Waikato v Southland (RS)

[cgrant]

Six All Blacks in the 23.

[Bovidae]

I thought Eti might have been rested/benched as he has played the full 80 mins in both games since debuting.

Waikato never lists who is injured or rotated, i.e., Brown and Sullivan in this instance. Hopefully a decent crowd turns up as it is a double-header.

[Dan54]

Another game I looking forward to. Waikato obviously red hot favourites, but I love how Southland have been going, and they just liable to try and stuff up all the pundits!
Gotta love this comp more all the time , NPC and Shiled!

[Mattasaurus]

In Withy we trust

[Grooter]

Good work from Tayne Harvey before

[Mattasaurus]

Lets go Stags

Scrum looking solid

[Steven Harris]

Stags are here to play

[Grooter]

Peni classy player

[Canes4life]

Come on the Stags. Definitely well in this.

[Steven Harris]

@Grooter dont i know it

[SouthernMann]

That is a heck of a wind!

[Mattasaurus]

Norris not enjoying being beaten.. Stags scrum is looking very good

[taniwharugby]

@SouthernMann many parts of the North Island under wind watches or warnings...

[KiwiMurph]

Dirty from Finau

[Mattasaurus]

Fucking cheap by Finau

[SouthernMann]

@taniwharugby said in Waikato v Southland:

@SouthernMann many parts of the North Island under wind watches or warnings...

Yeah, we had it overnight down in Wellington. Paired with the rain was pretty immense.

[Landers92]

Cheap dog shot from Finau. Peni every right to be pissed off. Finau really starting to get a reputation

[SouthernMann]

@Landers92 said in Waikato v Southland:

Cheap dog shot from Finau. Peni every right to be pissed off. Finau really starting to get a reputation

Brave of him to go after someone a similar size. He normally likes to focus his cheap shots on 85 - 90kg 10s.

[Steven Harris]

Faletoi Peni is a classy a rugby player i could see the quality of this player when i covered the Auckland club rugby scene back in 2022 when he was the best midfielder bar none
He was that good Manukau Rovers dont win back to back titles if hes not at that club
Has the most instictive rugby brain that only the best players have

[SouthernMann]

@Steven-Harris said in Waikato v Southland:

Faletoi Peni is a classy a rugby player i could see the quality of this player when i covered the Auckland club rugby scene back in 2022 when he was the best midfielder bar none
He was that good Manukau Rovers dont win back to back titles if hes not at that club
Has the most instictive rugby brain that only the best players have

What has counted against him?

Is it that he doesn't have a typical frame for a 12, perceived training issues, or speed? Or a little bit of all of those as well as the desire to push forward with the next in-line NZ U20s rep?

There must be a few fuys like him running around in Auckland