Taranaki v Hawkes Bay

[Higgins]

I am pretty sure the penalties awarded and the penalty advantages signalled have now exceeded the total of points scored (38) as 'Naki attempt yet another penalty shot at goal. It misses, no change to the score after sixty minutes

[Nepia]

Magpies player taken out in back play not even looked at. May have been nothing but looked dodgy in real time.

[Higgins]

Another lineout drive try coming up? On no, somehow it did not happen. Still two tries apiece.

[Nepia]

The maul referring is, um, interesting in this match.

[Higgins]

Score still Taranaki 26 - 12 Hawkes Bay after sixty seven minutes

[Higgins]

Hold all tickets - Ash Dixon in for the try

[Nepia]

Dixon in, didn't want to risk the maul collapse so charged from the back of the mail to go over.

[Higgins]

@nepia Even better was the conversion being successful

Taranaki 26 - 19 Hawkes Bay with about ten minutes or so to go and another lineout drive coming up!

[Nepia]

Is the Naki defence awesome or is our attack just really ponderous?

[Higgins]

Aaaargh, not straight from an attacking lineout

[Nepia]

Now the TMO might have screwed us, looked like Falcon got the ball down before going out. Even that female pro Naki commentator commented she thought it was a try.

Followed up by us making an error we shouldn't and normally don't make.

[Higgins]

I know the Olympics but this guy seems to be going for the gold medal in the number of penalties awarded in a game of rugby?

[Higgins]

Another lineout drive coming up and oh no another one cocked up with a lost forward during it.

[Higgins]

Last chance HB in possession but 65 yards out. Not unexpectedly we cock it up by another dropped ball and the 'Naki scoop it up and damn well score completely against the run of play!

[Duluth]

Good pace from Tikoisolomone

[KiwiMurph]

That was an entertaining game

[Higgins]

Perofeta converts and it ends up Taranaki 33 - 19 Hawkes Bay at full time

[Nepia]

No arms tackle on Magpies player right in front of ref, not long after the Magpies make another one of their errors, Naki turn it over and score. Not sure what to make of this match. We were so shit we didn't deserve to win, yet the game was heavily influenced by average reffing. Hopefully this is the loss to focus us for the rest of the season.

Also did you guys see that little mulleted boy angrily celebrating that final Naki try, classic.

[Nepia]

@kiwimurph said in Taranaki v Hawkes Bay:

That was an entertaining game

Maybe for a neutral, Hawkes Bay were so poor at basic stuff for too much of the game that there's no way I'd consider it entertaining.

Dixon just called out the ref - "will check the tape" - but acknowledged they were shit themselves.

[Higgins]

@nepia All part of the big gameplan. We clearly did not want to show any of our tactics etc in advance of the upcoming Shield Defence next weekend. Kind of like when we tanked that game bigtime against Harbour (and BoP to a lesser degree) last year.