NPC Div 2 - Final rounds

[Duluth]

TEAM	PLAYED	POINTS	STILL TO PLAY
Otago	8	29	Counties (h)	Manawatu (a)
Wellington	7	28	Manawatu (a)	Taranaki (h)	Waikato (h)
North Harbour	7	19	Canterbury (a)	Ta$man (h)	Northland (a)
Manawatu	7	15	Wellington (h)	BOP (a)	Otago (h)
BOP	8	13	Manawatu (h)	Hawkes Bay (a)
Northland	8	9	Southland (a)	Harbour (h)
Southland	8	6	Northland (h)	Ta$man (a)

Semi Finals

Harbour and Manawatu both have a relatively hard run in.
BOP might be able to squeeze in despite having less games to play?

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Wooden Spoon

If Northland can beat Southland this round then Southland will finish last.. but it is in Invercargill

[Snollygoster]

@Duluth There's been some major upsets across the board so nothing is too predictable but as they stand now could possibly be how they finish but I wouldn't put money on it.

[taniwharugby]

hopefully our win will have broken the shackles, and even if we don't tip over Southland, we get NH in Whangarei on the back of their 3 in 8 days as well, so possibly a 2nd bite at trying to get off the foot of the table.

All bar 1 year so far, 19 points has been the 4th place

[KiwiPie]

Ridiculously we're still in with a chance of Top 4 with a Won 1, Lost 7 record. Unfortunately it looks like we may need to win our last 2 games though. Has any side ever had 5 x 4 try bonus points for just a single win?

[taniwharugby]

@KiwiPie yeah based on 19 points being the cut off, if we finish with 2 BP wins, we could theoretically make it too, although Manawatu & NH should both finish higher than that....the good and bad thing about a 7 team play off system I guess

[Duluth]

I see the wooden spoon has actually been shared around. Last place since the two division format:

2011 Ta$man
2012 Harbour
2013 Harbour
2014 BOP
2015 Northland

[Pepe]

@Duluth Yay!, that means it's Southland's turn then......

[JK]

Dunno....could be a back to back just like the mighty harbour side of 2012-2013

[taniwharugby]

@JK said in NPC Div 2 - Final rounds:

Dunno....could be a back to back just like the mighty harbour side of 2012-2013

nah, I prefer the plan from @Pepe so don't you go ruining a good plan!

[Duluth]

Team	Points	Last Game	Points Difference
Wellington	30	Waikato (home)	8
Otago	30	Manwatu (away)	16
Manawatu	22	Otago (home)	0
North Harbour	19	Ta$man (home) and Northland (away)	-17
Bay of Plenty	18	Hawkes Bay (away)	-18
Southland	11	Ta$man (away)	-139
Northland	10	North Harbour (home)	-82

Date	Match	Venue
12-Oct	North Harbour v Ta$man	Albany
14-Oct	Manawatu v Otago	Palmerston North
15-Oct	Hawke’s Bay v Bay of Plenty	Napier
15-Oct	Wellington v Waikato	Wellington
16-Oct	Ta$man v Southland	Nelson
16-Oct	Northland v North Harbour	Whangarei

Wellington and Otago will have home SFs
Manawatu, NH & BOP going for the last two spots

Northland can still escape the wooden spoon. In fact if Southland get nothing against Ta$man, Northland would just need two bonus points against NH

[KiwiPie]

@Duluth At least we'll know what we have to do before our game. If both Harbour and the Turbos win then we can relax.

Not that we should be anywhere near the top 4 with a 2/7 win/loss record. Hurrah for bonus points!

[Hooroo]

@KiwiPie It's it's even more bizarre that it is likely you will be in the semis with that record. (3/8) as Hawkes bay are dreadful.

BOP has look pretty good to watch for the most. I reckon yuo're going to towel them

[Hooroo]

Oops! I didn't see that Harbour is also playing Northland for 5 points

[Crucial]

Cruden is going to play for the Turbos v Otago.

[KiwiPie]

Harbour's draw last night leaves both them and Manawatu within our theoretical reach as of right now!