Otago v Auckland

[Bones]

@African-Monkey I can't really see how it's technique. How many legal tackles does he do a game? It's brain farts.

[booboo]

@Bones said in Otago v Auckland:

@African-Monkey I can't really see how it's technique. How many legal tackles does he do a game? It's brain farts.

Well he seems to have said flatulence regularly.

Random thoughts without reading the thread:

Auckland wasteful. Should have nailed another 20 odd points.

Could whoever have picked the jersey colours for the officials tried a bit harder to make them more different to Auckland?

We've found Sotutu's first weakness: seemed to have some issues with control at the back of the scrum.

[Toddy]

Fuck that tackle was ugly. Hopefully he goes for long time.

[KiwiMurph]

@booboo said in Otago v Auckland:

We've found Sotutu's first weakness: seemed to have some issues with control at the back of the scrum.

Yep - was apparent during Super Rugby too.

[Bovidae]

@KiwiMurph said in Otago v Auckland:

@booboo said in Otago v Auckland:

We've found Sotutu's first weakness: seemed to have some issues with control at the back of the scrum.

Yep - was apparent during Super Rugby too.

A weakness with most no.8s nowadays. Mitchell and Brooke were so good at this.

[Machpants]

It's pretty rare for scrums to have the ball at the back and keep it there

[Toddy]

@Machpants Usually due to the ref yelling USE IT!

[Machpants]

@Toddy said in Otago v Auckland:

@Machpants Usually due to the ref yelling USE IT!

Yeah, Wrong imo

[African Monkey]

@Bovidae Akira Ioane is probably the best at it funnily enough, but obviously seen as more of a 6 these days.

[Tim]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/provincial/300106089/hard-to-believe-sio-tomkinson-has-been-working-on-his-tackle-technique

[nzzp]

@Tim the headline says it all.

Not sure what he has been working on