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great effort by glasgow tonight. chris cusiter at no8 is not something you want to see at the end of the game,
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RaboDirect Pro 12 - Warriors vs Cardiff Blues - 30/03/2012
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Blues were awful tonight. What are Baber and Burnell doing, because the team has no shape whatsoever. They'll be lucky to escape a 50 point thrashing against Leinster unless something big changes by next week. The injury list didn't help, but that wasn't the only issue.
That front-row is absolutely rubbish, possibly the worst in the Pro-12. Yapp and Andrews are nowhere near regional level. My mind boggles as to why it took so long for Yapp to be substituted, and why Andrews was left on for the whole 80! Tyrrell did a couple of ok things, but ultimately isn't all that good. Breeze had the opposite of a good impact. Their discipline was shocking as well. How many times were the Blues pinged for early engagement? I know Clancy was being picky here, but to be fair he let them know from the off that he wasn't going to allow it. The rest of the Blues pack had little hope. Cook tried his hardest and actually had a half decent game out of position at 6, but he was constantly on the back foot.
This all made the backs jobs even harder, and with Sweeney slowing things down further at 10, the outside backs had little hope. Sweeney didn't get the centres into the game at all, and his forward pass to Roberts at one stage just showed that he isn't capable adjusting to what's happening around him. To make things even worse, both wingers were poor, and knocked the ball on every time it found it's way to them. Halfpenny and Laulala were the only two who can hold their heads up high in the backs.
Just to rub salt into the wound, Roberts was injured and doesn't look to good for next week.
It's a complete shambles.
That front-row is absolutely rubbish, possibly the worst in the Pro-12. Yapp and Andrews are nowhere near regional level. My mind boggles as to why it took so long for Yapp to be substituted, and why Andrews was left on for the whole 80! Tyrrell did a couple of ok things, but ultimately isn't all that good. Breeze had the opposite of a good impact. Their discipline was shocking as well. How many times were the Blues pinged for early engagement? I know Clancy was being picky here, but to be fair he let them know from the off that he wasn't going to allow it. The rest of the Blues pack had little hope. Cook tried his hardest and actually had a half decent game out of position at 6, but he was constantly on the back foot.
This all made the backs jobs even harder, and with Sweeney slowing things down further at 10, the outside backs had little hope. Sweeney didn't get the centres into the game at all, and his forward pass to Roberts at one stage just showed that he isn't capable adjusting to what's happening around him. To make things even worse, both wingers were poor, and knocked the ball on every time it found it's way to them. Halfpenny and Laulala were the only two who can hold their heads up high in the backs.
Just to rub salt into the wound, Roberts was injured and doesn't look to good for next week.
It's a complete shambles.
Peter Thomas is the problem.
Like the Ospreys, getting rid of the coach will only do so much.
Back to CAP. Get the real support back and build from there.
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Thomas may well be the problem. But the coaching is no better. B+B are booked in but need a quick check out.
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bit harsh to call those few who do go to the CCS not "real" support
My mistake, what I typed didn't reflect my intent.
What I mean is the very strong Cardiff RFC fans who feel disenfranchised with the Blues.
Get season ticket holders in, not just people with free tickets.
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but then they would have criticism from fans from Pontypridd for example for not attempting to spread out into the region if they became even more Cardiff-ed up
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you were even being driven back in the scrum when cusiter went to 8 hahaha
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Gavin Henson has once again apparently disgraced himself on the flight home following a complaint by the air plane company about his conduct. The Blues board are meeting on Monday to discuss his future.
Just about to mention this.
Don't know what to say. Just so sad to see such potential wasted with such ease.
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I hope they keep him cause hes better than what we got in other positions tbh, but this looks like they got their excuse not to offer him a edal now and let him go.
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Blues bosses didn't seem happy with him being there to start with, this'll be the excuse they needed to offload.
Wonder where he'd end up, if any where at all.
Wonder where he'd end up, if any where at all.
Ospreys, Saracens, Toulon, Blues. Henson going for a record here?
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Peter Thomas was, Burnell and Baber have not. Especially after the training ground bust up.
Also Mama's face after last nights
game.
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Been saying it for a while that change is needed. Not only this but B and B are not good enough coaches for the regions.
Yep, I think most on here have agreed with this for awhile.
The duo were set to fail from the start. We really aren't producing coaches. Our best national coaches ever are Kiwis.
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