North Harbour v Hawke's Bay

[Stargazer]

This will still be the game for me, this week; test match or not. Can't wait to see if Bryn Evans and Sona Taumalolo still got it.

[Duluth]

If they want to use this crappy method of naming a team at least put the full list in the comments.

[Duluth]

..and here's the Harbour team in a readable format

1 Nic Mayhew, 2 Luteru Tolai, 3 Sione Mafileo, 4 Gerard Cowley Tuioti, 5 Jacob Pierce, 6 Ethan Roots (cc), 7 Dillon Hunt, 8 Murphy Taramai, 9 Bryn Hall, 10 Bryn Gatland (cc), 11 Tomas Aoake, 12 Antonio Mikaele Tu'u, 13 James Little, 14 Jared Page, 15 Shaun Stevenson

Reserves: 16 Zane Turner, 17 Teague McElroy, 18 Jimmy Roots, 19 Xavier Cowley Tuioti, 20 Tim Sail, 21 Lewis Gjaltema, 22 Jack Heighton, 23 Asaeli Tikoirotuma

[Higgins]

@Stargazer said in North Harbour v Hawke's Bay:

@Number-10 They always seem to write off one away game, each season, in which they field a significantly weaker team to give some of the top players a rest. Not sure whether you can call this a significantly weaker team with all those big names returning, but this definitely seems to be that game.

And we have bigger fish to fry in the next game after this one anyway.

[Stargazer]

@Duluth The picture on FB is better.

[taniwharugby]

@Higgins pfft, it's only Northland!

Haven't had a good track record in shield challenges in recent years (talking 10+ given the lack of them we have had) more often than not, failing to fire much of a shot.

[taniwharugby]

you lads need to get onto Mitre 10, that is unacceptable!

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[Nepia]

Kayo not playing the game. Angry old man email on their way.

[Stargazer]

For who hadn't noticed. Because there are two games being played at the same time, this game will be on Sky Sport 2 (and Fox Sports More, Ch 507 in Oz).

[Stargazer]

@Nepia You don't get Fox Sports More on Kayo?

[Nepia]

@Stargazer said in North Harbour v Hawke's Bay:

@Nepia You don't get Fox Sports More on Kayo?

Funnily enough I just logged into my Kayo account to send my angry man letter and noticed it was available when it clearly wasn't when I first typed out that post.

[Nepia]

Crap, Harbour in after the Pies tried to run it out from the 22.

[Stockcar86]

MMT!

[Stargazer]

This is just as bad as I expected, and that's with the wind in the Magpies' backs.
Hoping for some half time changes and, especially, it's not going to be a monster score.

[Stargazer]

Oh, and Kurt Baker really is a liability. Just move Makene to fullback when McClutchie comes on!!!

[Stockcar86]

McNicol is another option for fullback

[Stargazer]

Oh, and just to continue my brief rant: is it coincidence that our two sevens players (Baker and Sapsford) seem to concede more turnovers than others? Grrr.

[Stargazer]

@Stockcar86 Yeah, but then more changes are necessary, like moving Fomai to centre and Makene to the wing. Don't want to bring on Tuitavuki early.

[Stockcar86]

FFS, what is this, ripper rugby?

[Stockcar86]

The ref's comment "live I saw contact to the head". Meaning, I can't see anything on the replay and won't admit I was wrong, so giving you a yellow card