Wellington vs Auckland

African Monkey

@tim I take that back then haha. Anyone know how Aleks Dabek went in theclub season? He was a star at schoolboy level for St Peter's.

Daffy Jaffy

@african-monkey Dabek captained the champion Ponsonby team and was outstanding. He played pre-season trials with Auckland but missed out on the squad to Adrian Choat (NZ u20 this year). He's still very young and probably needs a years bulking up for first class rugby.

Winger

@canes4life said in Wellington vs Auckland:

Awesome to see Lousi back, hopefully have him starting at lock and Blackwell to 6 for the playoffs.

Agree. Without both Lousi and Fifita our lineout wasn't great. Its a shame that Fidow is out for the full year. But at least Lousi returning should rectify one weakness. Blackwell at 1.90 is just too short

Squirrel

Good game from Wellington so far. Retained the ball against a sturdy Auckland defence and eventually crash over from close range. 7-0 8.29 gone

KiwiMurph

Only one team in it so far.

Squirrel

20 minutes gone. 10-0 wellington. Auckland not much chop so far

Tim

Auckland seem to be asleep. Bizarre.

Dice

Sweet ball by Faiane. Manu with a nice run to score. Their chemistry has been so good this season.

Squirrel

Tumua Manu scores under the post after a great run by Melani Nanai
10-7 26 minutes gone

That's what the game needed. Hopefully that sparks Auckland into life

KiwiMurph

Brilliant ruck turnover win by Plummer. That lad plays with some guts.

Dice

Some poor passes by us in this game.

KiwiMurph

@dice trying to do too much - should be kicking more.

Squirrel

How do you not score there!

Dice

That was some run by Rayasi.

Dice

Some decent defense by us in the last 15 minutes. Keeping us in it.

KiwiMurph

some very weird scrum rules (both ways) in this game.

Dice

Poor decision by Akira. He picked it up before we got the penalty.

Dice

We left 7 points out there. We should be leading.

African Monkey

We should have scored at the end there, hope it doesn't cost us. I think big cut out balls might not be the way to go in this game either.

KiwiMurph

@dice said in Wellington vs Auckland:

We left 7 points out there. We should be leading.

Could have also easily been down 20 points after 20 minutes....

The Silver Fern

Wellington vs Auckland