Hawkes Bay vs. North Harbour (RS)

[Stargazer]

Strong looking squad. Apart from - obviously - Brodie Retallick at 4, a deserved start for Tyrone Thompson; his first in the Magpies jersey. Great to see that the coaches finally realise that Ili should start at 13 instead of Grigg. Still coach's pet Tiatia at 15 though. Would have preferred Makene at fullback, so we have proper 10 cover as well.

[Stargazer]

@FakatavaAllBlack I don't think we can do any better than that!

[Grooter]

@Stargazer it's not Tyrone's first start, he started against Otago and scored the first try that night🙂

[Stargazer]

@FakatavaAllBlack Must have blocked that game out of my mind!

[Tim]

https://i.imgur.com/VaBxgXB.png

[Grooter]

@Tim Mark Telea ready to make a Viliame Waqaseduadua afternoon of it🙂

[JK]

@FakatavaAllBlack said in Hawkes Bay vs. North Harbour (RS):

@Tim Mark Telea ready to make a Viliame Waqaseduadua afternoon of it🙂

I watched that game at stupid hours from London. What a day!

[Grooter]

@JK was there at Jade or as some might call it Lancaster.. take a kid to the footy.. to see Rua lift the log of wood🙂

[Higgins]

The rain has arrived in Napier about an hour ago and looks like it has set in for a while. The forecast for tomorrow is not flash with showers all day until mid afternoon and a fresh sou-wester. Overnight temp tonight = 10 (currently 13 - down from 18 just 90 minutes ago) and tomorrow's high estimated to be 15degrees. All in all it looks to be not a nice rugby watching afternoon for the fans and those in the tipping competitions might want to revise the amount of points scored down a bit as it seems unlikely there will be much razzle dazzle flash backline movements given the forecast!
Still forecasts have been known to be wrong here in the Bay, fingers crossed that it is this time but either way it will be damp and a bit heavy underfoot, or what passes as heavy underfoot with these modern sand based surfaces these days.

[Duluth]

Felix Kalapu must be on loan from Auckland. He already played for Auckland v Manawatu this year

[Duluth]

Also thats a 6/2 split

[Higgins]

@Duluth As victims of the Battle of Solway we will be looking very closely whether there have been any infractions of the minimum residential requirement!

[pakman]

@Tim said in Hawkes Bay vs. North Harbour (RS):

https://i.imgur.com/VaBxgXB.png

Serious gas in NH back three.

[Crucial]

@Duluth said in Hawkes Bay vs. North Harbour (RS):

Also thats a 6/2 split

They also have Tiatia who will benefit them from time to time though.

[nzzp]

Just turned this on. THe jerseys aren't a clash exactly... but my first thought was wondering why someone was tackling their teammate.

Edit: Surely one side wears white shorts?

[Tim]

Looks like Retallick still has it in the scrum.

[Grooter]

Chase Tiatia the bay favourite!

[Nepia]

Tiatia finally does something decent in his 4th (?) game?

[Tim]

Nice try. Thompson having a good game.

[Nepia]

@Tim said in Hawkes Bay vs. North Harbour (RS):

Nice try. Thompson having a good game.

I think Thompson is good ball in hand but Kereru-Symes might be better at the fundamentals.