Northland v Taranaki
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@taniwharugby Hallam Eames has gone very well
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Fark these league rules
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Luatangi Li with his 7 minute bronco and given the fact the he’s only just got on the field was to slow to make a tackle on the halfback ..that 2 minutes must have taken a lot out of him
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Hohaia looks like a cart horse …
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@steven-harris said in Northland v Taranaki:
Luatangi Li with his 7 minute bronco
How’s the fitness of the rest of the squad? Thought a few players were looking gassed late in the first half
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@duluth said in Northland v Taranaki:
@steven-harris said in Northland v Taranaki:
Luatangi Li with his 7 minute bronco
How’s the fitness of the rest of the squad? Thought a few players were looking gassed late in the first half
Disappointing
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I can’t believe the Johnny Cooper I saw as an 18 year old running around for Ponsonby steering them to a Gallagher Shield title looking like he it would only a matter of time before he played for Auckland has turned into this ..he could play wing or fullback and was in amazing shape ..
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@steven-harris said in Northland v Taranaki:
I can’t believe the Johnny Cooper I saw as an 18 year old running around for Ponsonby steering them to a Gallagher Shield title looking like he it would only a matter of time before he played for Auckland has turned into this ..he could play wing or fullback and was in amazing shape ..
These players are better than this.
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@steven-harris said in Northland v Taranaki:
@kev if Hohaia has been bad ,Gregory has been next level worse
Everything in this team is just way off. You could see it in the first game - intensity, skill levels , speed.
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what a shambles that 2nd half was!!
There is no point me mentioning Hohaia, cos I done clocked that game!!
Gregory, one of his worst shifts, accuracy was poor, hands like feet!
I did like Tu'ungafasi, although he spent alot of the 1st half being tended by the physio, so no surprses he went off.
Manu was looking good, until the 42nd minute.
Gotta say they looked flat the moment they came out of the sheds, and then Grant put up that kick that put us straight under the pump, then a few phases later, bye Manu.
Nock was looking good, Reihana does look a class act.
I like Hallam-Eames, busy and abrasive, Rob RUsh was pretty good out there too, boy he is a unit.
That red was the game changer, thought we were still in it, but we lacked the energy in the 2nd spell, Caird sparked them when he came on, but too little too late.
Tua looked handy in his few minutes, Leilua looking the best he has, then got injured, didnt really see what happened, thought may have been an HIA?
So Manu likely 3 week break, wonder if now they put in a call to Matich, although he probably wouldnt want to join now!
2 games, 2 Red cards...yikes!!
Oh, the big screen is a superb addition to the ground, although means we all saw a couple of forward passes the ref didnt haha
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@taniwharugby four games in ( including 2 pre season ) and l would comfortably say we are the worst prepared team in the competition. No doubt in my mind that we have the talent but players look lost. Playing on emotion with big hits only gets you so far. The rest is about preparation - player development, contracting, pre season work ( like fitness? ), selections, game day plans. Year after year we under perform. It’s seems we have an organisational culture accepting of low performance - she will be right. Well she is not right. There are some amazing Northland players out there yet we struggle to put a team on the field that performs - for some forty years at least it seems. That’s no accident.
We have some good players to come back in with Caird ( looked good in his cameo ) Pryor, Brady Rush and Big Red. But we also have some good players underperforming in Gregory and Cooper, and Hyland so obviously playing out of position. Some questionable signings (players that have not performed before) seem to have left us with no options. Turning this around mid season is going to be very hard if not impossible. I’m going to be watching every game as usual but the hope is gone already and it feels like deja vu.
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@kev said in Northland v Taranaki:
Pryor, Brady Rush and Big Red
thing is, no idea when any are available.
Which brings me to a point I was discussing with @J77 and @Steven-Harris which shows incredibly poor planning.
Loosies for 2021
Manu, Momoedavu, Mau - rookies
Rush - played a handful of minutes for Northland
Pryor, who I assume was thier main man for 7, not available until week 5?? Granted, they cant expect he would pick up a ban, but he was playing over seas, heard his ban was 3 weeks, still shit planning somewhere
McNamara - his game in pre-seaosn was his first in 6 weeks or so
Robinson - only an injury away from making the ABs, and now out with head injurySo then we come back to Matich, who for some reason, isnt even good enough to make the squad!! He is EXACTLY the type of player we have missed these last 2 weeks, workrate, accuracy and the energy he brings.
As to comments about fitness, as I said to @Steven-Harris earlier in the week, they need to be writing fitness KPIs into contracts of some of these guys, and if they dont meet them by the end of club footy RR, they are gone.
Last year I thought we looked fit, we had plenty left in the tank in the 2nd half of most games last year, this year, plenty gassed after 40.
