Super Rugby 2025 NZ/ Drua/ Moana matches

[Dismal Pillock]

Spiderman alternate.

Big bad intimidating rugby team turn up wearing little kiddies superhero pajamas.

GTFOOOO

 

[Wilson]

Is defending mauls also woke DEI nonsense?

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Both teams taking easy threes, too.

We've truly gone back to the future here, y'all.

 

[Wilson]

Clarke, Tele'a, Naholo and Love may as well be watching on the sidelines. All that strike power and barely a chance between them in the first 40.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

13-13@HT, heroic effort from the bumbling cellar dweller Blues to keep in touch on the scoreboard with a proper playoff-bound rugby team.

 

[Derpus]

CruSadists back to second on the Ladder.

Oh thank god.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

How's the booze & Japanese *meats* going @Derpus?

 

[zer0]

Clarke, Tele'a, Naholo and Love may as well be watching on the sidelines. All that strike power and barely a chance between them in the first 40.

The way God intended.

Getting that try at the end would've been funny though. All the Hurricanes attacking razzmatazz only to go into halftime trailing a team that's the equivalent of hurling a pile of concrete cinder blocks through a window.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Their time will come, I feel.

 

[LeCheese]

Just tuned in - nice to see another close Super game, this time between the Newcastle Knights and Penrith Panthers

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Blu 19
Hur 18

 

[Wilson]

Jeez, it's a good thing the Blues had Beauden Barrett out there, they wouldn't have stood a chance without him. I imagine the Blues fans must love him.

 

[Dan54]

Once again, the Blues are a much better team with Barrett at 10. What they have been missing when they play Plummer .

 

[zer0]

They talked about returning to last years basics and they uniformly performed well last year when down to 14.

Many such cases.

Honestly, just start the remaining games with 14 on the field.

 

[Dan54]

Only the ones who know what they need to win Wilson

 

[Dismal Pillock]

About time he started justifying the salary. He's barely contributed a thing since potting a drop goal in a semi during the Covid era to defeat the BumBreeze.

I made a GIF of the moment back in the day just so Bumbreeze fans can relive the moment over and over again. You're welcome.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Week 9

Friday 11/04 7. Hurricanes v 2. Crusaders 19:05 NZST (daylight saving ended in the wee hours of Sunday).

Saturday 12/04 10. Blues v 8. Moana 16:35

Saturday 12/04 9. Highlanders v 11. Drua 19:05

 

[zer0]

Looks like Vern has found the misplaced keys to the Killdozer, so she should get a good run out on a nice sunny afternoon to utterly ruin everyone's enjoyment of Moana's freewheeling jailbreak rugby.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Blues will be needing a BP win, I feel.

Currently 2-5 with 11 points & will likely need to be at least 6-8 with 30 to make the playoffs.

Three home games plus Moana at Albany which may as well be home & three proper away games in Christchurch, Brisbane & Suva.

Of their remaining six opponents only Drua are currently ranked below them & three are currently top-four.

I'm struggling to see where the minimum four wins & probably necessary BPs are coming from.

 

[zer0]

The five Moana, Drua, Force, and Waratahs matches are all eminently winnable.

And one of those top four opponents is the Force (4-4), who are likely there on account of playing one more game than the Brumbies (4-3). That game is also at Eden Park.