ROUND 9 HIGHLIGHTS: Crusaders v Highlanders - 2019 

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As a crusader fan I agree with you 100% Ben Smith is a fucken legend.

Yup - one of NZ's best and most consistent players over his career

Ben Smith is going to be in the AB despite the highlanders success

crusaders get help all the time from refs its obvious haha especially when its a home game or when theyre facing a team from the nz conference

peace peace oh fuck up, they’re better than the rest and you know it

Paulie G maybe Ben smiths try should have been disallowed since Elliot Dixon blocked the crusaders player from getting to him

Edit it wasn’t Elliot Dixon

@@peacepeace01 your argument makes no sense, the penalty count is proof the saders aren't getting help, the crusaders had to work for the ground they made where the landers had it given to them, this game just shows the landers have no ability to finish and a card would not have changed this

Sorry mate but the crusaders got the scrum penalty try on the first penalty in the 22. Highlanders did exactly the same thing to the crusaders down their end and got nothing from it. The amount of times the ref spoke to the crusaders saying last warning in the second half alone was an absolute farce. And no I don't support either team before you go there. Highlanders were extremely hard done by in this one.

Difficult for the Crusaders to play on both sides

said no one ever

The Crusaders accumulated multiple scrum infringements in the second half and O'Keefe didn't hand a yellow card until the 79th minute. On the other hand the Highlanders only made a couple of infringements before being punished with a penalty try. Even Justin Marshall remarked that the Crusaders got softer treatment - so that's saying a lot.

@@archvermin first -justin marshall is as anti crusaders as it gets so you can't take his word for anything on canterbury rugby even tho he played for them, it's weird Second the crusaders got the penalty try cos they basically had the drive over try before it was stopped by infringement Third- the refs definitely should've carded earlier they were rubbish af but there is no way it would've changed the winning margin i mean come on why are the landers blaming the ref when they should be frustrated with their own ability to finish

@@Tom-ic1hr Agreed, it's unlikely the Highlanders would've won it, even if not for O'Keefe. But Marshall being anti-crusader? Really?

@@archvermin idk up to how you view him but every time i see him he bags on canterbury rugby so the way i and most canterbury fans i know see it is he's a traitor 😅 I dunno just a random perspective

@@Tom-ic1hr Justin always came across as a largely impartial commentator with a soft spot for the Crusaders to me. I don't mind being proven wrong though, I like him as a commentator either way.

One day they will run into a ref that will actually penalise them consistently and fairly. We'll see how good they aren't then.

You know that Naholo wasn't playing right?

@@NickSomerville what game were you watching? He's right there on the wing getting gased of the field.

@@patrickjacobsen7805 I mean he just simply isn't.. maybe you mean #21? Fakatava?

Faainganuku has played one game and was on for like 10 minutes how would you know if he is the best in the team lmao, he hasn't had enough playing time to prove himself.

And if the rest are mainstream how are they about to get a 3peat and you can't blame the bloody ref mate

@@jameshartnett9043 exactly i don't understand why the highlanders are blaming the refs when he marched them up the field time and time again and they still got decimated 😂😂😂

You’re fucking overrated!! Go cry me a river bitch

@@jameshartnett9043 cause hes fire thats why haha u actin like he sucks havent you seen him play hes mean haha

We jump on the players that aren't picked by their own teams and make them good, we made Jordie Barrett good and then the canes made him average again

@@Tom-ic1hr They were good before moving to Crusaders which is why they made all the junior rep teams lol

@@JohnyTuff1 "good" relatively, if you look at most of the players before canterbury rugby though, such as bedwell-curtis, they are "good" but too average to go far, canterbury rugby picks them up and develops them to the point they are good and sometimes taken back by their own regions teams

@@Tom-ic1hr They develop a bit better at Canterbury because they are surrounded by a majority of AB's that have been imported from the North, thats why they have a good winning culture in the team.

@@JohnyTuff1 we pick players with potential when their own team doesn't, thats all their is, it's too late to claim them once they're already gone 😅

crusaders always got the refs help the cunts haha

If the refs were on our side they wouldn't be marching you up the field 😂 You should be putting your frustraton on your own team when they can't finish the opportunities that are handed to them

@@Tom-ic1hr bro I don't give a damn about the highlanders, I go for the Cheifs lol 😂 but I know a corrupt game when I see one, and this one definitely one of them

@@itchylungs8345 expressed in the penalty count 😂

yes it's stupid af

no one yeah it's a dumb name anyway with no historical relevance. Should change their name to the Infidels....

I always thought it was a bit of a weird name considering what happened in the crusades. Plurry good rugby team though. I thought the idea to change the name came from non-Muslim Chch people???

Don't let the facts get in the way of your dumb fuck comments. What Muslim leader has she mentioned the name ? It's local people who are asking for the change.. out of respect. You ignorant pricks

What about the name 'Christchurch', very non-inclusive and irreverent. I vote for Shakyhubbadubba-ville