v North Harbour
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Hope gatland keeps this up.
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Last couple of scrums Harbour have had the edge
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Our scrum struggling by the sounds...not good.
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Too much field position as well,get to halftime
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Too much field position as well,get to halftime
@steven-harris doesn't sound very good...not enough possession or territory, likely to bite us in 2nd 40
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Wtf...get out of our 22.
I'm out for a while....
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God we’ve been awful in the first 30 minutes.
Scrum shit.
Sloppy passing under pressure.
No go forward.
Defence has been good, but we’re lucky Harbour have been poor and haven’t capitalised on our shitness.Harbour in now, seemed inevitable after being camped in our end all game.
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Try to Dillion Hunt,Far too much time spent in their own 22,if you are to use someone to carry the football out of your 22,use Hyland
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The most disappointing aspect is when has got the ball wide,they have looked really good,hands letting them down
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We’ve looked bloody lost most of the time when we’ve had the ball, which wasn’t often to be fair.
I think we tried to go too wide to early and played behind the advantage line too early as we seemed to play into the hands of their rush defence.
We need to get quicker ruck ball, but Harbour are getting away with slowing it down a lot.
Unimpressed with Straker, as was Whitcombe obviously by dragging him after 34 minutes.Great opening try of the season by Robinson, courtesy of Rene Ranger.
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Rinakama has made a massive difference on the tighthead side
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One area Northland would be really disappointed with is the cleaners not getting to carrier quick enough
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How are we this close given we have had no ball or field position
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How are we this close given we have had no ball or field position
@steven-harris it’s a bloody miracle.
Was actually starting to think this might open up with us a man down and the sheer amount of defending we’ve had to do starting to take its toll.Looks like the card has done the opposite though, as we often see and lit a fire under our boys arses!!
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Disappointing.
Didn’t deserve to be in it at all after that shocking first half. But we were and with a bit more composure we could have won it.
Great defence considering how much ball Harbour had.
We were dangerous when we got it out wide, especially Ranger. What a player he has been for us over the years!
It’s good having a 10 who can kick the hell out of it too.
Robinson was good and Matiu tried hard in the first 40 without much support.
Most of the guys off the bench added something when they came on too, Rinakama stabled the scrum, Matich was into everything and Kitto brought good energy. -
We have to sort out that first half performance:
- no kicking from base of rucks
- predictable exit plays that were closed down
- turned ball over too much
- too many penalties
- defensive work on high kicks needs work
But stayed in game, played with physicality, and in the end should have won a game we had no righ+t to.
Liking this squad, great heart and some really good talent. With a few tweaks we should have a good season.
