2019 Māori All Blacks

[Stargazer]

Nankivel is looking good.

[Stargazer]

Stevenson, you tool!

[Stargazer]

Yessss, try Wainui! Good team try!

[Stargazer]

7 all

[Stargazer]

Stat - line-outs won against the throw:

MABs 3 - Fiji 0

[Stargazer]

Hmm, don't think that was a knock-on.

[Steven Harris]

@Stargazer game has stuttered

[Stargazer]

MABs not getting the rub of the green. Lots of the 50/50 decisions going against them.

[Steven Harris]

NZ Māori ball is far too slow and Rob Thomson has got no idea how to set up his outsides

[Machpants]

@Stargazer

[Stargazer]

@Steven-Harris Yeah, Thompson has been disappointing. Not impressed by Lomax either.

[MrDenmore]

Very impressed by Nankiville - hard-running, no-nonsense second-five who seems to be able to read the game. The new Crotty?

[Stargazer]

@MrDenmore He's been good, but that's a bit premature haha

[Steven Harris]

@Stargazer Thomson doing my head in

[Stargazer]

Despite the mistakes, the MABs play a lot better than last week. Fewer missed tackles, and the changes in the squad (Hall, Nankivell, Douglas) paying off. Wainui and Franklin also playing well.

[Stargazer]

Not sure what the rules are. The kick seemed to go to the dead ball area, but Hall tapped it back in backward and Hyland dots it down.

On-field decision is try.

Hmm. Hall's foot just on the line?

[Stargazer]

Ah, too good to be true. No try. Would have been incredible.

[Stargazer]

Half time: MABs 7 - 7 Fiji

[KiwiMurph]

Excellent half of rugby. Two evenly matched team's.

[Chris B.]

Nankivell really seems to have found his feet.

I guess one of those guys who started very young so that you don't realise how young he still is.