v Taranaki

[taniwharugby]

@j77 especially with that wind.

Doesn't look like any changes.

[J77]

Shit we can’t see our phase play through. Always an inevitable error to wreck it

[taniwharugby]

How fucking long for knock on advantage ffs

[J77]

Another entry call. Third one today!

[taniwharugby]

That looked like it missed from my seat

Fuck yes

[Dice]

Nice. Good win.

I didn't really watch the game, just saw the end result.

[BOPRED]

Great win.

Taniwha. You called in the fist post. the lads certainly gave you 80 minutes.

Great effort.

I love NPC footy

[Tim]

Good game from Tom Robinson.

[Tim]

@taniwharugby haha, I was thinking that too.

[J77]

Thank christ for that! Robinson was immense.

[African Monkey]

Great effort. Definitely the better side today led by Tom Robinson. Not usually a fan of Jordan Hyland but he looked very sharp with ball in hand. Probably the best I've seen him play.

[J77]

Great to nail one like that, as that more often goes against us.

I’m thinking we’ve got so much more to offer if we can tidy up certain parts of our game. Had a feeling we could have dismantled Taranaki good and proper if it weren’t for errors at crucial times.

Robinson, Matich and Goodhue stood up. I must say Jacobson was quite impressive too.

On the flip side Debreczeni needs to sharpen up, and Tua needs to play with the confidence we know he has. He tidied his game up in the second forty to be fair, but the first spell he was timid.

Want to see Hyland involved more. Makes yards every time.

Can’t fault the ticker though. We got the win we badly needed.

[kev]

Man -we give away soft as tries and then grind out a win. You could say that was the performance we were looking for, in the second half.

[kev]

@kev the thing is we always match sides for physicality. This time we played 80 on both attack and defence. Got to sort all the basics - forcing the odd pass, exits still not perfect but better.

[kev]

@j77 thought Jacobsen played tighter than Pryor and forced less passes. Maybe switch them. If we can maintain that physicality then he might be a better starter.

[Machpants]

Just wanna say WHOOOOOP!

[Machpants]

LOL reminds me of @taniwharugby's sig "That's the most Northland thing you'll see today" Scotty Stevenson

[nzzp]

Stoked for the Taniwha, great result for your boys. Well done.

[Gunner]

Whooop whooop.

But bloody hell. Thought I had recorded the game and just sat down to watch without knowing the result and the game is no where to be seen in my planner, FFS!!!

Watched the highlights, looks like we really kept Taranaki gifting them their two tries.

Shit, we desperately needed that result. Well done fullas.

[taniwharugby]

Well fuck, what a second half.

1st riddled with errors and dumb decisions, second much more composed and to steal it at the death, wow!

I think only when Hawkins nailed that sideline conversion a few years back v HB have we managed to steal a game like that, and TBH too many times has it been us having the game robbed at the death.

Tom Robinson must be having some super coaches take a close look at him with a third strong performance in a row.

The usual suspects stood up again though, Matich, Nock, Ranger, Wright, Douglas, Goodhue et al but also Olsen looked the part leading the team, Jacobsen looks right at this level too, our scrum was solid all game bar 2 we struggled with, which feels like a concentration lapse after dominating thier scrum on the line and then getting pushed back.

I'll chuck up a poll later.

But I'll say it once more...F.U.C.K Y.E.S