NPC Final - Auckland vs Canterbury (free entry)

[hydro11]

@stargazer said in NPC Final - Auckland vs Canterbury (free entry):

@hydro11 I repeat, it wasn't a choice. It wasn't a tactical decision. Both hookers got injured.

Yes but history tells us that if rules can be exploited, they will be. It's like with Pocock and the quick conversion means you can't go to the TMO.

[Stargazer]

Anyway, for those without tv coverage. Auckland has scored and it's now 40 - 33 to Acukland with 5 and a half minutes to go.

[antipodean]

@stargazer said in NPC Final - Auckland vs Canterbury (free entry):

@antipodean They didn't elect it. They lost two hookers to injury and then the rules say uncontested scrums, because there isn't a hooker on the field. It wasn't a tactical decision.

Immaterial. You can fake injuries.

[Tim]

Ioane - three players had to take him down, which set up the defensive miss match.

Very sharp from Fukofuka, great execution from Nanai.

[antipodean]

What a cracking try. Brilliant run by Nanai.

[Tim]

First lead of the game!

[Machpants]

Great try.

Canterbury got their extra time try because of uncontested scrums, so yeah 14 is right imo

Ooh three more points AKL?

[Tim]

Olmsted, what an effort today. 95 mins in, and he's still going.

[number9]

How the hell is Cameron an All Black. Total shit house behind a dominant pack.

[Machpants]

@machpants said in NPC Final - Auckland vs Canterbury (free entry):

Ooh three more points AKL?

Nope awful kick, AKL just need to hold it for three minutes

[Stargazer]

@antipodean You can solve that by letting the team with the two injuries play with 14 men during the scrum, and then allowing a fifteenth player on after the next stoppage.

[chchfanatic]

Ioane is a flog. Totally outplayed by whitelock

[hydro11]

Seems like Auckland have the tie breaker on the basis of having scored more tries.

Game over.

[Stargazer]

@number9 That pack hasn't been dominant anymore since about the 50th minute and especially not since they're missing a frontrower.

[Tim]

@chchfanatic

[Stargazer]

Full time and Auckland are the new champions! Well done! Good to finally see another team win!

[Stargazer]

@chchfanatic Only in the first half.

[Bovidae]

Great viewing as a (semi) neutral.

Congrats Auckland!

[Cyclops]

Well played Auckland, best team this season and deserving winners. Cracking final, we might have held on if we'd kept 15 on the field but thems the breaks.

[Tim]

Hats off boys, from nothing to champions.

Ioane huge in 2nd half. Canterbury forwards brilliant in the 1st.