Auckland v Taranaki

[taniwharugby]

Sensational 50-22 into the wind

[Stargazer]

Did Ta'avao go off with an injury?

[nzzp]

Wow, just turned thsi back on. WTAF - how are we anywhere near the lead, let alone dominating? With injuries? Really?

I'll take it, but I did not expect that based on the first half

[kev]

@taniwharugby said in Auckland v Taranaki:

Sensational 50-22 into the wind

Hickey then picked the ball up and threw it over the signs. Rugby has to get its house in order about speeding the game up and keeping the ball in play.

[Stargazer]

Really, that should be a yellow. No way he could catch that.

[taniwharugby]

@Stargazer I personally don't like the yc for those but that was pretty blatant.

[kev]

@Stargazer said in Auckland v Taranaki:

Did Ta'avao go off with an injury?

AB injury

[Stargazer]

@kev So Renata started, Ta'avao played some time, and Renata comes back on (without Angus being injured)? Changing the rules for the ABs. That's not okay.

[Duluth]

Auckland player of the match voting:
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/5615/auckland-motm-v-taranaki/

[kev]

@Stargazer said in Auckland v Taranaki:

@kev So Renata started, Ta'avao played some time, and Renata comes back on? Changing the rules for the ABs. That's not okay.

He raced off the field like he had an appointment - no obvious signs of injury.

[nzzp]

QF against NH - wow. That will be spicy.

[taniwharugby]

Huge 2nd half by Auckland, used the wind and thier forwards smoked 'naki.

@kev and yet RTS gets full 80...so far this week only AB to do so?

[Stargazer]

Good resilience shown by Aucks in this game. I think the weather had a great impact on this game, too.
Taranaki, a performance typical for their season. Good in flashes, but otherwise pretty average. Not sure what happened to them since last year.

[Duluth]

Auckland continue their pattern of playing 30-40mins of good rugby at most.

That was a hell of a second half though considering the injuries, the scoreboard and the weather.

I hope Choat is good and we finally see a Choat/Ekuasi/Peita trio with Gibson on the bench in the QF. However, the chances of Alama picking that are almost nil

[Bovidae]

The Taranaki reserve props have been very average all year. Their scrum goes from stable/dominant to back-pedalling.

[KiwiMurph]

Talk about a game of two halves.

Peita making a mockery of the coaches. How can you go a whole season playing two 7s while Peita a player much better suited to 6 just gets bugger all game time.

Good signs from young Fusita at prop in the second half.

Good to see RTS at 14 - tough game to tell but the odd time he had space he looked better.

Lam continues to show his class.

Would be tipping Harbour next week in the quarter.

[Dan54]

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@taniwharugby said in Auckland v Taranaki:

was wondering earlier why Northland had to move thier game v Manawatu from Okara (due to womens RWC) yet Auckland are allowed to stay at EP?

It will be a turf assessment I guess.
EP is being hammered recently though.
Three games last week, this, and three next week.
Fair enough to ask I guess. What’s Okara like turf wise?

Drainage has been good but couldn’t say about the turf itself.

It’s quite a science these days. Drainage and a bit of seed doesn’t cut it compared to the top stadia.
That big sports training centre is being built not far from us and they scraped the old grounds down a good metre or more to rebuild them with a sand and soil mix. Was quite impressive the amount of earth moving.

Yep Yarrow park in New Plymouth now got a mixture of artificial and real grass, see every outdoor stadium like that in a few years.

[Dan54]

And I guess that's my Naki team done for the year, been ok following them, guess I need to get behind someone else for a couple of games.

[Duluth]

[African Monkey]

@Duluth said in Auckland v Taranaki:

Parete lucky there’s not a better angle of that

Just watching the game now. What an absolute grub.