All Blacks-bound coach Leon MacDonald admitted the Auckland Blues were no match for the Canterbury Crusaders after seeing his side handed a 52-15 Super Rugby Pacific semi-final thrashing in Christchurch on Friday.MacDonald, who will work as an assistant to Scott Robertson when the Crusaders' coach takes o
All Blacks-bound coach Leon MacDonald admitted the Auckland Blues were no match for the Canterbury Crusaders after seeing his side handed a 52-15 Super Rugby Pacific semi-final thrashing in Christchurch on Friday.
"It's the dark arts of the game that they're so good at and for us to not be able to step up when it was our opportunity to do that is probably the thing that hurts the most. The Crusaders were ruthless in the first half, scoring four unanswered tries to hold a 29-point lead by the interval over the team they defeated in last year's final.
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