Crusaders are resting many of their front-liners with injury niggles, so a more entertaining game will be on show. JMitchell coach will be happier now with the moral support offered to him by his old All Black mate Robbie Deans, coach of Crusaders- as evident on Inside Rugby on Thurs night.

As Robbie reminded viewers, the Crusaders had a tough start to S12, only winning two games in the first season '96 (same for Cowboys NRL,and Pirates&Taipans of NBL).

RDeans said what the faithful know - 'that the Force aren't going too bad, they just haven't got the results on the board'. Factor in the games where we had a real chance (Reds,Stormers,H'Landers ) to post victories (+Cats), and the season could easily have been twice as good as the Crusaders first season. Look where the Crusaders are now!

As Robbie put it , Force are ESTABLISHING themselves this year. And they've done a good job!