Manawatu v Otago (Championship SF)

[Kiwiwomble]

[Bovidae]

Did Fischli avoid a suspension?

[Stargazer]

@bovidae Edit:

Haven't read anything about it. Maybe the red card was dismissed?

[Kiwiwomble]

Forgot about that, they would have had the hearing by now surely

[Duluth]

1 Harrison Allan, 2 Ray Niuia, 3 Flyn Yates, 4 Micaiah Torrance-Read, 5 Ofa Tauatevalu, 6 TK Howden, 7 Shamus Hurley-Langton, 8 Brayden Iose, 9 Logan Henry, 10 Brett Cameron Stewart Cruden, 11 Ed Fidow, 12 Jason Emery, 13 Josiah Marakau, 14 Tima Fainga'anuku, 15 Nehe Milner-Skudder

Reserves: 16 Ben Strang, 17 Jason Gavigan, 18 Darius Mafile'o, 19 Vaikoso Poloniati, 20 Johnny Galloway, 21 Griffin Culver, 22 James Tofa, 23 Drew Wild

[Duluth]

Manawatu attack is struggling without Cameron

[Tim]

@duluth What happened to him? Did he go off injured?

[Duluth]

@tim

Not sure what the injury was. He was a late scratching from the team

[taniwharugby]

Ioane needed to put that deeper.

[taniwharugby]

Well worked try by otago then fluffing the restart.

[Stargazer]

@tim Isn't he off to Japan, just like many other players?

[Bovidae]

The Poo are really missing their 3 main props.

[taniwharugby]

Otago scrum destroy manawatu to win the tight head and finish the half 3-13.

[taniwharugby]

Gilbert picks up the first try in the 2nd spell for Otago to lead 20-6 46 gone

[antipodean]

Nice try. JIoane looks a world beater at this level.

[taniwharugby]

Otago running away with it, Manawatu have time but not looking likely.

[Bovidae]

@antipodean said in Manawatu v Otago (Championship SF):

Nice try. JIoane looks a world beater at this level.

If he can do that for the Chiefs I won't be complaining.

Niuia has been a passenger since he went down injured.

[antipodean]

WTF is this clown of a ref thinking? Enough for a penalty but not a PT?

[Bovidae]

Terrible refereeing from Hogan to not even look at a PT.

[Steven Harris]

@bovidae nailed it in one , when you look at the difference in personal , we should not be surprised by this result .
Otago on paper Super Rugby quality ,still a much better season from the Turbos compared to last season and the majority of their squad are young .
Otago for mind , no disrespect to the Naki look the team to beat.