Auckland v Tasman

[Tim]

@african-monkey He is Philip Seymour Hoffman's character from Boogie Nights.

[African Monkey]

I must say I'm very impressed by Plummer on defence. Plenty of traffic comes his way but he stands up every time.

[Nepia]

Akira has been awesome in the last 5 minutes on D. Does that count as off the ball stuff (edit: as a work on, not scrapping )?

[Tim]

What was the call on that penalty against Ioane? Ruck formed?

[Duluth]

@tim hands on the ground briefly

[nzzp]

I am enjoying the Auckland defence. They look like they care, and are working hard for each other. WTF changed? It's been shambolic for a number of years.

I like this very much.

[number9]

Is it just me or are these dickhead commentators forever loving Ta$man? I personally don't think Lomax is that good. And as for Pod what an idiot.

[Tim]

Graham Henry's teams defend well. Even when he's 70.

[Nepia]

Try Akira - and then his whole pack fell on him.

[African Monkey]

Great work Akira and great stuff Auckland!

[Kirwan]

Great team spirit. These coaches have really turned this team around.

[Tim]

Papalii at 7 with Gibson at 6. Hmm.

[Nepia]

Is it some kind of Umaga family law that they must have dreads?

[Tim]

I wonder how many people backed Auckland to win the Premiership at $12?

[nzzp]

@tim said in Auckland v Ta$man:

I wonder how many people back Auckland to win the Premiership at $12?

not happening, too young a side.

psst: don't jinx it fella

[Tim]

That's about 60 minutes scoreless for Ta$man?

[Kirwan]

@tim said in Auckland v Ta$man:

I wonder how many people back Auckland to win the Premiership at $12?

Still too early for that talk. Semis are still par, anything else is a bonus.

Going well though.

[Kirwan]

Only thing that would have been sweeter would have been TJ commentating on Ta$man getting smashed by Auckland.

How’d you like them apples?

[Nepia]

Well done Auckland, cleaned up a team with a better backline than the Highlanders and the Chiefs.

[African Monkey]

@kirwan Dead right. Very important win this is for us but we still have very tough competition to come including a trip to Christchurch next week (a place we never win at) so still a lot of work to do. All tonight has done is mean that next week isn't a must win game.

Having said that, great performance. Easily our best performance since Paul Feeney's 2015 side.