Manawatu v Auckland

KiwiMurph

@Stargazer Do you know much of Josh Beehre (out of Hastings Boys)?

Good to see some new blood in the team.

taniwharugby

@KiwiMurph hes from up this way I believe (last couple of years at HB? @Steven-Harris) pretty sure i was a year or 2 behind his dad at WBHS.

@Stargazer Thats a great resource, I had never seen it before.

Stargazer

@KiwiMurph No, I don't know much about him. Tbh, he wasn't one of the Hastings Boys' players that stood out like some other players did, so he didn't really feature in media write-ups of games. I'm not even sure how many years he attended Hastings Boys, possibly 2, but not sure. Before that, he attended Whangārei Boys'.

Edit: his last year at WBHS seems to be 2019. He played for Hastings Boys 1st XV in 2020.

KiwiMurph

@Stargazer @taniwharugby Thanks!

Duluth

Only Rayasi and Evans were in the starting xv for both matches

Duluth

African Monkey

@Daffy-Jaffy Good to see some youngsters in there. If we lose, we lose but am happy to see us give them a go.

ACT Crusader

@Daffy-Jaffy said in Manawatu v Auckland:

18 Charlie Abel (DEBUT)/ Marcel Renata (University)

Congrats to Charles, hopefully he gets his shot. A good kid.

Daffy Jaffy

@Duluth said in Manawatu v Auckland:

Would like to see Jock too

McKenzie has not appeared at all in preseason or the first two games. I guess he is out injured at present.

Dice

Turbos are putting out close to their best team, whereas we're putting out a B team. We should win, but I wouldn't be surprised if we struggled a bit in this one.

Dice

A classic moment against the Turbos from 2009.

https://streamable.com/b14om8

Tim

@Dice Now those were some messy rucks! Who was number 20?

Dice

@Tim said in Manawatu v Auckland:

@Dice No those were some messy rucks! Who was number 20?

Yeah. I thought we'd never get the ball back with how many numbers the Turbos committed at the breakdown. Onosai Auva'a came up with a miracle turnover.

Number 20 is Auvasa Faleali'i. Still plays for Papatoetoe and Manu Samoa. Surprised he doesn't have an NPC contract.

African Monkey

@Dice Remember it well. We were cruising at 16-0 and then fell to pieces. They scored with about 3 to go in the corner and a young Aaron Cruden nailed a sideline conversion iirc before the winner at the end.

We had some very average teams then haha.

nzzp

fingers crossed for a good game. Love midweek rugby.

Higgins

Manawatu exceeding all expectations. Still nil nil after two minutes!

nzzp

@Higgins said in Manawatu v Auckland:

Manawatu exceeding all expectations. Still nil nil after two minutes!

This is more fun than watching the ABs

nzzp

Good break by Green 5 by the way, put into a nice gap

Higgins

@nzzp The NPC is still the most important and meaningful competition for a lot of us.

nzzp

@Higgins said in Manawatu v Auckland:

@nzzp The NPC is still the most important and meaningful competition for a lot of us.

it's embarassing how NZR have ignored it. I loved the 9/9/9 split.

On the actual rugby, the Aucklanders are using a rush defence! Fantastic and it looks effective! WTAF ... innovation?

The Silver Fern

Manawatu v Auckland