NPC Final - Auckland vs Canterbury (free entry)

[Tim]

Experience is telling. Auckland players looked tentative all game.

[Stargazer]

Great try Manu! And just like that Auckland is on the board. Maybe they'll start playing now.

[Machpants]

Nicely done! Canterbury pedestrian in getting back

[broughie]

@tim that’s an understatement Tim. How about drive, commitment, execution and I could go on. If they had any pride they would not enter the sheds at half time.

[Machpants]

Hopefully AKL will calm down now they're on the board and the game will improve

[Yeetyaah]

Abel and Ruru having a hard time.

[Tim]

Adams under a lot of pressure.

[Stargazer]

Auckland needs to fix their line-out and scrum. They're being utterly dominated.

[Rapido]

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Auckland had that coming. Penalty try; yellow card for Akira. Stupid.

@rapido Really?

That was so blatantly in the side, utterly awful.

So such thing as blatantly in the side of a rolling maul. Because they are rolling.

[number9]

Canterbury completely dominating the Auckland Pack. Great crowd, excellent atmosphere they will be happy with the turnout to watch the Finals.

[KiwiMurph]

Not much to say really. Getting destroyed.

Auckland lucky not to be trailing by more.

Cant say i see much in Cameron. Even behind a dominant pack looks average.

Faiane very good. Trainor sneaky good.

She's a long way back now.

[Stargazer]

Harmon off with a yellow for a tip tackle.

[Tim]

@stargazer I'm glad we didn't get 100x replays on the big screen.

[Tim]

Got to get points in those situations.

[hydro11]

Good work from Jackson to reward the dominant scrum with the penalty. I have seen those go the other way.

[Tim]

Great play Ioane. He and Faiane leading this team.

[Stargazer]

@tim Great try Ioane, but he's dominated by Whitelock.

[Stargazer]

Geez, what a horrible weather. For the crowd that's there, it's good that there aren't more people. At least they get the opportunity to look for a dry, covered seat now that they've opened some of the other stands.

[Tim]

@stargazer Bullshit. Ioane drove him back in a big tackle in the 1st half. Whitelock can't stop him off the back of the scrum even with going very offside.

Even against 14 men Whitelock's ball carrying was his usual 1m and flop over.

[Stargazer]

@tim I'm not a L Whitelock fan, but he's been much better than Akira thus far.