Crusaders v Blues a.k.a. NZ's festum odii

[waiopehu oldboy]

Back to getting reamed in the locks if Darry is out again. gg.

Confirmed as a broken forearm so that's him for the year, probably gunna have to run with a tallish 6 playing lock from here on in. Also Dalton's surely going to get 2-3 weeks which isn't going to help, either. I may have to revise my finishing order to 4. Hurricanes 5. Blues.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Loss Bleus have now lost 30/42 rugby football matches v CruSadists including 17 of the last 19...

LOL I may need to re-title the thread "... inevitabilis effectus".

What say you @Dismal Pillock & @zer0?

Lot less expletives than I'd use.....

Sotutu may as well have handed over his AB jersey directly to Cullen Grace at the end of the game. As soon as Dpaps went off alllll the "senior" (LOL) Bleus players went into their shells. Again, hamstrung by the torturous deadshit at 10. After 25 mins when the Blues finnnnnallllllly got their hands on the ball and the first thing Barrett does is..... pitch up a speculative 50/50 up and under kick from inside his own half. There were some ********* *********** ***** ************* expletives directed at the telly then.

 

[Quicktapsonly]

Next season

Yikes misses the World Cup?

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ depends on his rehab & whether selectors are willing to take a punt on him after, at best, a handful of NPC matches.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Oh shit, Friday night, back at the red and black graveyard of shattered dreams.

 

[cyclopath]

Oh shit, Friday night, back at the red and black graveyard of shattered dreams.

I call the 50 GIF challenge - one for each point the Cantabs will score.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

I probably won't see much if any if this: one of wifey's 40-odd cousins is having her 50th Friday night & even though it's at a sports bar I'm unlikely to be able to sit there & watch rugby

Yes, @Dan54, I know I should have her better trained but she was untrainable when I met her & she's probably gotten less so as she's gotten older so...

 

[zer0]

Probably best for your mental health not to witness the Crusaders be eliminated tbh.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Probably best for your mental health not to witness the Crusaders be eliminated tbh.

Loss Bleus have now lost 30/42 rugby football matches v CruSadists including 17 of the last 19...

 

[Dan54]

I probably won't see much if any if this: one of wifey's 40-odd cousins is having her 50th Friday night & even though it's at a sports bar I'm unlikely to be able to sit there & watch rugby

Yes, @Dan54, I know I should have her better trained but she was untrainable when I met her & she's probably gotten less so as she's gotten older so...

Well I admit to issing Friday nights Blues/Tahs match too WOB, I had tickets to show in Wellywood!!! I getting old I booked tickets months back without checking super draw!!

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Razor has given an update on the three players who subbed off injured last night:

Gallagher's calf "doesn't look good"
Mo'unga's was just cramp
Blackadder's hip may or may not recover in time

Also SamW not looking likely

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Even with half the Cantabs crook I have no hope Loss Bleus will win this. Just too dumb and leaderless.

Cantabs to lucy the football away from the ever gullible Charlie Browns of Soup Rugby.

 

[cyclopath]

I call the 50 GIF challenge - one for each point the Cantabs will score.

Ahem, just stumbled across this bit of Nostradamus-like work...

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Oh dear.

Blews going Blus things?
Or
Saders doing sadists things?

 

[cyclopath]

Oh dear.

Blews going Blus things?
Or
Saders doing sadists things?

Some from Part A, a lot from Part B

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Blues vs Cantabs

Sat Mar 23, 2024

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Jesus @Dismal Pillock was it really necessary to add a live feed of your web cam?

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

I think it only fair that I should offer @Dismal Pillock a signature & avatar bet given his past willingness to back his beloved but mostly hopeless in this fixture Loss Bleus.

But I have conditions:

Straight bet s&a for 48 hours from match end.

Loss Bleus by 7 - 12 one week.

Loss Bleus by 13 - 19 two weeks.

Loss Bleus by 20+ a month.

Your choice of wager but if CruSadists somehow manage to win or beat the nominated spread I get two weeks.

If Dismal chooses not to take up this (very generous imo) offer I'm happy to offer the same terms to @zer0 or @KiwiM, or if they too decline anyone else willing to admit to having been a closet Loss Bleus supporter these past two decades.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

I think it only fair that I should offer @Dismal Pillock a signature & avatar bet given his past willingness to back his beloved but mostly hopeless in this fixture Loss Bleus.

Loss Bleus by 7 - 12 one week.

It's on like Enron.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ I didn't frame the options very well, did I?

To clarify: a Loss Bleus win by seven or more means my signature & avatar are yours to use & abuse as you see fit for one week. After which they'll clearly have to be burned, sealed inside a steel drum & dumped in the Waikato River. In a week or two @zer0 may find it washed up somewhere on the shores of the Manukau Harbour...

FWIW I think 7 - 12 is a likely margin, I was hoping that by upping the stakes for 13+ you might get too ambitious.