Hawkes Bay v Taranaki

[Duluth]

1 Mitch O'Neill, 2 Bradley Slater, 3 Reuben O'Neill, 4 Jayden Sa, 5 Josh Lord,
6 Arese Poliko, 7 Michael Loft, 8 Kaylum Boshier (C), 9 Adam Lennox, 10 Josh Jacomb,
11 Kini Naholo, 12 Daniel Rona, 13 Brayton Northcott-Hill, 14 Vereniki Tikoisolomone, 15 Jacob Ratumaitavuki-Kneepkens

Reserves: 16 Ricky Riccitelli, 17 Perry Lawrence, 18 Michael Bent,
19 Rowan Slater, 20 AJ Lemalu, 21 Logan Crowley, 22 Ethan Reti, 23 Jayson Potroz

[Duluth]

1 Tim Farrell, 2 Jacob Devery, 3 Joel Hintz, 4 Geoff Cridge, 5 Tom Parsons (c), 6 Patrick Tuifua, 7 Sam Smith, 8 Hugh Renton, 9 Ereatara Enari, 10 Lincoln McClutchie, 11 Neria Fomai, 12 Danny Toala, 13 Nick Grigg, 14 Lukas Ripley, 15 Ben O'Donnell

Reserves: 16 Kianu Kereru-Symes, 17 Hadlee Hay-Horton, 18 Lolani Faleiva, 19 Hunter Morrison, 20 Josh Gimblett, 21 Samuel Wye, 22 Kienan Higgins, 23 Andrew Tauatevalu

[Duluth]

Just kicked off

[antipodean]

Poor kick by Ratumaitavuki-Kneepkens. No idea how Rona wasn't penalised for the "failed intercept".

[Duluth]

HB looking flat again. 14-0 Taranaki after 14mins

[antipodean]

Enari's passing isn't helping.

[Canes4life]

This Naki 6 has had a great game so far. Talk about physical.

[Bovidae]

See what happens when you compete on 5 m defensive lineouts.

Jayden Sa has shown some nice touches. He isn't short but is dwarfed by Lord.

[Duluth]

Taranaki 30 points in front with 25mins left

Looking at the tipping, most people were picking HB

[Donsteppa]

Hawkes Bay have thrown in the towel after losing the Shield.

[Bovidae]

This has been such a strange 2nd half. A lot of injuries so that both starting halfbacks are back on as outside backs.

[Duluth]

Smashed

They conceded 50 last week too

63-12 with 5mins left

[barky1]

@Donsteppa withdrawals?

[Canes4life]

Josh Lord dominant tonight. Get him playing more for the ABs

[Yeetyaah]

Time to bring back the Vikings

[mariner4life]

Great week in HB aye?

Embarrassing

[Duluth]

[Nepia]

@Yeetyaah said in Hawkes Bay v Taranaki:

Time to bring back the Vikings

Fuck off, I'd rather we lose by a hundred than suffer that fate ... at the rate we're going we'll probably hit that hundred next week.

[taniwharugby]

Jeez naki scored some crackers.

Be great if Lord can remain uninjured, mobile and good workrate for such a big guy.

Lennox looks a good prospect too.

[Bovidae]

@taniwharugby said in Hawkes Bay v Taranaki:

Lennox looks a good prospect too.

I hope McMillan moves on from TTT and promotes Lennox. He is quick, and I remember he played at fullback when Taranaki had their injury crisis a couple of seasons ago.