Match thread

Stargazer

Geez, and now Ken Laban calls Ben Lam 'Ben May'.

Stargazer

Great try goes uncoverted.

23 - 15 Sunwolves. Eight points.

Tim

@Stargazer LOL. I thought I must've been imagining that!

antipodean

Read that brilliantly. Excellent defence.

Tim

An awful passage of play. Aimless kicking galore.

How many more games do we have to play without Beaudy this season? Hopefully only 1.

Stargazer

It's one point game now!

Stargazer

@hydro11 I tried to keep track at the beginning of the season, but then they started making exceptions and it all became so confusing that I gave up.

Bloody hell. Dumb forward. We should be in front now.

Stargazer

Stupid from Henwood.

Stargazer

Very good try from Goosen! Canes ahead for the first time this game.

Goosen has had a good game and gets his reward.

Jeez didn't realise it was on now, got my times mixed up.

Stargazer

This is definitely not Laumape's game. How many balls has he knocked on now?

Need a big scrum here.

Stargazer

Come on Canes, don't let them take this from you!

Stargazer

Several good scrums from the Canes now. Bench impact?

Annoying we didn't get a penalty there. Should have kept driving.

antipodean

Sunwolves forwards are dumb players. How do you not know to run infield when isolated and needing to keep possession?

Stargazer

Not minding it at all if Walker-Leawere will wear black and white during the NPC. Big lump of a man, will be good for our scrum and line-out. He's been good since he came on.

Scrum here. Win our ball and we should be able to shut the game down. We still have a chance of a bonus point so hopefully we get a penalty here.

antipodean

Another error - it's almost as if the fix is in.

Keep the commentary please, I'm unable to watch

Stargazer

@hydro11 No chance of a bp, I think? Need 3 tries more than opponent. How many tries have each team scored?

antipodean

@Machpants Sunwolves set piece has fallen apart. Canes scrum on their 22 with ~2mins left.

Thanks, 4 tries canes, 2 wolves according to ESPN

Stargazer

@hydro11 Okay, then still possible, but it needs to happen now. Time's up.

In our own half, should probably just win the lineout and kick it out.

Stargazer

Full time: Sunwolves 23 - 29 Hurricanes.

Paekakboyz

Glad we got the W but man that was a painful watch for most of the game.

Stargazer

If the Canes hadn't made so many handling errors, particularly in the first half, it wouldn't have been so close. But 4 points in the bag. A win's a win.

Thanks, so with our poor forward pack, no Barrett's or Ardie, we really struggled? Or just an off day?

I'll watch the replay tomorrow

Being 23-7 down you put yourself in that situation where even if you fight back to take the lead, the other team can still snatch it by a lucky try. All Blacks have put themselves in that position too many times in the past few years. Credit to the Sunwolves for taking their points when they had their opportunities. Unfortunately, a lack of bonus points is probably going to cost us on the final ladder.

@Machpants said in Sunwolves vs Hurricanes:

Thanks, so with our poor forward pack, no Barrett's or Ardie, we really struggled? Or just an off day?

I'll watch the replay tomorrow

It was more the handling errors which were punished by the Sunwolves gaining 50 metres in the first half and some bad decisions on attack.

Stargazer

@Machpants I wouldn't call it struggling. Just way too many handling errors. Some really stupid, unnecessary things and the SW benefited from many of those..