Blues bash Canes
23 Feb 2013
The Blues got their Super Rugby season off to a bonus point winning start.
The Blues beat the Hurricanes 34 – 20 in Wellington after trailing 11 – 13 at half time.
After a slow start to the game, the Blues were first to score a try, through Frank Halai, who turned villain later in the match, before scoring what has to be the match altering try late in the match.
The Hurricanes replied through Julian Savea and a few penalties from Barrett to have a slight lead at half time.
The second half started much the same as the first – slow and steady as the teams got to grips with playing full impact rugby. Savea was in on the action again, chasing a kick ahead which nearly resulted in a try. Upon consulting the TMO though, a penalty try was awarded and Halai given a yellow card for interfering and intentionally forcing the ball dead – an incorrect call in my opinion, based on the video evidence.
This only pushed the Blues to attack more, going on to score four tries, first through fullback Piutau, then Ranger with a brilliant individual effort and then Halai from a turnover, practically killing the match and giving Blues coach John Kirwan a winning start to his career at the Blues.
Kirwan will be happy with his senior players standing up in this match, Weepu clearly a different player and the likes of Ali Williams and Rene Ranger proving the difference.
This match was not quite as entertaining as the New Zealand derby we witnessed yesterday, but was still a pleasure to watch and more entertaining than either of the other two matches yesterday. The New Zealand teams seem to be on a different level altogether, and look set to dominate Super Rugby 2013.
By Richard Ferguson
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23 Feb 2013, 11:00 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-148: why dont you turn your eye on your own mob and admit to their cheating also..
you wont, its just a soapbox because you cant handle kiwi sides being better then your sides..
learn to live with it bakkies, it aint gonna change
23 Feb 2013, 11:02 am
what is exceptionally laughable though is you didnt watch the game, yet are quite willing to assume based on your own paranoia?
run forest run
23 Feb 2013, 11:02 am
@polaris-143:
hehehe
well i do hope the Bulls improve drastically and for the Stormers i can only fear that even if they get their game going they are still killing SA rugby.
AC has only taken half the leaf out of the great Bulls book.
@NZINCHINA-149:
i cant farking wait
23 Feb 2013, 11:04 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-123: Glen fuckedup. But it would be to the detriment of the Blues, not the Canes. So the result was never in question.
I find 95% of the refs from all 3 Sanzar countries way under par.
However, it is positive as helltosee Sanzar at least trying to improve on it, is it not?
Leave the reffing, and focus on the rugby – what you see before you. Look, even from a Stormer it was nice to see Morne back on ‘song’ with his kick kick kick. ButfuckemeBakkies, there is more to rugby than this. We see there is more than this, every time a Kiwi team runs out.
Anyways, that’s just me. I don’t want us to reinventthefuckingwheel, and do away with 10 man rugby entirely, as it has its place. But we deserve more than that (and most of us want more than that, franchise fans and Boks fans.
I’m feeling more than a little depressed at what both the Bulls and Stormers dished up. Sorry, can’t help it.
23 Feb 2013, 11:05 am
@the curse-152:
its alla bout asking the right questions and reading between the lines.
enjoy your rugby, Pops.
23 Feb 2013, 11:08 am
Anyway Bakkies, I have something far more pressing to ask you. Maybe you can answer me or do some investigating up north?
I believe someone has stated that OP and his ‘wild mates’ (referred to as rugby players) live the life of drugs, alcohol, fast cars, women and recklessness in Pretoria.
I alluded to something similar last week, in terms of rugby players running in the same wolf pack as him…..
Who are these players Bakkies? Who are the Bulls players who could possibly be in the wolf pack?
Seriously just curious….
23 Feb 2013, 11:10 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-154:
yes, you see the is thing i’m picking up from different sources that the reffing has so far been poor. it is foolish for us to discount this factor.
even the Bulls-Stormers game presented questions on the reffing and tmo.
the difference for our sides is they dont cheat as much, ergo the refs & tmo’s come under less question.
anyway, i’m out for a bit
cheers till later
23 Feb 2013, 11:12 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-155: indeed , from the small reel of highlights I seen of the bulls/stormers, the bulls were constantly going off their feet at the ruck…
was shameful how the ref ignored it
23 Feb 2013, 11:18 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-156:
to tell you the truth Pedigree i was shocked to hear these stories of steroid drugs and other unsavoury stuff.
i always figured Hougaard for a ‘bad apple who could be made good’ and to my mind is the exception which proves the general rule of the Bulls as a team and organisation being morally upstanding, of good character and which espouses a good christian doctrine which is itself not too overbearing on others or intolerant.
there is a core foundation which is unshakeable but perhaps the older generation embodies it better than some of the youngsters coming up.
i’m out
chat later
23 Feb 2013, 11:19 am
@the curse-158:
To be fair to Jaco Peyper, he did tell the Bulls to ‘stop it, stop it, stop it’ about 50 times.
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-157: Cheerio Bakkies.
23 Feb 2013, 11:23 am
Michael Cheika looks like a guy I work with. Both seem to be overly self-confident, with no apparent reason to be.
23 Feb 2013, 13:07 pm
well done blues, a well deserved win.
23 Feb 2013, 17:58 pm
Thanks Cane,
Woohoo, and were off to a great start. Blues fullback will be a handful in 2013, he’s quick, athletic and with gas to burn.
24 Feb 2013, 10:10 am
@cane-162:
Caner…..Thanks……your guys were getting held up off the ground in the tackle, perhaps three or four times…maybe even more….certainly something to work on for Hammet
24 Feb 2013, 21:21 pm
Well done JAFA bloggers.
Nice start with some new players that are fukn huge and fast.
But i still saw a glimmer of hope with our Canes team…we dropped so much ball and blew so many chances…if we click……LTFout.
26 Feb 2013, 04:33 am
Hurricane
First game jitters, team’s that run the table at seasons end will feature in the playoffs. Plenty of hope, we do have a massive back line don’t we.
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