Tasman v Northland
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In all the time I have been supporting the Taniwha , I can’t believe the number of injuries we have had ..have showed some heart in the first 30 minutes,but this could get ugly..
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Great defence from Wil Grant
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How the hell did the official miss the forward pass from Hunt..?..gee when your not having a ton of luck with injuries..you don’t need the official getting things wrong
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@Gunner I think this 2nd half is going to be damage limitation, the guys are playing with a bit of heart, but I suspect Ta$man will overwhelm us in the 2nd half,.like the look of Wil Grant...,and then we lose Gregory and Caird hopefully not to serious ..hopefully the injury to Debrezini’s ankle is not to bad..god it’s sucks to be a Taniwha supporter in 2019..!
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Poor read from Renata Roberts..this could get ugly
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@Steven-Harris I switched it on to see that...switched off again.
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52-6 in the end to Ta$man, just really disappointed that we let the score blow out in the last several minutes.. Ta$man have such a strong squad, and when you able to bring on a Wyatt Crocket there’s going to be no let up at scrum time..and that’s pretty much what happened , got dusted at scrum time ..and the sheer weight of possession told on a team that had tackled all day..
Congratulations to Wil Grant on debut..thought the forwards battled away gamely and did well to slow a lot of Tasmans ball down , they actually kept Liam Squire in check in the main,but unfortunately it was a total gulf in class...
As for Blake Hohaia, he’s been the biggest disappointment of the season..he just makes so many poor decisions in the midfield , he had a hand in at least 4 of Ta$man tries today with 2 poor kicks which ended up in tries, a horrible offload that saw Wil Jordon go ninety metres , and fell for a dummy which saw O’Malley run 40metres for a try..I will cut Roberts TeNana a bit of slack, but he sprinted off his wing at least 3 x times , 2 which resulted in tries. -
@Steven-Harris said in Ta$man v Northland:
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Blake Hohaiaour midfield,he’sbeen the biggest disappointment of the season.THe other part of the problem wasnt even there today.
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@taniwharugby some things need to to be changed.
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Very pleasant afternoon at Traf. Park. As Steven Harris mentioned, a bit of a pity for the Taniwha that the floodgates opened a bit in the final 10 minutes.
Freddie has a bit of advice for our former compadres on Steve Tew's hit list:
Keep yourself alive, yeah
Keep yourself alive
It'll take you all your time and money
Honey you'll survive -
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@Nath-Jac yeah and the injury ward this season seems unprecedented, we have been without half a dozen starters pretty much all year and upto 9 at other times...I expect maybe gameplans havent been suitably adjusted to allow for the rookie players whose experience/ability isnt upto expectations.
Losing half a team of your best players would kill any team at this level, bar probably Ta$man.
Thats not to say I still think we should have been better, but losing erodes confidence...
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@taniwharugby agree, all sides have injuries. I don’t think we have had injuries in the midfield. So yes while we have more than our share this year, we have not been up to standard even allowing for this.
