Otago v Northland

[Duluth]

Otago

1 Abraham Pole, 2 Henry Bell, 3 Rohan Wingham, 4 Will Tucker, 5 Joseva Tamani, 6 Will Stodart, 7 Lucas Casey, 8 Christian Lio-Willie, 9 Dylan Pledger, 10 Cameron Millar, 11 Jona Nareki, 12 Jake Te Hiwi, 13 Josh Timu, 14 Jae Broomfield, 15 Sam Gilbert (C)
Reserves: 16 Liam Coltman, 17 Benjamin Lopas, 18 George Bower, 19 Oliver Haig, 20 Harry Taylor, 21 Nathan Hastie, 22 Josh Whaanga, 23 Sam Nemec-Vial

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Northland

1 Jordan Lay, 2 Matt Moulds (C), 3 Chris Apoua, 4 Allan Craig, 5 Sam Caird, 6 Rob Rush, 7 Jake Heenan, 8 Terrell Peita, 9 Sam Nock, 10 Rivez Reihana, 11 Brady Rush, 12 Corey Evans, 13 Solomon Alaimalo, 14 Nathan Salmon, 15 Jordan Trainor
Reserves: 16 Jordan Hutchings, 17 Esile Fono, 18 Coree Te Whata-Colley, 19 Liam Hallam-Eames, 20 Lachie Hooper, 21 Josh Renton, 22 Quinton Nichols, 23 Paula Balekana

[taniwharugby]

Sounds like Renata may have picked up an injury that could end his season

[kev]

@taniwharugby said in Otago v Northland:

Sounds like Renata may have picked up an injury that could end his season

Bugger. Hope they have sorted CTC’s scrummaging issues.

[taniwharugby]

@kev yeah CTC is an odd one, sometimes he can be devastating, next scrum he gets destroyed...think it's a concentration and fitness issue.

[kev]

@taniwharugby said in Otago v Northland:

@kev yeah CTC is an odd one, sometimes he can be devastating, next scrum he gets destroyed...think it's a concentration and fitness issue.

I remember him as being good - just that game against Ta$man. Hopefully they will have it sorted. The scrum has been very good for us.

[SouthernMann]

Expecting a big game from Lucas Casey against his home province. Hoping him and Pledger continue to standout like dogs nuts.

[jimmyb]

Do commentators get a bonus everything they describe an all Maori/pacific islander midfield as “powerful”?

[Donsteppa]

A very well taken intercept, and relatively little interest in tackling from Otago.

[taniwharugby]

Damn, Solomon's hands...

[jimmyb]

Dumb from CLW

[taniwharugby]

A few forward floaters being let go

[taniwharugby]

Some good continuity on attack from both sides if not a.bit predictable

[taniwharugby]

All that territory and possession pressure too much there...we need to get some ball

[jimmyb]

It’s a good game to watch but the lack of innovation on attack by both teams will likely mean they won’t be able to compete with the top 2-3 teams

[taniwharugby]

Handling errors still a big problem for us

[taniwharugby]

Man we have seen some awful kicks from hand by Reihana this year...if we stop kicking the ball away and put some phases together a few wide, we have a shot but if we keep giving them the ball, the heat will be too much

[Duluth]

Otago will be disappointed with that scoreline. They had loads of ball

[Kiwidom]

Northland getting a few good turn overs at the rucks

[taniwharugby]

Man we need to get some linking from thier kicks instead of just kicking it straight back to them.

[taniwharugby]

Our discipline is not good enough, too much pressure.