Counties Manukau v Auckland

[African Monkey]

Forwards have been good but the backs keep letting them down .

[Tim]

Auckland needs a decent coach, and to buy a nine and ten.

They lost a decent tighthead prop to harbour. Buy a loosehead too.

[KiwiMurph]

Tuipulotu packing at 6. He has had a very strong game.

[Tim]

@KiwiMurph Yeah, he's been pretty good. Ioane has been the best on the park.

[KiwiMurph]

@Tim Agreed. Ioane has been wonderful. Oh god here comes Eklund - hopefully there are no lineouts...

[African Monkey]

Kurt Eklund and Isi Tu'ungafasi are barely club rugby standard.

[KiwiMurph]

@African-Monkey How the fuck do they keep getting picked? So frustrating.

[African Monkey]

@KiwiMurph Shows the lack of quality front rowers we have coming through sadly.

[hydro11]

Penalty try I think.

[Tim]

@hydro11 Yep. Clear penalty try against Counties 8.

[hydro11]

Not even a tough decision. Right in front of the referee and touch judge and the TMO says nothing.

[KiwiMurph]

@African-Monkey Then buy some decent ones.

[Tim]

Holy shit that is awful refereeing. What a fucking joke.

[African Monkey]

@KiwiMurph Or not let guys like Mafileo and Hodgman leave the region.

[antipodean]

I was sure time wasn't up when he blew the whistle and went to the TMO.

[kev]

@hydro11 Fekitoa could have been penalised for pulling him into ruck. Aucklands kicking was not great the whole match. With the players they have, they didn't create space?

[Rebound]

@hydro11

Shows the quality of refereeing we have today. World Rugby is more concerned with referees sending off people for accidents than refereeing the laws

[African Monkey]

Bit of a dodgy hometown ending there but what can you do. Backs must improve for next week.

[Higgins]

Maybe he ruled that it happened in the in goal area, remember that there is no offside in the in goal.

[hydro11]

@antipodean said in Counties Manukau v Auckland:

I was sure time wasn't up when he blew the whistle and went to the TMO.

Sky's clock said 79 minutes gone but that isn't necessarily correct.