piece of pure genius.
Intriguing to say the least.
I have no idea which one it will be.

I know which way I'm leaning.

@mohikamo said in Crusaders Vs Waratahs:

@taniwharugby

There are virtually no trad 7s on SR rosters atm.
The coaches dont seem to be deeming them as essential, and did not bother with any of the NPC25 7s.

Was wondering how the teams were going to fill this position as the season rolled on.
So a move like this is not overly surprising.
The SR26 hookers are starting to look more like a trad 7 than the other SR26 looseforwards do.
Leicester will be fine; except maybe at lineout time, that might be worth a watch.

Someone like Mathis probably would have had more chance at making a full SR roster this season as a winger.

Thats a fair call actually. The only outright 7s getting gametime currently would be Kirifi and Lasaqa.

@DurryMexted said in Crusaders Vs Waratahs:

Thats a fair call actually. The only outright 7s getting gametime currently would be Kirifi and Lasaqa.

Was guna mention them as the only two.
Good to see that someone else is right on it.

Yeetyaah

Super Round roll call? I'm going down and I'm fizzing.

Canes4life

@Yeetyaah said in Crusaders Vs Waratahs:

Super Round roll call? I'm going down and I'm fizzing.

Getting serious FOMO atm, looks like it's going to be a superb three days.

Duluth

'The Crusaders have lost their last three Super Rugby Pacific matches against Australian opposition; a fourth consecutive defeat in this game would be their outright longest losing run against Australian teams in Super Rugby history.'

Not sure if here is the right place but Sky Sport are offering a free 24 hour pass so people can enjoy watching the new stadium.