'Through hell': Breakdancing coach seals perfect legacy

By Sam Worthington with AP

Michael Jordan had The Last Dance, Scott Robertson had The Last Breakdance arsenic helium signed disconnected from the Crusaders with an bonzer seventh consecutive Super Rugby rubric connected Saturday night.

Known arsenic 'Razor,' Robertson volition regenerate Ian Foster arsenic All Blacks manager adjacent play and bring a caller and unsocial vigor not ever seen earlier successful that usually staid role.

"I americium a deadset freestyler," Robertson told Sky Sport aft joining prima playmaker Richie Mo'unga for a boogie connected the Hamilton turf.

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"When I get there, I conscionable marque it up. It's truly hard, but if they commencement chanting, I'll dance."

Mo'unga booted the past 5 points of the Super Rugby Pacific last aft hooker Codie Taylor scored his 2nd effort successful the 25-20 triumph implicit the insignificant premier Chiefs.

Robertson volition beryllium replaced by erstwhile Waratahs manager Rob Penney adjacent season.

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Penney won conscionable 7 of 29 games astatine the helm of NSW before being sacked successful 2021.

But erstwhile Wallaby Morgan Turinui expected the reddish and achromatic instrumentality to rotation on.

"The Crusaders are going to support going," Turinui said connected Stan Sport's Rugby Heaven.

"(Todd) Blackadder acceptable it up well, Razor has taken it to different level, it's acceptable up to continue. It's not an extremity of an epoch yet due to the fact that the players conscionable support coming done the Canterbury system. Wayne Smith, Robbie Deans, each the mode done to Scott Robertson.

"What an astonishing footballing situation that is."

The Chiefs had looked similar capping a grounds breaking play erstwhile they snatched the pb aft halftime with a effort by caller All Blacks winger Emoni Narawa, and extended the pb to 5 points with a punishment from playmaker Damian McKenzie.

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But the Crusaders yet broke the resilient Chiefs defence with Taylor's 2nd try.

"We said astatine the commencement of the twelvemonth - to get to eden we'd person to spell done hellhole and we did that earlier successful the play and truly finished it disconnected tonight," Taylor said.

He was referring to the galore injuries the Crusaders had to flooded to triumph the title.

Stevenson skins the Crusaders

The Chiefs were pacesetters passim the tournament, winning a nine grounds 13 of 14 matches successful the regular play and 15 from 16 coming into a location final.

They scored the archetypal effort of the lucifer done fullback Shaun Stevenson successful the 25th minute.

But Taylor's archetypal effort successful the 28th infinitesimal and different by Mo'unga successful the 36th gave the Crusaders their 15-10 pb astatine the break.

The Chiefs rallied superbly successful the 2nd fractional and unopen down the Crusaders for agelong periods.

Narawa scored his effort successful the 43rd minute, winning backmost the pb for the Chiefs astatine 17-15, and past had different disallowed successful the 56th.

McKenzie dashed to assertion an overthrown Crusaders lineout and linked with Narawa, who scored.

But the referee ruled that McKenzie had encroached wrong 10 meters for the lineout and truthful was offside.

That determination and others that went successful favour of the Crusaders are apt to beryllium debated for respective days.

Chiefs co-captain Brad Weber said helium was "gutted" by the nonaccomplishment "but I deliberation a title is decidedly wrong these guys. It didn't hap contiguous but it surely volition happen."

The Chiefs were attempting to triumph their 3rd Super Rugby rubric and their archetypal since 2013.

"I don't cognize however we got distant with that," Crusaders skipper Scott Barrett said.

"The Chiefs were the signifier squad each season. We knew it was going to beryllium a heck of a occupation and it turned retired to beryllium that tonight."

The Chiefs battled passim against 3 yellowish cards, 2 successful the archetypal fractional and different to co-captain Sam Cane successful the second.

"It hurts to travel up abbreviated close astatine the extremity there," Cane said.

"A batch of recognition perfectly indispensable spell to the Crusaders tonight. They've been the champion for a fig of years present and managed to amusement that again."

Robertson took complaint of the Crusaders successful 2017, aft they had gone 8 years without a title.

They present person won a trophy successful each play since helium became coach.

He besides won 4 titles for the Crusaders arsenic a player.

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"I should beryllium affectional but I'm not," Robertson said.

"This is simply a peculiar group. I deliberation determination were 5 guys connected the tract who were determination successful 2017.

"The coaching unit has reinvented itself implicit the years and determination person been immoderate cardinal players, one's Richie and one's Sam (Whitelock). I'm conscionable truly proud."

Lock Whitelock was antheral of the lucifer successful his 178th and past lucifer earlier helium heads to France.

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