Auckland vs. Northland

African Monkey

@KiwiMurph Aso and Trainor can go after todays effort.

taniwharugby

Been pretty tough for both teams with some interesting calls by ref

Stockcar86

Seems to be lots of random or missed decisions by the ref going both ways

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KiwiMurph

Ranger doing his best to give Auckland the win.

taniwharugby

26 phases to get the win....not sure what to think,we didn't offer much but we're still in it at the nd ...

Dice

Kaifa is much better than Dominikovich-Murray. Unsure why Dominikovich-Murray moved ahead of him in the pecking order.

Tim

Jeez that was an awful half of rugby. Auckland are in danger of getting relegated.

Tim

Need some changes. Hopefully Nanai is back next week.

Fukofuka
Does is have to be Bowden?
Clarke
Faiane
Moala/Fekitoa
Not Aso
Nanai

African Monkey

Well Northland nearly pulled it off as I predicted earlier without playing very well themselves. Auckland continue to get worse and we'll do well to stay in the division if things don't improve.

African Monkey

@Tim Moala should shift to the wing in place of Aso.

Tim

We have no pattern or effective plan on attack. There is no focus. Without the Ioane brothers we really aren't creating anything.

KiwiMurph

A lot is made of Auckland 10s but cripes their 9s have been garbage for a long time. How the hell did they let Enari get away.

Give that youngster Mausia some more time at 10 I say.

African Monkey

@Tim Dead right. All we do is smash it up until we run out of ideas which then leads to Bowden trying to put a kick in behind the defence which very rarely comes off. We look like a league team trying to play rugby.

Chris B.

@Tim said in Auckland vs. Northland:

Need some changes. Hopefully Nanai is back next week.

Fukofuka

Does is have to be Bowden?

Clarke

Faiane

Moala/Fekitoa

Not Aso

Nanai

Got to be Fekitoa at centre. - he's one of the best, if not the best, players in the competition.

But, all these guys should be dominant in the NPC - Faiane, Moala, Fekitoa, Aso, Clarke, Nanai - that's some incredible weaponry at this level.

taniwharugby

yeah I was pretty happy with the way we contained that back division.

Like our mid-field of Tua-Goodhue, certainly neutralised (and were neutralised) thier AB capped opposites.

The Silver Fern

Auckland vs. Northland