Canterbury v Hawkes Bay

[Winger]

HB lucky. Still in with a chance

Danny Toala. WTF

[Squirrel]

The spirit of Luke McAlister lives!

[taniwharugby]

@Higgins I reckon it's your fault...

@Higgins said in Canterbury v Hawkes Bay:

Breath easy guys, we have not lost any of the "close games" so far this season

With almost 15 to go....

[Winger]

@Nepia said in Canterbury v Hawkes Bay:

Toala you dickhead.

HB just needed to keep on doing what they were doing. Anyway good for my tipping I guess

[Grooter]

Danny Toala did he have money on Canterbury 🧐

[Nepia]

Congrats to Canterbury. Dodgy as fuck try to get them back in the game (not their fault) but they were clinical after that.

[Grooter]

Chris your prodigal son Dom Gardiner received man of the match 👏

[Stargazer]

Well f*ck. That's all.

No, that's not all. Why did the ref deny us a quick tap, only to explain to Canterbury why it was a penalty to the Bay?

Sam Smith has scored two tries already this season from quick taps. Who knows, he might have done it again if he caught them napping?

[Chris]

@FakatavaAllBlack said in Canterbury v Hawkes Bay:

Chris your prodigal son Dom Gardiner received man of the match 👏

He is playing well mate he is too slow for a LF but good at lock doing the hard stuff he’s only 21.

[Stargazer]

So our injury ward also becomes a bit too full, now also losing Caleb Makene, Lolagi Visinia and Lincoln McClutchie. If both of Makene and McClutchie don't make the next game, the Ranfurly Shield defence against Southland, it's likely to be our 19-year old puppy - Harry Godfrey - who'll have to start at 10. Heaven forbid Tiatia returns to play pivot.

[Nepia]

@Stargazer said in Canterbury v Hawkes Bay:

So our injury ward also becomes a bit too full, now also losing Caleb Makene, Lolagi Visinia and Lincoln McClutchie. If both of Makene and McClutchie don't make the next game, the Ranfurly Shield defence against Southland, it's likely to be our 19-year old puppy - Harry Godfrey - who'll have to start at 10. Heaven forbid Tiatia returns to play pivot.

I assume Toala has concussion too after that ending. If not he should sit out next week as a stupidity punishment.

[Stargazer]

@Nepia Yeah, that was so dumb! Total brain explosion. Still rather him than Sapsford or Higgins at 12.

[Nepia]

@Stargazer said in Canterbury v Hawkes Bay:

@Nepia Yeah, that was so dumb! Total brain explosion. Still rather him than Sapsford or Higgins at 12.

Normally me too - but my anger at the forward pass and Toala stupidity hasn’t subsided yet. 🤣

[Stargazer]

@Nepia I'm sure he'll hear it from his team mates and coaches, too!

[Winger]

@Stargazer said in Canterbury v Hawkes Bay:

So our injury ward also becomes a bit too full, now also losing Caleb Makene, Lolagi Visinia and Lincoln McClutchie. If both of Makene and McClutchie don't make the next game, the Ranfurly Shield defence against Southland, it's likely to be our 19-year old puppy - Harry Godfrey - who'll have to start at 10. Heaven forbid Tiatia returns to play pivot.

A must win game so Wellington get a challenge. The team haven't had a lot of challenges in recent years

[Stargazer]

By the way, we're really missing Lowe on the wing. His reads the game so much better than most of our backs. He also tackles better than both Visinia and Sapsford.

[Stargazer]

@Winger 8 November 2020 was Wellington's last challenge.

[Higgins]

@Stargazer And they were in for a real trouncing after about 25 minutes until we eased off massively and they got a couple of late tries to put some respectability into the score, for them anyway.

[Stargazer]

@Higgins I remember only last year's game, but we won that 2020 game 34 - 18.

[Stargazer]