Wellington vs Auckland

[Winger]

@canes4life said in Wellington vs Auckland:

Awesome to see Lousi back, hopefully have him starting at lock and Blackwell to 6 for the playoffs.

Agree. Without both Lousi and Fifita our lineout wasn't great. Its a shame that Fidow is out for the full year. But at least Lousi returning should rectify one weakness. Blackwell at 1.90 is just too short

[Squirrel]

Good game from Wellington so far. Retained the ball against a sturdy Auckland defence and eventually crash over from close range. 7-0 8.29 gone

[KiwiMurph]

Only one team in it so far.

[Squirrel]

20 minutes gone. 10-0 wellington. Auckland not much chop so far

[Tim]

Auckland seem to be asleep. Bizarre.

[Dice]

Sweet ball by Faiane. Manu with a nice run to score. Their chemistry has been so good this season.

[Squirrel]

Tumua Manu scores under the post after a great run by Melani Nanai
10-7 26 minutes gone

That's what the game needed. Hopefully that sparks Auckland into life

[KiwiMurph]

Brilliant ruck turnover win by Plummer. That lad plays with some guts.

[Dice]

Some poor passes by us in this game.

[KiwiMurph]

@dice trying to do too much - should be kicking more.

[Squirrel]

How do you not score there!

[Dice]

That was some run by Rayasi.

[Dice]

Some decent defense by us in the last 15 minutes. Keeping us in it.

[KiwiMurph]

some very weird scrum rules (both ways) in this game.

[Dice]

Poor decision by Akira. He picked it up before we got the penalty.

[Dice]

We left 7 points out there. We should be leading.

[African Monkey]

We should have scored at the end there, hope it doesn't cost us. I think big cut out balls might not be the way to go in this game either.

[KiwiMurph]

@dice said in Wellington vs Auckland:

We left 7 points out there. We should be leading.

Could have also easily been down 20 points after 20 minutes....

[Dice]

@kiwimurph I think our defense has done well to hang on though.

[Stargazer]

Entertaining game.

It was interesting to see that Tuitama was at least as fast as Rayasi. I wonder wheter Tuitama has ever been in consideration for the AB7s.