Well, news of the penultimate round of this years Super Rugby Aotearoa campaign has just come in as the Chiefs (Who are 2nd on the table behind the Crusaders (Who are the Chiefs main challengers in this years Super Rugby Aotearoa competition) but their next game is against the Blues at Eden Park in Auckland which is like a semifinal game with the winner advancing to the final against the Crusaders at Orangetheory Stadium in Christchurch) win 5 on the bounce when they beat the Hurricanes with a match winning penalty goal at the death by Chiefs fullback Damian McKenzie (Who had provided the match winner for the 3rd time this season (He scored the winning try against the Blues in Hamilton then nailed a penalty goal during golden point against the Highlanders at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin & now he's done it against the Hurricanes with a penalty goal in the dying seconds) which proved to be the game changer (Well, remind me of Springbok first-five Handre Pollard (Who had a clutch moment) nailing that penalty goal against Wales before the end in the 2019 Rugby World Cup semifinal in which the Boks had won a scrum penalty in the dying seconds to put South Africa through to the final against England (The nation that stunned the AB's in the other semifinal) then yesterday on ANZAC day, the Crusaders recorded a dominant win against the Blues (Including Crusaders (Who have a midfielder short ahead of the Super Rugby Aotearoa final with Jack Goodhue out of the season after suffering a terrible injury against the Hurricanes in Wellington) with fullback Will Jordan getting a double of tries (Including his 2nd try which proved to be the turning point (But when Jordan scored, referee James Doleman had gone upstairs to the TMO to have a look but the try is fine after the ball came off the thigh) & secure a place in the 1st ever final of Super Rugby Aotearoa in Christchurch on the 8th of May.
And here is the list of round 10 matches being played in Super Rugby Aotearoa of 2021:
Hurricanes Vs Highlanders (Their most recent meeting was this year in which the Hurricanes won at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin against the Highlanders in round 5 including a hat-trick of tries by Hurricanes fullback Jordie Barrett who scored all the teams points but the last time the Highlanders beat the Hurricanes was in the last round of round 10 of last year's Super Rugby Aotearoa season at the same ground where it was held without spectators due to the corona virus)
& Blues Vs Chiefs (The last time both of these sides met during the battle of the Bombays was this year in which the Chiefs took top honors against the Blues at FMG Stadium Waikato in Hamilton in round 4 including that match winning try by Damian McKenzie but it's been a year since the Blues had last beaten the Chiefs & it was in round 7 of last years Super Rugby Aotearoa season at Eden Park in Auckland).
And I'll tell you something interesting about the Forza Motorsport 7 game (Which is my only favourite game on the Xbox One along with the 2005 version of Star Wars Battlefront II which is backwards compatible with the Xbox One console) that I've got on the Xbox One & it includes the 2017 Renault Formula 1 car famously driven by former German A1GP star Nico Hulkenberg which is featured in the game along with the 1988 McLaren (Famously driven by the late 3 time F1 world champion, Brazilian Ayrton Senna) & 1990 Ferrari (Famously driven by the late Ayrton Senna's great rival & 4 time F1 world champion along with Sebastian Vettel, Frenchman Alain Prost) Formula 1 cars & other racing cars ranging from IndyCar (2017 & 2019 spec), NASCAR (America's most popular racing series), Supercars Championship (Australia's premier motor racing series), Forza GT (Racing vehicles taken from the GT3/GT500/LM GTE/Super Trofeo class) & Forza P1 (Racing cars taken from the LMP1 class) that I always love (Compared to Gran Turismo Sport (Which is believed to by my favourite PS4 game of the 34 that I own both physically & digitally) which features the 2017 Mercedes Formula 1 car famously driven by Lewis Hamilton (The 7 time F1 world champion from Britain along with the legendary German Michael Schumacher) along with the fictional 1980s classic Formula 1 car based on the 1985 Lotus (Famously driven by Senna as I mentioned before) as well as racing cars from Super Formula (Japan's premier open wheel single seater racing series compared to F1 which is held worldwide but the constructors are based in Europe (There is only one Formula 1 constructor based outside of Europe) & Indycar in North America (Both America & Canada), Super GT (With racing cars ranging from the 2008 & 2016 seasons), the Red Bull X2014 Standard, the Red Bull X2019 Competition, Group 1 (Racing vehicles taken from the Group C/LMP1/Vision GT class), Group 3 (Racing vehicles taken from the GT3/LM GTE/Vision GT class) & Group B).
And finally the New Zealand Sail GP team led by Peter Burling & Blair Tuke is struggling to come into terms with their new multi-hull in Bermuda after our success for Emirates Team New Zealand of the America's Cup in Auckland last month as the Tom Slingsby led Australia won 3 races in a row on Saturday afternoon against the likes of the Jimmy Spithill (Formerly of Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli) led Team USA, the Ben Ainslie (Who was a 4 time Olympic gold medalist) led Team UK & the Japanese team led by Aussie Nathan Outteridge (Who once provided world feed commentary along with broadcaster Stephen McIvor, ex-America's Cup sailor Ken Read & former Olympic gold medalist Shirley Robertson for this years America's Cup), Italian Francesco Bruni (Who was the co helmsman aboard the Luna Rossa yacht along with Spithill in this years America's Cup) & New Zealand born Japanese sailor Leo Takahashi based on their experience.
So that is my 412th blog of the year 2021 (MMXXI) & my 32nd of this year.
P.S. And don't forget that ANZAC day was yesterday commemorating the ANZAC's invasion of the Turkish town of Gallipoli way back in 1915 on the 25th of April (And we once worked together with Australia 106 years ago but we're bitter rivals on the sporting field because Australia always beat us in every sport except rugby union in which we always win) during the 1st world war which lasted from 1914 until 1918.
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