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[Stargazer]

HT: Canterbury 5 - 12 Ta$man

Second Ta$man try scored by Nankivel; possibly the first, too, but not sure.
Canterbury try scored by Fihaki.

[Tim]

Counties got a scrum penalty then muscled over with a maul. 7 - 7

[Tim]

BOP were on top early on, and look more skillful, but Counties' aggressive defence has them on the front foot now.

[Stargazer]

Waikato has scored against Taranaki.

Damn, watching 3 games at the same time is not working!

[Tim]

The BOP 14 has skullet dreads. Probably the worst haircut I've ever seen. Awful.

[Tim]

Shocking kick from Black gives a soft try to Counties.

19 - 7 with the kick to come.

[Stargazer]

Mitch Gibson just scored for Canterbury, despite a horror offload from Cameron in the lead-up to that try.

12 all

[Stargazer]

Bill Fukofuka over for Canterbury. Converted by Cameron

Canterbury leads 19 to 12.

[Stargazer]

@Tim Is that Joe Webber?

[Tim]

@Stargazer Could be.

[Stargazer]

It looks like Jacob Kneepkens has scored in the corner for Taranaki.

Taranaki 5 - 7 Waikato

[Daffy Jaffy]

@Stargazer It is Webber.I think this is the look he was going for -

[trooa]

Yupp BOP starting team was Thwaites, Vella, Mafileo, Leaupepe, Carroll, Blake, Kaprik, Tupe, Campbell, Black, Fuatai, Tiatia, Skipwith-Garland, Webber, Narawa. Tiatia got injured, surprisingly for me Curry came straight on at 12 rather than moving Webber in to centre.

[Stargazer]

HT scores:

BOP 19 - 21 Counties Manukau
Taranaki 5 - 7 Waikato

[Bovidae]

Taranaki has dominated possession for most of the 1st half.

Osborne looking like your typical Fijian winger. He should have scored in the first couple of minutes.

[Tim]

@Bovidae How have Roe and Reihana gone?

[Bovidae]

Roe has looked OK with what ball he has had. Box kicking well.

Reihana scored the try and has made a few line breaks. Missed a kick to touch though.

[Stargazer]

The Counties fullback just scored a very good try. Whoever plays in jersey no. 25 missed the conversion.

BOP 19 - 26 Counties Manukau

[Bovidae]

Someone scored for Waikato. 14-5.

[Bovidae]

A few Waikato changes too - left winger, fullback and TH prop.