Hawkes Bay vs Tasman (RS)
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@stockcar86 said in Hawkes Bay vs Ta$man (RS):
@delicatessen said in Hawkes Bay vs Ta$man (RS):
Is sapsford in 22?
yes
He hit faingaianuku incredibly hard just after he came on 😂
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Not good enough.
Leaked too many points in the first half.
Didn't capitalize on opportunities in the second.
All in all, played a bit too conservatively. Didn't get the ball in the hands of our biggest weapons enough.
Too many weights - not enough speed work.
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Well played Hawkes Bay. Muscled up well in forwards. Ta$man got closer than I expected. Played too much in their forwards though with a few not having enough in the tank at times. Renton and Segner pretty good. But Parsons was best lock on the park today and Mikaele Tuu a big threat all day. Enari great too
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@yeetyaah said in Hawkes Bay vs Ta$man (RS):
@nepia yeah I didn't mind it. Esp seeing Ta$man lose. Hardly a neutral when Waikato get a shot at it if the Bay won.
Is the extra game a shield challenge against Waikato (it's not showing in the Tribe app).
We'll have to play like demons, not only is the shield at stake but we're just above you in 3rd for most shield match wins.
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Boom! Another Ranfurly Shield win. Only one more challenge to go this year.
Pretty hard and fast game, some controversial decisions (especially the non-yellow card for Parkinson and/or Tu'ungafasi), and the good guys won! The players will feel very sore after this game, but at least the Magpies will have a bonus point Shield win to ease the pain. Ta$man literally got nothing out of this game. Good times.
Mikaele-Tu'u was my MotM. He was awesome; miles better than Frizell & other Ta$man loosies. Also a good game from Flanders, Parsons & Cridge (two of the most underrated players in NZ), Enari, McClutchie, to name a few. Some great hits from Sapsford (although I always hold my breath when he tackles, because he has a tendency to tackle high).
Parkinson, Makalio and Renton were good for the Mako, as was Hunt's boot and Tavatavanawai.
Hope all the walking wounded are alright. Quinten Strange looked like he may have played his last game of the season.
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Enjoyed watching that.
Kinda reluctant to ask this, and a strange question maybe, and NZers wouldn't have seen it because Sky went to ads, but after the game a bunch of HB guys (including Visinia) knelt and prayed in a circle.
Have no issue with that. Whatever spins your wheels.
But while they were doing that another bunch of guys from both teams (including Flanders and the HB 9) did the same thing.
Don't want to start an anti-religion debate (anyone grumbling about Sky Fairies gets deleted) but found that a little odd they didn't all join in together.
I assumed they're varying flavours of Christian (got visions of Protestants and Catholics but they didn't look Northern Irish), but maybe Christian and Muslim? Are the Tu'ungafasi's related?
Just interested in why the separate groups.
