Maori Tour

[westcoastie]

@hydro11 always a yellow card, if ref had used the phrase "any reason I can't award a try?" then fair enough Maori's score, but the stream I'm watching it wasn't clear and obvious grounding.

[westcoastie]

Discipline and/or poor refereeing letting the Maori down. Not sure which.

[Stockcar86]

I hate French sides - niggly cheating cock wombles

[hydro11]

Why was no one hitting any rucks in the last minute? Made it so easy for the French to close that one out.

[pakman]

Bateman does a Warburton!

[KiwiMurph]

Similar to last end of year for the Maori - romp to a big win in North America followed up by a loss in Europe.

[Crazy Horse]

@taniwharugby I am confused now. I thought the Fern established a couple of weeks ago that JGB should be in the ABs!

[cgrant]

Very poor Maori side. Akira Ioane was invisible for most of the game. Was he told to keep some energy for next Wednesday against the French XV ?
Hemopo was the only forward to show some grunt. The others were well dominated by their French counterparts. Ruru was active when he came in. All in all, I think the final score is flattering the Maoris.

[ARHS]

@cgrant
...invisible except for some off the ball niggle. His work rate improved in second half though. Thought that Stevenson and Ngatai did a lot of useful work

[footy01]

Bachop playing behind a Wellington pack and huge backs ofcourse is gonna look good. Get him behind the rebels pack and now a Maoris pack going backwards he can't play. Always better for a good player to shine in a shit team then shining when things are going good

[Wurzel]

Akira is never going to contribute positively to a match that is testy.

[Bones]

@crazy-horse you may be confusing him with A Ioane or Super Ngatai.

Although it seems odd that Hall, Gibson, Cowley-Tuioti and Gatland haven't been selected for any national team this weekend.

[Daffy Jaffy]

@bones I think they were all injured at the end of the season and I know Gibson had a shoulder operation.

[Tim]

@daffy-jaffy Yep, all those players are injured.

[Bones]

@daffy-jaffy said in Maori Tour:

@bones I think they were all injured at the end of the season and I know Gibson had a shoulder operation.

Parsons, Smith, Nansen, Vaega?

[Tim]

@bones Nansen is in the Samoan squad.

[Bones]

@tim fucking happy days!

[taniwharugby]

@bones Parsons not Maori?

[Nepia]

@bones said in Maori Tour:

@crazy-horse you may be confusing him with A Ioane or Super Ngatai.

Although it seems odd that Hall, Gibson, Cowley-Tuioti and Gatland haven't been selected for any national team this weekend.

Nope!

[Crazy Horse]

@bones nah somebody in their wisdom suggested JGB was All Black material based on his season with Wellington. May have been one of the more fanatical Wellington posters...