Otago v Auckland

Machpants

We should have cracked 60 on that mob.

Hard to keep focus when you're miles ahead, but with two yellows that was a pathetic second half by Auckland. Still early days in the comp

Duluth

They get a pass Mark for that. Nothing more. 30mins of good rugby.

Bovidae

@Steven-Harris said in Otago v Auckland:

How could you not own a 6 man scrum..?.wtf ..!

Ta'avao not holding up his side of the scrum in that situation was embarrassing.

Nepia

@Bones said in Otago v Auckland:

What the fuck is wrong with Tomkinson.

He's the Steve Matai of NZ rugby.

Steven Harris

@Tim not so sure , Otago have a lot guys out at the minute, like Josh Dickson and James Lentjes..not sure of their status injury wise at the minute, but I would imagine Tomkinson will go for a long stretch and Josh Ioane did not look in good shape..

Tim

@Nepia Mentored by Johnny Fa'auli?

Duluth

@Tim said in Otago v Auckland:

I can see Northland putting them to the sword this year

Yes they look shit

Tim

@Steven-Harris Those two are both out for the season?

Tim

Good to see Plummer kicking 100%!

Nepia

@Tim said in Otago v Auckland:

@Nepia Mentored by Johnny Fa'auli?

I've managed to block him out of my memory ... until now.

Duluth

@Tim said in Otago v Auckland:

Good to see Plummer kicking 100%!

Yeah, I think the kicking yips have been over for a while now.

He had pretty good game, one of the better players out there. A couple of breaks, good kicking and even won a turnover

Kirwan

Was never going to be a tidy game with all the disruptive buildup. Best to treat that like a ore season game and look for improvement next week.

Duluth

Tim

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/300105933/mitre-10-cup-all-black-rieko-ioane-labels-sio-tomkinson-hit-a-cheap-shot

Duluth

The Monkley medal points:

3 Rieko Ioane, 2 AJ Lam, 1 Alex Hodgman

antipodean

@Tim

At his best, Tomkinson is a confrontational defender who can make a difference with his physicality, but Ioane said he still had significant work to do on his technique.

“He's a hard hitter, he always has been since he went to school, and he just needs to drop his hips,” Ioane said.

“If he gets a lot lower he'll be lining people up.”

True -the slightest effort on his behalf and he'd be a legally damaging defender in that channel.

African Monkey

Messy game which was expected. We left about 50 points out there but that's fine, no need to be peaking at this stage.

Sio Tomkinson really needs to change his tackling technique as well. Happens way too often with him.

Bones

@African-Monkey I can't really see how it's technique. How many legal tackles does he do a game? It's brain farts.

booboo

@Bones said in Otago v Auckland:

@African-Monkey I can't really see how it's technique. How many legal tackles does he do a game? It's brain farts.

Well he seems to have said flatulence regularly.

Random thoughts without reading the thread:

Auckland wasteful. Should have nailed another 20 odd points.

Could whoever have picked the jersey colours for the officials tried a bit harder to make them more different to Auckland?

We've found Sotutu's first weakness: seemed to have some issues with control at the back of the scrum.

Toddy

Fuck that tackle was ugly. Hopefully he goes for long time.

The Silver Fern

Otago v Auckland