Waikato vs Canterbury

[Yeetyaah]

Bloody good stuff Waikato

[Hooroo]

Good game of footy to watch and cherry popped with the win!!!

[Tim]

Wow. Gonna be a tight competition this year. Now someone has to catch Ta$man.

[Steven Harris]

Congratulations to Waikato, well deserved at the end of the day..
Gotta say i was a bit underwhelmed by Brett Cameron..I think the Blues dodged a bullet with his non signing ..

[Hooroo]

Where is our first five from? He looks quite good.

[Machpants]

@Hooroo said in Waikato vs Canterbury:

Where is our first five from? He looks quite good.

Hurricanes

[Steven Harris]

Fletcher Smith, ex Otago..Rivers Reihana is a Northland boy from Kamo schooled at St Kentigern in Auckland

[Chris]

@Steven-Harris said in Waikato vs Canterbury:

Fletcher Smith, ex Otago..Rivers Reihana is a Northland boy from Kamo schooled at St Kentigern in Auckland

Smith went to school at CBHS

[Tim]

@Steven-Harris Hadn't heard that. Don't rate him either. I suspect he'll peak at the Otere Black level.

[Dice]

Waikato's attack was very good despite having two props in their backline.

Whitelock's defense was not the best in this game.

Waikato's number 8, Murray Iti, was very good.

Fletcher easily outplayed Cameron.

Tupaea is a stud. Him and ALB in the Chiefs midfield is something to look forward to.

[KiwiMurph]

@Steven-Harris said in Waikato vs Canterbury:

Congratulations to Waikato, well deserved at the end of the day..
Gotta say i was a bit underwhelmed by Brett Cameron..I think the Blues dodged a bullet with his non signing ..

Wait what? Blues tried to sign him? FFS.

[DrivingMaul]

I got to chat with the ref after the game

[Yeetyaah]

@DrivingMaul Nice interview mate. Should have asked him how that pass wasn't ruled forward though

[Bovidae]

@Yeetyaah said in Waikato vs Canterbury:

Fuck Dwayne Sweeney is lazy. Ball gets thrown at the ground and he's he closest player and he doesn't even go for it. Piss me off.

Sweeney definitely stifles the backline. I want to see Tupaea-Sullivan.

Really happy with this win as I expected Canty to run away with the game with 20 to go. But we showed some ticker to stay in the fight.

Waikato definitely need to improve their defence which was too passive. The scrum problems surprised me, and I wonder if the locks contributed to this. The Waikato team that ended the game had plenty of players under 20 years old so that is a positive for the future.

[DrivingMaul]

post match interviews with Mitchell Drummond on his 50th cap and Hamilton Burr on his debut

[Yeetyaah]

@DrivingMaul bloody hell, man on a mission. Good stuff mate.

[Bovidae]

Any idea on the reasons for the late changes? The match programme does have Te Whare starting and Shalfoon on the bench. Muszekenyedzi was listed to be playing in the curtain raiser.

[Chris B.]

@Hooroo said in Waikato vs Canterbury:

Where is our first five from? He looks quite good.

Fletcher Smith is from Nelson - born here and went to Nelson College until CBHS poached him.

[Hooroo]

Just coming back to this thread to remind me there is the odd bit of happiness in rugby

[Yeetyaah]

@Hooroo Yeah going to the Waikato game and seeing them win made the blow of last night a bit softer. Was the first Waikato game I had been to in 12 years and it rained and we had to move and ended up neat a bunch of Cantabs and the bantz were great.