Northland v Manawatu

[Machpants]

@taniwharugby said in Northland v Manawatu:

@Machpants Ranger has/had some talent and skill

Haha there we go

[kev]

Nice.

[taniwharugby]

ranger caught one!!!!!

Good preseason hitout!

[Machpants]

@taniwharugby said in Northland v Manawatu:

ranger caught one!!!!!
Good preseason hitout

Haha true!

Wiseguy MotM for me

[Duluth]

It’s crazy how little game time Wiseguy has had since going north. Hopefully this match is enough for the coaches to move on from Hawkins

[taniwharugby]

@Machpants him, Pryor, Nock, Josh Goodhue all well, but Wiseguy was great the way he slotted in and Pryor was excellent.

[kev]

@taniwharugby yes, some good efforts. Pryor for me. He has always had pace and when the game opens up he stands out.

[antipodean]

@Machpants said in Northland v Manawatu:

@taniwharugby said in Northland v Manawatu:

ranger caught one!!!!!

Good preseason hitout

Haha true!

Wiseguy MotM for me

Something about Faiane's who make players around them look better.

[kev]

Leilua played well I thought.

[taniwharugby]

Some promising stuff out there, Ranger and Gregory a real worry though, these are a couple of players we need firing as they are likely to be central to alot of our play.

[kev]

Work ons are Gregory, Ranger. Gregory just hasn’t improved with his kicking and option taking. He has talent but needs to work on accuracy. Ranger just needs to stick to the basics.

[African Monkey]

Good comeback from Nothland once they settled down and decided to build pressure instead of trying to score off every play. I enjoyed that game, good to have M10 cup back.

Also, please get rid of that haircut Sam Nock. That bleach is horrendous.

[Machpants]

Who got the DM points?

[taniwharugby]

gonna need to step up several notches to be competitive next week, Ranger & Gregory to get sticky hands (reckon they musta turned the ball over with errors at least a dozen times combined, thats alot of ball to lose through a simple error)

Leilua looked to be hobbling at times and assume he was forced off when Ranger had to come back on, so likely Macilai to come into starting lineup or maybe push Gregory to wing and Wright to FB, Faiane to start, and Cooper to come into bench, rest deserves to be unchanged...

Ta$man will send plenty of ball to Gregory on the wing or FB...I still think he operates better when playing closer in, at the back he has far too much time to think about things, and then take the wrong option or execute poorly.

@Machpants NOck then Josh Goodhue then a Manawatu player, Manako??

[taniwharugby]

[Nevorian]

@taniwharugby keen to see how no22 goes with a name as good as that should have a good future

[mikey07]

I was quite impressed with the Turbos Midfield and with Iose, strangely I didn’t see Mitchell do anything.

[J77]

Good to start with BP win. Showed some good resolve to claw back a big deficit, something that wouldn’t have happened in past years.

Interesting to see Tana Umaga in the coaching set up. Anyone know what’s up with that?

[Machpants]

@J77 blues region, helping out, makes sense

[nzzp]

@Machpants said in Northland v Manawatu:

@J77 blues region, helping out, makes sense

it bloody does, but by god you'd not have seen that in the last couple of decades. Good show I reckon, embedding coachs in ownership unions