Blues Lose to the Mighty Highlanders

Well, Round two begins with an upset of sorts…certainly upsetting to those fans of the Blues out there.  A popular topic for this blog this season will be the woeful performance of the Blues this season as I would expect it to continue.  The Blues lack a strategy, and the ability to play hard footy for anything more than the first twenty minutes of the game.  They go down 25-13 to a hard worked, and well played win to the men in tartan…I wonder if Blues Bugger actually was on to something.  

It was encouraging to see Ryan play so well at lock and begin to put some pressure on the clown…sorry, I mean Ali Williams, his supposed All Black senior team mate.  I wonder how much longer that will continue to be the case.  Well done to the Tartan terrors from the South, a well deserved victory, although clearly this is at best a mediocre Blues team.  For more on the game click here.

Contrary to the general lack of enthusiasm, or rather lack of reasons to be enthusiastic about the Auckland Blues, the South Africans seem pretty upbeat about the chances of their teams this weekend.  This is particularly the case for the teams against confident after being well treated in Round one of the competition.  Click here to read more on the optimistic appraisal of the South African teams this weekend.  I’d have to say that some of it is justified too.

Want to see how the ‘experts’ are doing in Super 14?  Check out the records of those Australian so called ‘aficionados of the game’ here.  These selections might help some of you with your virtual super 14 predictions, but if you need to look here, you already are in need of help.

Enjoy the rest of the round, and remember, it is still early days, but with two losses in a row, the Blues at least are going to have to fight hard for every bonus point from here on in to take part in the finals.  In my opinion, that is too much to expect from this second rate team.