Southland v North Harbour

[Stargazer]

North Harbour squad to take on Southland (Thursday 24/8, kick-off 7.35pm)

1 Nic Mayhew
2 James Parsons
3 Mike Tamoaieta
4 Brandon Nansen
5 Jarrad Hoeata
6 Glenn Preston
7 Connor Collett
8 Murphy Taramai
9 Bryn Hall
10 Bryn Gatland
11 Tevita Li
12 Harrison Groundwater
13 Matt Vaega
14 Matt Duffie
15 Shaun Stevenson

Reserves:
16 Adrian Smith
17 Chris Eves
18 Sione Mafileo
19 Shane Neville
20 Josh Tyrell
21 Chris Smylie
22 Mark Telea
23 Ben Volavola

[Stargazer]

Southland

15 Lewis Ormond, 14 Ryan Tongia, 13 Matthew Johnson, 12 James Schrader, 11 Aleki Morris, 10 Scott Eade, 9 Liam Howley, 8 Elliot Dixon, 7 Tim Boys, 6 Phil Halder, 5 Bill Fukofuka, 4 Mike McKee, 3 Guy Millar, 2 Brayden Mitchell (c), 1 Joe Walsh.

Reserves
16 Flynn Thomas, 17 Shaun Stodart, 18 Morgan Mitchell, 19 Manaaki Selby-Rickit, 20 Tupou Sopaga, 21 Jay Renton, 22 Michael Molloy, 23 William Talataina-Mu.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/96058517/southland-stags-search-for-80-minute-showing-against-north-harbour-at-rugby-park

[Tim]

Christ Li is dumb. Probably bombed a try there.

[Gunner]

Harbour have just scored to make it 20-30 in their favour.

Strange game this one.
Some really crap kicking mixed with really crap catching is making a lot of messy play with the ball bouncing around everywhere...
When they decide to keep ball in hand, its been bloody good watching.

[Gunner]

Harbour running away with it now 20-38.

Southland cant buy a trick in the second half. Just too many errors

[JK]

Not the most exciting game but harbour got the result they needed as a premiership team.

Thought they would slip up here tonight to be honest but more than happy with bonus point win

[Tim]

Good win for one of New Zealand's premier teams.

Very disappointed to see Parsons out of the headgear during the after match interview.

[taniwharugby]

honestly thought Southland would be better than that, was some woeful defence out there.

[Bovidae]

@Tim You finally have a decent coach!

[ACT Crusader]

Thought the two Bryn's played really well. Good win.

[Tim]

@ACT-Crusader Gatland has been pretty sharp. Good distance on his kicking has put the opposition on the back foot.