Crusaders (NZ) Rugby Team Thread.

[Dismal Pillock]

The Crusaders have been virtually unbeatable since 2017 when Mo’unga has played, amassing a 61-5 record.​

 

[Dismal Pillock]

"Razor here. Welcome to the New Dawn. Same as the Old Dawn. That being, us legendary Crusaders getting every call going our way and having 3 wind-brained Canes tries stricken from the record, then rubbing salt in the Canes stupid baby wounds with our own penalty try down the other end. Cantab cucks Bazza Pickerill and TMO Fraser worked well together to see us home. In fact, Fraser shattered the Cantab TMO record by going back no less than 282 phases to find a Cane infringement to rule out one of their silly little babytime tries. I believe one of their players actually dropped a lolly wrapper on the team bus on the way to the match and that was enough to rule out the try. Great work, TMO LOL suckit."

 

[Dismal Pillock]

"Shut up. Everyone, shut up. The unthinkable has happened. I feel sick. Disgusted. Appalled. yes, the rumours are true; a raggletag team of mulleted delinquents from the island north of the mainland have cheated and connived their way to chicaning their way to registering the unspeakable.

"TL/DR; let us never speak of this again and take shared solace in the fact that our #1 cheerleader Mr Tony Johnson was spared the gruelling punishment of having to commentate this ignominous debacle. Get well soon Tony, we all love that you love us. Rest your voice as we will need you to be shrieking from the rafters next weekend, exhorting your heroes onto greater deeds as we 'welcome' this years iteration of the 15 or so idiot dog people bearing the grisly misfortune of having been selected to represent the Auckland Blues comedy troupe joketown franchise this year haha dont worry we'll make it quick haha just joking again no we will not".

 

[Dismal Pillock]

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ you lost me at Mark Reason....

 

[KiwiM]

^ you lost me at Mark Reason....

He makes a good point about Ennor though - cripes he is average. Watching him live in person on the weekend the Crusaders backline created plenty of space for him and he does nothing with it. I've never understood the hype.

 

[Dan54]

He makes a good point about Ennor though - cripes he is average. Watching him live in person on the weekend the Crusaders backline created plenty of space for him and he does nothing with it. I've never understood the hype.

Which is about average for any Reason article, amonst a page of rubbish he may quote one tiny morsel that make a bit of sense, but at's usually hard to get through the crap to find it.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

So they went away & did a bit of a re-design & some work on the costings. It may now look something like this:

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Capacity back to 30K which is what it needs to be. I'm still not convinced it needs a roof, hopefully they can bin that when the costs start blowing out. Which they absolutely will esp for anything that's imported: we have suppliers who are now paying four- to five times their pre-Covid shipping costs. Also there's a shortage of skilled construction workers.

Christchurch covered stadium: New design plans released

The long-awaited stadium is due to be finished by mid-2025.

www.nzherald.co.nz

Budget blowout of up to $50Mn already so the whole thing is going back to Council for yet another re-assessment...

Marketing should start designing the "20 Years of History" banners for Addington Recreation, Sports & Events Centre now, Fiscal 2032 is closer than you'd think

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Ah crap, further cost blowouts & delays...

Stuff

i.stuff.co.nz

Marketing should start designing the "20 Years of History" banners for Addington Recreation, Sports & Events Centre now, Fiscal 2032 is closer than you'd think

Make that 25...

Seriously, if this were Auckland or Wellington they'd have started building the fucker five years ago on the 1/3 Central Gov, 1/3 Local Gov, 1/3 Private Money model so beloved of the then-Centre Right Gov.

May not be quite ready yet going by Transmission Gulley & the Kapiti & Waikato Expressways but at least they'd be well past the point of no return.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Went for a tiki tour this morning before heading to the airport, Lancaster Park redevelopment coming along: nice lush turf, walkways/ exercise trail in place & they were digging out behind the old main gates where I think the toilets & changing rooms for the new sports fields & cricket Oval are going.

New stadium site still looks like demolition only finished last Tuesday (it's actually been over a year) but they seem to be making progress with the nearby aquatic centre & indoor sports facility.

Lots of new buildings since I was last here for NYE 2019/20 & plenty of construction work going on. Give 'em another five years & they'll probably be where they could've been five years ago...

 

[Dan54]

I actually not sure if they need to build new stadium too quicly WOB, on a completely selfish level we get more tests in Wellington etc because of lack of decent one in Chch, and I can drive there!!

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Council has voted 13-3 to accept a fixed price $683Mn contract to build the Stadium. Hopefully there's no get-out clauses on Council's side this being an election year & the sitting mayor not running again.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Straight swap. Razor fast-tracked straight into AB's job TODAY and Feeky, Foxy, Fozzie, Stormy, Mooary and the whole clowncar of failures put in charge of the Cantabs.

I'M KIDDING.

Even I wouldnt wish that on the Cantabs.

 

[zer0]

I would.

 

[zer0]

And that everyone who has ever been involved with the Crusaders franchise, including supporters, steps on a Lego block at some point this year.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

The Christchurch-based franchise has yet to name a replacement for Ryan. If Robertson and Hansen, who deals with the game plan and attack strategies, also depart it will mean the franchise will have to fill three positions.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ & if he gets his preferred AC's then Loss Bleus (& 'canes) will be looking for a new HC. Classic case of "be careful what you sacrifice to Baal for, he might just decide to let you have it".

 

[Dismal Pillock]

^ & if he gets his preferred AC's then Loss Bleus (& 'canes) will be looking for a new HC.

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