Māori All Blacks v Japan XV I

[pakman]

[KiwiMurph]

Wild passage of play.

[KiwiMurph]

Suafoa has some serious skills

[Bovidae]

Feek will have some work to do this week with the scrum.

A pity they didn't score on the last play.

[antipodean]

Japan's scrum looked good against the English. Not surprised it's competitive against the MAB.

[Chris]

@antipodean said in Māori All Blacks v Japan XV:

Japan's scrum looked good against the English. Not surprised it's competitive against the MAB.

Owen Franks doing some good work as Japans new scrum coach.

[nostrildamus]

Suafoa potential future AB?

[Bovidae]

@antipodean said in Māori All Blacks v Japan XV:

Japan's scrum looked good against the English. Not surprised it's competitive against the MAB.

The Japanese front row are all short, and looked to be getting under the taller Māori props.

[African Monkey]

@nostrildamus He'll get more of a run for the Blues next year should he stay healthy.

[Bovidae]

BTW, Nik McCurran (no.23) is the brother of Waikato loose forward Patrick. He used to be a halfback.

[Stag]

@Yeetyaah I flicked through the alternate commentary’s and couldn’t get any in anything other than te reo🤷‍♂️

[Bovidae]

@Stag They were on different Sky channels.

For the June 29 match there will be te reo Māori commentary on Whakaata Māori, Māori+ and Sky Sport 2, and English commentary on Sky Sport 1. For the July 6 match there will be te reo Māori commentary on Whakaata Māori, Māori+ and Sky Sport 3 and English commentary on Sky Sport 2. Sky Open will have free-to-air delayed coverage of both matches.

The English commentators were TJ and Bryn Hall.

[Stag]

@Bovidae I’ll know for next time 👍

[Nevorian]

Eddie doing his best to screw up Japanese Rugby as well

[MajorRage]

Weird thread. Mainly positivity about Japan and they got dicked 36-10!

Maori simply had much better ball skills