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Phil Kearns in his commentary came out with another interesting statistic as the teams went into the dressing rooms at half-time with the Waratahs leading 12-11. In five out of their past eight matches the Crusaders had been behind at half-time and had come back to win all but one of those matches. In big-time rugby the side that is ahead at half-time will invariably win the match except it seems if they are playing the Crusaders. The fitness of the Crusaders is an obvious factor as is home-ground advantage and clearly the accurate analysis provided by coach Robbie Deans at the half-time break. The Heineken Cup is European rugby's equivalent of the Super 14 tournament. But as Munster's boring 16-13 win over Toulouse in the final two weeks ago revealed there is no similarity in the quality of play. I counted nine stoppages of play in the Heineken Cup final… Munster successfully played slow witless rugby. With 20 minutes of play left Munster went into a plod-and-flop series of forward drives with players standing over the ball like penguins protecting their eggs. Rugby writer Stephen Jones reported: "It was never remotely a great game of rugby or even a good one: there was grievously little skill flow or sporting majesty. "Jones the scourge of southern hemisphere rugby couldn't bring himself unfortunately to come to the obvious conclusion: the ELVs are needed to allow the sort of vibrant hard-shouldered exciting rugby on big occasions that we saw in the Super final and which was not seen in last year's World Cup final or in the Heineken Cup final.
Q and A with Chris Rattue – 03 Jun 2008 – NZ Herald: Rugby news and…
New Zealand Herald – Jun 3, 2008
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Rugby: Munster dominate Irish test team
New Zealand Herald – Jun 3, 2008
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Rugby: Thorburn slams trial of maul law changes
New Zealand Herald – Jun 3, 2008
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