Auckland v Northland

[taniwharugby]

yours...no yours...

[taniwharugby]

story of Aucklands night

[KiwiMurph]

I feel sorry for Telea's horrid run with injury but he's basically Scott Gregory at this point.

[taniwharugby]

another good passage of defence...

[taniwharugby]

Northland with well over 200 tackles to less than 90 for Auckland

[taniwharugby]

seems refs dont seem to bother with neck rolls too much these days...twice Rob Rush has had one on him

[taniwharugby]

fuck...

[taniwharugby]

27-26 final score

Pick your Northland MOTM

https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/6329/northland-motm-v-auckland

[mikey07]

Anybody else the Northland prop get held into the ruck creating an clear path for Renata?

[Steven Harris]

Gutsy effort but it needed a bit more composure in those closing minutes

[KiwiMurph]

@mikey07 said in Auckland v Northland:

Anybody else the Northland prop get held into the ruck creating an clear path for Renata?

Yep Apisai very lucky not to get done for cleaning out past the ruck.

Unlucky Northland - thought they were the better team.

[Dan54]

Well that was a bloody enjoyable match. Perhaps the ref missed a bit, but rather that than hitting every detail. I thought the Taniwha were going to sneak it though.

[Stargazer]

Unlucky, Northland! Defence held until the 82nd minute.

[Kirwan]

Disgraceful refereeing performance. I feel sorry for the players to put that much effort in and have a loser not even know when a ball is out of the ruck.

Northland have awesome skills, great to watch, but Auckland got shafted in that game.

Only way to make the game safe was to win it after the whistle so that fluffybunny couldn’t affect the result.

[Bovidae]

Northland nearly held on.

Ironic that it was Renata that scored as he should have had an earlier try when Nock punched the ball out, but the ref called it a knock on.

[Steven Harris]

Thanks for the memories Rene Ranger , possibly the last time you will see the Northland legend in a Taniwha jersey .
Probably a season or 2 longer than he should played but you can’t deny his contribution in a Cambridge Blue jersey , brilliant one minute completely frustrating the next.
Thank you for your service

[Duluth]

Very cynical from Northland and it nearly paid off. Waenga is the ref you ride like that. Not sure any other ref would've allowed that offside line or the free for all at ruck. Nice lack of balls to send the other lock of so it wasn't a red card too

Great touch from Matich for the first try

Auckland game management was poor... again. Particularly when Plummer went off. Defence out wide was shit and ball security shit

I would consider playing either Plummer or McKenzie at ten in the QF. What we are doing at the moment is not working

[taniwharugby]

@Duluth that was clearly Caird that pulled that down.

[Duluth]

Missed tackles:

Auckland 9
Northland 47

Auckland wasted so many chances

These will probably get revised later but it gives a rough idea:

6 Matt Matich
5 Rob Rush
5 Tamati Tua
4 Saimoni Uluinakauvadra
3 Sam Nock
3 Heremaia Murray
3 Brady Rush
2 Jarred Adams
2 Matt Moulds
2 Remsy Lemisio
2 Liam Hallam-Eames
2 Rene Ranger
2 Jordan Olsen
2 Daniel Hawkins
1 Sam Caird
1 Rivez Reihana
1 Jordan Trainor

[Duluth]

Carry metres
Auckland 655m
Northland 376m

Post contact metres
Auckland 494m
Northland 175m

Kick metres
Auckland 622m
Northland 349m

Rucks
Auckland 134
Northland 59

Quick rucks
Auckland 80
Northland 34

Again these will probably change slightly but it really shows how badly Auckland was fucking up