Manawatu v Auckland

[Kirwan]

@nzzp said in Manawatu v Auckland:

that was a sweet short pass on the sideline, 8 to 6

Yeah, great skills in no space.

[Kirwan]

More good skills, nice direct running too.

[Crazy Horse]

Bloody hell. Zarn Sullivan comes on as a midfield replacement. Are we ever going to see him at 10?

[Duluth]

Auckland player of the match voting:
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/5477/auckland-motm-v-manawatu

[nzzp]

that was a classy last try

[African Monkey]

Great try to finish things off with our 2 best Rayasi and Dalzell heavily involved.

Impressive performance from an inexperienced Auckland side. Sam Wye and Hamdahn Tuipilotu look the goods.

[Dice]

Wye looks a lot better than Paea to me. He should get the halfback bench spot on the weekend.

[Grooter]

Good job Auckland. Huge match on Sunday😄

[African Monkey]

@FakatavaAllBlack Funnily enough it could be a bit of a banana skin. They did very well away at Ta$man last week.

[Dice]

@nzzp said in Manawatu v Auckland:

that was a classy last try

[African Monkey]

@Dice Thought Paea was ok too but yeah, Wye really came on and began to speed things up.

A bit of competition at halfback now, Funaki won't want to sit out too many more games.

[Machpants]

Fuck was this a non weekend game?

I thought we'd moved beyond weekday games dammit

[Duluth]

[KiwiMurph]

Thought Peita went very well. Would like to see him in the mix at 6 more rather than always playing 2 opensides in Gibson and Choat.

Hopefully both his and Tuipulotu's injuries aren't too bad.

[Dice]

We need to get Ekuasi in the starting line-up. Probably won't happen this week with the short turnaround, but he should definitely be in there next week. There's a bit of young JC in his game.

Hainsworth-Fa'aofo was quality off the bench. Another promising loosie to look out for.

[Duluth]

I was pleased with all of the young forwards. You can see what the team will look like in 2-3 years

Beehre was tidy in the lineout and did plenty of hard carries in the middle of the field. Probably not going to force his way into the top xv this year but will do a reasonable job if needed. He looks like a guy with a high ceiling.

Hamdahn Tuipulotu was impressive. One huge scrum and some very accurate powerful work around the field.

Hopefully in a few weeks the 4 loosies in the 23 will be Choat, Gibson, Ekuasi & Peita (although we know Alama will probably keep picking Pugh)

[ACT Crusader]

Other than that first scrum and a little bit of fringe defence, Auckland played very well.

I do like Luke Campbell’s passing. Very swift from the base without any steps. Pretty accurate too.