Western Force coach Simon Cron knows exactly how high the
\nstakes are on Saturday night\u2019s clash with defending champions Crusaders at HBF
\nPark from 7:55pm.<\/p>\n
It is almost go-for-broke time\u00a0against the 13-time
\ntitle holders in Round 10 of the Swyftx Super Rugby Pacific competition in the
\nForce\u2019s \u2018Party At The Park\u2019 fixture.<\/p>\n
The Crusaders are 10 points ahead of the Force, who sit in
\n10th on the ladder, and Cron pulled no punches at Friday’s CD Dodd Coaches\u2019
\nConference.<\/p>\n
Purchase tickets to our next home game on Saturday 18 April with a 7:55pm kick-off at HBF Park – Force vs Crusaders (Party At The Park) – tix from $28 for adults & $22 for students<\/a><\/p>\n “Every\u00a0game that we play now – it has to be “We’ve got to have the mentality to go out there and “You’ve got to compete to win in every moment of the Saturday\u2019s game (kick-off 7.55pm WST) has been tagged \u2018Party Cron has brought three Wallabies back into the starting Robertson and Swain return after missing the Drua game with Lomax’s selection sees former All Black George Bridge move “You’ve got to do what you’ve got to do around these “Bridgey’s been a stand-out 13 so we get him back into The door has opened to NRL convert Lomax, who Cron said Lancaster damaged his ankle scoring a spectacular try “Such a talented individual and amazing for our Cron was pleased with Lomax’s work at the ruck and a line “He did a couple of good things at the breakdown that “He did a great job (on the break). That was a big “We needed to make sure we nailed a few things in the
\ndo-or-die,” he said. “We’ve got to go at it.<\/p>\n
\nplay our game and go as hard as we can in everything we do.<\/p>\n
\ngame against a team like the Crusaders and that’s our job.”<\/p>\n
\nAt The Park\u2019 with a range of entertainment in a flashback to Global Rapid
\nRugby.<\/p>\n
\nline-up: prop Tom Robertson, second-rower Darcy Swain and flanker Carlo Tizzano
\nwhile star signing Zac Lomax will make his starting debut on the right wing
\nafter a 20-minute cameo from the bench in the last round 24-22 loss to Fijian
\nDrua in Lautoka.<\/p>\n
\nhead injury protocols and illness respectively. Tizzano has missed the last two
\nmatches with a knee injury.<\/p>\n
\nback to outside centre.<\/p>\n
\ncombinations,” Cron said.<\/p>\n
\nhis preferred position at the moment.”<\/p>\n
\ncould play the full 80 minutes, on the back of the loss of winger Darby
\nLancaster for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n
\nagainst the Reds and Cron said it was “gut-wrenching” to lose him.<\/p>\n
\nteam,” he said. “Disappointing for him and the team.”<\/p>\n
\nbreak against the Drua.<\/p>\n
\nmaybe people don’t notice, that’s an area of the game he is still
\nlearning,” he said.<\/p>\n
\nmoment for us.<\/p>\n
\nlast 15 minutes of that game and he was a big part of that.”<\/p>\n