v Manawatu

[Stockcar86]

I must confess I picked the bad guys to win this one

[Gunner]

What the hell are we doing?

[taniwharugby]

@gunner trying and succeeding at losing

[taniwharugby]

We were our own worst enemies tonight...concentration lapses with so many unforced errors in scoring positions.

[Gunner]

I'm about to throw my phone at the tv.

Two weeks in a row we have given the opposition the win through dropping too much ball.

[Stockcar86]

Finally Poo bombs a try

[taniwharugby]

Ffs...we didn't deserve to win this, but should have still managed to

[J77]

So bloody poor! Back to the northland of old. We are going to need a rocket up our ass for Otago.

[taniwharugby]

@j77 not quite like the bad old days, we have done enough to actually win through multiple opportunities but have failed to close them out

[taniwharugby]

Standing soooooooo deep and static

[taniwharugby]

Ranger took that about 15m behind the gain line there and still got monstered

[Gunner]

Im just so pissed off right now.

Shouldn't be, we are used to losing.

I did call it during the first or second game, I was worried about the depth of our play and what a rush defence would do to it. We've seen the answer in the last two weeks.

[taniwharugby]

Ref miss that knock on off ranger passing off the deck

[taniwharugby]

Shit

[Crucial]

As an unbiased watcher your problems looked to be more a case of little individual moments of decision making killing you. That just got worse and worse as 'panic' slowly set in.
I can't believe how many forward passes I saw. Not so much from poor timing but from the passer trying a pass when it wasn't on.
I haven't seen other Taniwha games but I assume that in the ones you won it was the same good basic play without the headless chook moments?

[Gunner]

@crucial you got it.
Actually holding onto the ball helps quite a lot in rugby.

[taniwharugby]

@crucial yes except the first half v BOP and the last 10 last week....

Yea was just too many errors at crucial times, and many were not hugely under pressure, was just a case of eyes getting wide for the space or opportunity that was presented.

Very disappointing match, that should have been out of reach by 60mins or so if we had converted our opportunities, but we didnt and Manawatu took almost all of thiers.

[Gunner]

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[J77]

@taniwharugby error wise bloody close to it. We were our own worst enemies in this one. One bullshit TMO call, but other than that no one to blame but ourselves!

The Manawatu hoodoo continues. Sick of losing to those twats

[kev]

@j77 our game management in the last 15 minutes needs work. Make the other guys do the work. Kick deep on kick offs and make your tackles. Make them make mistakes.