Hawkes Bay v Northland

[Duluth]

Northland 3-0 after 3mins

[Bones]

Fakatava gets caught like that way too often for an experienced player.

[Duluth]

Forward?

[Mattasaurus]

@Duluth I thought so in real time....

[taniwharugby]

@Duluth looked it

[Duluth]

Not called. Latu has been good, great angle for the try, turnover penalties. Looks like an upgrade on Tua

[taniwharugby]

was a long 2 seconds call at that maul, that collapsed and took more time to come out

[Canes4life]

Best game I’ve seen McCluthie play. He’s playing very well. Playing inside Matt Giteau and Ma’a Nonu at the Legion this year would have been a great experience for him.

[Canes4life]

Jacob Devery has been very strong at hooker. Hopefully he’s the back-up to Aumua for the Canes and we don’t lose him to another franchise.

[taniwharugby]

HB into thier stride now

[Mattasaurus]

good try, poor tackling at times too...

HB looking good with ball in hand

[Canes4life]

This is a fun game to watch.

[Canes4life]

McClutchie in early into the second half. He’s having a blinder. Love that he’s attacking everything, none of this kicking bullshit.

[taniwharugby]

like last week, as soon as they get behind our first line of d, we are gettign opened up.

Game is so fickle, Murray was a fingertip from a likely score, 2 mins later HB score, then they do so again after halftime....need to sub NOck and Apoua

Shield safe.

[Canes4life]

McClutchie definitely outplaying Reihana tonight. If he doesn’t get a Super contract this time around, these coaches have rocks in their head.

[Donsteppa]

Early on I thought I'd tipped the result badly wrong. But now it's the margin...

75 points in 65 minutes - definitely entertained.

[taniwharugby]

@Donsteppa I changed my highest scorer from HB to Wellington...

[taniwharugby]

that was a BS call from a ref who has been largely very good

[Canes4life]

What’s happened to Devan Flanders?

[Bovidae]

That was an entertaining game.