BOP v Canterbury

[Duluth]

1 Jordan Lay, 2 Kurt Eklund, 3 Jeff Thwaites, 4 Stan Van den Hoven, 5 Kane Le'aupepe, 6 Joe Johnston 7 Mitch Karpik 8 Sam Dickson, 9 Luke Campbell, 10 Otere Black (C), 11 Joe Webber 12 Chase Tiatia, 13 Mathew Skipwith-Garland, 14 Emoni Narawa, 15 Kaleb Trask

Reserves: Nathan Vella, Tevita Mafileo, Ross Geldenhuys, Scott Curry, Zane Kapeli, Leroy Carter, Dan Hollinshead, Cole Forbes

[Tim]

@Duluth TTT injured?

[ARHS]

Surprised to see Tupe, Mewett, Carroll and Ware missing for a big game like this. Otherwise very happy with the lineup on form. TTT has been very good on defence, but Black seems to have more time and confidence outside Campbell and Carter, and the rest of the backline benefits. I like having Garland at centre and the threats on the wings. This might be a very good game.
Johnston and Van Den Hoven have looked useful, and hope to see them continue to grow.

[Dice]

BOP looking good so far.

10 - 0 to BOP.

[Duluth]

Looking even better now

15-3 BOP

[Dice]

Canterbury are finding it hard to get go forward on attack. They've lacked power players for a few years now.

[Duluth]

Good call for the penalty try. One pass and they would score

22-3

[Yeetyaah]

Lmao Canterbury shitting the bed. Why didn't Webber give the ball 🤦

[Stargazer]

This ref means serious bad luck for Canterbury. Totally missed a BOP forward pass in the lead-up to that penalty try.

Having said that, Canterbury is mud and that has a lot to do with the coaching. The players are good enough; with a better coach they'd perform better.

[Stargazer]

Cam Stone and Pickerill definitely competing for the "worst NZ ref" award. NZR should look for better refs to replace them.

[KiwiMurph]

What's the story with the BOP 9? He's having a whale of a game.

[Yeetyaah]

Fuck why'd I pick Canterbury to win

[Yeetyaah]

Lmao Stone is so shit. Canterbury playing on the ground big time.

[Stargazer]

@Chris Is McAlister out for the season? Klein is a terrible thrower, but his replacement is even greener.

[Canes4life]

With Ta$man and Auckland still to play, Canterbury’s playoff hopes might go out the window in this game. They will also be in a fight for relegation if Harbour gets up against Auckland aswell.

Very strange indeed.

[Yeetyaah]

@Canes4life sounds good to me.

[Dice]

@Canes4life Otago might not be an easy game for them either.

[Toddy]

How is that not a yellow card after those five in a row.

[Stargazer]

BOP too lucky here. That bounce of the ball ...

[Dice]

2020 just got weirder - a winger just threw in the line-out.