Canterbury vs North Harbour

[Canes4life]

So two big provinces get a spanking this week. Yikes.

[Duluth]

@JK

Happy to be wrong about that

Harbour had some great tries today

Final score 65-19

[Duluth]

[NTA]

This game shows why AB Rugby is in trouble. Harbour never had to commit anyone to their rucks because Canterbury weren't contesting abut 75% of the time.

I'm not sure that Edmed's form means anything in the context of this NPC

[Duluth]

[Duluth]

65-19 is Canterbury’s worst score conceded and it equals the worst margin (the previous worst was 60-14 v Wellington in 2017)

[brodean]

@NTA

Because we keep picking easybeats from Canterbury for the wider squad?

Paradoxically the ABs won more turnovers than any other team in the RC and the Boks won the least.

[Higgins]

@brodean You can only win turnovers when the opposition team has the ball hence one of the reasons why the Boks won the least.

[brodean]

@Higgins
Certainly in theory however the AB's won 40 turnovers and the Springboks won 26. It's a massive difference which can't be explained by the possession stats.

[Duluth]

The fact this scoreline barely rates a mention tells you how dead the NPC is

[Kirwan]

Well that was enjoyable. Canterbury lucky to come second in that one.