Northland v Taranaki
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@Machpants all about the money money money
Guess he is trying to redeem himself by putting out the cash...
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@taniwharugby A fitting haka for Ross. Great to see that commitment on the field as well. We have always had the ability to hit hard but now we some to be making more tackles and the defensive line is working better.
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@kev yeah our defence is largely pretty good so far, but we still defend too narrow, we seem to get flanked too often. I do wonder if that last try naki got was because I think it was Rush still walking across in the in-goal area with Leilua I think, thinking he had someone outside him.
Also on watching the replay, what was his card for, I hear the ref say repeated infringements against us, but he looked just onside, and more so than the 2 guys immediately inside him at any rate and I think Atkins and Hohaia were off side on the other side of the ruck, and ref blew up before he could be pinged for a ruck infrongment, so assume he was just the player the ref decided was off side?
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Everything bar that wide defence is coming on nicely this year. Loving the ability to fight for 80 minutes as well.
Really pleased with the fact that we can still look like we’re in second gear but still push on and put teams to bed. Shows that the fitness levels have increased in the off season. Was evident looking at the shape Ross Wright is in, and Te Whata-Colley to a lesser degree.
As Gunner said we should take Southland down this weekend, but definitely shouldn’t be banking any points before the game has started. Southland have shown their defence is very solid, but haven’t shown much on attack. If we unlock the D we should rip them to shreads.
As for individuals, I’m still not overly sold on Hohaia at 12 and would like to eventually see Gregory there with Leilua and Macilai on the wings. Would like to see Johnny Cooper get a crack at the back, he looked good there in a shit performance against Ta$man.
The rest of the team look quite balanced, and even though I haven’t been a fan of Hawkins in the past, he hasn’t done much wrong the last two weeks.
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@taniwharugby I thought the ref blew everything too quickly. Everyone struggled to adjust.
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@taniwharugby said in Northland v Taranaki:
@kev cheers, havent seen full replay to see what had happened, live I just thought it woulda come back to Ranger bobbling it.
Gotta say, the local DJ at
Okara ParkLowe WalkerTollSemenoff Stadium needs kick up the arse too!!1 - music was too loud (plus those pesky kids were playing rugby on my lawn)
2 - went on far too long, several times it only faded out as the team receiving a kick was catching itAbsolutely this. It was awful music and awful timing.
The worst part wasn’t even the music, it was the time he was advertising something, went on a good 10 seconds after the game had re-started.
Also, this is nothing to do with the ground announcer but there were a group of about 3 or 4 absolute tools sitting front of us, constantly yelling out rediculous insults to the Taranaki players and team in general. They thought they were being funny, but they were a total bloody embarrassment! I felt like telling them to put a sock in it!
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@taniwharugby said in Northland v Taranaki:
@Gunner they were just along from us, fucksticks... @J77 wouldn't go sort them out 🤣
I was killing those guys with my eyes TR. Fuckwits ain’t the half of it!
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@J77 said in Northland v Taranaki:
@Gunner it’s the same play list from over 10 years ago I think!!
My son pointed that out, I said you have to pay to play songs, so maybe they're cheaper or they've already paid for those ones, keep using them
