Thursday, May 5, 2011 | | By: Unknown

Hurricanes Vs Blues Super Rugby Preview

These two teams last met in Round 5 of this year's tournament and the Blues won 41-17 in Auckland and since then, the Blues were keen to win their matches while the Hurricanes struggled.

Until last week, when the Hurricanes beat the Reds looked like a lost team. Coach Mark Hammett says he has found his mojo and have become today.

This match will take place in Wellington Hurricanes have the advantage of terrain, but the Blues now a leader in the ranking of Super Rugby, while hurricanes are in ninth place.

The Blues have mixed their bottom line for this match with the loss of Luke McAlister, while the Hurricanes have kept the formula to beat the Reds last week whenever possible. Daniel Kirkpatrick is for the injured Charlie Ngata.

Hurricanes lost star as Conrad Smith, Ma'a Nonu, Cory Jane and Piri Weepu for this game.

On average, when the Hurricanes play the Blues, scoring 24 points and the Blues to score 30 points on average. However, the Wellington Hurricanes to 25 points on average, and the Blues in their game score of 34 points.

The last two games between the teams that played in Wellington have been won by the hurricanes.

Overall, the Hurricanes have played the Blues 16 times and only won five times and all five of them were in Wellington, because they have never won in Auckland.


0 comments:

Post a Comment