Taylor boots Saders to victory
6 May 2012
GARETH DUNCAN watched flyhalf Tom Taylor convert five penalties to give the Crusaders a 15-11 win over the Reds in Christchurch.
While Sunday is a day of rest for many, the Crusaders and Reds faced off in physical, close contest. Both teams delivered strong defensive performances in the afternoon brawl, but in the end, the Reds’ ill-discipline proved costly.
The Crusaders capitalised with their superior scrum and smarter approach to the breakdown battle, which saw the Reds concede several penalties in kickable areas. Taylor stepped up and slotted five of his six goal attempts in an impressive kicking display. Two of his three-pointers sailed over during the final 10 minutes of the game and sealed the win.
In the opening moments of the match, the Reds got off to the perfect start as hooker James Hanson crossed the chalk in the first minute of play. Both teams were defensively strong thereafter, but the Crusaders managed to edge ahead through two Taylor penalties.
The visitors had the opportunity to secure the lead, but inside centre Mike Harris missed two goal attempts in the first stanza (a conversion and penalty), which saw the Reds trail 6-5 at half-time.
The kicking contest continued in the second 40 as Taylor and Harris traded a penalty each. Then the Crusaders suffered a massive blow in the 60th minute.
The Reds found space down the left touchline and their attack surged into the hosts’ territory. In an attempt to force play in to touch, reserve prop Wyatt Crockett dived into scrumhalf Will Genia without any arms. His challenge was late and deemed dangerous, and the front rower was sent to the sin bin.
Harris converted the resulting penalty, giving the Reds an 11-9 lead, but they couldn’t add any more points with their one-man advantage.
When restored to 15 men, the Crusaders built momentum and won the ascendancy up front. The Reds leaked two penalties in their red zone at the death – one at the breakdown, while reserve wing Rod Davies was isolated after poor decision to run the ball and was penalised for holding on. Taylor did his job with the boot and the Crusaders clinched their fourth consecutive victory.
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7 May 2012, 06:37 am
@niknaks(niknaks)-149:
Lobotmized loser with a whinging predisposition for excuses deeply entrenched in multiple layers of self-preserving superiority all designed as a convenient mechanism with the sole purpose of refusing to acknowledge your victor.
In the rest of the World its known as ‘bad sportsmanship’. In the Land of the Lobotomized Loser, its merely the norm as a pre-text to poisoning, when required.
7 May 2012, 06:41 am
@PrickBoks going South(PrickBoks going South)-151:
You another life-less bludger that spends his entire day posting on a RSA site?
That’s rhetorical!
7 May 2012, 06:43 am
@niknaks(niknaks)-138:
interesting results from the 7′s.
Samoa (population 179,000) 47pts vs PrickBoks (population 50,000,000) ZERO
bwaaaaaaaaaaHAHA.
smallpenis template dont work, cant pigeonhole cant thunk.
7 May 2012, 06:45 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-152:
rhetorical, yes indeed.
7 May 2012, 07:23 am
@PrickBoks going South(PrickBoks going South)-153:
ha ha just read that u r canadian.Offspring of 1 of those 95 inbred neanderthals that came to our shores and got his *** kicked.Obviously you havent got over it you numpty.
7 May 2012, 08:35 am
Come now Hurricane…
Of course we’re going to favor the team that best promotes the interests of South African teams. S15 is all about log position to secure the high road of home semi finals…
The Crusaders are an ever present threat… most South Africans (who support South African teams that is) are going to want to see any other team beat the crusaders, chiefs and highlanders….
Don’t whinge or cry baby about it… see it as a compliment…!!
But if you do complain of what you see on a South African rugby site… there’s always Silver Fern for you to have nice safe, homogenous, roses and rainbows opinions…
Have a look at it this way; whistle-happy referee Bryce Lawrence favoured the Crusaders 16-7 in the penalty count, the Reds scored the only try and if five-eighth Tom Taylor didn’t prove he possesses the temperament of a brain surgeon by slotting five of his six penalties this result would have different.
Richard Knowler – SMH
7 May 2012, 09:01 am
@PrickBoks going South(PrickBoks going South)-154:
My God you are embarrassing
7 May 2012, 09:04 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-53: Got to love McCaws block on Gill …..Return of the king !!!
There are alot of pretenders out there but when it comes down to it Richie is always king
7 May 2012, 09:18 am
No tries for Crusaders…and against the crappy Reds. That should send up a ‘red’ flag for the other teams on how to nullify the ‘best’ team in New Zealand.
7 May 2012, 09:26 am
@Manona(Manona)-157: Manona…the contributor to whom you refer seems to have a really deep seated and irrational hatred of anything South African. No comments on rugby…just anti South African rubbish…sad really…
7 May 2012, 09:33 am
@PrickBoks going South(PrickBoks going South)-153:
…and that was the rugby opinion that you’ve been going on about. It seems the Canadian take on rugby is to repeat the scorelines from another post. So, that’s the great rugby “opinion” we’ve been waiting for. A pathetic Canadian who trolls foreign rugby sites to give his opinion, and that’s the best you can offer? Wow, you’re a real rugby professor. Canadian? Bwwhaaaaaahaaaaaa!! Most hilarious thing I’ve heard all day…
Well done Samoa by the way, great result for them. The blitzboks are truly hopeless.
7 May 2012, 09:49 am
@RDOT(RDOT)-160:
Don’t be too hard on him. When Prikbok was a wee lad, somewhere in Edmonton, Canada I believe, he happened to walk in on his mother being given the hot beef injection by a large South African. Not only has he never been able to wipe the image from his memory (despite the tiny amount of space it takes up in his pea-sized brain). He has also never come to terms with the feelings of immense jealousy that arose from the situation – seriously disrupting his schooling, which is plain to see. It’s also one of the reasons he had to flee to Australia and start afresh. True story…
7 May 2012, 09:54 am
@niknaks(niknaks)-162:
Word is his mom was so badly stretched she could never be satisfied by another passing traveller ever again.
7 May 2012, 09:58 am
@niknaks(niknaks)-162: I can only imagine it was something like what you described that happened…nothing else could generate such hatred…
@niknaks(niknaks)-161: Agreed niknaks…well done Samoa…our lads were rather hopelss…pity a Keegan Daniel…Siya Kolisi or the like infusion could not be added to beef up the 7′s boys…
7 May 2012, 11:47 am
Isnt it funny that the whinging Yappies jump with such haste to their default “his mother was phcuked by a whinging Yappie” to explain away any/all non-believers. This is about the 6th version of the same story. Its like the birth-lobotomies have extracted everything but base thought processes, a bit like Down Syndrome victims having hypersenstivity to emotions but zero inhibitions when it comes to s*x.
The arrogance that assumes a non-Yappies opinion as worthless completely mocks their assertion that the Kiwis think they ‘own the game’. Maybe their Mummys were phcuked by a big Kiwi bloke.
7 May 2012, 12:53 pm
@niknaks(niknaks)-150: “As I’ve said repeatedly, you’ve never offered a rugby opinion.”
7 posts by niknaks and zero of them have anything to do with offering rugby opinion. Unless all that bile is called “an opinion” nowdays then you are full of it to the throat.
7 May 2012, 12:57 pm
@PrickBoks going South(PrickBoks going South)-165: Marty did alright on his 40th. 8)
Recently watched 1979 WHA AVCO cup final Oilers vs Jets, how fast time goes by, Gretzky looked like schoolboy.
7 May 2012, 13:02 pm
@PrickBoks going South(PrickBoks going South)-165:
She’s about to burst into tears.
8 May 2012, 03:20 am
@PrickBoks going South(PrickBoks going South)-165:
You must have been phcuked by a big kiwi bloke as you seem to love them so much.What a shame they let such a big **** jockey on this site such as yourself you self serving **** breath.
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