Caleb Tangitau

um but man he's like when he's got the seven on his back i reckon that's when he's at his absolute best so for me watching the game the game was in the balance or wasn't in the balance at all i think it was 40 21 and like the blues pretty much scored three tries in 20 minutes post that half time and i thought game's pretty much done here but you know one little error from bode gets out the back and then i guess that was kind of the catalyst take away aki's try

in the 70th minute, and then they kind of just go on a rampage post there.

So I think if you're the Blues jipper, you'd be a little bit disappointed, I think, with having that game in control, having probably a bonus point in mind, thinking you'd get five points, to be able to then have a little bit of ill-discipline errors with AJ Lamb going off and then scoring a couple of tries post there.

you're almost a little bit more frustrated because you played so well for 60 minutes but let the handbrake off and unfortunately brought the Highlands to come back who could have actually come in to draw the game to then go into extra time like we saw with the Chiefs and the Hurricanes.

Brumby's lost on the weekend to the Drawer.

Crusaders lost to the Force.

So, you know, they'll be looking around the table and being able to see where they're going to be at in the next couple of weeks.

But, yeah, they have more than enough.

When they put it all together, they'll be definitely there with their abouts when it comes to the back end of the air.

If they can pick up wins here and there over the next couple of weeks.

Let's talk about the Crusaders.

They had opportunities, but that force team were gutsy.

What probably the change is due to, especially coming late, we said, well, this is a bit of a danger game.

We actually probably should pick the force.

That wouldn't be a surprise if they did.

But look, I think they started off really, really well.

And they were able to hold on to the ball for that first 20 minutes and been able to

score tries through bell lister and and johnny i mean johnny as well johnny mcnichols try how good was that try by the way to be able to to be able to get a start but

i think the difference with what i saw and you know jip has talked about a lot with this force team their line outs and i think their line especially the line out more in this in the second half really submitted and really put that the the crusaders under pressure and now there's a pretty inexperienced eight that i think at the back end of the game in their second half that were on the third and i just think to their credit with the wallabies and their experience you know they were able to score kind of off it i think you know the first try you look at probably robertson in the 44th minute

You know how hard it is when that moor's going forward, especially going infield, and how hard it is to defend it around that short side with what Robertson did in that first try.