QF - North Harbour v Auckland

Tim

Weather has been absolutely awful this week. Really hope the conditions are good tomorrow night!

Unfortunately, the Metservice predictions have been basically random numbers this week.

JK

@Tim Tomorrow should be good and light winds. Unleash the backs!

Tim

A perfect evening on the Shore, which is easily the best part of New Zealand. Should be a great game.

Duluth

A perfect evening on the Shore, which is easily the best part of New Zealand. Should be a great game.

Conditions are good for Harbour's style. The best back three in the comp will be hard to stop

I'm still picking a reversal of the round robin result: 36-26 but this time to Harbour

Chris

Interesting change for Auckland
Hickey starting,Plummer to 12 Evans to the bench.

KiwiMurph

@Tim Hickey 10, Plummer 12
, Lam 13, RTS 14

"Late change for Auckland with Hickey at 10"

More like

"Team is as @Nogusta suggested 4 days ago".

KiwiMurph

interesting question - is that a knock on against Funaki?

Mattasaurus

NH scrum looking to be in trouble early

Duluth

3 Auckland scrums, 3 penalties to Auckland

KiwiMurph

Pretty average game.

Tim

@KiwiMurph very scrappy

Tim

@Duluth Mayhew not a tight head, and up against quality opposition.

KiwiMurph

Because Pugh can't control the ball at the back of the scrum Auckland miss out on a scrum penalty.

Inspired selection Alama......

African Monkey

Auckland should have had a penalty but Pugh decided to pick it up from the base of the scrum for some bizarre reason.

African Monkey

Blake Gibson has missed a few tackles so far.

Chris

Weak tackle by RTS on Stevenson.

Tim

Funaki in slow motion tonight.

KiwiMurph

Weak tackle by RTS on Stevenson.

Still goes too high too often.

Chris

@Chris said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

Weak tackle by RTS on Stevenson.

Still goes too high too often.

Yeah he misses quite a few going to high.

taniwharugby

With that scrum, Auckland should be much better than they are.

The Silver Fern