Final: Canterbury v Otago
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@jimmyb
..on your coms just all that collective super experience that have played together in terms of combination especially in numbers 1-8
You have got to give it to the Canterbury forwards that they can lay on platform despite having a tradesman like halfback and first coming back from 7s
Congratulations to Canterbury but so much credit Otago for showing they deserved to be in the final and despite the loss their supporters will have so much to look forward to.
Tom Christie should be player of the Npc imo
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@Nepia said in Final: Canterbury v Otago:
Congrats Canterbury, Death Star was too good this year. Great season by Otago. Good season by my boys The Bay. NPC was fun yet again, imagine if NZR actually cared about it.
Neeps mate , you sound like someone who doesn't live in NZ, there is no way I don't think NZR care about this comp.
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It has been a great game, congratulations to Canterbury
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@Bones said in Final: Canterbury v Otago:
Fucking hell, had to double take at Chapman playing his 50th... don't recall even hearing of him. 40 games for Ta$man with one try, then bags 5 for Canterbury in one season.
Mostly off the bench for Ta$man, because he's been stuck behind Christie and Hotham.
Pretty clear deal this year to swap him for the fading Mitch Drummond, so that Chapman gets gametime and can take the third Crusaders halfback slot. Which backfired (for Ta$man), when Hotham and Drummond got injured and Christie spent the season with the ABs.
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@ACT-Crusader would have been a far better option than Kirifii…
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@ACT-Crusader Did I miss that he was off somewhere?
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Pretty good effort by Canterbury.
I thought they might be hurt by Bell and Darry being called up, but having McAllister to play most of the minutes and Cahill onto the bench probably exemplifies their strength in depth, which is probably one of the biggest differences between them and other teams this year.
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@george33 said in Final: Canterbury v Otago:
Pledger and Casey definitely not close test rugby maybe not even Super,
I'll bite, wtf are you on about George those 2 lads will have the zoo pumping during super, the fact of the matter is they were huge reasons why Otago made it to the big dance for the 1st time in 20 years, Canterbury were just better today came out firing in the 2nd half, knocking two young lads in their 1st full class season is just stupid
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@Grooter said in Final: Canterbury v Otago:
@george33 said in Final: Canterbury v Otago:
Pledger and Casey definitely not close test rugby maybe not even Super,
I'll bite, wtf are you on about George those 2 lads will have the zoo pumping during super, the fact of the matter is they were huge reasons why Otago made it to the big dance for the 1st time in 20 years, Canterbury were just better today came out firing in the 2nd half, knocking two young lads in their 1st full class season is just stupid
Couldn't agree maye Grooter, I just ignored him as perhaps a troll or an idiot?
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@Dan54 said in Final: Canterbury v Otago:
@Grooter said in Final: Canterbury v Otago:
@george33 said in Final: Canterbury v Otago:
Pledger and Casey definitely not close test rugby maybe not even Super,
I'll bite, wtf are you on about George those 2 lads will have the zoo pumping during super, the fact of the matter is they were huge reasons why Otago made it to the big dance for the 1st time in 20 years, Canterbury were just better today came out firing in the 2nd half, knocking two young lads in their 1st full class season is just stupid
Couldn't agree maye Grooter, I just ignored him as perhaps a troll or an idiot?
Either that or he’s going for what’s becoming a very tiresome argument of, ‘This player played in a playoff game and the team he played for didn’t win, therefore, he’s not very good.’ It’s basically a way of trying to justify you want another player (who plays for the team you support) without actually being clever enough to articulate why your favoured player is better.
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@george33 what an odd comment , i dont think anyone’s suggesting either Casey or Pledger are at All Black level atm
Kids like this is what makes the Npc exciting both of them have lit up this comp imo and the Npc is better for it
Super Rugby will no doubt be step up for both i have no doubt both of them will handle it
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@Steven-Harris said in Final: Canterbury v Otago:
@george33 what an odd comment , i dont think anyone’s suggesting either Casey or Pledger are at All Black level atm
Kids like this is what makes the Npc exciting both of them have lit up this comp imo and the Npc is better for it
Super Rugby will no doubt be step up for both i have no doubt both of them will handle it
Theres a few players in the current All Black team that hardly look world class atmPledger looks like he’ll almost certainly play for the All Blacks and if he didn’t need to spend a bit of time putting a few extra kilos on, I’d have him in there now. The All Blacks have one good half back right now. The others are ordinary.
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@ShaquilleOatmeal Hotham's not ordinary, he just needs a decent injury free run. If he gets that NZ will have three decent 9s by '27, fingers crossed.
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Most NPC titles (1976-2025) 17 Auckland
15 Canterbury
6 Wellington
3 Waikato
2 Otago
2 Ta$man
2 Taranaki
1 Bay of Plenty
1 Counties Manukau
1 Manawatu
