Auckland v Northland
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Good carry by Kalapu in the lead up to that try.
Adams has been amazing around the field.
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@KiwiMurph not enough
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subs for the sake?
Olsen and Nock off!!
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WTF is GHrant kicking it away???
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60 secs left so you kick it away? 🤨
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@taniwharugby That was crazy!
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@Tim was the 2nd time he kicked too
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scrum surely?
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Why make all the ground then kick? I know there was advantage but they were smashing up front.
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Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Should've taken a scrum!
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absolute pile of shit.
We didnt deserve that anyway
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Northland terrible. How do you play a man up for 75% of the game, against a team without a hooker and lose?
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Disappointing. Northland shit the bed at the end. Really dumb stuff.
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just dumb decision after dumb decision, that goes to the coaches too, taking 3 of our best, Goodhue, Nock & Olsen off with 5 to go!!
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Gregory wanted the ball when Wiseguy kicked it.
Gutsy from Auckland to take their chances.
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Fortunate to get away with that. Hopefully we get our first stringers back next week.
Adams gets my man of the match. He was everywhere in that 2nd half.
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If anyone was still wondrring why Wiseguy hasn't been playing today more than answered that question. Apart from one good chip into the corner his kicking was awful and it cost us big
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Jesus sounds like a hell of a game in a weird sort of way haha. Will have to watch when I get home from work.
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@antipodean said in Auckland v Northland:
Northland terrible. How do you play a man up for 75% of the game, against a team without a hooker and lose?
Up 8-0 at halftime too.
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Tuipulotu in a sling. Not good.
Hopefully WRK is back soon.
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I'm so pissed about that, not worth going into the issues with the 2nd last try Auckland got, cos it should never have been that close.
Just dumb decisions week in week out, handling shite again.
Those 2 kicks by Grant and the final one by Faiane...just dumb.
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@Tim said in Auckland v Northland:
@Dice Number six from Auckland went alright?
I agree. He was one of our better forwards today.
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Crazy game
I'm happy with the effort in that second half. The amount of work on defence was huge and the tries were well taken.
It was a bit windy out there but the quality of passing from Northland was poor. 14 man defence was constantly stretched and Northland just couldn't get it wide enough.
Refs were shit. Missed a lot both ways
Auckland MOTM voting:
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/4292/auckland-motm-v-northland -
Just come back from the game. Pissed. Auckland lineout was dreadful for obvious reasons. But the refs just decided to not call not straight. Auckland’s last two tries were off not straight throws. Really basic reffing that seemed optional. That, given the circumstances should have been called everytime. Just not good enough.
NB. Touch judge started game with error. Brady Rush took the ball from kickoff in touch.
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Prime opportunity to pump Auckland wasted with some absolute cabbage play. Fucking pissed.
Bonus point is a consolation and much needed, but hell we need to step up big time for Waikato next week.
Why sub Nock? He should have stayed to help close out,he was by far the best on the paddock today for us.
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so in that last 5 mins who was our captain?
Our captain and 2 others who were co-captains last week were all off subbed inside 5 or 6 mins...for me, these were the dumbest call of the day.
That was as big of an opportunity to beat Auckland as we will get, but we blew it through lack of structure and silly decisions
Voting for Northland MOTM
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/4293/northland-motm-v-auckland-1 -
Another positive was the goalkicking from Plummer and that long range effort from Sullivan
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@Tim said in Auckland v Northland:
@Duluth Sullivan's long kicking game was good too.
Yup great distance. If I was picking the Blues he would be the starting fullback
Still raw and he’ll make mistakes but he has a massive upside
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@taniwharugby did any one question the ref for that obstruction that lead to one of their tries? Didn’t look like it from what I could see, and that’s been the big issue with our leadership. Get in the refs ear and persuade him to have a look. Other skippers do it so well.
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@J77 Olsen seems more of a follow me leader, doesnt seem to do much talking...talk too much to the ref you look like a whinger, not enough you look silly!
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@taniwharugby I’ll take being a whinger any day.. much like what us Northland supporters do every week out of frustration!
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Crazy game, happy with our attitude and character to get the win. Weird when you can’t attack of your normal set pieces.
Ruru was fucking amazing.
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@J77 a few things:
- our onfield leadership needs to step up. Game management.
- early mistakes were dreadful again. In that regard Tuiloma can’t catch a ball which is an issue, Ranger WTF with the cross kick? And not passing?, Macalai started like he hadn’t seen a rugby ball ever. As a team we need less mistakes.
- behind all of this are some positives ( too early? ] the young guys getting time worked for me. Tua is coming of age and with Nock looking so good, and the other young guys we have some great options. Jacobsens return added something. We now compete physically.
- both firsts need to work on their kicking but I like what they bring.
- we have the worst exits in the game
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