Southland vs Northland

Gunner

Terrible option from Gregory with that pathetic chip kick to no one, gives Southland the ball hot on attack.

I think only Northland could be in a position to potentially lose a game when we should be up by 30

Machpants

Terrible option from Gregory with that pathetic chip kick to no one, gives Southland the ball hot on attack.

I think only Northland could potentially lose a game that we should have won by 30

That was Jack D

Gunner

@Machpants I think my feed is on a bit of a delay...
Was definitely Gregory who I was talking about

Machpants

@Gunner said in vs Southland:

@Machpants I think my feed is on a bit of a delay...
Was definitely Gregory who I was talking about

Yeah I'm via Hong Kong so I was looking at the kick straight to the guy in the 22 to mark

Gunner

The fucking basic skills seriously lacking tonight from Northland.

We are determined to keep Southland in it.

Machpants

@Gunner can't believe the ref didn't stop it when the ruck went over an injured player, that's appalling

Stargazer

Brave from Southland there at the end, they deserved that bonus point. Unlucky. Great defence from Northland though, who deserved their win.

nzzp

Well done Northland.

Enjoyed that game - and well done Southland. Gutsy as anything, no right to be in that game

shack

I can’t recall Johnson or Leilua touching the ball all game

Machpants

Pretty tense, messy tho. Can't believe the wasn't a yellow

And WTF with the mascot? That's embarrassingly awful behaviour

Stargazer

Ray Nu'u was really good for Southland; Te Tamaki also played well.

Dice

Southland should've just taken the easy 3 to get the bonus point at the end. They wanted to get the bonus point the hard way and came away with nothing. Silly.

African Monkey

@Gunner Yeah not easy tbf on a cold night but they still did some good things out there too. Think they'll be better for the run.

Steven Harris

Good way to start the season for the Taniwha Boys..best for Northland I thought were Josh Goodhue, really good in the air and got through a ton of work around the paddock, loved the fact that he tracked all the way a nailed Isaac Te Tamaki in a tackle

Jordon Hyland was all power on the wing..
Plenty to work on but good to get the W first up ,well played Southland

Dice

@Stargazer Yeah, impressed by Nu'u. Marty McKenzie had an un-Marty McKenzie game and had a pretty solid game too.

Gunner

@Machpants yes not ideal.

Kane Jacobson can’t get a break, he didn’t play a single club game this year due to a concussion he picked up in M10 last year, now he was helped off with what looks like could potentially be a serious leg injury.

Boy oh boy did we make hard work of that. But a win is a win as they say.

Pretty simple job for the coaches this week, practice, practice and practice again some of the basics of rugby, like passing, catching, holding on to the ball in contact.

Lineout needs work too.

As I mentioned earlier, wouldn’t mind our backs sending it wide once or twice either. Where was the Northland flair?

Gonna have to step up big time if we want to compete with Auckland next week.

Gunner

@Machpants said in vs Southland:

Pretty tense, messy tho. Can't believe the wasn't a yellow

And WTF with the mascot? That's embarrassingly awful behaviour

Which mascot? What happened?

Machpants

@Gunner said in vs Southland:

@Machpants said in vs Southland:

Pretty tense, messy tho. Can't believe the wasn't a yellow

And WTF with the mascot? That's embarrassingly awful behaviour

Which mascot? What happened?

During the captain's interview the Taniwha stood right behind him, and shoved a shield with adverts on it to the side of his head. The cameraman eventually zoomed super close to mats face, then the director cut away. Needs a kicking, the mascot idiot

Gunner

@African-Monkey said in vs Southland:

@Gunner Yeah not easy tbf on a cold night but they still did some good things out there too. Think they'll be better for the run.

Yep you’re right, plenty of good things out there. I shouldn’t post during games, I get too worked up and all rationality goes out the window 😂

I don’t know who was offical MOTM, but it’s Jordan Hyland for me. Not a flashy player, but bloody hell he’s super consistent and does all the basics well and more often than not beats one or two tackles.

Goodhue was good also.

Concerning that we had 3 of 4 looses injured, McNamara didn’t return after half time, Stokes went off with the head knock and Jacobson at the end with the leg injury... add Tom Robinson to that list. A real test of depth coming early in the season.

Duluth

@Gunner said in vs Southland:

I don’t know who was offical MOTM, but it’s Jordan Hyland for me. Not a flashy player, but bloody hell he’s super consistent and does all the basics well and more often than not beats one or two tackles.

He was clearly the best Northland player. I’d like to see him start in the midfield. I’m not convinced wing is his best position.

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