So England wrap up an innings victory after leaking 556 runs in Pakistan's first innings. The first time a team has won by an innings after having 500+ against them.
Non-Orago players are probably more of a problem than the Otago players. Let's remember we signed Jonah Lowe to three years. DLB,who battles to keep a spot in the Canterbury team will be back next year. We can only sign players who are available and want to move to Dunedin. Players can't be forced to go to the Highlanders.
Hate the 20 minute red card. The excuses re accidental head shots piss me off, if South Africa can coach their players to tackle lower then so can everyone else. Red for heads was an attempt to change behaviour, and it worked (for most teams)
I can't see any of the UK teams agreeing to a 20-minute red card and a return to head shots and significantly heightening the risk of players getting premature dementia. There will be enormous political and parliamentary pressure for this not to happen.
hot take: it's not the red card head shots that cause dementia.
second hot take: 20 min reds won't change behaviour if full reds don't either. @MN5 I think nailed it above on this - individuals don't want tog et carded; coaches don't want plaeyrs to get carded. The whole card is a bit of a mess at the moment.
@foobaNZ Genuinely no idea who is on the market, I suspect they may run Love there a bit, or even McLutchie (but think he's contracted to MLR) . I certainly not against Godfrey who looks good at times though generally at 15 at higher level.
Mate I just watched a season of Crusaders imploding and one of big probloems seemed to be no 10 that has the experience to run things when things went bad.I really hope one of the ones we have will be good !
Lol add to that mate, haven't really thought too much on super at this stage, I still into NPC and got at least one more game to go to at New Plymouth!
Round 8
East Coast 45 - 32 Wairarapa Bush
Mid Canterbury 47 - 24 Poverty Bay
North Otago 55 - 14 Buller
Thames Valley 35 - 41 Horowhenua Kapiti
West Coast 38 - 43 South Canterbury
Whanganui 17 - 34 King Country
KC win the Bill Osborne Taonga back again.
Semis Meads Cup
Whanganui v Thames Valley
South Canterbury v Mid Canterbury
Lochore Cup
King Country v East Coast
Horowhenua Kapiti v West Coast
And this is why we are not going to win the comp. Two of our starting 5 out and we are in trouble.
Some positives. We're playing Perth and Cotton (the best NBL player i have ever seen) goes for 35, we had 2 starters out, and the foul count in fourth was 6-0 in favour of the amazingly perfect Wildcats, and we lost by 3, and had the shot to tie it up.
Have a horrible feeling (just based on how conservatve Razor has been) that Blackadder might start ahead of Sititi in big games and that TJP gets one of the halfback spots.
I would assume Blackadder slots straight into the 20 jersey for the big matches (but probably gets one start against one of the big three).
Perenara will probably be on the bench for a couple of those games simply because Roigard is still pretty short of minutes.
I do have memories of that as well, either Dan was the only one with a test ton, or he had more test tons than anyone else in the team. It was most likely the latter but he was our best batsmen for a time. Best bowler, best batsmen, captain and coach all at once, what a man.
Ah yeah maybe that was it !
I know lots of the guys I mentioned had high scores around 80 or 90
The list of All Blacks available for their provincial teams is as follows:
Friday 11 October
Wellington v Counties Manukau – Sky Stadium, Wellington, 7.05pm
Wellington: Billy Proctor, Ruben Love, TJ Perenara, Asafo Aumua
Counties Manukau: Cam Roigard
Saturday 12 October
Bay of Plenty v Hawkes Bay – Tauranga Domain, 2.05pm
Bay of Plenty: Pasilio Tosi
Taranaki v Waikato – Yarrow Stadium, New Plymouth, 7.05pm
Taranaki: Stephen Perofeta
Waikato: Luke Jacobson, Samipeni Finau
Sunday 13 October
Ta$man v Canterbury – Lansdowne Park, Blenheim, 2.05pm
Ta$man: Ethan Blackadder, David Havili
Canterbury: George Bell, Fletcher Newell, Sam Darry
Fantastic to be able to have a catch up with NZ Maori and Counties...
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