Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final
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@kirwan said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
Nice watching the pack just dominate the opposition. A few games this season we have squeezed the life out of teams.
Scrum was pretty dicey, saved a few times by having a fairly decent number 8.
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@kirwan said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
Now can someone explain how the officials missed the foot trip on nanai?
Clear red card.
It sounded like the commentators were trying to say he was cramping up - but they may well have been being sarcastic.
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@bones said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
@kirwan said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
Nice watching the pack just dominate the opposition. A few games this season we have squeezed the life out of teams.
Scrum was pretty dicey, saved a few times by having a fairly decent number 8.
Wgtn got a couple of good scrums. But it was notable when we needed a penalty (like on our line) we could just push them off the ball
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@kirwan said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
@bones said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
@kirwan said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
Nice watching the pack just dominate the opposition. A few games this season we have squeezed the life out of teams.
Scrum was pretty dicey, saved a few times by having a fairly decent number 8.
Wgtn got a couple of good scrums. But it was notable when we needed a penalty (like on our line) we could just push them off the ball
Haha, apart from when you couldn't and didn't and the penalty went the other way.
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@bones said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
@kirwan said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
@bones said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
@kirwan said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
Nice watching the pack just dominate the opposition. A few games this season we have squeezed the life out of teams.
Scrum was pretty dicey, saved a few times by having a fairly decent number 8.
Wgtn got a couple of good scrums. But it was notable when we needed a penalty (like on our line) we could just push them off the ball
Haha, apart from when you couldn't and didn't and the penalty went the other way.
*** points at the scoreboard ***
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@mariner4life Is the that far up the pecking order?
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@antipodean said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
Auckland in a canter despite the referee.
Psychic!
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@african-monkey said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
@mariner4life Is the that far up the pecking order?
That's true, we only know that he's not in the top 13. The Highlanders still have some left over loose forwards.
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@kirwan ohhhh...I geddit. It was one of those comments. Just bluster and not meant to reflect what actually happened.
"Well, we gave away a penalty or 2 at scrums and went backwards a few times, but it was noticeable how we were actually dominant in scrums in reality, but just didn't want to try most of the time"
Wellie's got absolutely smoked everywhere else.
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@bones said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
@kirwan ohhhh...I geddit. It was one of those comments. Just bluster and not meant to reflect what actually happened.
"Well, we gave away a penalty or 2 at scrums and went backwards a few times, but it was noticeable how we were actually dominant in scrums in reality, but just didn't want to try most of the time"
Wellie's got absolutely smoked everywhere else.
Dude, I know your team just got pumped. But go kick a cat or something
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How's that taste Hamish Bidwell?
Hansen would be pretty happy with that Akira performance you'd think!
Awesome stuff Auckland. Brilliant. Even without Papali'i.
I see the final is free entry. Very cool. Its just refreshing to have a final somewhere other than Canterbury.
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Good performance from us. Akira was outstanding as we all know he is. A few one on one misses but that's going to happen with their big ball carriers but other than that, a faultless display. Seu (or Soo as Nisbo pronounces it) looked very good for someone who's been out for so long and Faiane has really stepped up this year.
Also, Nisbo's pronunciation of names was awful!
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Great game to be at. Fantastic rugby weather, sun out, afternoon, no dew, good handling.
Auckland very good. Surprised at some of the media comments - thought we did well everywhere but in the lineout. Just slipped off some tackles through the game, but otherwise the D was excellent. Akira was a beast.
Ref was weirdly inconsistent, and seemed to miss a fair bit (both ways). Normal for this level I suppose, but still frustrating. A bunch of stuff went on that the AR and Ref just didn't seem interested in
glad i went!
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Whowever was talking about a lack of big ball-running forwards for ABs in the EOYT thread - think we got just the ticket in Auckland .....
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@shadowtrooper said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
Whowever was talking about a lack of big ball-running forwards for ABs in the EOYT thread - think we got just the ticket in Auckland .....
Who's that? Haven't heard anything about any half decent Auckland players banging around.
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@shadowtrooper Yeah that Sam Prattley is hard to stop with ball in hand.
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Outstanding effort from Auckland. Really dominated in all facets. Please give those Cantabs a spanking next week.
From a Wellington persepctive Ben Lam showed exactly why he will never be an A.B. Didn't look interested at all. Toomaga Allen was another that just didn't really care about being out there.
As a Wellington and Canes fan I hope they don't get many games for the Canes this year. I don't care if Ben Lam scores 100 tries in a season, an attitude like that won't win any championships. He has proven time and time again that he goes missing in the big ones, just another big lazy wing that only cares about looking good.
Many on here believe Renata should be a Canes re-signing. 100% agree, atm all we need is a scrummaging prop and he looks to be getting better and better. Also how does Akira not make the A.Bs 51 man squad after a performance like that. Luke Whitelock is probably the most boring and ineffective player to ever grace New Zealand pro footy fields, only gets in through his Cantab connections.
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Akira Ioane was absolutely outstanding in this game. An intimidating beast in the Lomu or Kaino mould.
Steve Hansen should hope his All Blacks win every game this year because if they don't he is going to cop all manner of flak for not picking one of the best players in the world right now.
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@sparky said in Auckland vs Wellington - Semi Final:
Akira Ioane was absolutely outstanding in this game. An intimidating beast in the Lomu or Kaino mould.
Steve Hansen should hope his All Blacks win every game this year because if they don't he is going to cop all manner of flax for not picking one of the best players in the world right now.
There's one problem with that. Akira is finally hitting his straps as an 8.
6 is a different position.
Hardly likely that Captain Read is going to step aside.I get the feeling they really want Akira to be ready to walk into the 8 jersey post RWC.
