Northland v Southland
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@FakatavaAllBlack Matt is a great bloke never really fully hit his potential throwing darts has always been a problem .
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Not bad from Northland. A bit to tidy up - lineout, some wayward passing in midfield middle of second half. The D on Southlands 2nd try not great but overall outstanding D. Physical and fit this year. Loved Rush’s try. Got hit but 2nd powerful effort got him over. Heremaia has great skills - nice quick delivery on that long range try. Bench was good but still struggle when Hawkins comes into the game. - solid but so slow. He will be on the pine for some time with that high hit.
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Game of 2 halves!!
We were pretty good for most of the 1st half, defence solid again, some huge hits gong round, Ofa, McNamara, Rush all throwing themselves about!!
2nd half was messy, Goodhue was excellent when he came on, and the hits kept coming, more from Ofa, Mcnamara, Rush, Goodhue, CTC.
Loved a play late when CTC got the ball and went to the outside of the Southland player, he brings so much energy.
BUt alot of how we won today, built off the defence, there were long periods under the pump and then to run almost 100m to score, what was a sensational try....I saw the cleanout live and was very concerned they'd come back to it, didnt look great, but I think he was low enough and did go more under, but we will see.
Reihana really staring to grow into his role...then there is Hawkins, given he had a red last year for the same thing, and he had to step up to do that, it wouldnt surprise me if he gets a longer than 3 week break.
Aside from the final quarter, our disipline is another thing that is pleasing, last year we were getting pinged off the park.
HUge work rate from so many players: Moulds, Ofa, Craig, Rush, McNamara, Macilai (probably his best game d wise)
LIked the little touches from Kalani Going, hope to see more of him, Tua looks strong and quick, needs to be a bit more secure going into contact but liking his play.
Heremaia Murray, man I like this kid! Looks so calm and assured, makes good decisions!
Josh Moorby, man I hope Northland have his signature already, cos you know Waikato and Wellington will be chasing him hard.
Poor old Scotty! He was copping it from everywhere today, a group of always noisy fans last year gave him shit while wearing blue and kept shouting pass it to Scotty last year, had the same call this year!
Plenty to work on, but a BP win, on a lovely Northland afternoon, I'll take it!
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Guess we will find out in 2 days if Adams has been cited and banned...
So potentially losing Adams and Ofa for next week, and Hallam-Eames went off injured, so hope he is good.
We may have Apoua back though
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@taniwharugby Adams has recieved an off field YC ..dont ask me how that works , its too much to ponder 🤔🤷🏻♂️😂
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@Steven-Harris ok so all good 👍
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@Steven-Harris said in Northland v Southland:
@taniwharugby Adams has recieved an off field YC
It blows my mind how much the TMO and commentators miss. Th cleanout happened right where the ball was - right in front of the ref.
I'd be fascinated to be a fly on the wall for commentators/TMOs to see what they are actually looking at.
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@KiwiMurph I've watched that several times, to me, the ref looks directly at it, then play streaks away and he lets it run.
Was a play later in the game, where the ball bobbled, Rush busted through, had 30m to go to an all but open try line (my money was on him getting there) but ref called it on a dubious looking double knock on...IMO you let that run, but immediately check it, as the big screen shot I saw at the game it looked like no knock on by us.
Refs have a tough job, not made at all easy by the rules and framework they have in place.
Its like going to play golf after having lessons...so many thoughts going through your head about what you have to do to nail it down the middle; before you slice it out of bounds!
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@KiwiMurph said in Northland v Southland:
@Steven-Harris said in Northland v Southland:
@taniwharugby Adams has recieved an off field YC
It blows my mind how much the TMO and commentators miss. Th cleanout happened right where the ball was - right in front of the ref.
I'd be fascinated to be a fly on the wall for commentators/TMOs to see what they are actually looking at.
One of the Northland coaches (possibly Veale?) praised it in the half time interview. Talked about the defence and the aggressive clean out the lead to the try
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@taniwharugby said in Northland v Southland:
@KiwiMurph I've watched that several times, to me, the ref looks directly at it, then play streaks away and he lets it run.
Was a play later in the game, where the ball bobbled, Rush busted through, had 30m to go to an all but open try line (my money was on him getting there) but ref called it on a dubious looking double knock on...IMO you let that run, but immediately check it, as the big screen shot I saw at the game it looked like no knock on by us.
Refs have a tough job, not made at all easy by the rules and framework they have in place.
Its like going to play golf after having lessons...so many thoughts going through your head about what you have to do to nail it down the middle; before you slice it out of bounds!
I can understand the ref missing it with everything going on.
But what's the point of the TMO? What else would they be looking at during that exact moment?
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@Duluth guess the only thing in Adams' favour is he was very low, but he only needed to set/drive, rather than blow over like that, it was only a half back
@KiwiMurph I have no arguments, despite me not wanting it looked at, I think it warranted a look...am a bit surprised it only got an off-field Yellow, too, fortunately the 9 doesnt look like he suffered a head knock, so that is a positive!
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@taniwharugby said in Northland v Southland:
@Duluth guess the only thing in Adams' favour is he was very low, but he only needed to set/drive, rather than blow over like that, it was only a half back
@KiwiMurph I have no arguments, despite me not wanting it looked at, I think it warranted a look...am a bit surprised it only got an off-field Yellow, too, fortunately the 9 doesnt look like he suffered a head knock, so that is a positive!
To me Adam’s technique was pretty good, low and aggressive to a player looking to steal. The trouble is you have a small halfback going over the ball with head moving down and the clean out is risky because of that. To your point he probably only needed to set because it was a halfback but making that decision quickly when it could have been a loose forward is increasing the risk losing the contact. Looked worse than it was because he flattened him. If I am the coach I am wanting him to do that everyday of the week - just maintain his technique, stay low and try to avoid the head.
