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From Bay of Plenty NZ. Moved to Perth 1995. Chiefs supporter by birth Force supporter by adoption.
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Application of penalty advantage I find frustrating at times when it seems advantage is only gained when a try is scored.
To me if you create the opportunity to score and stuff it up, such as dropping the ball over the line, getting held up over the line, you have your advantage. It seems if you don’t score play is taken back no matter what. Very little the defending team can do.
The advantage rule is killing Super Rugby
Wasn’t it great to watch a match played in the daytime, bright sunshine in front of a packed stadium. Imagine the difference if the final was in NZ. Crowd numbers, dark crap weather.
I enjoyed the tension of the last quarter Lions coming back giving everything.
The Lions have had a great few seasons and before the game thought they would take it. I admire the way they play the game and the attitude and determination they bring.
What an achievement by the Crusaders, team and coaching staff. Well done.
I have to say I found a lot of what was coming out of NZ in the press prior to the final very disappointing.
Tournament structure, refereeing, officiating.
The tournament setup as it is, is confusing and to me not very engaging at all. But it is the setup everyone agreed to. So everything needs to be played out to that system and until it is changed teams have to play who they have to and where they have to. Advantaged or disadvantaged doesn’t matter.
The Crusaders have done that and won it all. Well done.
The Lions have also done that and come up just shy of the prize. But also well done for the season.
Broadcasting and geography has determined when matches are played, but I really, really miss daytime rugby.
Also I sometimes miss the time when there were fewer matches and the buildup and matchday where highly anticipated.
With TV and media coverage as it is today as well as the number of teams and the frequency they play each other there are not a lot of unknowns. Dwindling match day crowds I guess point to flagging interest in the game. For me, I have always been rugby mad, I have found the the number of games and the frequency games are played, the time the games are played is chipping away at my enthusiasm a little.
I miss the tours and I miss the daytime rugby most of all.
In an ideal world, or times long gone.
Great to be eight! Crusaders conquer Lions to take another title
Israel Folau to me has lost any joy he had for the game. Not sure how much longer he will want to hang around.
When first on the scene I for one looked forward to see how he would go. A great athlete in league I saw no reason why he wouldn’t make a go of it in rugby. Alot of attention right from the get go and soon became the face and voice of Aust rugby. Which I found really strange considering his inexperience in the game.
He seemed to have support of players and ex players, including Jonah, to make the transition. But it seemed to me, from the outside, that he received little instruction as far as positional instruction, defence or tactical play. Just get the ball to him and let him do his thing. I could be wrong but everytime a try was scored by the opposition I had to watch the replay to see where the hell he was.
Not a criticism of Israel as a player but a question on who had or has the job of showing him how to play the position they were asking him to play. Not put him at fullback so he can see as an observer how the game is played. Now put him on the wing see how he goes, Ok lets try him at centre. Right times up lets just call him overated.
Do you remember how much joy he showed scoring tries in the begining compared with lack of after scoring 2 tries on the weekend.
It’s just my observation, but I feel he has been let down by a lack of support as far as training and instruction especially of how to play fullback, and ascend to something like his true potential and get the joy back.
To be honest I wonder how he would have gone if part of the Chief’s setup. Or the Crusaders or the Hurricanes or Highlanders.
I think he is a great talent not properly utilized.
The Super XV: Australian team of the week, Round 11
I would hate to see the Force go. I am a Chiefs supporter by birth and by adoption a Force fan.
I believe coaching is the answer to any success in sport. I remember back in high school a hundred years ago I was in the school indoor basketball B team. The selection process took 30 seconds. Everyone who wanted to play was lined up side by side and the tallest half became the A team and the rest of us the B team.
The A team got the coach the B team got the short straw for a coach. Long story short we played in the local competition we in the B grade and the A team in the A. We cleaned up the B grade competition and at the end of season competition got to play the school A team. Cleaned them up as well.
It all came down to the coach and the game plan. The game plan was simplicity. We knew what we had to do when we had the the ball and what to do when the opposition had the ball and stuck to it all season. No complications and we got the job done.
I was in the 2nd 15 school rugby team and we had the same coach. We went through that year undefeated.
In both teams our coach molded us into a team using our natural abilities or lack of to a style of play that would for our particular group bring the best chance of success.
Both the Chiefs and the Force had similar beginnings. Big name players and little success.
Took the Chiefs 8 years to make the Super 12 semi and another 5 years to make the final.3 more years more to win the thing. I remember the persistent calls for the Chiefs to be dropped. Imagine if that had happened.
The real turning point as far as results go for the Chiefs was the appointment of Dave Rennie as coach. Game plan. Every player knowing what to do in any given situation no matter where you find yourself on the field. Teamwork.
I must admit I wasn’t expecting a lot from the Force last week but was over the moon with the way they played and the teamwork and commitment they showed all the way to the end.
Maybe this coach is the one that brings them together.
Thank goodness for the Force, all is forgiven for now
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