Auckland v Waikato

[Bovidae]

Waikato take on Auckland at Eden Park in Auckland on Thursday night, kick-off is at 7.35pm.

Toby Smith (Hamilton Old Boys)
Mike Mayhew (Hautapu)
Joshua Iosefa-Scott (Melville)
Tim Bond (University)
Laghlan McWhannell (Hautapu)
Adam Burn (Hamilton Old Boys)
Jahrome Brown (Melville)
Jordan Manihera (Hamilton Old Boys)
Jack Stratton (University)
Fletcher Smith (University)
Sevu Reece (Hamilton Old Boys)
Dwayne Sweeney – Captain (Morrinsville Sports)
Bailyn Sullivan (Hamilton Marist)
Mosese Dawai (Otorohanga)*
Tyler Campbell (University)

Samisoni Taukei’aho (Fraser Tech)
Ayden Johnstone (Hautapu)
Sosaia Fale (Hamilton Old Boys)
James Tucker (Hamilton Marist)
Jono Armstrong (Hautapu)
Kylem O’Donnell (Melville)
Matty Lansdown (Fraser Tech)
Quinn Tupaea (Hamilton Old Boys)

*=Waikato debut

Waikato Team Named to Take on Auckland

Waikato has named their side to face Auckland at Eden Park, in the Battle of the Bombay s this Thursday night in week 3 ...

[Stargazer]

That was great team try for Auckland. Chip kick from Manu, finished by Trainor. Plummer misses the conversion.

Auckland leads 5 - 0.

[nzzp]

@stargazer said in Auckland v Waikato:

That was great team try for Auckland. Chip kick from Manu, finished by Trainor. Plummer misses the conversion.

Auckland leads 5 - 0.

and one miss and Waikato are in. 7-5

[nzzp]

Was about to write a grumpy post abiout the ref making some weird calls at the breakdown, but then saw on replay he was probably right. Despite TJ and the comms. Player looked to have won the ball on his feet, and then fallen over... hence a waikato ball.

[booboo]

Glancing at this occasionally.

When I do Nanae looks sharp, Akira looks a beast.

Entertaining but more skill errors than I'm used to from Super.

[Dice]

We look way more talented than them, but discipline and a few calls not going our way keeping this close.

[nzzp]

@booboo said in Auckland v Waikato:

Glancing at this occasionally.

When I do Nanae looks sharp, Akira looks a beast.

Entertaining but more skill errors than I'm used to from Super.

Yep. Still suprisingly physical - I"m enjoying it.

Was thinking of wandering down to the Pork to see it, but family commitments ...

[nzzp]

@dice said in Auckland v Waikato:

We look way more talented than them, but discipline and a few calls not going our way keeping this close.

I'm seeing much more commitment from Auckland this year. Good to see.

[booboo]

That was a maul and a half

[nzzp]

@booboo said in Auckland v Waikato:

That was a maul and a half

I got a wee chubby

[Tim]

An Auckland team that can maul!

[Dice]

@tim From 15 out too.

[Dice]

And another one.

Now a scoreline that reflects how this game is going.

Waikato can only get into our half through penalty kicks to touch.

[African Monkey]

Good finish to what was a pretty average half from us. We kept them in it with our poor discipline and lineout at times. Defence has been good however apart from Rayasi's slip with our loose trio and Robbie Abel leading the charge.

[KiwiMurph]

Brilliance by Papali'i on halftime. He is some player.

Fukofuka had a bit of shocking first 20.

Tight 5 looking handy

[African Monkey]

Fukofuka's gone from our best last week to our worst tonight.

[Tim]

You can see why Mils said that Papali'i would be a "foundation" player for the Blues.

[nzzp]

Some good kicking from Auckland tonight.

[shark]

What's Plummers' season goalkicking percentage I wonder? All I ever seem to see is him missing.

However, Waikato are dross. I think Lincoln Uni would give them a dust up. Not one player close to being a regular SR starter in this line up.

[Stargazer]

@shark said in Auckland v Waikato:

What's Plummers' season goalkicking percentage I wonder? All I ever seem to see is him missing.

However, Waikato are dross. I think Lincoln Uni would give them a dust up. Not one player close to being a regular SR starter in this line up.

That's probably because they have very few SR players in the squad. Prop Toby Smith is probably the one with most SR caps.