QF - North Harbour v Auckland

[Duluth]

Auckland player of the match voting:
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/5630/auckland-motm-qf

[African Monkey]

We probably were the better team overall, but Harbour certainly weren't helped by Li and Gatland going off.

[ARHS]

Too many dumb errors by Harbour in a match they should have made safe. Deserve to lose when you do that sort of stuff in a playoff. Well done Auckland for hanging in there

Paul Williams let so much go that teams needed to play for position.

[mikey07]

@Duluth Is Paul Williams in there?

[kev]

@Mattasaurus said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

Really enjoyed that as a neutral, bloody entertaining

Really? Tight but messy, not a lot of attack, box kicking…

[Tim]

Not a great game. Harbour were shite without Gatland, but only played well for about 5 to 10 minutes. Auckland forwards took over without Gatland pinning them back. Funaki was slow as hell, Auckland forwards had about 30 to 40 minutes of decent play, and backline was very disjointed.

Harbour back three were mostly shut down.

[KiwiMurph]

Tuipulotu was sensational

[Tim]

@ARHS Real free for all out there.

[Tim]

@KiwiMurph Best player on the field in second 40.

[kev]

@KiwiMurph said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

Tuipulotu was sensational

Has he lost some weight? Looked smaller….

[Duluth]

Auckland still has not played well in a single game this NPC. Somehow we are in the semis

Hopefully some of the injured backs and Choat return

Patrick and Akira were strong. Peita must start

[kev]

@Duluth said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

Auckland still has not played well in a single game this NPC. Somehow we are in the semis

Hopefully some of the injured backs and Choat return

Patrick and Akira were strong. Peita must start

Your forwards are beasts.

But backline not doing RTS any favours. He looked lost.

[African Monkey]

@KiwiMurph Got through a lot of work after long layoff.

[Tim]

@Duluth said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

Peita must start

Ridiculous that he is not starting. Ditch the aussie work experience student.

[Duluth]

@Tim said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

@Duluth said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

Peita must start

Ridiculous that he is not starting. Ditch the aussie work experience student.

Ekuasi is better too

So frustrating

[ACT Crusader]

@African-Monkey said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

We probably were the better team overall, but Harbour certainly weren't helped by Li and Gatland going off.

I thought Auckland missed and fell off way too many tackles.

[Tim]

Hope Ta'avao is okay. That's a lot of serious knock-outs this year. Not good.

[Duluth]

@ACT-Crusader said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

@African-Monkey said in QF - North Harbour v Auckland:

We probably were the better team overall, but Harbour certainly weren't helped by Li and Gatland going off.

I thought Auckland missed and fell off way too many tackles.

Gibson in particular struggled. Choat is a far better player now

[Canes4life]

So did I hear correctly that Auckland play the winner of the Wellington v Hawkes Bay QF tomorrow?

[mikey07]

@Canes4life Yip you heard correctly