Tasman vs North Harbour

[Chris B.]

Who has stolen the Ta$man team and sent these Keystone Cops to play instead?

Scrum struggle is perhaps not completely surprising, but Moli''s poor lineout throwing has been very costly.

Lots of pretty uncharacteristic mistakes with the small amount of ball we've had.

[Stargazer]

@Chris-B Ta$man are definitely missing Makalio!

[KiwiMurph]

@Stargazer and Lomax

[Steven Harris]

@Chris-B I think the loss of Lomax has been been quite noticeable on that right hand side..Harbour are definitely up for it and have packed one of the better scrums all season

[Chris B.]

All of Lomax, Makalio, Kane Hames, and Atu Moli! And Hugh Roach!

Good demonstration of how a dominant scrum can win a game for you - but, Ta$man has been poor in plenty of other aspects. Don't think Will Jordan even got to touch the ball in the first 30 minutes.

Need to wake up in the second half.

[Chris B.]

FFS!!!

[Nepia]

Sheesh, Collapser was lucky not to get two penalties there, one for holding on to Hall, then for coming into the ruck from the side.

He must have too much mana for the ref to penalise him.

[Stargazer]

This game, clearly, isn't over yet.

[Chris B.]

Better - Ta$man looking better with a bit more ball.

Big Leicester doing well!

[KiwiMurph]

@Stargazer too many errors by Harbour this half.

[Stargazer]

Maybe a knock-on?

[Duluth]

Matt Cooper levels of bias in the commentary

[Stargazer]

I don't know why those seagulls annoy me so much ...

[Stargazer]

Leicester Fainga'anuku is struggling. Some kind of injury.

[African Monkey]

Taufua's been poor in this half.

[Stargazer]

@African-Monkey I was just going to say he has been excellent, haha. He receives a lot of bad passes though.

[Steven Harris]

@Stargazer Taufua despite a couple of errors still has great workrate ...,and that’s the requirement for the modern loose forward..!

[African Monkey]

@Stargazer Fair enough. I just feel he's made crucial mistakes and been caught running too high at times.

[KiwiMurph]

So the Harbour guy gets binned for a penalty try but Ta$man don't get a player carded when they concede a penalty try.

[Nepia]

@Steven-Harris said in Ta$man vs North Harbour:

@Stargazer Taufua despite a couple of errors still has great workrate ...,and that’s the requirement for the modern loose forward..!

Not if it's ineffective workrate.