1 Ethan de Groot, 2 Jack Taylor, 3 Morgan Mitchell, 4 Mitchell Dunshea, 5 Josh Bekhuis, 6 Sean Withy (C), 7 Leroy Ferguson, 8 Dylan Nel, 9 Lachie Albert, 10 Byron Smith, 11 Michael Manson, 12 Isaac Te Tamaki, 13 Angus Simmers, 14 Viliami Fine, 15 Rory van Vugt
Reserves: 16 Nic Souchon, 17 Jack Sexton, 18 Hamdahn Tuipulotu, 19 Shneil Singh, 20 Blair Ryall, 21 Liam Howley, 22 Jake Strachan, 23 Charlie Powell
1 Harry Allan, 2 George Bell, 3 Joe Moody, 4 Liam Jack, 5 Zach Gallagher, 6 Corey Kellow, 7 Tom Christie, 8 Billy Harmon (C), 9 Nic Shearer, 10 Shun Miyake, 11 Ngantungane Punivai, 12 Dallas McLeod, 13 Braydon Ennor, 14 Chay Fihaki, 15 Johnny McNicholl
Reserves: 16 Brodie McAlister, 17 Junior Fifita, 18 Gus Brown, 19 Alex Grogan, 20 Tahlor Cahill, 21 Joel Lam, 22 Ryan Crotty, 23 Manasa Mataele
What a dumb option by Smith to kick.
The second Canty try is a carbon copy of Auckland's against NH.
Looks like Allan copped a shoulder to the head from Dunshea as they both went into to support at a ruck. Entirely accidental.
@antipodean said in Southland v Canterbury:
Looks like Allan copped a shoulder to the head from Dunshea as they both went into to support at a ruck. Entirely accidental.
If an All Black did what Dunshea did in a test would it have been a red card? I think we all know the answer is yes so why are we allowing players to get away with this in the NPC and Super Rugby? We are setting our players up for failure in international rugby by not following the NH standard on this.
@fruggerby said in Southland v Canterbury:
Very impressed by the defence of the Southland 10. Strong in contact
fended off by Fihaki for the Crotty try though.
@tubbyj said in Southland v Canterbury:
@antipodean said in Southland v Canterbury:
Looks like Allan copped a shoulder to the head from Dunshea as they both went into to support at a ruck. Entirely accidental.
If an All Black did what Dunshea did in a test would it have been a red card? I think we all know the answer is yes so why are we allowing players to get away with this in the NPC and Super Rugby? We are setting our players up for failure in international rugby by not following the NH standard on this.
I agree. I'm not making a case for Dunshea to not be carded, merely pointing out it wasn't a deliberate act of foul play.
The game is currently in a state of madness where the objective is to get lower than everyone else (unless you're South African). It looks like height in contact has been a major work-on in Razor's camps as we generally seem to be doing better in that regard.
@booboo said in Southland v Canterbury:
No love for Josh Bekhuis? Now the most capped NOC player of all time.
Great servant. Was solid for the Blues in 2015-2016, always put in a good shift and was very reliable at lineout time.
@booboo said in Southland v Canterbury:
No love for Josh Bekhuis? Now the most capped NOC player of all time.
When they showed the list of the most NPC games played, IIRC there were four from Southland from the six players shown.
