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    New champs in the Ozzie version, how embarrassing to have Fiji as your 'national' champs!

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    @antipodean said in NPC Final - Auckland vs Canterbury (free entry):

    @stargazer said in NPC Final - Auckland vs Canterbury (free entry):

    @antipodean You can solve that by letting the team with the two injuries play with 14 men during the scrum, and then allowing a fifteenth player on after the next stoppage.

    No. You're missing the point. A team may elect to swap out a tight forward for more pace.

    Anyway, well done Auckland. Brilliant final.

    You can solve that by ruling that the replacement player must be a prop, if both hookers are injured.

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    Canterbury forwards, especially tight five, brilliant in 1st half.

    Auckland's young players showed huge heart to come back and tie the game in the second half.

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    @stargazer said in NPC Final - Auckland vs Canterbury (free entry):

    @antipodean said in NPC Final - Auckland vs Canterbury (free entry):

    @stargazer said in NPC Final - Auckland vs Canterbury (free entry):

    @antipodean You can solve that by letting the team with the two injuries play with 14 men during the scrum, and then allowing a fifteenth player on after the next stoppage.

    No. You're missing the point. A team may elect to swap out a tight forward for more pace.

    Anyway, well done Auckland. Brilliant final.

    You can solve that by ruling that the replacement player must be a prop, if both hookers are injured.

    And if you don't have a prop left?

    This isn't difficult to understand.

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    @antipodean They could allow bringing on a prop who has been replaced.

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    MoM: Ioane, followed by Faiane, and Romano.

    Good cameo from Fukofuka. His pass and clearing kicks are quicker than Ruru's. He's a good player.

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    @stargazer said in NPC Final - Auckland vs Canterbury (free entry):

    @antipodean You can solve that by letting the team with the two injuries play with 14 men during the scrum, and then allowing a fifteenth player on after the next stoppage.

    Can you imagine how much extra fucking around at every stoppage that would entail? For that reason alone it's a terrible idea.

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    Fuck yeeesssss!!!!!!!!!

    What a game.

    What a team.

    Akira after the first halftime was awesome!!

    Sotutu, Olmstead, Sosense the reserve hooker.

    Nanai comes good.

    Cheeeehoooooo!!!!!!!

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    @anonymous Only after a scrum.

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    @stargazer said in NPC Final - Auckland vs Canterbury (free entry):

    @antipodean They could allow bringing on a prop who has been replaced.

    What if they're injured? Instead of trying to make something fucking complex, accept it's a simple solution.

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    With 1:30 left the rain came over my house and sky decided it was too hard to get a signal dammit.
    Great game. Congrats Auckland, great comeback.
    Good for the comp to have them win IMO.

    Shit i'd rather have Akira AND Seu in the ABs ahead of about 5 of the Highlanders loose forwards. Would take Plummer ahead of Cameron too.

    Biggest moment of the game was Ruru getting dragged.

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    @antipodean It's an unfair solution though. Two injured hookers and two injured props. Theoretical situation, but then you'd go for a (replaced) lock.

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    @pukunui Damn right.

    I'll repeat what the greatest coach of all time, Graham Henry, said:

    With a bit of love from the All Blacks Akira could be a world great.

    He does things that are almost Lomu-esque

    See his ball carrying at the end. Three players had to bring him down (from a standing start), and he still recycled pretty quickly. That created the miss-match that Fukofuka and Nanai exploited.

    Auckland could easily have folded after 30 mins, but they didn't and Ioane and Faiane lead from the front.

    Who wouldn't want Ioane coming on for the AB's with 30 mins to go?

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    @pukunui Seu was good value. Hope he can stay injury free for the Chiefs.

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    Congrats Auckland. Great game by the forwards in the second half to hold the ball and grind out territory.

    I have been a homer for Akira and I know he made plays that made a difference in the game. However the dude needs to get in the game more. He looks a little heavy and is out of shape. Walks to multiple rucks and does not have enough touches on the ball for my liking. Potential up the wahzoo but I now accept what the selectors want to see. Increased work rate. Simple as.

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    @stargazer he was rubbish all day. He’s a lazy fat prick. Holmstead was a beast today

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    @chchfanatic Wouldn't say he was a beast but a pretty influential player.

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    @stargazer said in NPC Final - Auckland vs Canterbury (free entry):

    @antipodean It's an unfair solution though. Two injured hookers and two injured props. Theoretical situation, but then you'd go for a (replaced) lock.

    Are you being deliberately obtuse?

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    @chchfanatic Yep, that's why we lost. Ioane just didn't get us back into it in the 2nd half. Clearly he was just useless. Not like wonder athlete Whitelock with his tackles that don't slow the ball, or 1m flop to the ground ball carries.

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