The Crusaders and Hurricanes start off our Saturday rugby with a tough New Zealand derby in Wellington, the Crusaders coming off a good win over the Stormers last weekend and the Hurricanes coming off a bye.
The Hurricanes have had a decent start to the season, better than most expected, and currently lie in third spot on the New Zealand conference, above the Crusaders in fourth. Beauden Barrett has been a revelation this year, not only with the kicking boot but in getting his backline away, with Smith, Jane and Taylor feeding off his ball.
The Crusaders have continued with Dan Carter at centre, with Tom Taylor, who had such a great match against the Stormers, still wearing the flyhalf jersey. There is still no sign of Richie McCaw, who will only return from his lay off in three or so weeks.
Hurricanes: 1. Ben May,2. Dane Coles,3. Jeffery Toomaga-Allen,4. Jeremy Thrush,5. Jason Eaton,6. Faifili Levave,7. Karl Lowe,8. Victor Vito,9. TJ Perenara / Chris Eaton,10. Beauden Barrett,11. Julian Savea,12. Tim Bateman,13. Conrad Smith (c),14. Cory Jane,15. Andre Taylor
Replacements : 16. Motu Matu’u,17. Michael Bent ,18. James Broadhurst,19. Jack Lam / Mark Reddish,20. Chris Eaton / Frae Wilson,21. Tusi Pisi,22. Alapati Leiua
Crusaders: 1. Wyatt Crockett 2. Corey Flynn, 3. Ben Franks, 4. Tom Donnelly, 5. Samuel Whitelock, 6. George Whitelock, 7. Matt Todd, 8. Kieran Read, 9. Andy Ellis, 10. Tom Taylor, 11. Zac Guildford, 12. Dan Carter, 13. Robbie Fruean, 14. Adam Whitelock, 15. Israel Dagg.
Reserves: 16. Quentin MacDonald, 17. Owen Franks, 18. Luke Romano, 19. Luke Whitelock, 20. Willi Heinz, 21. Ryan Crotty, 22. Tom Marshall.
Referee: Craig Joubert
Assistant Ref 1:Glen Jackson
Assistant Ref 2:Mike Fraser
TMO:Bryce Lawrence
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Picked the Canes by 3. The Saders like the Sharks are not performing like we know the should.
Kickoff is at 09:35
Saders to take this game!
brilliant try
Read try! Amazing running from Guildford!
All from a big scrum from the Saders.
Taylor converts
Canes 0 – 7 Saders
6minutes
Started with Canes demolished in the scrum
Andre Taylor lining up a Canes penalty now, to hit back..
Long range effort
Taylor pushes it to the right..
7 minutes
Got 3 FL tries so far 🙄
A bit of a bust up, Canes on the attack inside Saders 22m..
@JarsonX (Comment 10) : Lucky you. I forgot to update my team.
@JarsonX (Comment 10) :
Awesome, two up for me with the Read try..
Barrett misses the ensuing penalty
Canes 0 – 7 Saders
15 minutes
@JarsonX (Comment 10) : But I have 2 tries so far
Saders scrum really destroying the Canes
@lostfish (Comment 15) :
Thats how to do it!
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 17) : Yeah but my starting 15 is totally outdated… I did LMS and Superbru but forget to do FL.
I only had 4 tries once so far, all my players are under performing 🙁
Taylor lining up for another three points.
Slots it.
Canes 0 – 10 Saders
21 minutes
Dan Carter try!
3 tries with Carter
4 FL tries!
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 21) :
Another FL try for me..
@JarsonX (Comment 23) : Show off 😉
Taylor adds the conversion
Canes 0 – 17 Saders
24 minutes
@JarsonX (Comment 23) :
@lostfish (Comment 22) :
We all in the Carter boat
Taylor penalty hits the cross bar..
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 27) : He was the obvious choice when I had a halfback injury but he hasn’t performed as well as he usually does.
Another Saders penalty.. Taylor lines up another shot..
Canes 0 – 20 Saders
29 minutes
Freuan Try!!!
That’s 4 tries for me now 😎
Another Saders try starting from a useless up and under
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 31) :
FL try number four!
Taylor slots the conversion
Canes 0 – 27 Saders
31 minutes
ouch…
Dagg could be in for the bonus point try!!
Not sure how that ball got turned over – looked very suspicious to me
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 37) :
This could be FL try number five!
Gotta feel for the Canes. Called back for a forward pass in a scoring position, then refs miss TWO similar consecutive forward passes on the way to the Saders scoring.
How on earth did the Sharks get nailed by this Canes team?
Taylor misses the conversion..
Canes 0 – 32 Saders
@klempie (Comment 40) :
Agreed.. the passes looked a bit dodge!
Andre Taylor hits back for the Canes before half [email protected]!
@Bokhoring (Comment 41) : Simple. They are kak. Think we will get our asses handed to us tonight.
Canes 7 – 32 Saders
HALF TIME
The Saders are back!
Saders 42 Canes 14
@Pokkel (Comment 48) : good morning 🙂
@Bokhoring (Comment 41) : a lot of things, the dynamics of us far from home, they on the back of a loss, their type of open running rugby we struggle to contain, and the they were lucky that the 50/50 calls went their way…..
Do you think SB will believe me if I say I meant to pick the Crusaders by 60, not 6?
@KSA Shark © (Comment 51) : maybe, 🙂
1 Crusaders pick on LMS.
0 Hurricanes picks.
Chuck Norris survives this round. 🙂
Saders 42 Canes 14
FULL TIME
Môre Frans.
@Pokkel (Comment 55) : awesome day in Newcastle today,