NPC Final - Auckland vs Canterbury (free entry)

[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.

[Machpants]

Great game in the end, after an average first third. Well done Auckland. There'll be some tired boys in Japan next weekend!

[antipodean]

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

@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.

No. You're missing the point. A team may elect to swap out a tight forward for more pace.

Anyway, well done Auckland. Brilliant final.

[No Quarter]

Fucking awesome! The boy is super stoked with that! He's dancing around the room

What a comeback given the conditions - said they'd need some magic and they produced a fair bit with Akira leading the charge.

Credit to both teams, the skills on display in the wet were outstanding. The game didn't deteriorate at all, in fact it seemed to improve.

[Stargazer]

My MotM, TJ Faiane, followed closely by Luke Romano.

[Machpants]

New champs in the Ozzie version, how embarrassing to have Fiji as your 'national' champs!