Manawatū v Hawke's Bay

[Grooter]

@Higgins if Lincoln goes down then Fakatava will step up to the plate!

[Billsy111]

@FakatavaAllBlack I think the Bay are clearly pissed off with what happened in Dunedin, and rightly so. This team running out this afternoon is a Super Rugby Team in Black and White jerseys. However that doesn't mean that Manawatu will lie down. They Won't. You have to make them. The way to do it given the week Manawatus had is to start real quick, get a good early lead, and knock there confidence down even more. This to me could be a season defining game for the Bay. And what I mean is with tough challenges coming for the Shield we need a complete performance from the top line up. No flat patches, high intensity, and basics done well time and time again. There's been two upsets already this weekend and that should alone stir this Bay team up.

[Higgins]

@Billsy111 And no pointless up and under box kicks.
Any sign what the weather and track conditions down there are today? It is Palm Nth afterall so it cannot possibly be brilliantly fine and sunny sitting on just over 21 degrees like it is here in Napier today!

[Duluth]

[Higgins]

Phew, good to see the 'Poo team named which means the Bay can cream them on the field rather than taking the five points by what was increasingly looking like a default victory.

[Stargazer]

Whatever the weather is this afternoon, the field will still be soft. I hope the curtain raiser - Wairarapa-Bush v North Otago - doesn't destroy the turf.

[Higgins]

All this weekends curtainraisers have finished and only a little over half an hour to go before the main match for this round commences.
Yet another game where there was an unexpected loss for one of the Super Rugby host teams so there cannot possibly be another team where the hotshots get tipped over. Surely not, especially when the Kel Tremain Memorial Trophy is being defended? I mean it is the 'Poo we are talking about....................................

[Grooter]

Go Marino, Jonah and of course Folau! Kianu you know what you must do! Magpies vs Manawatu it's a bitter rivalry🙂

[taniwharugby]

So close...cmon central vikings teams

[Grooter]

I backed the wrong hooker..

[taniwharugby]

Manawatu have started very well!

Hope they can keep it up

[Nepia]

@Higgins

[taniwharugby]

Hooker with wheels!

[Winger]

@taniwharugby said in Manawatū v Hawke's Bay:

Manawatu have started very well!

Hope they can keep it up

14-0 after 8 minutes

[Grooter]

wow!!

[Higgins]

@Nepia I am in the process of getting dinner ready but have had to have a change of menu. The steak and anything else requiring a sharp knife has been removed and all things with a sharp edge have been locked away in the interests of safety. Microwaved frozen mince, oven chips and some sort of frozen vegetable mix looks the safest option at this stage to accompany my specialist home made coleslaw!

[Canes4life]

Brett Cameron’s boot could very well be the reason he ends up getting the Hurricanes 10 jersey.

[Higgins]

Btrad Weber in for the converted try so things looking more likely for a fifty pointer than the 100 pointer I had predicted earlier this week.

[Grooter]

love Rakete stone in open space

[Steven Harris]

@FakatavaAllBlack he can scoot for big boy ..