@ARHS Yeah, a couple of debutants and no L Jacobson, Johnstone, Dyer or Ratima. Good to see Norris available again.

@ARHS said in Counties v Waikato:

@Bovidae surprised to see a second string combination named against a Counties team with their internationals back. Counties should be too strong - unless Dmac provides some magic.

Nah. Reasonably even. Apart from those three guys our lot are mostly a notch below.

@Bovidae Very keen to see how Kemara goes. Looks a special talent. And good to see Norris back. At second look the Waikato bench looks extremely strong and should bring them home if opening pack hold up OK against 7 internationals pack from Steelers.

Counties looking pretty sharp.

Great try to Togiatama.

Great play from CM ..patient and accurate

How was that forward pass missed ..piss poor officiating

Counties no8 looks good

Nepo Laulala’s defence exposed big time ..

Reidy didn’t make much effort to get in position

@Steven-Harris said in Counties v Waikato:

How was that forward pass missed ..piss poor officiating

Seems to be a huge area of refereeing mistakes this season already

Hahaha DMac

@Yeetyaah it’s probably a time that you actually want the TMO to intervene

where did this Riley Hohepa guy come from?

@FakatavaAllBlack said in Counties v Waikato:

where did this Riley Hohepa guy come from?

He's improved a lot. I didn't see any of this in his previous 2 seasons with Counties.

@FakatavaAllBlack been around the Counties Manukau club scene for a few seasons just remembering CM’s season was cut short last year

@FakatavaAllBlack said in Counties v Waikato:

where did this Riley Hohepa guy come from?

Been around for a few years now, since maybe 2018 or 19 I think, I thought he was underrated a few seasons back, going well this year.

Not often you see Counties dominate a scrum like that. Laulala making a big impact in the scrum.

Got no issue with what the official did with the advantage, just hope every official would do the same thing ..wishful thinking me thinks

Now I want Waikato to win this, but this ref has been awful so far.