Blues v Highlanders

Bones

Darry with another bad penalty

It blows my mind how many avoidable penalties players give away in rugby

It's so Strange

Bones

Holland stands up for a confrontation and Akira couldn't give a shit, had already walked off

Tim

Good tackle there. More like it. Time for patience and backing their defence.

KiwiMurph

Nock kicks it straight into the 2.04m tall Holland....

Tim

Nock wake up when kicking ...

SouthernMann

Shit that was an easy Blues try

Bones

Oh piss off Williams. You can't penalise Fakatava if you're going to ignore Darry

KiwiMurph

That looked harsh on Papalii

Bones

That's why Fakatava has work to do before getting back in black

Tim

KiwiMurph

Excellent maul work McWhannell

KiwiMurph

Plummer isn't an emergency 9 option....

Bones

Brave for Fakatava to attempt a tackle

Tim

Ioane the Blues' best in the first half.

Highlanders young players going well.

African Monkey

Darry had a poor half. Akira and Clarke were very impressive, as was Choat and, Evans and Forbes.

Impressed with the Highlanders toughness so far

SouthernMann

Eight points. We are in this. Just need to halt the mauls and Blues pick and goes.

Tim

Just need to halt the mauls and Blues pick and goes.

That's kind of our thing though.

Gunner

Plenty of good rugby in that half from the Blues, but each piece of good rugby is promptly followed by a pile of slop unfortunately.

Highlanders really giving it to them, getting stuck in physically which is great to see.

Enjoying this game.

KiwiMurph

Darry had a poor half.

His physicality is better but you wonder if he is ever going to shake his error rate

SouthernMann

@SouthernMann said in Blues v Highlanders:

Just need to halt the mauls and Blues pick and goes.

That's kind of our thing though.

Yeah and you are bloody good at it

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