Southland v Hawke's Bay
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HB will be ruing missed opportunities. Good to see some wet weather rugby again.
@antipodean said in Southland v Hawkes Bay:
HB will be ruing missed opportunities. Good to see some wet weather rugby again.
Fuck off.
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@antipodean said in Southland v Hawkes Bay:
HB will be ruing missed opportunities. Good to see some wet weather rugby again.
Fuck off.
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@Nepia Awful game just nothing went right, have to bounce back next week.
@kiwimatrix said in Southland v Hawkes Bay:
@Nepia Awful game just nothing went right, have to bounce back next week.
Hope so, will be a home game against @Crucial's lot so hopefully they can put in a good one.
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HB will be ruing missed opportunities. Good to see some wet weather rugby again.
@antipodean Definitely suited the Stags. Reminded me of when they defended the Ranfurly Shield against Auckland in 2010 where they just defended multiple attacks time and time again. Selby-Rickit, Pleasants-Tate, Lambourn and James all stood up for them in the pack, with Eade's general kicking getting them out of trouble a lot.
Southland probably won't threaten promotion, but they have a much more competitive side this year. Don't see any reason why they can't push for a semi final spot.
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@Chris-B said in Southland v Hawkes Bay:
Hey @Nepia
Ooops.
Oh dear.
I don't want to win that way bro - I like to see some homegrown players in the team.
Geoff Boycott captained Yorkshire for most of the 1970s, but success eluded the team even when Boycott left Test cricket for three years to concentrate on the county game.
Yorkshire put themselves at a disadvantage from 1968 until 1992 by insisting that all its players must have been born within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire while all the other county teams strengthened themselves by signing overseas Test players. In 1992, the birth qualification rule was first modified to include those educated within the county, a dispensation that allowed Michael Vaughan to play; and was then abandoned altogether. Yorkshire's first overseas player that season was 19-year-old Sachin Tendulkar.
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First half HB threw the ball round, and as Josh Syms said at halftime would need to change the style and play at the other end.
So in the second half it was kick or pick-and-go.
It was one extreme to the other.
And in the last five minutes when they were in the Southland 22 it was still pick-and-go, the backs were not utilised at all.
There just didn't seem to be any tactical appreciation.
Our first game last year was in the rain at Palmerston North.
No need to reference that game then ...
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@shark pretty sure they won last year - for the first time in 3 years maybe?
Delighted for them - perennial battlers, but starting a campaign with a win is a big boost.
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@shark pretty sure they won last year - for the first time in 3 years maybe?
Delighted for them - perennial battlers, but starting a campaign with a win is a big boost.
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@nzzp confidence and belief is half the battle!
@taniwharugby said in Southland v Hawkes Bay:
@nzzp confidence and belief is half the battle!
yep - but the comp is a bit borked when you can have all black laden packs of fulltime professionals coming up against the (love him to bits) Jason Rutledge's of this world. The disparity in playing resources is incredible, and doesn't make for a good competition unfortunately.
I don't know how to solve this without turning the NPC into a semi pro feeder comp for Super by the way, and that doens't seem a good option.
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@taniwharugby said in Southland v Hawkes Bay:
@nzzp confidence and belief is half the battle!
yep - but the comp is a bit borked when you can have all black laden packs of fulltime professionals coming up against the (love him to bits) Jason Rutledge's of this world. The disparity in playing resources is incredible, and doesn't make for a good competition unfortunately.
I don't know how to solve this without turning the NPC into a semi pro feeder comp for Super by the way, and that doens't seem a good option.
@nzzp said in Southland v Hawkes Bay:
I don't know how to solve this without turning the NPC into a semi pro feeder comp for Super by the way, and that doens't seem a good option
yes it does!!
NPC to be a rep competition for club players.
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@nzzp said in Southland v Hawkes Bay:
I don't know how to solve this without turning the NPC into a semi pro feeder comp for Super by the way, and that doens't seem a good option
yes it does!!
NPC to be a rep competition for club players.
@mariner4life so super rugby players who are not ABs are not allowed to play it cos they missed club footy, leaving a 10 week window where they have no rugby?
Or are you making a longer Super season....
