Manawatu v BOP

[Duluth]

Manawatu

1 Chris Eves 2 Sam Stewart 3 Michael Alaalatoa 4 Micaiah Torrance-Read 5 Teofilo Paulo 6 Liam Mitchell 7 Johnny Galloway 8 Tyler Laubscher 9 Jamie Booth 10 Stewart Cruden 11 Tudreu Newton 12 James Tofa 13 Josiah Maraku 14 Nigek Ah Wong 15 Nehe Milner-Skudder

Reserves: 16 Siua Maile, 17 Solomona Sakalia, 18 Kyle Stewart, 19 Sam Liebezeit, 20 Shamus Hurley-Langton, 21 Bryn Wilson, 22 Ben Wyness, 23 Drew Wild

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Bay of Plenty

1 Jordan Lay, 2 Kurt Eklund, 3 Ross Geldenhuys, 4 Stan Van den Hoven, 5 Keepa Mewett, 6 Kane Le'aupepe, 7 Joe Johnston 8 Joe Tupe, 9 Luke Campbell, 10 Otere Black, 11 Regan Ware 12 Chase Tiatia, 13 Mathew Skipwith-Garland, 14 Joe Webber, 15 Kaleb Trask

Reserves: 16 Nic Souchon, 17 Tevita Mafileo, 18 Jeff Thwaites, 19 Scott Curry, 20 Sam Dickson, 21 Leroy Carter, 22 Dan Hollinshead, 23 Cole Forbes

[ARHS]

That BOP backline may flow better. Looking forward to seeing this. Odd to have Leaupepe on the flank though.

[Bovidae]

McMillan can't make up his mind whether Curry is a midfielder or a flanker.

[KiwiMurph]

or whether Eklund is a flanker or a hooker.

[antipodean]

Entertaining game so far.

[antipodean]

Trask scores an excellent try cutting through the defence, kicks ahead and dives on the ball. NMS should be penalised for diving on top of him.

[antipodean]

Another try. Manawatu falling apart.

[Nepia]

This game is on the inset screen for me, I couldn't see that pass even on the slow mo replay.

[antipodean]

Then Manawatu score a very good try.

[mikey07]

I’ve just flicked over from the other game is defence optional in this game?

[ACT Crusader]

That 3rd Turbos try was a cracker from the big fella.

[KiwiPie]

@mikey07 said in Manawatu v BOP:

I’ve just flicked over from the other game is defence optional in this game?

Pretty much. Whoever can hold onto the ball ends up scoring.

[mikey07]

@KiwiPie I’m watching the wrong game by the sounds of it

[Donsteppa]

How ponderous are the Manawatu back three? Any break and we just run around the last line of defence 😊

[Nepia]

@Donsteppa said in Manawatu v BOP:

How ponderous are the Manawatu back three? Any break and we just run around the last line of defence 😊

Which makes it all the more surprising they didn't give Baker her a contract as he'd fit in perfectly.

[Nepia]

Hadn't noticed that haircut before, Fakatava has lost his title.

[KiwiPie]

@Donsteppa said in Manawatu v BOP:

How ponderous are the Manawatu back three? Any break and we just run around the last line of defence 😊

Tudreu is looking alarmingly slow - he was brilliant a couple of years ago.

[ACT Crusader]

@Donsteppa said in Manawatu v BOP:

How ponderous are the Manawatu back three? Any break and we just run around the last line of defence 😊

And another try after a single line break.

[Dice]

I wonder if NMS could even look good in the Heartland comp.

[KiwiPie]

This game shows the level we're at this season. Would be competing for the 2nd div title but not quite good enough for Div 1 especially with so many out injured. Black played well today and showed his class as did Trask. But still way too much sloppy play.