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TEN TRIES!! (warning: sports content)
Mar. 31st, 2007 11:12 pm::knuckles away a manly tear::
Waratahs vs Crusaders: 33-34. Oh my heart. Particularly since Hewat failed to convert the last try, which would have put us in the lead (though with 8 minutes to go, so it's not like it's guaranteed we would have held on, cause virtually everytime the Crusaders were inside our 22, they scored).
BUT, given the shit-tastic form of NSW this season (we're second last in the Super 14 comp), this was MUCH BETTER than we were expecting, and the boys played a lot better. Not great, but a big improvement. We were also helped by the fact that the Crusaders goal kicker had an absolute shocker - if Dan Carter had been playing it would have been a different game.
And my current rugby boyfriend, the nineteen year old NSW winger Lachlan Turner, had another great game *and* scored the first try for NSW (absolutely beautiful try - he ran 55 metres). When I saw his first game for NSW, I immediately took to him, and he's been playing his heart out everytime. But it's what you'd expect - he is an Eastwood boy :) Lote Tuqiri seems to be regaining form too, and Rocky Elsom continues to rock so much. However, Sheehan is not the answer to the halfback problem, and Hewat continues to make more mistakes than his goal-kicking makes up for.
The ref was incompetent. It should have been 5 tries to 3, not 6 to 4. One of the Crusaders tries wasn't grounded properly, he dropped it, and one of our tries came from the most blatant forward pass (and there was surprisingly little outcry from the large contingent of Crusader fans - I think they were stunned silent). And five minutes after a Waratah player was taken out in the air, a touch judge finally asked the ref if he wasn't going to take it back for a penalty for that. His response: what penalty? he hadn't been watching. It was a freaking high kick - why the fuck wasn't he watching where the ball came down?
But I shall use the team right icon, cause at least they gave a good effort and played as a team.
Waratahs vs Crusaders: 33-34. Oh my heart. Particularly since Hewat failed to convert the last try, which would have put us in the lead (though with 8 minutes to go, so it's not like it's guaranteed we would have held on, cause virtually everytime the Crusaders were inside our 22, they scored).
BUT, given the shit-tastic form of NSW this season (we're second last in the Super 14 comp), this was MUCH BETTER than we were expecting, and the boys played a lot better. Not great, but a big improvement. We were also helped by the fact that the Crusaders goal kicker had an absolute shocker - if Dan Carter had been playing it would have been a different game.
And my current rugby boyfriend, the nineteen year old NSW winger Lachlan Turner, had another great game *and* scored the first try for NSW (absolutely beautiful try - he ran 55 metres). When I saw his first game for NSW, I immediately took to him, and he's been playing his heart out everytime. But it's what you'd expect - he is an Eastwood boy :) Lote Tuqiri seems to be regaining form too, and Rocky Elsom continues to rock so much. However, Sheehan is not the answer to the halfback problem, and Hewat continues to make more mistakes than his goal-kicking makes up for.
The ref was incompetent. It should have been 5 tries to 3, not 6 to 4. One of the Crusaders tries wasn't grounded properly, he dropped it, and one of our tries came from the most blatant forward pass (and there was surprisingly little outcry from the large contingent of Crusader fans - I think they were stunned silent). And five minutes after a Waratah player was taken out in the air, a touch judge finally asked the ref if he wasn't going to take it back for a penalty for that. His response: what penalty? he hadn't been watching. It was a freaking high kick - why the fuck wasn't he watching where the ball came down?
But I shall use the team right icon, cause at least they gave a good effort and played as a team.
