The Silver Fern

@Duluth Norrie 10/15 Ant Strachan said brilliant talent and Blues must hang on to him when the pack comes chasing played outside his son for Grammer on occasions..He said sees him as a 10 .

@Duluth said in Auckland MOTM v Waikato:

Segner & XTH. Funaki had some good touches particularly his kicking.. I’ll ignore the defence when he was forced onto the wing

That's what I went for.

@Bovidae said in Auckland v Waikato:

Four wins in a row over Auckland as well, which looks to be Waikato's best winning streak.

Equals.

Waikato won 4 in a row over Auckland 1954-55

1954 won 23-9 (Ham); won 14-13 (Auck)

1955 won 24-13 (Ham); won 17-14 (Auck).

Sorry if it’s been covered. Allen is a loan player? From HB?

@Kirwan said in Auckland MOTM v BOP:

@Duluth said in Auckland MOTM v BOP:

Patrick easily.

Tele’a and Clark. Tangitau unlucky

I went the same, I'm starting to get excited about Cark's future.

Patrick was huge. This fucking season though, was a very, very hard to watch.

How can you have 95% possession and territory for 30mins and score one try?

And end up conceding 3 before the break!

I've just watched this game. Good to see Fineanganofo brought out his pink headgear from his school rugby days.

McGrath and Bates didn't want to use their bench.

@Duluth Didn't catch the game sorry.

Rugby's gone soft.

An outside back gets done for roughing up a prop.

Actually, good point, best game from the new 13 so far.

I think our coaches have been understudying with Robertson, out last ten mins of games has been poor all season.

Segnar easily the top for me, his hands taking passes at his feet, accurate defence and huge workrate. Beehre and Lam the next two for me.

Hard to pick the backs with that halfback stinking up the joint.

Michael Manson could be useful pick for the Highlanders.

@Duluth said in Auckland MOTM v Northland:

Oh and Reihana

We could Hall for his MVP trophy from last week?

Problem is, it still comes back to the individual ref or TMO view on what constitutes 'foul play' which I think many cards/penalties we have seen in recent years are not.

Segner Sullivan Tangitau

Enjoyable game

Hall needs to take the L and not cry to the ref after the game.

Simpson is a real talent for just 18.

Che Clark needs more minutes

Tangitau looked impressive all game

Akira and Choat played well in second half. Backs were horrid.

FMG - nice setup for a stadium that size. Overpriced food and bev are part of the landscape of course but the concourse access was good. I accept the crowd wasn't huge of course

Could only vote for XTH

@Lancaster-Park said in Auckland v Canterbury:

Admittedly only saw the highlights but given the strongly held views by many in Auck that Akira is a beast but we just dont appreciate it I would have thought he would be playing like a man against boys at this level.
Did anyone at the game or seeing it all see him as a step above the rest?

As @KiwiMurph said, he's on the way out and I'm surprised he's actually playing here before heading to Japan. He's just going through the motions and who can blame him when there's the Japanese season waiting for him.

He probably just doesn't wanna risk injury, it's not as if he has anything to play for here, similar to Jack Goodhue at Northland last year.