'Couldn't script it better': Blues, 改革運動家s relish 最高の 対決
The Auckland Blues were too strong for the ACT Brumbies
Auckland Blues playmaker Beauden Barrett 宣言するd it is "the final everyone 手配中の，お尋ね者" as his team and the Canterbury 改革運動家s 始める，決める about patching up their 負傷させるd Sunday for next 週末's 最高の Rugby 太平洋の 対決.
The Blues, who will host the decider, 捨てるd through with a 緊張した 20-19 半分-final 勝利，勝つ against the ACT Brumbies in Auckland on Saturday, a day after the 改革運動家s' torrid 20-7 victory over the Waikato 長，指導者s.
"There's everything to play for so you couldn't script it any better," said Blues coach Leon MacDonald.
It is not only the teams' honour at 火刑／賭ける, with MacDonald against his opposite number Scott Robertson for the first time in a final after they won four 最高の 栄冠を与えるs together as players and coaches.
The 改革運動家s are searching for a 13th 肩書を与える and sixth in six years while the Blues are chasing their fourth 選手権 and first since 2003 when they （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 a 改革運動家s 味方する featuring Robertson and MacDonald.
"There'll be plenty of (emotion) in the マスコミ -- 特に social マスコミ," said Barrett, whose brother Scott captains the 改革運動家s.
"How 井戸／弁護士席 we stay 焦点（を合わせる）d and 準備する is so 批判的な this week, and not letting any of that e xternal noise コースを変える our attention."
MacDonald, who left his 役割 as assistant coach at the 改革運動家s to join the Blues in 2019, has already 操るd a 27-23 勝利，勝つ over his old team in Christchurch this year but said that counted for little in the final.
- Slog it out -
"This is their bread and butter. They love 決勝戦 rugby," he said of the 改革運動家s, where he played in six 選手権 winning 味方するs, 含むing two with Robertson.
The 改革運動家s are gunning for a 13th 最高の Rugby 肩書を与える
"We need to be 大規模な defensively, disciplined, the stuff that 勝利，勝つs you 決勝戦 ... You can't take your foot off the throat, you can't relax.
"In my time at the 改革運動家s we loved to come here and play the Blues at Eden Park and I know the boys in the Blues here have a 類似の feeling around the 改革運動家s," he 追加するd.
"There will be a little bit of feeling, emotion and two good teams are going to slog it out."
The 改革運動家s have the pedigree to 扱う big occasions and Robertson was 十分な of 賞賛する for the "heart" of his players who managed a 最高の Rugby 取り組む 記録，記録的な／記録する in 超過 of 220 -- and more than 250 by some counts -- to 持つ／拘留する out the 長，指導者s.
"We broke our own 記録，記録的な／記録する," he said.
The 長，指導者s "had 得点する／非難する／２０d two or three tries for 確かな and then all of a su dden there's this 大規模な 取り組む and someone's on the ball." he 追加するd. "We just kept getting up for each other. It was a game built on 成果／努力 and care."
The 改革運動家s are already without 負傷させるd flanker Ethan Blackadder, Sam Whitelock is ごくわずかの with a thumb 傷害, Pablo Matera 直面するs a disciplinary 審理，公聴会 and several other players are sore from the bruising 長，指導者s' 遭遇（する）.
But Robertson, known for his outwardly laid-支援する demeanour, preferred to look at the 肯定的なs.
"The one good thing about playing Friday is we're banged up, you don't make 200 半端物 取り組むs and not have a good 死傷者 区, so we'll 残り／休憩（する） up, and freshen up, and go again," he said.
