Thought Sotutu looked bloody good, but by gee hope we don't take it as indication for test team, his picking up one handed out of scrums may not be so easy playing international rules.

Papalii
Sotutu
Ioane
Suafoa

i went for sotutu, was very prominent early with ball in hand

@Crucial also he let the English first five waltz past him with BBS yellow card.

@broughie said in All Blacks MOTM v Scotland:

@nostrildamus who are you talking about? Coles? Are you testing my attentiveness?

Sorry, rather than testing you I am undoing myself, not enough sleep, meant Codie I think...

Fucking Scooter man. As much as you want to get on him for a multitude of reasons, it's just so hard to because of that workrate .

Savea an obvious choice despite the egg-dive. Paps great, both hookers awesome, Whitelock with some wicked tackles. Amd Smith learned to run again.

Fun!

I'm astounded the love Dalton is getting.

Came on, bustled, made a few tackles. That's his job. Did fuck all Cane didn't when he was on. We gave up metres and a try when he was on. ALB arguably had more impact, made 5 tackles and he's a centre.

The stats on this game are weird.

I only voted for Plummer, looks so much more comfortable at 12.

after the Manawatu game:
Reihana 3, Macilai 2, Rush 1, Matich 1

Rush wins our MVP for the season quite easily, with the Canterbury games scores not even in

Season total
Rush 15
Reihana 8
Moorby 7
Murray 7
Tua 6
Goodhue 5
Matich 5
Tu'ungafasi 4
Mau'u 4
McNamara 2
Milo-Harris 2
Macilai 2
Hallam-Eames 2
Nock 1
Te Whata Colley 1

@Duluth said in Auckland MOTM QF:

Hard to give it to any backs

Akira and Tuipulotu were excellent in the middle of the field. Peita for his cameo showing Pugh how it should be done

Peita is such a busy player, has to start surely?

Peita, Beehre, Taavao.

Funaki and AJ were good in the backs.

@kev for me, it's been Macilai's defence that has stood out this year, easily his best season defence-wise and still offers an attacking threat.

@nzzp said in All Blacks MOTM v Australia II:

@voodoo said in All Blacks MOTM v Australia II:

Seems I'm the only person that feels Smith is worthy of a top 3 spot, and other than Clarke, he was the only guy left to not get a vote.

Youse are crazy!

he suffers from sustained excellence. His normal is massive for us - but he also isn't quite what he was.

How you'd vote for Taylor over Smith I do not know

Yeah, I get that - but I also thought his 1st half in particular was noticably commanding, and such a step up from his recent outings.

The other thing I always notice about Smith is how fast he exits the field after being subbed - he motors and looks fresh as a daisy like he hasn't just played 66mins of rugby!, Bloody show off

@Chris-B said in All Blacks MOTM v Aussie I:

@nzzp Just to be clear, this is last week's poll. 🙂

oh holy shit. You're right.

As you were, man, that's a bloody sneaky move.

Ta$man MOTM vs Northland

Levi Aumua - Votes 1,000! 🙂

Ummm so many mixed performances

Rayasi kept creating chances. Beehre was solid despite subbing relatively early. Lam was mostly good apart from one drop

Hodgman was close, gets through so much work. Funaki would’ve got a vote but that card changed the match

After Canterbury: Rush 3, Hallam-Eames 2, Reihana 2

Season
Rush 8
Moorby 6
Tua 5
Murray 4
Reihana 4
McNamara 2
Milo-Harris 2
Mau'u 2
Goodhue 2
Tu'ungafasi 2
Hallam-Eames 2
Nock 1
Te Whata Colley 1

I don't know about Ahio cost us 3 scrum penalties. Choat, Hodgman and Gibson for me.