Good start by the bay

Found an overlap relatively easily after a few composed phases

Looked like move right out of training ground book

Visinia is such a frustrating player. Sometimes he looks world class but then makes basic errors

How bad is the commentary - have twice called a player as McClutchie when it was Ili, and once when it was Visinia

Class from Selby-Rickit

Crazy HB hit back ,and now BOP with another training ground move ..gonna be one of these games

Beauuuuuutiful set piece

@steven-harris said in Hawkes v Bay of Plenty - Shield Match!:

..gonna be one of these games

And sure enough, now about to be 14 - 12.

@donsteppa hold on to your seat ,Try to new Moana pacifika loose forward Funaki..

Punting practice was something we don’t seem to have done a lot of during Level 4 & 3…

Tough call against the Magpies..thought the player was clearly isolated

How good from Ratave!

@donsteppa like a ball of muscle ..

Like a hot butter through knife

That was weak defence.

Who do you reckon has the wind ..?

Magpies having a dominant period of play for the last few minutes or so.

I think this game is gonna come down to the team with most petrol in the tank after lockdown

I have got say this , given the Steamers roster and the quality they have got in terms of super players and they could still turn this around i have been quite underwelmed and that not being offensive to the magpies

Early subs from the bay

Right call getting Karpik off. Hawkes loosies have been winning the contact.