v Manawatu

[taniwharugby]

So many missed opportunities from us, Manawatu have missed 1.

[Stockcar86]

@taniwharugby said in v Manawatu:

@stockcar86 it will, the wrong way

Well Poo is my hatiest team, so I am hoping it is the other way

[African Monkey]

Northland should be out of sight but continue to give Manawatu unnecessary opportunities.

[Gunner]

@stockcar86 not fucking ours. We insist on giving these fuckers chances while missing about a thousand of the chances we've had.

[Stockcar86]

I must confess I picked the bad guys to win this one

[Gunner]

What the hell are we doing?

[taniwharugby]

@gunner trying and succeeding at losing

[taniwharugby]

We were our own worst enemies tonight...concentration lapses with so many unforced errors in scoring positions.

[Gunner]

I'm about to throw my phone at the tv.

Two weeks in a row we have given the opposition the win through dropping too much ball.

[Stockcar86]

Finally Poo bombs a try

[taniwharugby]

Ffs...we didn't deserve to win this, but should have still managed to

[J77]

So bloody poor! Back to the northland of old. We are going to need a rocket up our ass for Otago.

[taniwharugby]

@j77 not quite like the bad old days, we have done enough to actually win through multiple opportunities but have failed to close them out

[taniwharugby]

Standing soooooooo deep and static

[taniwharugby]

Ranger took that about 15m behind the gain line there and still got monstered

[Gunner]

Im just so pissed off right now.

Shouldn't be, we are used to losing.

I did call it during the first or second game, I was worried about the depth of our play and what a rush defence would do to it. We've seen the answer in the last two weeks.

[taniwharugby]

Ref miss that knock on off ranger passing off the deck

[taniwharugby]

Shit

[Crucial]

As an unbiased watcher your problems looked to be more a case of little individual moments of decision making killing you. That just got worse and worse as 'panic' slowly set in.
I can't believe how many forward passes I saw. Not so much from poor timing but from the passer trying a pass when it wasn't on.
I haven't seen other Taniwha games but I assume that in the ones you won it was the same good basic play without the headless chook moments?

[Gunner]

@crucial you got it.
Actually holding onto the ball helps quite a lot in rugby.