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Hyland, woweee. Great try.
16-9
Hyland has impressed me this year, huge improvement from the last couple of years that's for sure.
He'd be our least flashiest player, but what he does, he does really well and I don't remember him making a mistake all year. -
Still feels this game could go either way.
Penalties could decide it, so I would get Hoeata off if I was Harbour coach
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Shit refereering with not stopping play for the injured Northland player
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Yep one of those games where either team coulda won, we probably looked more likely for most of the match but lost alot of shape and direction in the last 10.
That intercepted pass was unlucky, if the pass had gone to hand coulda been a try down the other end...to be so close and then get no bp is cruel.
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@taniwharugby Yes re last 10 minutes.
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Grrr. How the heck did we lose that? To not even get a bonus point is cruel after having the upper hand for pretty much the whole match. Gutted!!
One thing that match showed though, was that these two teams are the real deal this year, and will feature highly at the business end of the comp. Not bad for two sides that were cellar dwellars in the not to distant past. Forget the Battle of the bridge, the new hot rivalry is the Battle of the Dome Valley! 👍
Looked to me as if a few of our guys were getting banged up. Bond and Douglas looked to be struggling with injuries. I'm glad we have an 8 day break before Manawatu now, a chance to lick the wounds and crack on.
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Yea beaten by a good team, bar that one scrum the scrum were very even, our lineout probably edged them ever so slightly.
Again our ruck ball was a bit messy at times but otherwise can't be too unhappy, just disappointed
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It was definitely there for the taking,did a few interviews at games end,could tell talking both Ranger & Moulds,it was a case of one that got away..
The first 60 minutes was a real arm wrestle,just some of our kick options may have let us down,too many down the throat of Shaun Stephenson.
Big ups to Jacob Matiu,the man is not the biggest number 8,but he is a beast with he has ball in hand or not.
Special mention to Jordon Hyland,probably the most improved player in the Taniwha.
