Moana Pasifika v Highlanders

[Machpants]

Best supporter ever

[Duluth]

Impressive MP scrum. Could be important in this weather

[Damo]

Heck of a start from MP and the Highlanders look to be a bit hungover after the rip roaring game last week.

[Machpants]

reminds me of playing as a kid in swamps, except I bet it's warmer!

[Damo]

That scrum PK looked to go the wrong way.

[Landers92]

Our scrum struggling yet again… it’s not like our head coach was a former all blacks prop or anything. If we are struggling against the Moana scrum then we are doomed against the crusaders scrum next weekend.

[Stag]

Horrendous decision at that scrum by OKeffe, and right in front of him🤦‍♂️

[Stag]

@Landers92 yep, even with how they have been travelling the Crusaders scrum is probably the best in the comp.

[Landers92]

@Stag said in Moana Pasifika v Highlanders:

Horrendous decision at that scrum by OKeffe, and right in front of him🤦‍♂️

Yup. Problem is it doesn’t seem to matter who the ref is, always seem to be getting pinged

[KiwiMurph]

Ironically a much better watch than the game under the roof last week

[Stag]

Does Okeefe wear contact lenses that might be affected by the rain?

[Machpants]

Nicely worked try, kicks are a good call in this weather, even if you can't collect

[KiwiMurph]

Beauty of a try that one

[Stag]

Nice piece of skill

[SouthernMann]

I've got a $10 mulit on JRK to score 2+ tries, te Hiwi and get one and the Highlanders to win. Punt has a return of $1100. Need the lads to feed te Hiwi short of the line.

[Damo]

Miracle that we are up at half time after not playing very well. I will take that.

[Bovidae]

TJ gets the Ta$man reference in but is a year too late about Norris.

Great atmosphere there.

[frugby]

This is going to be a good finish I think. Highlanders bench might see the scrum dominance tip the other way which can only bode well for us...

Might be the best I've ever seen Garden-Bachop play, he was electric in the first half.

[Duluth]

@Bovidae said in Moana Pasifika v Highlanders:

Great atmosphere there.

It'd be great if they could they could play their home games in Tonga & Samoa

I know Auckland makes sense for most of the training because of facilities and where the players live.

Perhaps the draw could be sorted so they have home games in blocks? 3 games in a row in Tonga then later in the season 4 games in Samoa (or vice versa). The home games would then be like a mini tour for them and they could still train in Auckland for the bulk of the year

[Landers92]

Glad to see Millar looking comfortable. By far his best game of the season, hopefully he can keep it up for the 80