Manawatu

1 Chris Eves 2 Sam Stewart 3 Michael Alaalatoa 4 Micaiah Torrance-Read 5 Teofilo Paulo 6 Liam Mitchell 7 Johnny Galloway 8 Tyler Laubscher 9 Jamie Booth 10 Stewart Cruden 11 Tudreu Newton 12 James Tofa 13 Josiah Maraku 14 Nigek Ah Wong 15 Nehe Milner-Skudder

Reserves: 16 Siua Maile, 17 Solomona Sakalia, 18 Kyle Stewart, 19 Sam Liebezeit, 20 Shamus Hurley-Langton, 21 Bryn Wilson, 22 Ben Wyness, 23 Drew Wild

Bay of Plenty

1 Jordan Lay, 2 Kurt Eklund, 3 Ross Geldenhuys, 4 Stan Van den Hoven, 5 Keepa Mewett, 6 Kane Le'aupepe, 7 Joe Johnston 8 Joe Tupe, 9 Luke Campbell, 10 Otere Black, 11 Regan Ware 12 Chase Tiatia, 13 Mathew Skipwith-Garland, 14 Joe Webber, 15 Kaleb Trask

Reserves: 16 Nic Souchon, 17 Tevita Mafileo, 18 Jeff Thwaites, 19 Scott Curry, 20 Sam Dickson, 21 Leroy Carter, 22 Dan Hollinshead, 23 Cole Forbes

That BOP backline may flow better. Looking forward to seeing this. Odd to have Leaupepe on the flank though.

McMillan can't make up his mind whether Curry is a midfielder or a flanker.

or whether Eklund is a flanker or a hooker.

Entertaining game so far.

Trask scores an excellent try cutting through the defence, kicks ahead and dives on the ball. NMS should be penalised for diving on top of him.

Another try. Manawatu falling apart.

This game is on the inset screen for me, I couldn't see that pass even on the slow mo replay.

Then Manawatu score a very good try.

I’ve just flicked over from the other game is defence optional in this game?

That 3rd Turbos try was a cracker from the big fella.

@mikey07 said in Manawatu v BOP:

I’ve just flicked over from the other game is defence optional in this game?

Pretty much. Whoever can hold onto the ball ends up scoring.

@KiwiPie I’m watching the wrong game by the sounds of it

How ponderous are the Manawatu back three? Any break and we just run around the last line of defence

@Donsteppa said in Manawatu v BOP:

How ponderous are the Manawatu back three? Any break and we just run around the last line of defence

Which makes it all the more surprising they didn't give Baker her a contract as he'd fit in perfectly.

Hadn't noticed that haircut before, Fakatava has lost his title.

@Donsteppa said in Manawatu v BOP:

How ponderous are the Manawatu back three? Any break and we just run around the last line of defence

Tudreu is looking alarmingly slow - he was brilliant a couple of years ago.

@Donsteppa said in Manawatu v BOP:

How ponderous are the Manawatu back three? Any break and we just run around the last line of defence

And another try after a single line break.

I wonder if NMS could even look good in the Heartland comp.

This game shows the level we're at this season. Would be competing for the 2nd div title but not quite good enough for Div 1 especially with so many out injured. Black played well today and showed his class as did Trask. But still way too much sloppy play.