The Blues hosted the Hurricanes in the 1st Super 14 match of 2010. This is the game thread for discussion of the game. The Hurricanes won handsomely after trailing all of the 1st half, they eventually won 34 / 20
Scores:
Blues: 2 Conversions & 2 Penalties & 1 Try Stephen Brett, 1 Try John Afoa
Hurricanes: 5 Penalties Willie Ripia, 1 Try Hosea Gear, 1 Conversion & 4 Penalties Piri Weepu
Teams:
Blues:
15 Rudi Wulf, 14 Rene Ranger, 13 Isaia Toeava, 12 Benson Stanley, 11 Joe Rokocoko, 10 Stephen Brett, 9 Alby Mathewson, 8 Viliami Ma’afu, 7 Serge Lilo, 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Anthony Boric, 4 Kurtis Haiu, 3 John Afoa, 2 Keven Mealamu (captain), 1 Tony Woodcock.
Replacements: 16 Tom McCartney, 17 Charlie Faumuina, 18 Filo Paulo, 19 Peter Saili, 20 Chris Smylie, 21 Daniel Kirkpatrick, 22 Paul Williams.
Hurricanes:
15 Cory Jane, 14 Tamati Ellison, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma’a Nonu, 11 Hosea Gear, 10 Willie Ripia, 9 Piri Weepu, 8 Victor Vito, 7 Scott Waldrom, 6 Nick Crosswell, 5 Jason Eaton, 4 Michael Paterson, 3 Neemia Tialata, 2 Andrew Hore (captain), 1 John Schwalger.
Replacements: 16 Dane Coles, 17 Jacob Ellison, 18 Bryn Evans, 19 Karl Lowe, 20 Tyson Keats, 21 Aaron Cruden, 22 David Smith.
Date: Friday, February 12
Venue: North Harbour Stadium, Albany
Kick-off: 19.35 (06.35 GMT)
Referee: Stuart Dickinson (Australia)
Assistant referees: Bryce Lawrence (New Zealand), Garratt Williamson (New Zealand)
TMO: Ben Skeen (New Zealand)
26 Tamati Ellison breaks down the right wing for the ‘Canes. The support is a bit slow in getting there but they manages to keep hold of the ball and can build near centre field.
Blues moet net vasbyt
28 The game is opening up quite nicely as both teams try to send the ball through the hands. Oops …Dickinson strikes again. Penalty to the ‘Canes but I’m struggling to see what was wrong there
Jeez, but the penalties are flying!…This is not good!
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29 PENALTY, HURRICANES, RIPIA. 17-12.
Penalties conceded
Blues 7
Canes 3
95 dankie GBS maak so
32 PENALTY, BLUES, BRETT. 20-12. Off-side this time. Dickinson is nailing even the slightest error.
10 penalties in how many mintues?
Are all these penalties from the rucks?
11 penalties now in what?..20 minutes?..Thats about one every 2 minutes. Are we going to end up with 40 odd penalties in this game?
Ok..32 minutes…
Polla – 32 minutes
Snap 😆
Ripia puts in a peach of a kick into the corner. The Blues line-out will be under pressure here. Great throw from Keven Mealamu to Boric. Brett clears and the Blues can breath again.
Predictions Gestuur GBS
36 Piri Weepu is tested by a high ball…which he drops. But he gets away with it! and is able to put Nonu into some space. The big centre is shut down near half way.
hoeveel tyd is oor in die eerste helfde?
Very high scoring first halve so far. For a derby game that is.
Trips 3 min
38 With half time approaching Weepu chucks a forward pass. The Blues burst down the left hand side, and Dickinson hands another penalty to the hosts. Brett sets up the attacking line-out.
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The commentators dont have anything good to say about Dikensons refereeing.
Alrighty, Blues doing pretty well, seems attacking play will be rewarded and kicking game is suicied, hope SA teams can adapt, and quickly too. Dickinson as useless as always.
Blues
TRY 5 Min (Brett)
CONV 6 Min (Brett)
PENK 14 Min (Brett)
TRY 18 Min (Afoa)
CONV 19 Min (Brett)
PENK 32 Min (Brett)
Hurricanes
PENK 3 Min (Ripia)
PENK 9 Min (Ripia)
PENK 25 Min (Ripia)
PENK 29 Min (Ripia)
39 Haiu can’t hang on high in the air. Weepu clears off the back of the ‘Canes scrum. Hosea Gear has a dart down the left touchline. Ah no! Another penalty. And Dickinson marches the ‘Canes another twenty metres back for some back-chat!
40 Brett pulls his kick a long way off to the left – that’s his first mistake today. That’s it for the half. The Blues look the more dangerous side on attack, but they’ll be worried about their penalty count of defence.
So wat se die mense van die nuwe interpretasies? Lyk my die tackler moet maar leer om ‘by default’ weg te rol en daar sal ‘n backup moet wees om dan die bal te probeer steel. Beste idee is maar om die bal te beskerm en useless kicking sal jou span die game kos.
Go Blues!
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