2017 New Zealand U20s

[Tim]

Christ, Falcon has been taking kicking lessons from Piers Francis.

[Stargazer]

That was great stuff from Mikaele-Tu'u. Pity it didn't lead to a try.

[Stargazer]

Sad to see Tim Farrell go off like that; he had a great impact when he came on.

[Stargazer]

@booboo said in 2017 New Zealand U20s:

Falcon misses relatively easy 3

It's weird. He misses the easy ones and makes the difficult ones. The rest of his game is very good though. He played a crucial role in 3 of the NZ tries.

[Stargazer]

That's what I mean. Great cross-kick from Falcon, leading to a try from Faingaanuku. Hat-trick.

[booboo]

Nice try to finish

42 to 13

Time up

[booboo]

Conversion no good

[Stargazer]

Full time: 42 - 20 to NZ.

[booboo]

Good win

Ok .... ooooorigin time

[Stargazer]

If you didn't want to know the England-Samoa score yet, I'm sorry.

England smashed Samoa 74 to 17.

[Margin_Walker]

@Stargazer said in 2017 New Zealand U20s:

If you didn't want to know the England-Samoa score yet, I'm sorry.

England smashed Samoa 74 to 17.

Bit of a costly victory in the end though. Already missing five players away with the senior tour to Argentina and added three injuries here to backs (one in warm up and two in the game). Ended up playing the last 15 minutes with 14 men.

[ACT Crusader]

Not a bad start to this France/Baby Boks match.

YC against Baby Boks after a good break by the French halfback.

[Kiwidom]

Italy have upset Ireland 22-21

[Crucial]

@Kiwidom said in 2017 New Zealand U20s:

Italy have upset Ireland 22-21

Is that the all-Ireland development program kicking in? Damn Saffa and Kiwi kids that won't move over to the Emerald Isle

[ACT Crusader]

@Kiwidom said in 2017 New Zealand U20s:

Italy have upset Ireland 22-21

Was an exciting finish. Italians have away a poor penalty at the death and Ireland missed the kick for Italy to claim the win.

That France game also went to the wire with the Baby Boks claiming what looked a very unlikely draw.

[Rapido]

@Crucial said in 2017 New Zealand U20s:

@Kiwidom said in 2017 New Zealand U20s:

Italy have upset Ireland 22-21

Is that the all-Ireland development program kicking in? Damn Saffa and Kiwi kids that won't move over to the Emerald Isle

Taking your post inappropriately seriously. All it takes is the occasional good crop to come through to serve you well for 10 years at senior level.

Looked like Ireland had a few good ones last year.

I'd liken it NZ cricket having an awesome mini-generation at the 2008 junior cricket World Cup. 10 years later they're all a core part of what has been, by our standards, one of our best periods.

[Tim]

[taniwharugby]

@mimic is def Tua at 13 there, so musta been a late change as he wasnt in starting line up.

[KiwiMurph]

@taniwharugby They also put a graphic up of the team right before kickoff and Tua was 13.

[taniwharugby]

@KiwiMurph sorry, I meant the team that was named prior...