Hawke's Bay v Counties Manukau (RS)

Higgins

9 degrees, barely a cloud in the sky and not a breath of wind, it promises to be a brutal HB winters night tonight. Definitely not shorts weather!

Higgins

Twenty minutes later and it is now marginally below 8 degrees. Wrap up warm @Stockcar86 @Number-10 @Billsy111 if you are going to slum it like me out on the bank where you get a real good read of the way the game is going! Just kidding it will be too dewy and my shoes will get wet so will be up in the Rodney Green Centennial Stand if I can get in there otherwise my season ticket is somewhere in the Graham Lowe Stand.

Edit: A recheck of the temperature gauge out on the back porch ten minutes later and it is now a noticeably chillier 6.5 degrees - Brrrrrrrr Thank goodness I am expert in smuggling in my hip flask.

Number 10

@Higgins

Higgins my dear chap, the only place to be is in a corporate box don’t you know?

Stockcar86

@Higgins said in Hawke's Bay v Counties Manukau (RS):

Twenty minutes later and it is now marginally below 8 degrees. Wrap up warm @Stockcar86 @Number-10 @Billsy111 if you are going to slum it like me out on the bank where you get a real good read of the way the game is going! Just kidding it will be too dewy and my shoes will get wet so will be up in the Rodney Green Centennial Stand if I can get in there otherwise my season ticket is somewhere in the Graham Lowe Stand.

Edit: A recheck of the temperature gauge out on the back porch ten minutes later and it is now a noticeably chillier 6.5 degrees - Brrrrrrrr Thank goodness I am expert in smuggling in my hip flask.

I've got covid symptoms, so my seat in Harris stand is empty tonight. Cheering on from my sickbed

Yeetyaah

Lessshgo Counties

Grooter

Lincoln!

Nepia

McClutchie in after some sustained pressure from the Pies.

Duluth

Counties making plenty of tackles. They’ll gas badly in the 2nd half if this keeps up

..and there’s the first HB try

Nepia

TJ is going to be hard work this match, it's 10 mins in and I've had to double check that we're not playing Ta$man.

Hopefully Smithy and Pod can balance out his fluffing of ~~Tasm~~ Counties.

Yeetyaah

Waste of a good run from MMT

Nepia

@Yeetyaah said in Hawke's Bay v Counties Manukau (RS):

Waste of a good run from MMT

Yep, bad habits learnt at the Highlanders.

O'Keefe "advantage over", Counties player goes out, "ah scratch that, penalty back halfway down the field". Grrr.

nzzp

that head high penalty against Counties on the HB tryline looked a bit soft.

Nepia

@nzzp said in Hawke's Bay v Counties Manukau (RS):

that head high penalty against Counties on the HB tryline looked a bit soft.

The 3rd guy in was straight around the neck.

Nepia

Magpies playing like they're the challengers at the moment.

taniwharugby

@Nepia THE HB guy was almost sitting down.

antipodean

Tiatia decision making coming to the fore again.

Nepia

@taniwharugby said in Hawke's Bay v Counties Manukau (RS):

@Nepia THE HB guy was almost sitting down.

That makes it worse, he was a midget to start with. In fact he could have stayed out of the tackle and they would have got the 5m scrum.

Nepia

@antipodean said in Hawke's Bay v Counties Manukau (RS):

Tiatia decision making coming to the fore again.

Yep, we have two other players I'd rather have back there. It's like Kurt Baker all over again.

Steven Harris

Good contest thus far

Nepia

Counties kick a penalty, 6-7 Magpies.

Counties playing the better and smarter rugby at the moment.

The Silver Fern

Hawke's Bay v Counties Manukau (RS)