Maori Tour

[Stargazer]

BARBARIANS FRANÇAIS - team to play the Māori All Blacks:

[pakman]

A few names I recognise of tidy, say, NZA standard. The TH is a pretty knarly operator and could give Eves give a lot to think about. When he played Clermont their LH, who plays for France, was sent to the bin for repeated offending.

[cgrant]

This is a very big pack of forwards but they will probably lack some cohesion.
Couilloud is a snipy, lively scrumhalf. The back three has speed to burn but is short on experience. It will be a tough game for the Maoris, IMO.

[KiwiMurph]

Maori All Blacks team to face the French Barbarians

1 Chris Eves

2 Ash Dixon (Captain)

3 Marcel Renata

4 Jackson Hemopo

5 Keepa Mewett*

6 Tom Franklin

7 Sam Henwood

8 Akira Ioane

9 Brad Weber

10 Jackson Garden-Bachop

11 Shaun Stevenson

12 Rob Thompson

13 Tim Bateman

14 Sean Wainui

15 Charlie Ngatai

16 Liam Polwart

17 Ross Wright

18 Tyrel Lomax

19 Jordan Manihera

20 Dan Pryor

21 Jonathan Ruru*

22 Ihaia West

23 Teihorangi Walden*

http://www.allblacks.com/News/31745/maori-all-blacks-team-to-face-the-french-barbarians

[Stargazer]

So Mewett has come in for Hoeata, Pryor and Henwood have swapped starting and bench spot, Garden-Bachop and West have made the same swap, Curtis has given up his starting spot to Stevenson and Stevenson's bench spot has gone to Walden. TTT has given up his bench spot to Ruru.

That means Hoeata, Curtis and TTT are out, and Mewett, Walden and Ruru in. Late addition Paranihi doesn't seem to get any game time.

[Bovidae]

So the Maori would want to be scoring tries near the goalposts.

A Japanese ref which could make things interesting for both teams.

[pakman]

Maori up for this one. Scrum and maul good so far.

[Donsteppa]

Poor minute of play from Garden-Bachop. Missed tackle and coudn’t clear.

[Stockcar86]

Ngatai looking very good - all class

[pakman]

Maori seem to have butterfingers tonight.

[Stockcar86]

JGB showing all the skills that drove Rebels to last place in Super Rugby this year

[Stockcar86]

Bullshit yellow card. Tacking from behind is not an offence

[hydro11]

@stockcar86 said in Maori Tour:

Bullshit yellow card. Tacking from behind is not an offence

Maybe the worst decision I have ever seen. multiple replays clearly show the tackle was made before the whistle. Absolutely shocking.

[pukunui]

@hydro11 said in Maori Tour:

@stockcar86 said in Maori Tour:

Bullshit yellow card. Tacking from behind is not an offence

Maybe the worst decision I have ever seen. multiple replays clearly show the tackle was made before the whistle. Absolutely shocking.

That seems to be rugby these days it's rare for there not to be at least one shocking call, often involving a card and incompetent tmo, that changes the game. Really turning me off watching.

[taniwharugby]

@stockcar86 admittedly I only watched about half of Wellingtons RR games, but JGB doesnt impress me, in fact he has a face I'd like to punch haha

[hydro11]

@pukunui said in Maori Tour:

@hydro11 said in Maori Tour:

@stockcar86 said in Maori Tour:

Bullshit yellow card. Tacking from behind is not an offence

Maybe the worst decision I have ever seen. multiple replays clearly show the tackle was made before the whistle. Absolutely shocking.

That seems to be rugby these days it's rare for there not to be at least one shocking call, often involving a card and incompetent tmo, that changes the game. Really turning me off watching.

Same. I have just gone to watch Sweden vs Italy. The worst thing is they looked at it for over five minutes and they got the call wrong. The ref gave a yellow for a late tackle but never actually asked whether the tackle was late.

[pakman]

Maori substitutions have significantly weakened them -- other than JGB!

[hydro11]

Don't think it's a penalty try either. Definitely a yellow though.

[westcoastie]

@hydro11 geez that decision took ages to get right.

[westcoastie]

@hydro11 always a yellow card, if ref had used the phrase "any reason I can't award a try?" then fair enough Maori's score, but the stream I'm watching it wasn't clear and obvious grounding.