Hawkes v Bay of Plenty - Shield Match!

[Number 10]

@snollygoster

Matt Garland is stuck in Australia - his father is not well.

[Nepia]

@snollygoster said in Hawkes v Bay of Plenty - Shield Match!:

Its still a pretty handy team given that two ex All Blacks can come on as reserves.

I'm hoping that one of those ex ABs comes on early ... unless of course Vella is worse at lineouts than him?

Would Garland even be a starter if he was available?

[Donsteppa]

A bit surreal. First Shield challenge in years, but no plotting of road trips and no home crowd either.

Nevertheless, it’s underway!

[Duluth]

Good start by the bay

Found an overlap relatively easily after a few composed phases

[Steven Harris]

Looked like move right out of training ground book

[Duluth]

Visinia is such a frustrating player. Sometimes he looks world class but then makes basic errors

[Stockcar86]

How bad is the commentary - have twice called a player as McClutchie when it was Ili, and once when it was Visinia

[Duluth]

Class from Selby-Rickit

[Steven Harris]

Crazy HB hit back ,and now BOP with another training ground move ..gonna be one of these games

[Yeetyaah]

Beauuuuuutiful set piece

[Donsteppa]

@steven-harris said in Hawkes v Bay of Plenty - Shield Match!:

..gonna be one of these games

And sure enough, now about to be 14 - 12.

[Steven Harris]

@donsteppa hold on to your seat ,Try to new Moana pacifika loose forward Funaki..

[Donsteppa]

Punting practice was something we don’t seem to have done a lot of during Level 4 & 3…

[Steven Harris]

Tough call against the Magpies..thought the player was clearly isolated

[Donsteppa]

How good from Ratave!

[Steven Harris]

@donsteppa like a ball of muscle ..

[Yeetyaah]

Like a hot butter through knife

[Tim]

That was weak defence.

[Steven Harris]

Who do you reckon has the wind ..?

[Donsteppa]

Magpies having a dominant period of play for the last few minutes or so.