Southland v Hawke's Bay
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Ash Dixon scores from a rolling maul. McClutchie hits the post. Southland 6-5 after 21 mins.
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Ash Dixon in again from a rolling maul with McClutchie missing the kick again. Hawke's Bay 10-6 up at half time. Southland probably had more of the play in the 1st half but couldn't come away with a try for all their endeavour. Hawke's Bays set piece working well in tough conditions.
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Weber's on the field 60secs and gets charged down from a ruck clearance. Southland lead 16 - 10.
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Pleasants-Tate score his 2nd for the day. All 4 tries scored from the hookers today. Southland lead 16-10 after 51 mins.
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Hahaha Marshall claiming that Glenn Preston had replaced Mikaele-Tu'u.
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42 year old Jason Rutledge is on.
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HB will be ruing missed opportunities. Good to see some wet weather rugby again.
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@antipodean said in Southland v Hawkes Bay:
HB will be ruing missed opportunities. Good to see some wet weather rugby again.
Fuck off.
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@Nepia Awful game just nothing went right, have to bounce back next week.
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@kiwimatrix said in Southland v Hawkes Bay:
@Nepia Awful game just nothing went right, have to bounce back next week.
Hope so, will be a home game against @Crucial's lot so hopefully they can put in a good one.
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@antipodean Definitely suited the Stags. Reminded me of when they defended the Ranfurly Shield against Auckland in 2010 where they just defended multiple attacks time and time again. Selby-Rickit, Pleasants-Tate, Lambourn and James all stood up for them in the pack, with Eade's general kicking getting them out of trouble a lot.
Southland probably won't threaten promotion, but they have a much more competitive side this year. Don't see any reason why they can't push for a semi final spot.
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Geoff Boycott captained Yorkshire for most of the 1970s, but success eluded the team even when Boycott left Test cricket for three years to concentrate on the county game.
Yorkshire put themselves at a disadvantage from 1968 until 1992 by insisting that all its players must have been born within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire while all the other county teams strengthened themselves by signing overseas Test players. In 1992, the birth qualification rule was first modified to include those educated within the county, a dispensation that allowed Michael Vaughan to play; and was then abandoned altogether. Yorkshire's first overseas player that season was 19-year-old Sachin Tendulkar.
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First half HB threw the ball round, and as Josh Syms said at halftime would need to change the style and play at the other end.
So in the second half it was kick or pick-and-go.
It was one extreme to the other.
And in the last five minutes when they were in the Southland 22 it was still pick-and-go, the backs were not utilised at all.
There just didn't seem to be any tactical appreciation.
Our first game last year was in the rain at Palmerston North.
No need to reference that game then ...
