James Parsons

It's like, man, you get Caleb Tungutau back.

You get Jonah Nareki in his 50-22s.

And if you look at the schedules, yeah, I still think the Highlanders can sneak in.

We text each other during the week, eh, Brenner?

And I said, that's a really good force team that was named.

And I think their line out, them stealing a lot of ball off the Crusaders, just didn't allow that flow.

The Crusaders couldn't, one, go to their line out to win their ball and get their game going.

That's what's made them 14-time champs, is when it gets tough, they go, right, we're going to go to set piece.

And the force sort of had that dominance there.

Also felt that they may have played a little bit too much between the 40s.

They didn't kick a lot.

and you do notice a massive difference in terms of their kick numbers, when are Dave Havillies there and the ability to, I suppose, in awareness of that backfield space, you sort of feel like, man, Lomax's first game and you're not manipulating that backfield.

I don't know, I just felt like that was a missed opportunity.

I'm not saying he couldn't deal with it, but he just wasn't tested.

Yeah.

So they only kicked for 650 metres to 832.

Like, the force just did not play in their half.

Yeah.

100% of the exits were kicking.

They didn't bother running.