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Thursday <strong>July</strong> <strong>26</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 29<br />
Why the Hurricanes won’t beat the Crusaders<br />
BEATING THE Crusaders<br />
at home is hard enough, but<br />
beating them in a home<br />
play-off game has proven to be<br />
impossible.<br />
<strong>The</strong> defending champions hold<br />
a distinct home advantage going<br />
into Saturday’s semi-final against<br />
the Hurricanes in Christchurch.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Crusaders have played 19<br />
previous home play-off games<br />
dating back to 1998 and have<br />
won every time. Three of those<br />
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were against the Hurricanes,<br />
including the 2006 fog final.<br />
And it hasn’t even been close<br />
in recent times.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 30-point drubbing over<br />
the Sharks was the seventh<br />
straight time the Crusaders won<br />
a home play-off by 14 points or<br />
more.<br />
In fact the closest a team has<br />
ever come to beating the Crusaders<br />
at home in a knockout game<br />
was the first time they hosted<br />
SEmi finalS<br />
<strong>July</strong> 20 - 21<br />
<strong>2018</strong> SUPER 18<br />
TiPPing ComPETi T ion<br />
BRoUghT To yoU By ThE STaR mEdia ComPany<br />
crusaders v hurricanes<br />
lions v waratahs<br />
one – a 36-32 win over André<br />
Joubert’s Coastal Sharks in 1998.<br />
A glimmer of hope for the<br />
lEadERBoaRd<br />
# name wins correct ToTal<br />
last round<br />
1 Brent Jefferies 3 87<br />
2 John McCann 4 85<br />
3 Ken May 2 82<br />
4 dave Mclachlan 3 82<br />
5 Jamie Harris 4 81<br />
6 John Connelly 3 80<br />
7 Richard vernimmen 2 78<br />
8 Gary lawson 2 78<br />
o u r t i P s t e r s s e l e c t i o n s<br />
FINALS FOOTBALL: Pete<br />
Samu runs in to score<br />
against the Sharks.<br />
away team on Saturday?<br />
<strong>The</strong> last team to beat the<br />
Crusaders at home were the<br />
Hurricanes in their final regular<br />
season game in 2016. That will<br />
be 742 days ago by the time the<br />
semi-final kicks off.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Crusaders showed earlier<br />
this season they can be vulnerable<br />
at home. <strong>The</strong> defending<br />
champions went down 29-0 in<br />
the opening 30min to the Waratahs<br />
only to pull off a remarkable<br />
comeback to win 31-29.<br />
In spite of being the underdog,<br />
the Hurricanes are still second<br />
favourites to win the Super<br />
Rugby title. But to do so they<br />
would need to win on the road<br />
against the Lions or Waratahs.<br />
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