Taranaki v Wellington

[Bones]

@steven-harris said in Taranaki v Wellington:

Taranaki looking good to grab a 2nd premiership scalp.., there forwards have been outstanding…to early to call..?

Possibly a bit early!

[Bones]

Turnover"s good? Mate that's exactly what you just penalised us for for Perofeta's shot

[Bones]

And then penalise us for it again. Fuck me.

[kev]

Taranaki very effective without being spectacular

[Bovidae]

Some poor kicking from Potroz and co at the end nearly cost Taranaki. I thought Florence was busy all game.

[Canes4life]

Wellington were crap, it pains me to say it but they look destined for the Championship next year. Taranaki without being spectacular never really looked like losing that game so well played to the Bulls.

The Lions forwards once again played like pussycats and PUJ proved when he came on that he should have been starting from the outset.

We need to keep Love at 10 aswell otherwise we won’t be winning another game this season.

[Nepia]

@canes4life said in Taranaki v Wellington:

Wellington were crap, it pains me to say it but they look destined for the Championship next year.

That would be exciting, may as well move the Canes to Hawkes Bay if that was the case, probably wash the yellow out of the jerseys too. Sounds perfect.

[Bones]

@nepia no gold in Hawkes Bay, sounds right.

[Nepia]

@bones said in Taranaki v Wellington:

@nepia no gold in Hawkes Bay, sounds right.

No coward yellow in Hawkes Bay aside from the odd times the Canes come to town because the Caketin is being used for soccer/crafts show.

[Steven Harris]

@kev thought the Naki forwards were superb, both around the paddock and at set piece and in the main just showed enough control .
Wellington have a ton of talent and plenty of attack , but is also offset with so much indiscipline..
That should put the Naki in good stead for their game against BOP next week , potentially a Ranfurly Shield challenge..

[Bones]

@nepia bit far to go just to lose.

[Duluth]

[mikey07]

@bovidae said in Taranaki v Wellington:

Castle with confirmation of Thompson signing for the Chiefs.

@Bovidae Where did you find that info?

[Bovidae]

@mikey07 said in Taranaki v Wellington:

@bovidae said in Taranaki v Wellington:

Castle with confirmation of Thompson signing for the Chiefs.

@Bovidae Where did you find that info?

Ben Castle was part of the commentary team in this game and mentioned it when there was a scrum. He said something like "two Chiefs hookers packing against each other" referring to Slater and Thompson. He then mentioned that Thompson has signed for the Chiefs. You will need to watch the full game to hear it.

[mikey07]

@bovidae Great another Holland special signing promising players. I guess that means we’ve signed useless James O’Reilly.

[Canes4life]

Isn’t Castle apart of the talent identification team at the Canes? Therefore he pretty much announced that he failed at his job.

[mikey07]

@canes4life said in Taranaki v Wellington:

Isn’t Castle apart of the talent identification team at the Canes? Therefore he pretty much announced that he failed at his job.

I ironically was just thinking that, think he’d better stick to his job as a commentator because he’s rubbish at talent identifying.

[Duluth]

@canes4life said in Taranaki v Wellington:

Isn’t Castle apart of the talent identification team at the Canes? Therefore he pretty much announced that he failed at his job.

Why do you assume the Canes didn't offer him a contract?

It's seems more likely he had a few options and opted for the Chiefs?

[Canes4life]

@duluth that sounds like the most likely scenario. I’d say Coles re-signing probably made up that decision for him.

[Stargazer]

@canes4life Yep, and despite Riccitelli leaving.