Northland v Manawatu

[Duluth]

https://www.instagram.com/manawaturugby/p/C-rEtVmPVbV/

1 Joe Gavigan, 2 Raymond Tuputupu, 3 Misinale Epenisa, 4 Stan Van Den Hoven, 5 Lachlan Shaw, 6 TK Howden (vc), 7 Johan Momsen, 8 Julian Goerke, 9 Jordi Viljoen, 10 Brett Cameron (c), 11 Kyle Brown, 12 James Tofa, 13 Drew Wild, 14 Ataata Moeakiola, 15 Reece Macdonald
Reserves: 16 Vernon Bason, 17 George Blake, 18 Flyn Yates, 19 Josh Taula, 20 Slade McDowall, 21 Logan Love, 22 Sam Coles, 23 Taniela Filimone

[Duluth]

https://www.instagram.com/northlandrugby/p/C-rG-QTxZMp/?img_index=1

1 Robb Cobb, 2 Matt Moulds (c), 3 Chris Apoua, 4 Liam Hallam-Eames, 5 Sam Caird, 6 Rory Woods, 7 Saimoni Uluinakauvadra, 8 Simon Parker, 9 Sam Nock, 10 Rivez Reihana, 11 Heremaia Murray, 12 Tevita Latu, 13 Corey Evans, 14 Quinton Nichols, 15 Jordan Trainor

Reserves: 16 Richie Asiata, 17 Jarred Adams, 18 Remsy Lemisio, 19 Allan Craig, 20 Terrell Peita, 21 Lisati Milo-Harris, 22 Dan Hawkins, 23 Nathan Salmon

[Gunner]

Farking wet, miserable day in Whangarei today, which is a shame because a 2pm kick off is bloody perfect for families, I’m sure if it were a fine day, a big crowd would have turned up.

Instead most, including the young fulla and I, will be watching from the couch.

[Duluth]

Manawatu almost score from a charge down. Trainor just gets there first

Short drop out wasn't a great choice

[Gunner]

That try was a bit too easy… weak defence from Manawatu.

[Gunner]

I know it’s a wet day, but fuck Northland’s ball handling and control is bloody sloppy.

[Gunner]

That’s a great finish by Murray.

[Duluth]

Suddenly there's a lot of room out there for Northland

[Gunner]

Northland try to play out of their own end, concede a penalty, and then a try.

Terrible start to the half

[Duluth]

That should be a penalty for offside. All he was doing is preventing advantage from the knock

[Gunner]

Northland backs taking a leaf out of the All Blacks play book there, deep passes to players standing flat footed, monstered by the defence and ball turned over.

Wakey wakey Northland.

[Gunner]

Tough call there, had a foot on the ground as Latu made the tackle.

[Gunner]

Poor discipline Northland, 3 penalties and a knock on conceded in the last 3 or 4 minutes.

Very very poor opening 15 minutes of the second half by Northland.

[Gunner]

That’s outright dangerous, deserves a yellow card… what the actual fuck ref?

[Machpants]

Great finish for Northland, awesome bonus point win

[Duluth]

Nice try by Salmon to finish things off

Solid effort all game. They had a bit of a wobble just after half time.. but were good considering the conditions

[Gunner]

Good but scrappy win. Kept the scoreboard ticking over when we were given an opportunity.

A few things to work on

[kev]

We lacked a bit of energy today. But nice kicking game from Reihana got us in the right parts to score. Lineout terrible in 2nd half. But good to win a game we needed to win.

[mohikamo]

Great
Was a must win game

[ACT Crusader]

FABRR played well.