Auckland v Manawatu
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Unbelieveable from the Turbos ..a bunch of no names deal to a team stacked with Super Rugby players ..upset for the ages ..!
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A few dodgy calls in that last 5mins. Auckland with so many soft penalties throughout didn’t deserve any luck
Auckland player of the match voting:
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/6216/auckland-motm-v-manawatu/ -
A few Auckland thoughts
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how the fuck does the far touchie miss a clear knock on - wtf do touchies look at? Ridiculous
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Abysmal auckland discipline - some of the dumbest penalties you will ever see
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For all the good things Leni Apisai does he does equal part shit things - i wish he would fuck off to be honest. Get a young player in.
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Peyton spencer looks good
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Get up Manawatu. I hope the Canes sign up Vijoen and Nalaga on full time contracts after being on training squad contracts last year.
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@KiwiMurph said in Auckland v Manawatu:
how the fuck does the far touchie miss a clear knock on - wtf do touchies look at? Ridiculous
Don't shoot the messenger, but the radio commentators mentioned that it wasn't a knock on, but that one of the Auckland players played the ball on the ground. IIRC the signal of the ref corresponded with that, but not sure.
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Good wake up call for Auckland tbh. Discipline was atrocious and they paid for it, and yes, that was a blatant knock on at the end, but Auckland were 2nd best from about 20 mins onwards and deserved to lose.
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@Stargazer That's what the ref ruled, but it was a knock on in the tackle and was missed.
But as I said, Auckland were 2nd best for most of the game, a lot due to their own poor discipline and got what they deserved.
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Was a good result from a neautral point of view, do enjoy underdog getting up. And the Manawatu on a run of wins now as @Canes4life says wouldn't mind seeing Canes take Viljjoen etc on fulltime.
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@Stargazer said in Auckland v Manawatu:
@KiwiMurph said in Auckland v Manawatu:
how the fuck does the far touchie miss a clear knock on - wtf do touchies look at? Ridiculous
Don't shoot the messenger, but the radio commentators mentioned that it wasn't a knock on, but that one of the Auckland players played the ball on the ground. IIRC the signal of the ref corresponded with that, but not sure.
Nah I just re-watched it to make sure.
Two separate acts
A clear knock first - then following Auckland player pinged for playing it on the ground.
But the first act is a crystal clear knock on.
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Just had a peek, he was in U20 tournament team named at end of comp too. Seems he went to high school in Aus and then came to a Christchurch college then to Manawatu. Is he contracted to Crusaders?
I realised U20s didn't capture players, used to for Fiji but WR stepped in? -
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@Dan54 said in Auckland v Manawatu:
I realised U20s didn't capture players, used to for Fiji but WR stepped in?
It's the result of a change in the World Rugby eligibility rules that came into effect on 1 January 2018. From that date, national rugby unions could no longer nominate their U20s team as their "next senior national representative team". As you'll remember players can be captured by a country's "senior national representative team", "next senior national representative team" and their senior national representative sevens team.
