Super Rugby Rnd 1 2020: Crusaders v Waratahs

[molman]

Gordon is also looking good. Agree re: Abel in open play. Less sure in the scrum.

 

[molman]

Agree with commentators. What a lost opportunity.

 

[molman]

That pass from Beale looked forward to me.

 

[molman]

Keen to see how Bell and Dempsey go . . .

 

[Up the Guts]

Would have been nice to score there with all the ABs rolling off.

 

[qwerty51]

I tend to agree. I find myself enjoying European/English rugby a lot more these days.

It feels a lot more - I don't know - professional? Important? The games have a different intensity or gravity to them.

Super Rugby feels like fast food, Big Bash-esque football.

I watch a lot of Euro rugby so I feel educated here. It's because Super Rugby errors are off the chart (especially early in the season) compared to Euro but this is because there's more endeavour in attacking play. Euro flows better and they're experts at ball retention and long phases.

 

[molman]

Good work by Hooper. Need turnovers like that to try and have a chance in this game.

 

[Up the Guts]

Finish

 

[Micheal]

Great finish from Mark N (Nawaqanitawase).

How the fuck do you pronounce his last name? Someone educate me.

 

[molman]

Try Tahs. Mark Nawaqanitawase with a nice finish.

 

[Wilson]

Great finish from Mark N (Nawaqanitawase).

How the fuck do you pronounce his last name? Someone educate me.

Nuh-wang-ani-tawarsey

 

[molman]

How the fuck do you pronounce his last name? Someone educate me.

 

[Up the Guts]

Marky Mark (Nawaqanitawase) gets us back into the game.

 

[qwerty51]

Great finish from Mark N (Nawaqanitawase).

How the fuck do you pronounce his last name? Someone educate me.

Mark Nah-wunga-kneeta-wah-ze.

 

[molman]

Nice intercept from Mark Nawaqanitawase, runs the field and the Tahs are back in it.

 

[molman]

. . . Harrison hits the post. 24-18

 

[Cancelled Account]

Marky Mark (Nawaqanitawase) finding his feet.

 

[molman]

Poor defence. Too easy.

 

[molman]

29-18

 

[Micheal]

Hooper with another jackal.

What a shame that he's not actually a 7 and that he's going to get dropped from the Wallabies and that he's a Russian plant and will be implicated in the Trump impeachment.