Well I'm annoyed. Not only because I had to watch the Blues lose, but because it ruined my perfect predictions of last week. I thought to myself, "you know what, I think this match the Blues will start to come right, they've been slowly getting better every game and the Reds aren't THAT good" but they still let me down. I feel like Graham Henry must have felt after subbing Stephen Donald on against Australia in 2010, just totally let down.
Okay, Weepu played poorly. He did. But that's not why I'm annoyed with him right now, I'm annoyed because he now wants to come back to the Hurricanes. It's just a total abandon-ship attitude. Anscombe also had another shocker, in fact the passes from the Blues were just miserable.
And the final thing that annoyed me was Justin Marshall calling this match. He's useless. For example, he was going on about the Reds looking good and dominating the set piece and the Blues looking poor (which in fairness they were), but the Blues had won 4 lineouts with 3 against the throw while the Reds had won 3 lineouts with two against the throw, which the statistician for sky put up with obvious comic timing. The Blues also got a tighthead (allbeit a messy one) the scrum before he made the statement. He just talks shuch rubbish. The only call he made that I agreed with was with the restarts. He makes a bad match terrible, and in an effort to be unbias he becomes extremely bias towards any New Zealand side. It's pathetic. Not to mention he fumbles and bumbles and never shuts up. I want to punch him.
Anyway, rant over.
