v Southland

[kev]

@taniwharugby no missed that.

[kev]

Man we are playing crap. Hold onto the ball.

[nakosi]

shame on both sides

[kev]

@nakosi we will improve.

[nakosi]

Poor kicking, lost lineouts, forward passes, lots balls at contacts, dumb penalties .

cut my stream.

[taniwharugby]

Dropping our standards

[taniwharugby]

Woeful refereeing and play

[kev]

Really missed our two locks tonight.

[kev]

Southland score from territory. We need to get turn ball and hold onto it.

[kev]

@kev and we turn it over. Shit.

[kev]

@kev Shit. Missed touch from penalty. Matt Wright dinks the ball on.

[African Monkey]

Well there ya go. Finally a bit of ball leads to a try.

[taniwharugby]

Thank fuck that is over...there is winning ugly then there is winning like that

[Crucial]

@taniwharugby said in v Southland:

Thank fuck that is over...there is winning ugly then there is winning like that

Way to fuck up the tipping as well.

[kev]

Ok flush that down the toilet. Not the best but 5 points, and wiith injuries we made it through. Some of our senior players need to take control of these type of games - Matt Wright made a few mistakes, Debrezceni should be carving off more territory with his kicking.

In the second half we just needed to grab the ball and hold onto it to get into the game.We started poorly and looked down on energy, made mistakes, lineout was a rabble.

Thought Gregory was really good tonight, Nock started to run and was physical, Tu’ungafasi ran really well, Kara is such a good link player, Matich always does the work.

[kev]

@taniwharugby Pickerall doesn’t seem to have a feel for the game. How do you penalise Highland for stopping, turning around and then have a guy jumping over him ?

[taniwharugby]

@kev he was pretty poor I thought, missed an awful lot, allowed them to lean all over the rucks, but we were pretty poor.

Never been so down after a bonus point win...huge opportunity to make a statement and show our quality but instead we got dragged down by Southland....oh well

[Gunner]

That was bad, real bad.

5 points, move on.

I think training this week should involve standing at a switch, any switch and practising turning it on, over and over and over... all week!

[kev]

@taniwharugby our set piece was off. Lineout was very poor, and scrum was good in first half but lacked a bit of power in second. We allowed them to turn ball over at ruck time in second so needed to carry a bit better. Confident we will play better next time out.

[African Monkey]

@taniwharugby It's not necessarily a bad thing. You don't really want to be at your absolute best against Southland. Take the 5 points and move on. Hopefully Robinson and Goodhue are back soon.