Canterbury v Auckland

[Duluth]

Bridge

[Steven Harris]

To be honest its crap rule ..Tupaea is out of rugby for 3 months for getting cleaned out by a dog act and both these infractions are both YCs
Everything thats wrong with rugby right there

[KiwiMurph]

George Bridge conspiring not to score.

A story as old as time.

[African Monkey]

Plummer needs to go into halfback and box.

[Donsteppa]

An awful play from Drummond, but it works out for Canterbury in the end.

[Steven Harris]

Hard enough to beat this mob with 15 on 15 , but when you give up 2 YCs ..Mountain just got higher..

[KiwiMurph]

I think that's the game.

Not very smart for Auckland to kick to touch in my opinion - Cantebrury has been launching very well from lineouts.

[Bovidae]

TJ and Hames are obviously joined at the hip at Sky. Painful to listen to, even as a neutral.

[Duluth]

Plummer needs to put more pressure on the ref. The 50/50’s are going one way (not talking about the 2nd YC)

8-2 penalty count so far

[Chris]

Hartford having a tidy game for his 2nd start has good vision for space out wide and has kicked well.

[Stargazer]

@Steven-Harris said in Canterbury v Auckland:

To be honest its crap rule ..Tupaea is out of rugby for 3 months for getting cleaned out by a dog act and both these infractions are both YCs
Everything thats wrong with rugby right there

No, they weren't. That's why Swain got cited. He should have received a red card.

[ACT Crusader]

@Duluth said in Canterbury v Auckland:

Good start

Thought Auckland were all over us in the first 10 minutes. Forcing us into errors.

Then we started to play a little better field possession and our set piece started to hum.

Some of these rugby players need to watch less league because I swear it’s their immediate reaction to knock the ball out when it’s in the ingoal area, even though it’s been an illegal play for eons.

[Chris]

@Stargazer said in Canterbury v Auckland:

@Steven-Harris said in Canterbury v Auckland:

To be honest its crap rule ..Tupaea is out of rugby for 3 months for getting cleaned out by a dog act and both these infractions are both YCs
Everything thats wrong with rugby right there

No, they weren't. That's why Swain got cited. He should have received a red card.

Should have been a Red no matter what, you can not drop you knee onto a player's head.
Dumb by Christie hanging on but a Dog act by Gibson.

[ACT Crusader]

@Donsteppa said in Canterbury v Auckland:

An awful play from Drummond, but it works out for Canterbury in the end.

He’s been poor. A massive handbrake on our attack. It’s almost like he slows up when he gets the ball.

[Nepia]

Jaysus, big head Bates looks exactly the same now as he did when he played. Is he a secret Whitelock?

[Stargazer]

@Chris It probably would have been a red if Gibson's knee had connected with Christie's head, but I don't think it did.

[Nepia]

@Chris said in Canterbury v Auckland:

@Stargazer said in Canterbury v Auckland:

@Steven-Harris said in Canterbury v Auckland:

To be honest its crap rule ..Tupaea is out of rugby for 3 months for getting cleaned out by a dog act and both these infractions are both YCs
Everything thats wrong with rugby right there

No, they weren't. That's why Swain got cited. He should have received a red card.

Should have been a Red no matter what, you can not drop you knee onto a player's head.
Dumb by Christie hanging on but a Dog act by Gibson.

Did he actually drop it on his head, I know the Cantab cheerleaders commentators said he did but it didn't look like it hit the head to me (happy to concede the point if G&GR style pics and diagrams are used to show it did).

[Winger]

21-10 Canterbury at HT. 21 unanswered points

[Steven Harris]

@Chris Christie should have been penalised straight away would have ended right there ..

[ACT Crusader]

Woohoo a droppie