Bryn Hall

So I have the force getting a win to finish this season at home in Perth.

Yeah, it has.

And I think it's the unfortunate thing if you're a Highlanders fan.

I think there is, you know, I think I agree with TJ, there are some injuries like Fabian Hollander was a big injury.

Pleasure being a big one of that, especially if you look at the kind of carousel that the Highlanders have had in the halfback stocks this year.

They've kind of chopped and changed a lot with that position.

So...

yeah i think whether that review process and there's questions in and around how they can do things a little bit better in certain areas where they're not getting it right because i do feel that they have a squad there tj that even though they didn't make the finals there's more than enough there to be able to make a top six

in that group so um yeah there's probably some questions that maybe need to be asked around the review process around how they can be better in a few spaces and that's the best thing about when you come to the end of the year to get it right because yeah i think even though they had injuries they had more than enough to get it to a corner final stage

Thanks mate, finally can get one over Richie, fingers crossed, because he's had the wood over us over here, so fingers crossed it can change.

So cheers man, thanks for coming in TJ, always a pleasure to have you mate.

Thank you.

Yeah, definitely.

I think the intensity of what kind of, I guess, what was on the line for the Crusaders considering a pretty disappointing loss last week.

And I think, you know, if we probably go into a little bit now, I think the biggest area that I think with the Crusaders in their season, and David Havili talked around it post-match, was around their turnover rate.

And if you look on the weekend, they had 13 turnovers.

Their discipline was really good with only six penalties lost.

the whole game and one big thing Jipper that I did enjoy seeing was the 94% tackle percentage and the dominance in and around that with 13 winning that collision battle with the Blues.

So yeah those kind of areas I think throughout the year has been a bit of a kryptonite but they kind of got all those areas really nicely on the weekend and led to the big part of getting that result against the Blues down south.

I think their pass ratio was 0.82 right so I think they probably had a mindset jipper of being able to maybe just go through the front door with the Crusaders and I think throughout the year sometimes when the Crusaders have lost their battle it then does open up I guess around the attacking structures of what we've probably seen with the Blues right, I think throughout the year the evolution of their game and how they do attack so you know you do have a look at that collision area I think