Well, the last round of this years Super Rugby Aotearoa campaign has just come in as our beloved Hurricanes managed to get our 2nd win of the season against Jona Nareki's Highlanders side at Westpac Stadium in Wellington (Although both players such as Hurricanes veteran Dane Coles & live wire Highlanders first-five Mitch Hunt (A former Crusaders player) from each side had been sent to the sin bin for foul play during the 1st half) then the Clayton McMillan coached Chiefs lost the match against the Blues (Who had AJ Lam getting a double after coming on from the bench but the match will always be remembered when Chiefs flanker & Tongan international Zane Kapeli (Who is the son of former Auckland player & Tongan international Rudi as well as he represented Tonga at the 2019 Rugby World Cup & was with the Highlanders squad last year but didn't play a single game before being called up to the Chiefs as a short-term player this year) put on a monstrous hit on Blues first-five Otere Black during the 1st half (At 1st I thought this was something illegal but it was in fact a perfectly legitimate tackle being made) but the Blues had been given a penalty for a high shot by Chiefs first-five Bryn Gatland on Blues halfback Finlay Christie earlier before Kapeli's hit on Black which shocked the whole Eden Park crowd including the commentators I heard on TV) at Eden Park in Auckland but they are through to the final against the Crusaders at Orangetheory Stadium in Christchurch on Saturday, May 8th (Well I can't wait for it but why did the Chiefs elected to rest some big guns such as Anton Lienert-Brown, Damian McKenzie, Tupou Vaa'i & Brad Weber? Is mainly because they don't want to get injured in the final round robin match against the Blues (But the results doesn't matter because they have maximum points to go through to the final) so they can play in the final of Super Rugby Aotearoa).
So it's the Crusaders to play the Chiefs in the 2021 Super Rugby Aotearoa final (Their most recent meeting between the 2 teams (Although both sides have never met in a final which is the 1st in the relatively short history of SRA) was this year in which the Chiefs won at FMG Stadium Waikato in Hamilton in round 8 but will it be Crusaders captain Scott Barrett or Chiefs skipper Brad Weber (Filling in for the injured All Blacks & Chiefs captain Sam Cane) to become the next Super Rugby Aotearoa winning captain to lift the Tu Kotahi Aotearoa trophy this year? (Last year it was New Zealand's premier hooker of Codie Taylor who filled in for Barrett who got injured during a SRA match against the Hurricanes) We will find it out in 3 days time but will the Crusaders continue their dynasty & win their 2nd consecutive Super Rugby Aotearoa title as well as their 12th overall (They 1st did it in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2017, 2018, 2019 & last year (They did not win the Super Rugby title because it was cancelled due to COVID-19 after 7 rounds but won the Super Rugby Aotearoa title instead) or will the Chiefs win their 1st SRA title in order to restore their faith? (And their 3rd overall since they won back to back Super Rugby titles in 2012 & 2013) at Orangetheory Stadium in Christchurch this Saturday night to decide who will become champions of Super Rugby Aotearoa (It is going to be New Zealand's biggest sporting day this year on Saturday night since the 10th & final race of the 36th America's Cup match which happened 2 months & 7 weeks ago on the 17th of March on St Paddy's Day in which Emirates Team New Zealand triumphed to retain the Auld Mug against the Italian syndicate of Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli).
And finally I did not know that it was Star Wars (One of my favourite movie franchises along with The Matrix & The Lord Of The Rings but George Lucas is my favourite movie director along with our very own Sir Peter Jackson & the Wachowski brothers (Now the Wachowski sisters) day yesterday of May the 4th so I played the 2005 version of Star Wars Battlefront II (My favourite part of the game was the Jedi heroes & the Sith villains (Well, my favourite Jedi heroes are in fact both Luke Skywalker (Son of Anakin (Who would later become Darth Vader) & Padme & twin brother of Leia) & Obi-Wan Kenobi (Qui-Gon Jinn's apprentice & Anakin's master) compared to my favourite villains of the Sith are Darth Maul (An apprentice of Darth Sidious) & Darth Vader but the 2005 version of Battlefront II includes content from the pre-Disney era of Star Wars (Both the original (It includes the 1st Star Wars movie (Known as A New Hope) then the Empire Strikes Back & Return Of The Jedi) & prequel trilogies (Featuring Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Episode II: Attack Of The Clones & Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith) take place but it does not include content from the Disney era which features the sequel trilogy (Which features The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi & The Rise Of Skywalker) on my new Xbox One console which is in fact an original Xbox game in honor of Star Wars day (My love affair of Star Wars began when I found an old VHS tape of Return Of The Jedi that had been recorded on the old video recorder).
So that is my 413th blog of the year 2021 (MMXXI) & my 33rd of this year.
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