Northland v Canterbury

[Stargazer]

Clear headclash, players signal it immediately, but ref ignores it. Not good.

[African Monkey]

@taniwharugby Correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to recall prop Nick White kicking a goal from the sideline in that game haha.

[Canes4life]

Good to see Canterbury keeping up the trend of starting midget locks.

[Gunner]

Bloody hell, the amount of times we’ve tried little chips and grubbers this year and ended up under our own posts... very nearly happened again.

[Gunner]

Discipline has been good until now.... have the penalty floodgates opened?

[African Monkey]

The handing has been horrendous from both sides so far.

[Gunner]

Same old shit from our backs and especially Hohaia, fumbling passes putting us on the back foot.
How hard is it to get the bloody basics of rugby right?
Now they score off the back of it.

[Gunner]

For fuck sakes, game over.

I don’t remember one bounce of the ball going our way this season.

[kev]

Basic mistakes.

[Gunner]

That ball came out of the scrum, should have been a penalty to northland against Douglas for kicking it back in.

And a bullshit penalty that last one was against Matich, especially when the ref let 2 Canterbury guys fly in off their feet a couple rucks earlier.

Copy and paste from any other Northland thread this season.

Basic mistakes, dropped balls, poor discipline.

[taniwharugby]

Concentration lapses costly...still nothing on attack.

Body shapes of our forwards vs theirs...pro v amateurs

[kev]

Get the ball, hold the ball, win the contact, build pressure.

The small mistakes stop momentum and turn over ball. Starting to lose penalty count as well.

Hope we score early and make a game of this.

[taniwharugby]

@kev yep, another early and they will run away with it.

We must score early, especially as we will run out of steam sooner

[Gunner]

@taniwharugby said in Northland v Canterbury:

still nothing on attack.

J Deb standing flat footed and deep as buggery, passing to a flat footed forward who gets steam rolled by the defence, or a back who fumbles it. Not a good formula to try and attack from.

[Gunner]

Been penalised off the park in the last 15 minutes.

[kev]

Mistake after mistake give territory and try

[Gunner]

Leiua on for Hohaia?

[Gunner]

He can’t get up and go again like that, come on ref open the other eye you cnut!

We’re our own worst enemy but this prick is starting to run a pretty close 2nd.

[African Monkey]

Whetu Dougas is a very conservative captain haha. Don't know why he doesn't just go to the corners instead of taking these shots at goal.

[taniwharugby]

Pathetic officiating in that passage...