Steamers v Waikato
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- Aidan Ross (21)
- Liam Polwart (11)
- Jeff Thwaites (18)
- Keepa Mewett (32) β Captain
- Culum Retallick (109)
- Tom Franklin (9)
- Hugh Blake (17)
- Jesse Parete (17)
- Richard Judd (8)
- Mike Delany (69) β Vice Captain
- Joe Webber (23)
- Terrence Hepetema (16)
- Lalakai Foketi (26)
- Monty Ioane (27)
- Chase Tiatia (23)
Reserves:
16. Nathan Harris (28)
17. Jordan Lay (6)
18. James Lay (7)
19. Tyler Ardron (4)/Troy Callander (20)
20. Mitchell Karpik (3)
21. Ajay Mua (1)
22. Luke Campbell (13)
23. Elijah Nicholas (1)Great looking team....fine day....TAB has us as favorites....A chance to relegate DSW. Can't wait.
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Doesn't appear to be a lot of traffic here today, all the BoP guys must be at the game. It looks a great sight at the Tauranga Domain in the lovely sunshine up there. Anyway after seventeen minutes both teams have crossed the line for unconverted tries, BoP first followed by DSW just a few minutes ago. The DSW are looking a bit better after a slow start but overall it still looks like BoP have the slight upper hand, albeit not by much at this stage.
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Waikato make another mistake trying to run it out of their own twenty two and turn the ball over. Ioane makes another powerful bust that results in another BoP try, this time in the right hand corner. Delaney converts and BoP 19 - 05 Waikato after thirty five minutes.
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That was not a deliberate knock on referee. Why do refs rule all attempted intercepts close to the goal line as deliberate (and a yellow card) even when, in this case anyway, it did not look like one? As it turns out Waikato scored a converted try from the penalty to close the gap to BoP 17 - 12 Waikato at halftime
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Waikato come out of the sheds all fired up after halftime and have already dotted down under the posts and all but score again a few minutes later in the right hand corner so Auckland followers must be clenching their butt cheeks together a bit harder now.