Counties Manukau v Auckland

kev

@hydro11 Fekitoa could have been penalised for pulling him into ruck. Aucklands kicking was not great the whole match. With the players they have, they didn't create space?

Rebound

@hydro11

Shows the quality of refereeing we have today. World Rugby is more concerned with referees sending off people for accidents than refereeing the laws

African Monkey

Bit of a dodgy hometown ending there but what can you do. Backs must improve for next week.

Higgins

Maybe he ruled that it happened in the in goal area, remember that there is no offside in the in goal.

hydro11

@antipodean said in Counties Manukau v Auckland:

I was sure time wasn't up when he blew the whistle and went to the TMO.

Sky's clock said 79 minutes gone but that isn't necessarily correct.

KiwiMurph

@African-Monkey said in Counties Manukau v Auckland:

@KiwiMurph Or not let guys like Mafileo and Hodgman leave the region.

Or Eves or Loni Uhila or Halanukonuka etc etc.....

kev

@Higgins he clearly said the Auckland player pulled the Counities player in. Blame Fekitoa.

Bovidae

Keep those Sacred Heart props. Auckland let Kautai go too.

Tim

@kev It should've been at least a penalty for the guy coming through the side of the ruck before that.

Higgins

@kev said in Counties Manukau v Auckland:

@Higgins he clearly said the Auckland player pulled the Counities player in. Blame Fekitoa.

Thanks for clearing that up. I often have the mute on, particularly when Ken Laban is involved. I can see what is happening and generally can understand the referees decisions without having to listen to a lot of the crap the commentators/expert comments persons etc spout forth.

kev

@Tim I thought time was left too? Auckland should have won that - I expected more from the backline. Brutal game.

KiwiMurph

Nick White should have been fired at the end of last season. Auckland will pay the price.

Tim

@KiwiMurph Yep. He's no head coach.

Dice

Akira and Pat were very good. Poor night for the backs, but I thought Fekitoa wasn't too bad.

Crucial

The best team won on the day. I'd like to thank the ladies in the kitchen for the sausage rolls.

Auckland suck donkey dicks.

African Monkey

@Crucial We sure do after managing to lose to that useless irrelevant Counties side that no-one cares about. Oh well, another year of mediocrity coming up for us where we might just scrape into the top 4.

mimic

@Crucial said in Counties Manukau v Auckland:

The best team won on the day. I'd like to thank the ladies in the kitchen for the sausage rolls.

Auckland suck donkey dicks.

i wouldn't say the best team won. The team with the best scrum won. Congrats on winning like a team from the NH.

cgrant

@kev
It was clearly a ref's error. Henwood jumped into the ruck from the side without any Fekitoa's interference.

ACT Crusader

Strange finish to that one. Funny that the commentators were calling it a "classic old Mitre 10 Cup game" at the end. I thought it was a cripple fight to the end with some poor skill execution from both sides.

I thought Ioane was pretty good though.

Moala, a shell of the player that made the ABs.

Crucial

@cgrant said in Counties Manukau v Auckland:

@kev
It was clearly a ref's error. Henwood jumped into the ruck from the side without any Fekitoa's interference.

I wasn't able to watch the whole game and was in and out of it, but I wondered how the ref was judging "hands on" at the ruck. It's one of those weird ones that gets called differently as you go up the ranks. At Super and test level the player needs to lift the ball even when it is clear but at this level putting your hands on can be enough to make you fair game.
Anyway, Auckland didn't deserve to win because this game was at Pukekohe and there was a mudslide on the bank for the kids.

The Silver Fern

Counties Manukau v Auckland