Horror-canes - The Fever Union thread

Result ?

Village of the damned win I assume ?

Southland Won  9-3 was 6-3 for  a while though and at 9-3 Canterbury were always looking like coming back and scoring a try in the last seconds.

Southland killed my multi-bet

I feel sorry for you but surely, It was obvious a weak cantab side would be under pressure by a hot southland side?

Things Daniel has learnt today:

1) Canterbury's fans (or lack their of) are an absolute disgrace. f**king Gold Coast in disguise.

2) It's a good thing Steven Brett is going to the Blues.

3) If we play like that next year we'll get relegated

4) We don't deserve the ranfurly shield.

5) People who say "Its good to see a union outside of the major centres" are Morons. We lost to a sh*thouse union... That just makes it worse.

6) If I hear one more person say "Oh well, where still going to win the Air NZ Cup - that's way more important" you'll hear my screams in Wellington. Please, please, please learn something about the history of the game in this country before making a comment as f**king stupid as that.

7) We won't win the Air NZ Cup if we play like that.

The strange thing was for me that for 60 minutes of that game Southlands best player, Robinson, was pants! His kicking was horrendous, Cowan wasn't great and they were getting done over in the scrum and lineout. Basically Southland were pretty average, but Canterbury were worse.

I thought both Brett and Slade were ordinary, but I think Brett is possibly the most overrated 10 in the country. His goal kicking is rubbish and the amount of times he kicks the ball out on the full or dead or straight down the oppositions throat is ridiculous.

I still think there is something wrong when more away fans turn up to a match being hosted by a top of the table team. Canterbury's "supporters" are a joke.

go the bay!
heading up to chch from dunedin for the semi. gonna get immensely rowdy

Only 6,000 tickets sold thus far for our NPC final? bloody hell, go canterbury, really supporting your team.

c'mon lions lets hump these sheepshaggers

Impressive, they sold 7,500 tickets for the NPC Grand Final. Congratulations to the NZRFU for such narrow self centered minds, The crowd figures are reflecting what you are doing to the game.

I listened to Radio NZ SPort talkback tonight after 6pm and man were they giving it heaps, trying to find out "why"? Easy, just open your eyes.

Once again Wellington play in a final and forget to bring their brains. Good lord! Is it that difficult to see the way the game is panning out and change your gameplan.

Is this something like 7 grand finals in the last 9 years that we've lost if we lose this one. Blimey thats poor. On the bright side we're pretty consistent !

Simon don't be too hard, they have to come up against Canterbury in a fair few of those finals.

You are our bitches

2. Good performance in the 2nd half but that does not mask over the pure stupidity of the play in the 1st half. The way they played in the 2nd, getting Vito running wide  and using the pace in midfield was the recipe. Why the f**k they thought they needed to kick the ball.

I'm starting to wonder if Jamie Joeseph might be a bit too much 1 demnsional with wellington.

The boys seem happy about our win



Oops... That was last year!

My bad , I meant this!

Mr_Incredible2009-11-07 22:10:08

Same old wellington always 2nd seriously though, next season will be our year , You know whats the best thing about the end of the Air New Zealand cup, it means its the cricket season :)

mike delaney in the all blacks

Best thing that could happen to the Crusaders... Now if he could just f**k off out of the Canterbury side

Baffles me why we signed Daniel Bowden. He's as rubbish (if not more rubbish) then Brett. Colin Slade should be back up 10.Mr_Incredible2009-11-12 13:24:17

Why did we let Guildford go ? He is far better than David Smith. Aaron Cruden will hopefully star at 10.

Wanted to go I think Simon. Would probably be behind Ellison and Gear but who knows, he made the decision before he became an All Black

We didn't let Guilford go, he is signed with Canterbury and loaned to Hawkes Bay, same loophole that the Crusaders exploit for Warldrom

Lolz at the Wallabies losing to Scotland. Good win for the All Blacks this morning. Didn't see it, but it sounds like it was good.

all the media keeps going on about how bad this all blacks team is. could it just be that other teams, especially the northern hemisphere teams, are getting stronger and closing the gap?

Mhmm, I don't think we're bad. We beat Australia four times. Yeah we lost to South Africa but that South African team is very very good. And we've beaten all the teams on this Northern Hemisphere tour. I don't count those June tests, always seem to be a bit of a joke.

Would have to say that was the best game i have seen all season, its really a shame its the last one

mike delaney npc player of the year. GO THE BAY

Canes lost 19-17

Meh. Pre-pre season game (You can hardly call January f**king pre-season) friendly. Means nothing.

Yeah, But the competition starts in 3 weeks I think, so its not far but the canes didn't have the All Blacks playing I don't think.

Neither did the Blues.

Was in Mangatainoka yesterday, was a great ocassion. Game was pretty bollocks, for me the biggest thing the Canes needed out of this pre-season was getting Cruden running alongside Weepu. They know Ripia can play outside him at this level but have no idea about Cruden. No one in either team really stood out, though the view I had of the game and the extent to which I actually concentrated on it was minimal.

Said it before, will say it again. Closet JAFA

Im looking forward to see how Cruden goes this year, he might bring the excitement back to the Hurricanes backline. Hope he can get thru the season without the fitness problems he had during the Air NZ Cup.

And poor old Ali Williams, might be the end of him, not many people come back from doing the same achilles twice.

Cruden played second half of a good win for the Hurricanes v the Brumbies yesterday. A 26-5 win in front of a good crowd at Porirua.