Southland v Canterbury

[Duluth]

1 Harry Allan, 2 George Bell, 3 Joe Moody, 4 Liam Jack, 5 Zach Gallagher, 6 Corey Kellow, 7 Tom Christie, 8 Billy Harmon (C), 9 Nic Shearer, 10 Shun Miyake, 11 Ngantungane Punivai, 12 Dallas McLeod, 13 Braydon Ennor, 14 Chay Fihaki, 15 Johnny McNicholl

Reserves: 16 Brodie McAlister, 17 Junior Fifita, 18 Gus Brown, 19 Alex Grogan, 20 Tahlor Cahill, 21 Joel Lam, 22 Ryan Crotty, 23 Manasa Mataele

[cgrant]

Who is Junior Fifita ?

[Higgins]

@cgrant

Tau Junior FIFITA profile and stats

Tau Junior FIFITA : bio, stats, play time, birthdate, height, weight...

[Duluth]

Kicking off now

[Duluth]

Crazy start

[Bovidae]

What a dumb option by Smith to kick.

The second Canty try is a carbon copy of Auckland's against NH.

[Grooter]

clever grubber from Smith

[Grooter]

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[Duluth]

17 all after 25mins

[Duluth]

Moody having a tough time

[antipodean]

I think I may have to revise my margin now I remember de Groot is back for Southland...

[antipodean]

Looks like Allan copped a shoulder to the head from Dunshea as they both went into to support at a ruck. Entirely accidental.

[Bovidae]

Doleman is ignoring the new law about not being able to take out the halfback at the ruck.

[Donsteppa]

Canterbury #23 wins the award for worthlessly lazy cover defence there.

[Duluth]

The ball stopped perfectly

[fruggerby]

Very impressed by the defence of the Southland 10. Strong in contact

[Duluth]

[tubbyj]

@antipodean said in Southland v Canterbury:

Looks like Allan copped a shoulder to the head from Dunshea as they both went into to support at a ruck. Entirely accidental.

If an All Black did what Dunshea did in a test would it have been a red card? I think we all know the answer is yes so why are we allowing players to get away with this in the NPC and Super Rugby? We are setting our players up for failure in international rugby by not following the NH standard on this.

[Chris]

@fruggerby said in Southland v Canterbury:

Very impressed by the defence of the Southland 10. Strong in contact

fended off by Fihaki for the Crotty try though.

[antipodean]

@tubbyj said in Southland v Canterbury:

@antipodean said in Southland v Canterbury:

Looks like Allan copped a shoulder to the head from Dunshea as they both went into to support at a ruck. Entirely accidental.

If an All Black did what Dunshea did in a test would it have been a red card? I think we all know the answer is yes so why are we allowing players to get away with this in the NPC and Super Rugby? We are setting our players up for failure in international rugby by not following the NH standard on this.

I agree. I'm not making a case for Dunshea to not be carded, merely pointing out it wasn't a deliberate act of foul play.

The game is currently in a state of madness where the objective is to get lower than everyone else (unless you're South African). It looks like height in contact has been a major work-on in Razor's camps as we generally seem to be doing better in that regard.