SRP (Super Rugby Pacific) 2022 - NZ & Drua matches with no match thread

[Dismal Pillock]

Way more fun watching PI players go against slightly ragged defenses than the usual sterile suffocating forensically-professional fodder

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Tavatavanawai could be the form winger in the whole comp. He's basically this:

 

[Dismal Pillock]

 

[Dan54]

Fairly reasonable looking Tribe team. Should be ok game, I only going to a colts club game today, so should be home in time for it.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

3pm kickoff shits me. Unless I can use the work wifi to stream it...

 

[Dismal Pillock]

3pm kickoff shits me. Unless I can use the work wifi to stream it...

Just pick up your telephone receiver and leave it on the table. I'll use the Pitcairns dialup to talk you through the match. Due to the bad connection I'll probably have to shout for all 80 minutes but I'm sure no one there will mind.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ thanks for the offer but that's just a little bit toooo blatant, even for me on a Sat'dy arvo...

Edit: work wifi login expired yesterday & they haven't told us the new one yet looks like it's live(ish) updates until I get home...

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Fijians habit of getting in cheap shots to players on the ground after they've just scored against them is some pea-hearted garbage.

Wow, Poihipo doesnt look "the type" but he's raked off a couple of ENORMOUS pinpoint 50/22s

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Sounds like the first half was fairly entertaining.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Sounds like the first half was fairly entertaining.

Yeah I dunno, not massively, the whole Chiefs vibe seems to be "fuck this shit, its 30 degrees and 100% humidity, rugby is a winter sport you c***tz" and lets gtfo out of here.

Gatland has really improved over the last couple of years though. Can see why he's keeping Josh Ioane on the bench

 

[Dan54]

Surprised there wasn't a harder look at the shoulder to Gatland's head.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

LOL Ravouvou finishes off a 95m try just for shits & giggles.

Edit: Drua in again & Tribe in real trouble here, eight up with four minutes & O/T left.

 

[Sully]

This crowd is amazing.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Make that one point & less than two minutes. Ref needs to stop the clock & make Tribe kick off.

Tribe knock on from the restart. Drua need to win the scrum & go 70m which is nothing for them.

Drua spill the ball into touch so it's close but no cigar, that try right before HT gets Tribe home & a Home QF v 'canes or 'tahs unless MP (Moana Pasifika) pull off a miracle v Brums.

Edit: actually it's 'canes or 'tahs regardless, isn't it? 3. Tribe v 6. 'tahs or 'canes OR 4. Tribe v 5. 'canes or 'tahs.

 

[Upthenuts]

what a game!

 

[Dan54]

Now that's what I call an advert for the game and comp. That was a lot of fun, bloody great stuff!!!

Sometimes the fun factor is more inportant than everything being done right!

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Drongu Drua have absolutely kneecapped themselves there. Talk about the sublime to the ridiculous.

- plonker tries to inbound it when its going out, intercept, 7 pts
- plonker tries for the worst "quick droppy tap to self" in rugby football history, from his own goalline, knockon, Chiefs scrum, penalty try, 7 pts.

Then the Drua go on a bonkers scoring spree to wind up losing by

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