Highlander v Rebels - Sat 3:15pm

[waiopehu oldboy]

Vintage Clan, that try.

 

[Up the Guts]

Vintage Clan, that try.

Annoyingly good.

 

[Braveheart81]

14 point lead erased in 10 minutes. Ruru has plenty to make up for.

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[waiopehu oldboy]

Vintage Clan, that try.

Annoyingly good.

Deja vu.....

I don't think you can hang the Naholo try on Ruru, Maddocks & others were there but just didn't have the gas to do anything but keep him out by the tram lines. Second try you'd have to say was at least partly due to Ruru not being where he should otherwise have been.

 

[Scooter]

Rebels should have not taken advantage from knock on and by time scrum had occurred, Ruru would have been back on.

 

[Rugbynutter39]

If only the rebels could defend out wide!


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[waiopehu oldboy]

Vintage Clan to the power of n, that one. What a cracking game this is.

 

[Rugbynutter39]

Given rebels past track record of capitulating in second half would be few nervous supporters. Time to prove they are better second half team!


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[Scooter]

No urgency shown by Rebels on that last play, no one really showed any effort to get over and support Hodge on defence after the cross field kick

 

[Scooter]

My apologies to Angus Cottrell, he tried to help Hodge.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Not sure there was actually a ruck for the Reb to use his hands in. Never mind, Ioane makes a hash of a clearing kick & Hodge charges it down for his hat trick.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Ioane needs to be hooked. Bad enough missing touch from a centrefield penalty but to miss touch from one in the tram lines is criminal.

EDIT : Sopoaga takes the next one & shows Ioane how it's done.

 

[kiap]

Some dumb decisions out there.

Hodge has had a good game but that cross-field kick in their own half was plain stupid.

 

[Up the Guts]

Didn't he drop it into Ruru?

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Try all day long & fuck me the TMO only needs one look to confirm it. No doubt the TMO Shop Steward will have a word in his ear about that

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Forward pass & obviously so. Ruru could be in double-cheese territory high tackle-wise. Nah, penalty only.

 

[kiap]

Forward pass & obviously so. Ruru could be in double-cheese territory high tackle-wise. Nah, penalty only.

Two fwd passes

 

[Prodigy]

Highlanders taken advantage of another one of our dumbest rules - you can score at the base of the post pad, but you cannot defend in front of it.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

No forward passes in that one, Rebs need to score twice in three minutes plus however long they can keep the ball alive after the siren.

EDIT: poor captaincy there, shoulda taken the three immediately instead of pissing away the time on the clock deciding what to do.

 

[kiap]

Goodnight, nurse.

Highlanders taken advantage of another one of our dumbest rules - you can score at the base of the post pad, but you cannot defend in front of it.

Not a lot can be done about that.

Unless you move the posts back gridiron-style.