Canterbury v Auckland

[Duluth]

@Steven-Harris Hopefully Alama is gone. His selections have been poor

[Duluth]

Auckland player of the day voting:
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/5596/auckland-motm-v-canterbury

[Chris B.]

@Chris Yeah - I see he'll be 36 soon, too.

Drummie and TTT are still only mid-late 20s - seem like they should be older - could stick around for 4 or 5 more years, but I think Hotham is the way of the future.

[KiwiMurph]

Ouch.

Hope Niko and George are ok

[Chris]

Fuck me that’s reckless by Jones

[Winger]

@KiwiMurph said in Canterbury v Auckland:

Ouch.

Hope Niko and George are ok

Agree. But a poor and dangerous tackle by Jones. Likely red card

[number9]

Jones doesn't know the rules is forever getting penalized.

[Stargazer]

I hope both players are okay. At least Bridge can walk off the field. Sad to see Jones being stretchered off.

Fully deserved the red though. No malice, but a really bad/clumsy tackle.

[Winger]

Well done Auckland to stop the lineout drive in its tracks

[Nepia]

@Chris said in Canterbury v Auckland:

@Nepia said in Canterbury v Auckland:

@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).

Yep you can see Christie’s head bounced when he was hit.

I've already told you the evidential requirements, G&GR it or it's not true.

[Winger]

Auckland backline attack looks a bit too flat. Too flat and lacks any variation doesn't it.

[KiwiMurph]

Haha Vest.

[Winger]

38 - 20 FT

Canterbury seem to find a lot of good 1st 5's

[Duluth]

Just like every other Auckland match this year 30-40mins of good play. The rest full of soft penalties and errors

[Kirwan]

@Duluth said in Canterbury v Auckland:

Just like every other Auckland match this year 30-40mins of good play. The rest full of soft penalties and errors

On the good side, Funakis kicking game is excellent. Was enjoying that.

[Stargazer]

@Kirwan He has improved a lot, this year. Great to watch him play!

[Stargazer]

[ARHS]

Just watched this. Don't often get annoyed by the commentary but this one grated. The lass singing the praises of Niko Jones tackle and jackal technique when the replay showed how blatantly illegal it was...and was again moments later... The free pass for Tom Christie and his horribly cynical act. Players taken out well beyond the ruck. A head shot totally ignored. Forward passes left unnoticed. Mr Waenga should have been taken to task over all the non calls but wasn't.
Some of the player skills were well below par too. Backline passing not good and Fihaki had another substandard performance. But the Cantab forwards made up for it. Harford looked very useful too. Funaki had his moments for Auckland. Moan over.

[Stargazer]

@ARHS What was Christie's "horribly cynical act"? I must have missed it.

[KiwiMurph]

@nzzp said in Canterbury v Auckland:

We're going to get reamed.

We are not playing well, unless there's a step change, it could get ugly out there. Frustrating year to watch these guys, there's talent, but not pointed in the right direction.

Good prediction.