I will say this. It's progress for the Fijians. After a few seasons, they make the quarter finals. But they're not ready for it yet, and this game epitomized that perfectly. They've a long way to go before they ever mix it up with the big names in the competition. And especially if they have to travel for it.
dude its not a hard flight to fiji. No harder than being in north island nz and going to south island. Its a 3hr flight. If you want proof, fly me to fiji and ill report back how i feel at the end.
@@Edgycoo its not the distance, my theory is your sub concious is on edge when u visit an unfamiliar place cos we naturally look for danger as survival instinct and so you are unconciously over thinking. And unable to perform.
@@Edgycoo Who are you, Indiana Jones? 😂 But following on from @Wildkard's clarification, I'm taking about if they have to travel as the away side for quarter finals in the competition. At home, they're becoming slightly more formidable as an opponent, but away, sometimes they absolutely fall apart, especially with their track record of ill-discipline and criminally stupid actions. That is something they will have to spend a lot of time working on.
I think the ref gave himself the impression very unfairly early on then anything and everything he just pinged drua. Frank Lomani had a bit of a shocker game and shouldn't have put the ball in a whole bunch of times when the blues are pushing way early and ref ignoring it. Absolute boring in from blues whole game. Was a lot of confrontation and will be some sore bodies, Tuipulotu and Tu'ungafasi off injured, Ioane limping off as well.
Injury is abit concerning for the blues. I think its a terrible rule that a half back can just not put the ball in. They should make the put in emediate and none of this pausing bs. Cos there is 1600kg of weight its just stupid, they ask for the bind which closes the gap then they want a gap or its reset. And then they want a pause after set. Literally a bunch of people never packed a scrum made this retarded rules
@@Wildkard I semi agree about the rules, but with the way the rules are it's bad that Lomani is screwing his team over putting the ball in to an already lost scrum. It's also firmly keeping the ref's penalty pressure against them when it can easily swing the other way if the ref is forced to look at why they're actually dominating.
@@Wildkard thats what ive been saying for ages. let me be clear im not against pasifika rugby nor am i racist but NZRU is losing millions and how long can this model be sustainable. u have silly people like Sir john calling for more games in the islands when we are already bleeding money
@@jsmwh ye i was wondering about this too sure it makes the polynesian happy, but man australian government is giving millions of support free money to fiji rugby and our own rebels is going under. Its all politics mate and we all know politicians hell awaits them.
@@samcama Im not sure if that is true but ok lets says its true. just from a solely numbers perspective cause likely some woke person is going to flame me. What is the GDP per capita in fiji? 5 sth K lets say a game is 60 to 80 dollars so ur telling me that people there can afford to keep spending 1 to 2 percent of their income every week to watch games cmon
I will say this. It's progress for the Fijians. After a few seasons, they make the quarter finals. But they're not ready for it yet, and this game epitomized that perfectly. They've a long way to go before they ever mix it up with the big names in the competition. And especially if they have to travel for it.
dude its not a hard flight to fiji. No harder than being in north island nz and going to south island. Its a 3hr flight. If you want proof, fly me to fiji and ill report back how i feel at the end.
@@Edgycoo its not the distance, my theory is your sub concious is on edge when u visit an unfamiliar place cos we naturally look for danger as survival instinct and so you are unconciously over thinking. And unable to perform.
@@Wildkard I wouldn't know. I was born into a pit of rattle snakes and had to fight my way out. Now I don't recognise danger.
@@Edgycoo 🤣
@@Edgycoo Who are you, Indiana Jones? 😂
But following on from @Wildkard's clarification, I'm taking about if they have to travel as the away side for quarter finals in the competition. At home, they're becoming slightly more formidable as an opponent, but away, sometimes they absolutely fall apart, especially with their track record of ill-discipline and criminally stupid actions. That is something they will have to spend a lot of time working on.
I was at the game. Very fun to watch. Crowd was supporting the drua
thats good! good on ya mate
I think the ref gave himself the impression very unfairly early on then anything and everything he just pinged drua. Frank Lomani had a bit of a shocker game and shouldn't have put the ball in a whole bunch of times when the blues are pushing way early and ref ignoring it. Absolute boring in from blues whole game.
Was a lot of confrontation and will be some sore bodies, Tuipulotu and Tu'ungafasi off injured, Ioane limping off as well.
Injury is abit concerning for the blues. I think its a terrible rule that a half back can just not put the ball in. They should make the put in emediate and none of this pausing bs. Cos there is 1600kg of weight its just stupid, they ask for the bind which closes the gap then they want a gap or its reset. And then they want a pause after set. Literally a bunch of people never packed a scrum made this retarded rules
@@Wildkard I semi agree about the rules, but with the way the rules are it's bad that Lomani is screwing his team over putting the ball in to an already lost scrum. It's also firmly keeping the ref's penalty pressure against them when it can easily swing the other way if the ref is forced to look at why they're actually dominating.
Blues vs Chiefs final.
You heard it here first.
I recon chiefs vs canes
How much money isNZRU LOSING let letting mp and Fijian drua play at nz stadiums
Im pretty sure they actually losing money playing in fiji cos the sponsorship and lower ticket prices
@@Wildkard thats what ive been saying for ages. let me be clear im not against pasifika rugby nor am i racist but NZRU is losing millions and how long can this model be sustainable. u have silly people like Sir john calling for more games in the islands when we are already bleeding money
@@jsmwh ye i was wondering about this too sure it makes the polynesian happy, but man australian government is giving millions of support free money to fiji rugby and our own rebels is going under. Its all politics mate and we all know politicians hell awaits them.
Game tickets prices in Fjji is actually more expensive than NZ.
@@samcama Im not sure if that is true but ok lets says its true. just from a solely numbers perspective cause likely some woke person is going to flame me. What is the GDP per capita in fiji? 5 sth K lets say a game is 60 to 80 dollars so ur telling me that people there can afford to keep spending 1 to 2 percent of their income every week to watch games cmon
Blues better knockout those Brumbies next.
Very likely