North Harbour v Canterbury

[Tim]

Harbour have a good pack, and can put together a decent XV, but there's not much depth in the squad.

Will beat Waikato and BOP this year.

[KiwiMurph]

@Steven-Harris said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

How you would pick Punivai ahead of Cody Taylor Izzy..?

I don't think it was instead of - don't they offer 3 players for each game?

[Machpants]

@Bones said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

Bridge with the Rokocoko special. Unstoppable.

I laughed

[Steven Harris]

@KiwiMurph I would not have even had Punivai even in the top 3..

[Tim]

Pierce >> Vaa'i

[ACT Crusader]

@dingo said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

Gentlemen.

Haven't forumed on TSF for a year or two for various reason but popped in to say that I'm really enjoying this Cant versus NH game. Its like the old days!!

Welcome back bro.

Good entertaining game.

Mataele looks a lot bigger since I last saw him play.

[dingo]

I wish the M10 teams got to play all season with their Soup/AB players. How fantastic would that be!!

[Machpants]

@dingo said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

I wish the M10 teams got to play all season with their Soup/AB players. How fantastic would that be!!

It will be interesting, in that the ABs will have to take a mega squad to Oz for the RC, so there maybe another 10 more players removed from M10 at the pointy end. That could really effect the finals

[Machpants]

@ACT-Crusader said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

Mataele looks a lot bigger since I last saw him play.

Him and Tikoroitoi are looking to go full Basteraud, maybe?

[Tim]

@ACT-Crusader said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

Mataele looks a lot bigger since I last saw him play.

And slower.

[Tim]

@Machpants said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

Tikoroitoi

Now he looked slow in the last 20!

[ACT Crusader]

@Tim said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

@ACT-Crusader said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

Mataele looks a lot bigger since I last saw him play.

And slower.

The upright running style certainly doesn’t help.

[ACT Crusader]

@Machpants said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

@dingo said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

I wish the M10 teams got to play all season with their Soup/AB players. How fantastic would that be!!

It will be interesting, in that the ABs will have to take a mega squad to Oz for the RC, so there maybe another 10 more players removed from M10 at the pointy end. That could really effect the finals

Another attempt to undermine Canterbury. Will it ever end.

[Machpants]

@ACT-Crusader said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

@Machpants said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

@dingo said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

I wish the M10 teams got to play all season with their Soup/AB players. How fantastic would that be!!

It will be interesting, in that the ABs will have to take a mega squad to Oz for the RC, so there maybe another 10 more players removed from M10 at the pointy end. That could really effect the finals

Another attempt to undermine Canterbury. Will it ever end.

I blame Otago

[dingo]

@Machpants said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

@dingo said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

I wish the M10 teams got to play all season with their Soup/AB players. How fantastic would that be!!

It will be interesting, in that the ABs will have to take a mega squad to Oz for the RC, so there maybe another 10 more players removed from M10 at the pointy end. That could really effect the finals

Bro. I'm old school. I remember when Wellington last won the NPC/M10. I was in the UK. Our Wellington team with its (few) ABs beat Canterbury with its ABs. You saw what it meant to the players. Forits supporters we watched at 11Am and partied all day and nght.

I like this version of the M10. ABs play with Super Rugby players who play with NPC/M10 players who a few weeks ago were really good club players . A club player like me could easily imagine it could be you (if you weren't so old, broken and generally were a bit shit).

[Machpants]

@dingo Oh yeah I agree, but sadly professionalism (and the fact that pretty much all the money that fuels it in NZ comes from ABs) means things have changed.

[Duluth]

[Bovidae]

I haven't read the comments so maybe this was mentioned, but Dagg needs to stop with the matey nicknames as a co-commentator. Worse than Stevenson used to be.

[Cantab79]

Agree with those that have said that Manasa Mata'ele looked slow and fat. He still played okay, but nowhere near as fit or muscular as he did playing for the Crusaders in 2019 pre-injury.

Canterbury played okay and did enough to win, but we look pretty ordinary with Brett Cameron wearing the 10 jersey. He's just such a limited player and his inability to ignite our attack is concerning. I thought we were far too lateral in attack, shifting from side to side like a metronome. We need to tighten our attack and get more go-forward, but this is hard with few noted ball runners in the pack

[ACT Crusader]

@Cantab79 said in North Harbour v Canterbury:

Agree with those that have said that Manasa Mata'ele looked slow and fat. He still played okay, but nowhere near as fit or muscular as he did playing for the Crusaders in 2019 pre-injury.

Canterbury played okay and did enough to win, but we look pretty ordinary with Brett Cameron wearing the 10 jersey. He's just such a limited player and his inability to ignite our attack is concerning. I thought we were far too lateral in attack, shifting from side to side like a metronome. We need to tighten our attack and get more go-forward, but this is hard with few noted ball runners in the pack

Brett Cameron will be an AB one day.