Canterbury v Northland

[antipodean]

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[Nzrugbyfan]

@kev yes blantantly ignorant

[Duluth]

No card for Heinz?

[kev]

They found our weakness and worked it. Will have to work on lineout D options - sacking and throwing a man up….

[Crazy Horse]

For Canterbury I thought the forwards did ok, but if they are going to persist with going wide rather than direct they need to find some speed, particularly in the back three. The two wings were pedestrian and Fihaki was his usual slow motion self. Apparently he is fast...

Anyone know Hutchinson's story? He didn't look like a natural winger at all.

[Chiefy07]

Would've been a very interesting game of we had better maul defense today. Think 4 or 5 tries conceded from mauls and other than that Canterbury didn't really look threatening. Considering how many tackles we had to make we hung in there and defended very well.

Also another day theres a line ball forward pass and a held up call that may well have gone our way.

Plenty to work on but overall a very positive game first up

[kev]

@Chiefy07 yeah 2 calls that easily could have been tries. Not going upstairs for either - is that the call now?

1st looked out of the hand backwards, 2nd they had to review because he was so close…

[Gunner]

Didn’t get to see the game, how did our Northland debutants go?

[Duluth]

[Gunner]

I’ve just watched those highlights, totally bloody robbed with the forward pass call, and not going upstairs for the ‘held up’ try.

Forward pass call can sort of be forgiven, tight calls happen in games, but the non review of the other one is pure incompetence and not good enough.