Hawke's v Bay of Plenty

[frugby]

@Number-10 said in Hawke's Bay v Bay of Plenty:

Hawke's Bay team

15 Harry Godfrey
14 Ollie Sapsford
13 Nick Grigg
12 Chase Tiatia
11 Jonah Lowe
10 Lincoln McClutchie
9 Brad Weber
8 Devan Flanders
7 Josh Kaifa
6 Josh Gimblett
5 Tom Parsons (capt)
4 Geoff Cridge
3 Joel Hintz
2 Tyrone Thompson
1 Pouri Rakete-Stones

16 Kianu Kereru-Symes
17 Tim Farrell
18 Bo Abra
19 Frank Lochore
20 Sam Smith
21 Folau Fakatava
22 Stacey Ili
23 Paula Balekana

Return of Brad Weber and Jonah Lowe. No Marino Mikaele-Tu'u.

Highlanders bias showing perhaps, but feels rough for Fakatava, who has been very good from what I have seen, to be dropped straight back to the bench on Weber's arrival?

[Nepia]

@frugby The fact is we have two good halfbacks so they’ll be rotated. Blame it on Foster, one of them should be in the ABs right now.

[Duluth]

Bump.. there’s a lot of match threads this weekend

This kicks off in 10mins

[Stargazer]

Cashmore ruled out. Hawera starting at 10. Tanimo starting at fullback. Tamiro Armstrong coming onto the bench in 23.

[Donsteppa]

Hmmm. AB's don't front this morning, and now backline injuries on top of injuries. One of those days at this rate...

[Duluth]

BOP have recovered well after a poor start

[Steven Harris]

Talk about a long time to come up with YC that should have just needed one view

[Stargazer]

@Steven-Harris I may be one-eyed, but that drop from Ili wasn't sudden either. I hope they check it again, because that might meet the red-card treshold.

[barky1]

What a joke

[Bovidae]

I despair how we judge these tackles now. That's very different from deliberate foul play.

[Steven Harris]

Red under the framework but boy I totally agree with Ken , this space needs some work and in a hurry

[taniwharugby]

@Steven-Harris the powers of the game (we are not one currently) dont see any issues it seems....

[Steven Harris]

Chase Tiatia should be a traffic monitor

[Steven Harris]

Take the 3 ,and then go back

[Duluth]

Ref gave Hawkes every chance

[KiwiPie]

Go the BAY! See you next season Hawke's

[Magpie_in_aus]

Hb have themselves to blame there. Stupid grubber at the end. Advantage or not just keep hammering

[Bovidae]

@Duluth said in Hawke's Bay v Bay of Plenty:

Ref gave Hawkes every chance

Yes, some hometown officiating there. HB were offside when BOP was camped in the 22 m but no calls.

[KiwiPie]

We played a lot better with 14 than 15

[Stargazer]

Congrats to the Steamers, a deserved win. The cards were fully deserved, but if you can't score with a man more on the field (for a time, 2), then you don't deserve the win.

Not good seeing Godfrey getting injured. It looked bad.

The refs by the way missed a dangerous tip tackle in which Sapsford landed on his neck/head near the end of the game.