Counties v Northland

[taniwharugby]

cracks me up listening to the comms, they mention a player (Nock) about how important he is, shows they havent watched much of him.

[kev]

Why are we not scrumming?

[taniwharugby]

@kev prefer dropping the ball...but yeah, need to hold the scrum and force CM forwards to work

[kev]

Get those subs on

[taniwharugby]

fuck, this is frustrating

[kev]

That smarter … scrum

[kev]

@taniwharugby said in Counties v Northland:

fuck, this is frustrating

So many times….

[kev]

Scrum…

[taniwharugby]

cant say we havent had chances....superb d by CM, but lack of patience by us

[taniwharugby]

well at least we didnt concede straight off like usual

[taniwharugby]

fark, only 7 points form those possession and territory stats...hopefully they will tell the final quarter

[kev]

Prefer Nichols at 2nd to wing.

[taniwharugby]

Should be a PT coing if they ar enot careful

[taniwharugby]

anytime CM get into our 22 they score.

[kev]

CM pulled that down

[kev]

@taniwharugby said in Counties v Northland:

anytime CM get into our 22 they score.

Passive D

[taniwharugby]

not sure trainor has kicked it to the grass? straight to a defender every time

[taniwharugby]

that end pretty much sums our game up.

Plenty of endeavour, just lacking any accuracy.

Stuff to like from that, but ultimately, we have seen this movie before and dont like the ending.

IMO, there are several of the starters need a rocket and be benched, i know the comms were prasiing Nock, but he only had about 10 mons where he was decent, rest he is a handbrake with his indecision

[kev]

We threw to many passes. Too many poor options. For me Nock and Latu were the issue. We need more guys that attack the ball at ruck time. Way too passive at that phase.

[taniwharugby]

@kev I like so much of what Evans brings but thought he overplayed the kicking game a bit today.

Yeah Latu wasnt great, not sure he, or Apoua are in danger of being dropped though, similarly Nock.