BOP v Canterbury

bayimports

@Duluth Burke seems to be their preferred first five now. Cameron can't make the starting line-up anymore.

It will be good to see Grace back in action, this weekend.

Not for me it wont, another black mark against Fozzie..keep those ABs away from playing my BoP team ha ha

Chris

@Duluth said in BOP v Canterbury:

1 DANIEL LIENERT BROWN
2 SHILO KLEIN
3 TAMAITI WILLIAMS
4 MITCHELL DUNSHEA
5 SAM DARRY
6 REED PRINSEP (Cpt)
7 TOM CHRISTIE
8 CULLEN GRACE
9 EREATARA ENARI
10 FERGUS BURKE
11 JOSH MCKAY
12 RAMEKA POIHIPI
13 NGATUNGANE PUNIVAI
14 CHAY FIHAKI
15 ANDREW KNEWSTUBB

16 SCOTT MELLOW
17 FINLAY BREWIS
18 FLETCHER NEWELL
19 LUKE ROMANO
20 BILLY HARMON
21 MITCHELL DRUMMOND (V Cpt)
22 BRETT CAMERON
23 DALLAS MCLEOD (Blazer Game)

https://www.crfu.co.nz/newsarticle/96707?newsfeedId=459306

Burke I have a lot more confidence in than Cameron, hopefully he is the First Five option on the bench for the Crusaders.

Duluth

1 Jordan Lay, 2 Kurt Eklund, 3 Jeff Thwaites, 4 Stan Van den Hoven, 5 Kane Le'aupepe, 6 Joe Johnston 7 Mitch Karpik 8 Sam Dickson, 9 Luke Campbell, 10 Otere Black (C), 11 Joe Webber 12 Chase Tiatia, 13 Mathew Skipwith-Garland, 14 Emoni Narawa, 15 Kaleb Trask

Reserves: Nathan Vella, Tevita Mafileo, Ross Geldenhuys, Scott Curry, Zane Kapeli, Leroy Carter, Dan Hollinshead, Cole Forbes

Tim

@Duluth TTT injured?

ARHS

Surprised to see Tupe, Mewett, Carroll and Ware missing for a big game like this. Otherwise very happy with the lineup on form. TTT has been very good on defence, but Black seems to have more time and confidence outside Campbell and Carter, and the rest of the backline benefits. I like having Garland at centre and the threats on the wings. This might be a very good game.
Johnston and Van Den Hoven have looked useful, and hope to see them continue to grow.

Dice

BOP looking good so far.

10 - 0 to BOP.

Duluth

Looking even better now

15-3 BOP

Dice

Canterbury are finding it hard to get go forward on attack. They've lacked power players for a few years now.

Duluth

Good call for the penalty try. One pass and they would score

22-3

Yeetyaah

Lmao Canterbury shitting the bed. Why didn't Webber give the ball 🤦

Stargazer

This ref means serious bad luck for Canterbury. Totally missed a BOP forward pass in the lead-up to that penalty try.

Having said that, Canterbury is mud and that has a lot to do with the coaching. The players are good enough; with a better coach they'd perform better.

Stargazer

Cam Stone and Pickerill definitely competing for the "worst NZ ref" award. NZR should look for better refs to replace them.

KiwiMurph

What's the story with the BOP 9? He's having a whale of a game.

Yeetyaah

Fuck why'd I pick Canterbury to win

Yeetyaah

Lmao Stone is so shit. Canterbury playing on the ground big time.

Stargazer

@Chris Is McAlister out for the season? Klein is a terrible thrower, but his replacement is even greener.

Canes4life

With Ta$man and Auckland still to play, Canterbury’s playoff hopes might go out the window in this game. They will also be in a fight for relegation if Harbour gets up against Auckland aswell.

Very strange indeed.

Yeetyaah

@Canes4life sounds good to me.

Dice

@Canes4life Otago might not be an easy game for them either.

Toddy

How is that not a yellow card after those five in a row.

The Silver Fern

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