I wish they could translate this high self-steem to Los Pumas.
100 %landers
chiefs
jags ( jags are gonna field a b team i hope we can make it)
hurricanes
brumbies
sharks (controversial) they are underperforming if they play bosch at 10 they have a chance
bulls 50 50
The 50 50 comment not so good though.100 %
jaj still got it. the lions underperformed man they where terribleThe 50 50 comment not so good though.
But remember the playoffs is more than half of the teams. If you finished 7th in super 12 it wouldn't have been considered a good result, not bad but not good. And it's easier to finish 7th in this competition with the Aussie teams and the sunwolves pretty poor.hard to believe we have 4 NZ teams in the finals all of a sudden.
Hard to believe the Blues ended up last in NZ again after looking so much better early on.
I'm torn, my two fav teams the chiefs and highlanders snuck in and deserve too but at the same time this is a world cup year. Honestly I think having most of our players playing in the finals hampers the test side. It takes weeks off prep for the world cup and puts extra miles on the clock at a time when they could be resting ****les and preparing for the big show. I think you see it in the Aussie team each year, mostly only one team in the finals the majority of their players switch to test mode and IMO the wallabie team performs really well early on with players that have had a few weeks extra to test up and switch onto test mode.
People Bag the chiefs and even I had my doubts over Coopers coaching but it has to be said. To get the chiefs into the playoffs with Mckenzie gone, Retalick and Cane missing injured for extended periods as well as other key players like Moli, heck they lost an All Black Prop and huge asset in Kane Hames for the season before a shot was fired.
pretty amazing team effort, but if you can single one player out it would be Brad Weber. Captaining the team in the absence of Cane and Retalick and his individual form has been huge. I think hes the one guy if you took him out the team would have bombed.
What was that? You really tempted the rugby gods there, but at the end of the day it was always meant to be 4 nz teams in the playoffs.I don't think the Sharks will win. Coming back from a trip in Argentina, and Bosch is out injured for this game.
Duane Vermeulen will return for the Bulls, so that makes the Bulls' chance even better of winning, even though I think this game is going to be very close or dare I say it, another Draw...
And I doubt that both the Chiefs and the Highlanders will get bonus point wins. Maybe one of them, but not both...
If you were the bulls would you have played your top team in this game? Even after the end of last week it would have required extraordinary circumstance for them to not make the playoffs. Then a day before the game they knew that no circumstances would result in them missing out. So should they have rested players?
Also, why were the lions going for drop goals when they were 18 points down? Aiming for a losing bonus point? When it was still the first half?