Otago v Auckland

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

@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.

KiwiMurph

@booboo said in Otago v Auckland:

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

Yep - was apparent during Super Rugby too.

Bovidae

@KiwiMurph said in Otago v Auckland:

@booboo said in Otago v Auckland:

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

Yep - was apparent during Super Rugby too.

A weakness with most no.8s nowadays. Mitchell and Brooke were so good at this.

Machpants

It's pretty rare for scrums to have the ball at the back and keep it there

Toddy

@Machpants Usually due to the ref yelling USE IT!

Machpants

@Toddy said in Otago v Auckland:

@Machpants Usually due to the ref yelling USE IT!

Yeah, Wrong imo

African Monkey

@Bovidae Akira Ioane is probably the best at it funnily enough, but obviously seen as more of a 6 these days.

Tim

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/provincial/300106089/hard-to-believe-sio-tomkinson-has-been-working-on-his-tackle-technique

nzzp

@Tim the headline says it all.

Not sure what he has been working on

The Silver Fern

Otago v Auckland