BOP v Hawkes Bay (QF)
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wow what a game!
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Felt like both teams in that second half would look dangerous and then somehow cough it up. Had no idea who was going to win that, will take the chocolates today though, nice to crack a quarters win
Hope Sangster injury isn’t as bad as it looked
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@ARHS said in BOP v Hawkes Bay (QF):
Felt a bit lucky with that win after so many errors. Narawa and Ah Kuoi played so strongly. The wind was strong, but changeable. So the quality of catching was remarkable.
Narawa starting to look more comfortable every game at centre, if he gets any room such a handful.
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@Duluth said in BOP v Hawkes Bay (QF):
Loads of ball for BOP early. Eventually Carter gets over
Dogshit refereeing
The first breakdown of the winger who took the pass from Halalolo after his break
Winger let's go of the ball because he's tackled. All good
Then proceeds to pass to supporting player whilst still on the floor
Penalty to HB
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Shame Halaholo was capped by Wales
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Never in doubt
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@ARHS said in BOP v Hawkes Bay (QF):
Felt a bit lucky with that win after so many errors. Narawa and Ah Kuoi played so strongly. The wind was strong, but changeable. So the quality of catching was remarkable.
We seem to get that day a lot down at the domain, very windy but no idea which direction it is blowing. Felt it picked up in the second half and it was generally in our faces so we couldn't make much progress up field. HB should really have closed that game out by pinning us in our 22 but no sooner did we cough it up but they coughed it straight back to us.
I'm a natural pessimist but realistically we are second favourites against Canterbury if they play anything like they did yesterday. But the TAB has us as favourites currently ...
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@KiwiPie Drove down from Auckland for this game and it didn’t disappoint,.
What I will say having been down to Tauranga since the late 80s
For such a progressive city you need a decent stadium
2 massive queues , one gate open on the terrace side 🤦🏻♂️
The way Bop started I thought it was gonna be a long afternoon for the Magpies but credit to the visitors they silenced crowd for long periods and I actually thought they were the better team over the 80 minutes but didn’t nail a few fundamentals not to mention kicking your their ball away with 2 minutes to go
For the Bay Naitoa AhKuoi was a colossus , he put so much pressure on the Magpies lineout in the 2nd half they had no real opportunity to mount continuous forward momentum which is the Magpies go to
Well done to the Bay though and all the best for the semis -
@Steven-Harris Agree with all of that - the domain is cute but inadequate and I'm not sure we'll ever get around to a new stadium to be honest. Main advantage over the old speedway stadium is the ability to have a drink and food before the game and then walk to the game. Only one entrance is no good when you have a lot of people without tickets as well as everyone turning up 10 minutes before kick-off.
I thought we'd lost it in the first half when we didn't take our chances and ended up trailing - with the wind generally behind you, we struggled to make any ground against a keen defence. But you kept giving us one more chance and eventually we took it. We'll have to treasure possession much more against Canterbury as well as being ruthless.
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@KiwiPie Have they got round to floodlighting it yet?
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@Number-10 said in BOP v Hawkes Bay (QF):
What is capacity - 5 or 6 thousand? About right for NPC these days?
It's a lot less than that in actual seating, especially as the temporary stand has shrunk to allow corporates above it. I think there were officially 3.7K there on Saturday and many of them were spread around the running track where you can't really get a decent view of the game.
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@Higgins said in BOP v Hawkes Bay (QF):
@KiwiPie Have they got round to floodlighting it yet?
They have not - in the unlikely event that we beat Canterbury and Waikato beats Wellington, I presume they will move the final to Rotorua to play it on Saturday night.
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