Fijian Drua will look to test the Canterbury Crusaders' physical limits when they take on the injury-hit champions in their Super Rugby Pacific quarter-final on Saturday, coach Mick Byrne said.The Crusaders enter the playoffs with a slew of All Blacks among nine players ruled out for the rest of the campa
Fijian Drua will look to test the Canterbury Crusaders' physical limits when they take on the injury-hit champions in their Super Rugby Pacific quarter-final on Saturday, coach Mick Byrne said.
After hammering the Queensland Reds 41-17 to reach the finals for the first time in only their second season, Byrne said his buoyant Drua players had been"flying into each other" at training."We’re not dismissing anything the Crusaders bring tactically or technically, we just feel the best way that we can go into this game is playing our best rugby."That’s what it’s going to take to beat the Crusaders in Christchurch, you’ve got to be physical.
"I was very fortunate to have a long time with my dad. Some guys this year have lost their parents and they're only young men," he said.Having been skills coach through the All Blacks' back-to-back World Cup triumphs in 2011 and 2015, and held similar roles with Scotland and Australia, the Drua job is Byrne's first as a head coach of a professional rugby team.
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