He is young…it will extend his career by a couple of years, so someone will be a winner out of it. With fellow All Blacks hooker Codie Taylor also sidelined for weeks with a hamstring complaint, the Crusaders turned to year-old Ioane Moananu in the N0. Both players stepped up to the plate in the win, with the Crusaders ending the contest with a 93 per cent lineout success rate and a faultless per cent scrum success rate. The team also lost young All Black Noah Hotham to a suspected ankle sprain after just eight minutes, making way for a sparkling Kyle Preston debut.
Hotham was almost joined on the sidelines by fellow All Black Ethan Blackadder , but the loose forward simply had his dislocated finger popped back into place and carried on.
Ethan just played on through. Related Crusaders vs Hurricanes takes: Crusaders back in the hunt It took six weeks for the Crusaders to get their first win of the season in , making Friday's victory over the Hurricanes a welcome relief to fans hoping their Scott Robertson hangover would be short-lived.
News, stats, live rugby and more! England are odds-on favourites to end their losing run against Scotland, but the visitors have reasons to believe. Super Rugby Pacific has fallen on some fallow times in recent years but there are shoots of positivity emerging but the format is not perfect. Reduced to serving as a last-quarter game-changer would be a waste for a player with Marcus Smith's skills.
Agreed wholeheartedly. I stopped following football, when that psycho Suarez bit some other player in the early at the World Cup, and had zero self-reflection. All his team mates tried to portray him as a victim. It was utterly sickening. And instead of being shunned internationally, he got signed by FC Barcelona, i. That was the day I stopped following football for good. I will not support this with my money, or with my attention. Rugby has value above other sports to me precisely because the standards it sets for its participants.
