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Highlanders defense coach Glenn Delaney
points that the Highlanders have conceded this season, defense coach Glenn Delaney is adamant: his system is good enough to win the Super Rugby Championship.
"Of course, it's absolutely, it's really good enough to win the competition," said Delaney with a challenge Stuff .
Since the Highlanders have lost 127 points in their last three games, and this season has conceded the highest number (445 points) of the eight playoffs, it is doubtful that Dunedin's players will be able to play in the playoffs playoffs. It's not just points against stats, it's also the amount of missed tackles and line breaks that they've dropped against the Chiefs, Crusaders and Rebels.
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Delaney admits that they need to improve, and quickly, with Saturday night's quarter-final against the Waratahs in Sydney being a rematch of their 41-12 shellacking earlier this season.
He thinks he can do it, and highlights the team's 30-14 win against the Hurricanes last month, when they rolled up their sleeves and stopped at the stop.
"We have to make sure that we have people in the right place and that the plating height is good and low, we are at our best when the details of our tack are excellent," Delaney said. 19659007] "We have to be a very good technical side, just because we defend our game." If you go back before the break, the Hurricanes game was probably our best defensive performance of the year. that we must be, and there is no reason not to repeat it at all. "
But that did not happen. The Chiefs and Crusaders each scored 45 convincing victory points before the Rebels scored 37 in Dunedin on Saturday night. It was the sixth game that the Highlanders conceded at least 34 points.
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The Highlanders and Waratahs collected 445 points during the regular season.
"We have had some semi-finals in the last three games and we have certainly paid the price, but what it does not do is hurt our ability to defend. and I'm sure that they will be very helpful to us, "said Delaney.
On the other hand, the guns of Waratahs Israel Folau, the colossal wing Taqele Naiyaravoro, the midfielder Kurtley Beale and the pivot Bernard Foley are surely at the prospect of running them around again from the Allianz stadium.
Certainly, the Highlanders played 10 minutes with 13 men, and 50 odd minutes with 14 times, after Tevita Nabura (red card) and Aaron Smith (yellow) were wrong, but take nothing from the Australians.
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The Highlanders want to return to the physical performance that they have made against the Hurricanes. in Dunedin last month.
The good news for the Highlanders this week is that they are revitalized and in full health.
After resting a stack of players last weekend, including Ben Smith, Aaron Smith, Luke Whitelock and Rob Thompson, Delaney confirmed that the entire team had been training Tuesday morning.
"Probably the hardest part is knowing who you leave outside a fairly competitive team, you have fit players who will not end up winning 23," he said.
First year head coach Aaron Mauger will name his team Thursday, before flying out of Auckland
Highlanders winger Tevita Nabura received a red card the last time he met the Waratahs.
If the Highlanders win and the Lions beat the Jaguars at home, they will travel to South Africa on Sunday morning for a crunch semifinal in Johannesburg.
Delaney said that they would tackle this obstacle if that were to happen. In the meantime, he is quite in the Waratahs.
"They played very well until the end to have the right to organize a quarter-final at home.They have evolved, and we too, and on that side, it's going to be a fair money contest, even between two good sides. "
– Stuff
