Why did they sub Kirifi off?

I tend to disagree with you lot regarding PUJ he’s ran hard all game. Why aren’t they bringing Love into attack more?

@Stargazer player management I’d say

Proctor has shut down Aumua all night long.

Oh no I can feel the momentum shift

Lakai has been rubbish this half

Tavatavanawai loves himself a Turnover

Haha

Wellington defense is good. Attack is rubbish

It would help Ta$man immensely if they had someone in the 23 who can kick at goal. That was terrible.

@Winger really missing Perenara running things from halfback. KHP is so poor.

@Stargazer massively costly both kickable

@Winger who cares about attack. Defence wins championships.

Wellington have had all the attack in the world previously and won f all.

@Canes4life said in Wellington vs Ta$man (RS):

@Winger really missing Perenara running things from halfback. KHP is so poor.

Preston on with 3 mins left

Haha, Morgan misses, too!

@Stargazer said in Wellington vs Ta$man (RS):

Haha, Morgan misses, too!

Sums up the quality of the game. Cripes.

Fck sake Morgan.

@Stargazer lol knowing him I thought he would have hit the posts.

@Canes4life said in Wellington vs Ta$man (RS):

@Winger who cares about attack. Defence wins championships.

Wellington have had all the attack in the world previously and won f all.

Except for last year. And Crusaders have both. Most winners have a good attack

And this game was a bit boring to watch.

Ta$man 1 try in 160 minutes of rugby ,who would have thought that..?, especially with a team that has Amua and Tavatavanawai

@Winger yeah but our attack didn’t click until later in the year last year so I’m not worried. Knowing we have the defence to break teams is awesome.

Boring, pfft. That’s what Shield rugby is all about.

Well I enjoyed that, proper Shield challenge. Very few tight shield games are wide open affairs and add thei was midweek of storm week for both teams. I tell you what Canterbury would have to be hot favourites against Lions on Sunday.

Preston love and Higgins to play HB 1st and 2nd vs Canterbury. Poor attack bores me so try a diff option

Both teams sufferend from having a very average 10 (O'Malley for Ta$man for most of the game). No direction whatsoever.

Defence was on point for both teams.

Also both teams making many handling errors.

Plenty of effort from both teams, too. It wasn't for lack of trying.

Like to add there were some good loosies on display, have liked Segner since I first saw him for NZ schoolboys and Lions have 3 bloody good loosies and a ormising looking kid in Ropeti.

Dire game, but Wellington retain the Log O’Wood. That’s all that really matters.

@Winger Really you found it boring I was absolutely engrossed in it, maybe it’s because I’m getting old

Tough watch for the first 60 odd. Came to life after that.

KHP and Morgan are painful to watch. I thought Noah Hotham was almost as bad though. Not a great game for the 9s and 10s.

Interesting seeing the different comments re: PUJ. I thought him and Proctor were very good. As were Lakai and Shields.

Ropeti can sleep with the shield tonight after a couple of crucial plays.

All in all, happy we retained the Shield. It's gonna be very tough against Cant Sunday. Boys will be tired after that defensive shift.

They managed to find some highlights

@Canes4life totally agree . This like finals footy . It's a shield game . Don't care our D won the game . Our 9 n 10 are absolute poos

That match is the definition of a poo slinga. Theres 7 year olds that would kick those goals that Morgan and Springer missed too. Poo all round. Smelly poos

@foobaNZ said in Wellington vs Ta$man (RS):

Tough watch for the first 60 odd. Came to life after that.

KHP and Morgan are painful to watch. I thought Noah Hotham was almost as bad though. Not a great game for the 9s and 10s.

Interesting seeing the different comments re: PUJ. I thought him and Proctor were very good. As were Lakai and Shields.

Ropeti can sleep with the shield tonight after a couple of crucial plays.

All in all, happy we retained the Shield. It's gonna be very tough against Cant Sunday. Boys will be tired after that defensive shift.

Canterbury? Oh no, cue memories of Wayne Smith scoring in Bernie's Corner

@Yeahtheboys said in Wellington vs Ta$man (RS):

That match is the definition of a poo slinga. Theres 7 year olds that would kick those goals that Morgan and Springer missed too.

Springer was Ta$man's third-choice goal kicker but should have slotted that. Three missed penalties from in front - ha.

@mikey07 said in Wellington vs Ta$man (RS):

@Winger Really you found it boring I was absolutely engrossed in it, maybe it’s because I’m getting old

Likewise Mikey, and bugger is it because I getting old too!!!

SHIT!!!

This was the lowest scoring Ranfurly Shield match in 53 years.

@Dan54 said in Wellington vs Ta$man (RS):

Don't know wht Naki would put up that (I know it was a joke etc), because we play Ta$man in New Plymouth, so wouldn't of got a crack, unless they were hoping someone took it off Ta$man.

Because there's more than one route to a Shield challenge*: if Ta$man had won it off Wellington and then lost the Shield to Harbour; Harbour successfully defended it to Waikato and then lost it to Otago, and Otago defended it successfully against Northland, then Taranaki would have their only possible challenge this season against Otago in Dunedin on 16 September.

*according to picture in NPC thread

@canefan away game so not a defence fortunately 3 defences in 8 days would be some kind of bullshit!