Southland v Bay of Plenty

[Stargazer]

It's looking a bit wet in Invercargill.

[Stargazer]

Great try from Karpik. You could see that one coming; had way too much space.

Took BOP 25 minutes to score.

[Stargazer]

Now a try to Southland. Running forwards ....

5 all

[Stargazer]

Try Pleasants-Tate in the corner!

Southland go into the break with the lead!

HT: Southland 12 - 5 BOP

[Donsteppa]

The sort of game that we always manage to make hard work of....

[Donsteppa]

That's better.

[nakosi]

is anything good happening in this game? an absolute shitstorm , my eyes are hurt

[Donsteppa]

Hands like feet at the wrong times tonight.

[Donsteppa]

15 - 12 to the Bay. 0/3 off the kicking tee.

[nakosi]

great way to prepare semifinals for bop .

[Donsteppa]

MMac you cheat!

A thoroughly deserved yellow card.

[Stargazer]

Stupid from Mmac. Expect BOP to run away with it soon.

[Donsteppa]

Excellent!! That's why they subbed Tom Franklin on...

[Donsteppa]

This time the domiant scrum gets the penalty.

[Higgins]

And finally some commonsence. The red player jumped into that and deserved all he got. Should barely a penalty in my books. Well done referee although you will probably get a lot of crosses against your named from those white coated clip board holding assessors!

[KiwiPie]

Was at quiz night and sounds like it was a good game to miss. On the bright side we won the quiz.

Name 10 All Blacks to play 90 or more matches. (Tests and non-tests). I got 10 and I'm sure you will too!

[Snollygoster]

What a messy performance but hopefully the kick in the pants they need before the semis. Will be interesting to see if Rotorua or Tauranga get the Semi. I'm hoping we get Manawatu instead of Taranaki but after last night a win against either is not a guarantee.

[Bovidae]

How has Alaimalo being playing? I only saw some of Southland's first game against Northland and haven't seen them since.

[Stargazer]

@Bovidae Looked very good, last night. Strong lad, fast (for a forward) and excellent work rate. Promising. Definitely, someone to keep an eye on.

[Bovidae]

@Stargazer I note he was moved to no.8 for the recent games.

I hope Charles stays in the Waikato/Chiefs system and ironically he would have probably got an opportunity with Waikato with the injury to Seu and unavailability of Jacobson. A year of playing M10 Cup will be good for his development.