Force v Blues, Round 13, 21 May 2016, NIB Stadium
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ChargerWA
Mark Loane (55)
Nah, to be devastated you'd have to care. After 7 years of this shit most of us are barely interested observers.
Forcefield
Ken Catchpole (46)
We should have taken the scrum with that last penalty. They either lose a back or a backrower- either way it benefits us.
Dismal Pillock
Michael Lynagh (62)
god help any poor prick who sat thru that torrid squalor without a vested interest in either team
shit-for-brains Blues decided to play like the Force. Blunted attack. blunted as in a pre-match smoke up
Poor Matt Hodgson. Standing in the immediate vicinity of so many Blues players he mustve temporarily contracted the highly contagious Blues Brainlock when he barked that quick tap off his fuckin shins.
Blues win but poor fuckin Force.
Defeated by drudgery
Toppled by torpor
Felled by forcelessness.
shit-for-brains Blues decided to play like the Force. Blunted attack. blunted as in a pre-match smoke up
Poor Matt Hodgson. Standing in the immediate vicinity of so many Blues players he mustve temporarily contracted the highly contagious Blues Brainlock when he barked that quick tap off his fuckin shins.
Blues win but poor fuckin Force.
Defeated by drudgery
Toppled by torpor
Felled by forcelessness.
waiopehu oldboy
George Smith (75)
Scrum would've been uncontested so not sure it would've helped you that much.
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Moono75
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We were robbed. Should of won it. I blame global warming
I am no fan of either side, mostly I felt pity for the poor bastards who had to play out in a weather I myself found hard to even watch via scrappy stream.
You can accuse both of those teams for a great many things, but fuck did they never give up.
Gnostic
Mark Ella (57)
Not paying attention, they didn't have a front rower to being back on due to YC and injuries.
Gnostic
Mark Ella (57)
I really hope that Foley will go back to his strength and coach forwards. He was a very good forwards coach.
I do feel sorry for the Force players and fans, but this was avoidable, after the Tahs debacle Foley should never have been given another HC position. The Force management are just plainly incompetent.
The Force have again dominated the ball and spent so much time in the Blues 22 the fans at the other end could be forgiven for going home because they couldn't see the other end of the field in the rain and didn't know the game was still going on. But what attack structures did the Force have to do anything with the ball and field position? Nothing. Nada, zilch. Sweet FA.
The Force are dire, just as the Tahs were before them, but their predicament is made worse because even though they played the risk averse game plan for all the years Foley has been there they still don't have an effective kicking game. Where is the effective chase, where are the contestable kicks and players effectively contesting? Again the Force aren't the lone rangers in that regard in Australia but then most of the other sides haven't played that sort of game either (except the Brumbies).
I do feel sorry for the Force players and fans, but this was avoidable, after the Tahs debacle Foley should never have been given another HC position. The Force management are just plainly incompetent.
The Force have again dominated the ball and spent so much time in the Blues 22 the fans at the other end could be forgiven for going home because they couldn't see the other end of the field in the rain and didn't know the game was still going on. But what attack structures did the Force have to do anything with the ball and field position? Nothing. Nada, zilch. Sweet FA.
The Force are dire, just as the Tahs were before them, but their predicament is made worse because even though they played the risk averse game plan for all the years Foley has been there they still don't have an effective kicking game. Where is the effective chase, where are the contestable kicks and players effectively contesting? Again the Force aren't the lone rangers in that regard in Australia but then most of the other sides haven't played that sort of game either (except the Brumbies).
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Moono75
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the kick chase is dire. You wonder why bother if no one is there to contest and put pressure on the receiver
Forcefield
Ken Catchpole (46)
Uncontested or not, surely you'd still have to pack three people in the front row of the scrum and surely that would either have to be a back or a backrower. Better to guarantee yourself possession and play to the one man advantage than to risk possession for a driving maul that had not been successful on the three odd previous attempts.
The_Brown_Hornet
John Eales (66)
A most frustrating loss. With the amount of pill we had in the second half and the number of cynical penalties given away by the Blues we should have won by a cricket score. But as it was we didn't know what to do with the ball when we got it.
The weather was arse but it didn't really make things any worse out there. It would have been just as bad in the dry.
The weather was arse but it didn't really make things any worse out there. It would have been just as bad in the dry.
Inside Shoulder
Nathan Sharpe (72)
Is Foley a protected or endangered species?
waiopehu oldboy
George Smith (75)
SMH reporting that Hodgson dislocated his shoulder & is gone for the year:
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/u...st-of-super-rugby-season-20160521-gp0r8r.html
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/u...st-of-super-rugby-season-20160521-gp0r8r.html
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Bob Loudon (25)
Does anyone know how close Jono Lance is to a return? They said he was out for six weeks and that was about eight weeks ago. Prior's done a commendably good job at 10 but Lance is really the only chance the Force have of another win this year IMO. Although looking at the games they have coming up, even that's unlikely to save them.
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