Northland v Southland
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We are so dumb today.
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Imagine if we had a player with a decent boot...
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@taniwharugby starts at 10.
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What’s the score please?
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@family-man final 18 to 14 Northland
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We didn't deserve that but I'll take it
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@taniwharugby ....we are big and tough enough to win contact. Defend not too bad. But Hawkins steps crossfield and lacks power in his kicking. Hohaia is not a kicker, and Gregory is so hit and miss as to be dangerous. Hence our game management is awful.
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Massive ticker and massive defence from Northland, though I’m still wondering how we actually managed to win that.
Worst game I’ve seen Northland play in a long long time.
Didn’t respect the ball when we had it, awful kicking, stupid penalties.
Pretty much everything we did only put us under more pressure than was already on us.
Wonder if the heads were already in Napier...
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What was the time in 22 stats? Kara went off at 25 mins and we spent the rest in our 22
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I think a lot of people are underestimating Southland still haha, I'm still stunned as to how they didn't win that. Good on Northland on showing grit out there but geez, Southland really should have won that, they were miles better everywhere apart from the scoreboard and could easily be 5 from 5. The turnaround from Southland this year has been amazing and certainly don't deserve to be 2 from 5 but sadly it is what it is.
We'll done Northland though, 4 from 5 is nothing to be laughed at.
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@African-Monkey Southland are well coached but lack a bit of size and power. Northland invited them to win with some atrocious game management. That they didn’t illustrates their weakness. Ours is at 10/12 where we have other options but It seems don’t want to give them a shot.
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The pluses ,The Taniwha are fit and they have ticker , and the defence was outstanding, the minuses..not enough hours left in the day to key them in..still you take the win
