North Harbour v Northland
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Missed the 1st 10, and we.are.down 14-0.
Nice fightback to lead at the break 14-19, and NH have 4 mins or so with Banks still in the bin
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Yet another awful touch finder from reihana
Dumb not going.for.3
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FFS, down by 2, gift 3 with a man in the bin...take the points muppets
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Man we are playing some dumb rugby throwing chance after chance to NH when we should be ahead
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Reihanas missed touch have cost us tries this season, scoring and the conceding soon after
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Stumbled to a pretty ropey win, but I'll take it!!
Geez.we played some dumb rugby though.
21-22
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Another late heartbreak for us, let's see if we can defy the odds and win the Shield next week!
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@UpTheHarbs i hope you guys do!!!
I can't recall the last time we win 5 in a season.
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Excruciating . . .
Super important W for the season tho.
Normally you'd say 5 wins would be enough for playoffs.
But lookin at the table, with 2 games to go, only one team is definitely out.
The finals are sort of guna start next weekend, two weeks early.
So, no room for compalency -
I'd say 9 times out of 10 we dont win that.
As I said in another thread, this team does have a little more to them than we suually see, although wish they'd play smarter and Rivez would fucking find touch.
His running, passing and defence is much improved but he has had some shockers from his boot this year.
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@taniwharugby said in North Harbour v Northland:
I'd say 9 times out of 10 we dont win that.
As I said in another thread, this team does have a little more to them than we suually see, although wish they'd play smarter and Rivez would fucking find touch.
His running, passing and defence is much improved but he has had some shockers from his boot this year.
It’s funny isn’t it. As a running first five he is now awesome. Just needs to get his head clear about what he is doing with his kicking.
I have never liked that drop punt style of kicking he favours. About 3 times this year he has made a mess of that while on the run. With his line kicking from penalties it lacks accuracy. Still it’s all fixable and the rest of his game is great.
Missed Moulds lineout throwing. We are short a hooker now for next week?
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@kev i think Mullan is back, although odd Hutchings was poor as his other hit outs he has been good, especially coming on 60 mins before planned (same v Ta$man it think it was)
Gotta feel for that Howling kid, 160 mins of bench warming and yet to take the field.
Like Jordan's work at the back, brave under the high ball, and on the flip side we at least put pressure on many of.our kicks, if only Brady racing forward.
Some good stuff out there, disappointing we didn't kick on given at one point it seemed we might, but take the Dub and move onto Canterbury
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@taniwharugby the last 20 minutes of 1st half was really good. Just needed more accuracy in first 5 mins of 2nd half - 2 lineouts and one kick to the line from a penalty - and I think we would kicked on.
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@taniwharugby said in North Harbour v Northland:
I'd say 9 times out of 10 we dont win that.
That's the difference this year, a bit more mental strength.
Saw this game as a mental battle, NH starting to get super desperate to try and get something out of the wreckage, and Taniwha starting to show a bit of [fragile type] form.
If they execute a little better, they'd start to get difficult to beat.
Always a good feeling when you get the W, and you know you can play better.
Still two games, might nail it yet.
