Northland v Waikato
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@Crucial said in Northland v Waikato:
@Machpants said in Northland v Waikato:
Score please?
Is Google not your friend?
10-6 to the Taniwha at HT
I much prefer hand crafted scores, from the pure hearts of true rugby fans.
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@Yeetyaah Waikato got away with off side all night....that said, they deserved the win.
Our lineout, scrum. and handling not good enough
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@taniwharugby so did Northland, point stands, awful ref.
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@Yeetyaah Waikato handling was exceptional in the damp conditions.
Dmacs positioning is so good though, can see his class.
Thought Goodhue made a difference when he came on, should have been at half time for ranger.
Tua didn't look happy being subbed for a half back.
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@taniwharugby yeah was pissing down eh. Northland defs had some chances, I honestly wasn't feeling too confident after the last couple of games against them.
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@Yeetyaah said in Northland v Waikato:
@taniwharugby so did Northland, point stands, awful ref.
Northland have history in having young out of their depth refs blooded on them. Pity is that they go on to bigger things without improving. Cough-Pickerell-cough
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That was a tough watch. Thought the ref was inconsistent in his calls. Crooked lineout throws, forward passes, penalties off the mark, leaving feet, playing ball on ground, joining from the side. Does Sam Nock have an invisibility cloak at breakdowns?
But a good close game played in great spirit by both sides. Moorby and Tua are a real handful for defenders. DMac seemed the difference in the end with his box of so many tricks.
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@ARHS said in Northland v Waikato:
Crooked lineout throws
you won most of our lineouts, so it was your crooked ones he missed
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Pick your Northland MOTM HERE
Disappointing match this afternoon, both teams left plenty of points out there, but from our side, our poor scrum in the 1st 50 odd mins, poor lineout, poor handling and I absolutely hate how we switch direction after one phase directing the ball straight back into the traffic from the last ruck.
Ranger looked really tired and slow today, plenty of poor decisions, shouldnt have come back on after the break.
Tua was excellent in the opening half, but they targetted him in the 2nd and largely shut him down.
Moorby is a class act, gets nice distance off his kicks too, also like the look of Heremaia Murray, hope he gets plenty of game time this year.
Nock was taking a step with most of his passes tonight, was odd.
Aside from our scrum struggling, thought CTC was excellent on defence and got round, if he lost a few extra kgs he'd be bloody good.
Our handling was poor, which was in contrast to Waikato where pretty much everything seemed to stick.
Thought Goodhue made some nice touches, bought some smarts too, straightened when needed, just looks class.
Disappointing loss, although probably didnt really deserve to win with large patches of our game today, thougth Waikato were gonna go 100m to take away the BP though!
