Nz maori

[Crash]

@Pot-Hale
Have done their home work - narrow field and in-goal area, and exposing obvious deficiencies in the USA

[KiwiMurph]

Akira on fire. Goalkicking aside West is having a mare. Lowe looks great.

[Crash]

TKB looking lively, scrum destroying the USA

[Unite]

Score update please?

[Nepia]

@Unite 21-0 to Maori

[Nepia]

Maori in again, 26 - 0 with kick to come

[Crash]

@Unite
Dixon scores. on the half time hooter - West converts so 28 - 0 to Maori All Blacks

[Unite]

@Nepia cheers

[Bovidae]

@Stargazer Goal kicking - yes, general play kicking - poor

An entertaining 1st half and the ref is doing well. This could get ugly for the USA.

[Rembrandt]

Akira really is a monster. Looking forward to seeing him in the AB environment

[Stargazer]

@Bovidae Don't agree, but whatever ...

[Crash]

Ash Dixon has been pretty good so far

[Crash]

What a bullshit YC for Weber for an innocuous piece of play milked by the US

[Sapetyvi]

@Crash What?

[Sapetyvi]

It was just plain dumb by Weber and a yellow all day. No excuses.

[Whites72]

@Sapetyvi Absolutely no way was that a yellow

[akan004]

One thing that shits me no end about today's rugby is when support runners who are about to receive the pass feel the need to be so flat when they don't need to be. So many tries have been disallowed due to the pass being thrown forward, and it's solely due to the guys wanting to be as flat as possible.

[Sapetyvi]

@Whites72 did you see the replay? He slapped the ball out of the hands of a player who was taking a quick penalty. It is as yellow as it gets

[Nepia]

@Whites72 said in Nz maori:

@Sapetyvi Absolutely no way was that a yellow

It was a professional foul.

[KiwiMurph]

Clear yellow. Thought Elliot Dixon got better as the game went on. Ash Dixon and Proctor were bloody good too.

Even against this team I thought D Mackenzie got exposed a few times - he does some great things but also has a tendancy to get frazzled in his play and make a lot of errors - a long term AB he does not look.

Thought Akira looked a lot more focused than i'd seen in a long time and seemed to stay away from the niggle too.