Canterbury vs Tasman

[Stargazer]

@Steven-Harris It's for a great part the result of their own success. They have lost a lot of players to the ABs, the most important and recent examples being Mo'unga and Bridge.

[African Monkey]

@Steven-Harris One thing you never ever ever ever ever ever do is write Canterbury off haha.

In saying that though, I was a bit disappointed in the standard of their club comp this year. I feel that it was certainly down in quality from previous years from what I saw.

[Chris B.]

@Crazy-Horse You'll keep!

Ryan Coxon ho0bbles off and we're down to our sixth choice loosehead prop. Sam "The Rock" Prattley!

Hansen better give us Atu Moli for a couple of weeks.

[Dice]

Would've been nice if someone had an alternative jersey.

[Steven Harris]

@African-Monkey definitely not writing them off, just saying they don’t appear to be as scary as they have in the past ..still a good team ,but they don’t appear to be a team that looks good enough to go all the way.

[KiwiMurph]

Canterbury seem to lack serious punch in their backline. Where are the ball runners in general - when Luke Whitelock and Prinsep are in your loosies you are going to lack ball running.

I reckon this Ta$man side would towel up the Blues.

[African Monkey]

@KiwiMurph They were very reliant on Romano getting them on the front foot last year but he's obviously a marked man this year and he's being forced into playing a lot tighter so far. They need to get him some good ball.

[African Monkey]

Hahaha and now it's game on again from absolutely nowhere.

[Stargazer]

Wow, Josh McKay. That was awesome.

[KiwiMurph]

@African-Monkey and the other factor is Romano doesn't look the same player in 2019.

[Stargazer]

Another thing is that Canterbury has it's 2nd head coach in three years (since Razor left for the Crusaders), and he's moving on after this season, too. Not the best coaches either, and how big is their commitment if they already know they're leaving?

[Steven Harris]

That’s not bad when you can pull on Squire, and you still have Parkinson on the bench..so much depth..can only look on with envy

[African Monkey]

@Steven-Harris Yeah if they don't win it this year they never will.

[Stargazer]

Did they hold Tima Fainga'anuku upside down and dip him in the bleach?

[African Monkey]

@Stargazer Him and Danny Tusitala look like they're having a competition for silliest haircut.

[Steven Harris]

I must admit I find it weird when your scrum has just got owned..but the dominant scrum gets penalised on a technicality..and the rest of players from the scrum that just got owned rush in congratulate the props..go figure

[nzzp]

I don't think I have ever seen Canterbury just fall off so many tackles.

or get dominated at the breakdown like this. It feels ... weird

[Stargazer]

That offload from McKay was a thing of beauty.

[African Monkey]

@nzzp To their credit, they've done well to stay in it. They've been badly outplayed but still have a chance.

[nzzp]

@African-Monkey said in Canterbury vs Ta$man:

@nzzp To their credit, they've done well to stay in it. They've been badly outplayed but still have a chance.

Someone said it above.

Never ever ever write them off