1 Fatongia Paea, 2 Shilo Klein, 3 Sione Mafile'o, 4 Mahonri Ngakuru, 5 Samuel Slade, 6 Cam Christie, 7 Jed Melvin, 8 Cameron Suafoa (C), 9 Bryn Hall, 10 Tane Edmed, 11 Moses Leo, 12 Fine Inisi, 13 Tom Barham, 14 Kade Banks, 15 Shaun Stevenson (VC)

Reserves: 16 Bryn Gordon, 17 Tevita Mafile'o, 18 Tevita Langi, 19 Felix Kalapu, 20 Ben Grant, 21 Tristyn Cook, 22 Aisea Halo, 23 Tima Fainga'anuku

A 6/2 bench split for NH.

Starting now

Edmed with a great solo try. Embarrassed a few defenders

NH rumble over

14-0 after 15. How will Harbour fuck this up?

Moses Leo runs 70m after picking up a loose Cantab pass

21-0

Fihaki with a terrible pass. Ridiculous that he was just in AB camp

Ennor is playing well after subbing on early for McNicholl. A big part in both Cantab tries

21-12

29-19 at HT

Cantabs should be confident. The better side in the second quarter, they have the wind in the 2nd half, NH storm week and Harbour have been shit at closing out matches

Leo has a hat trick

36-19

Best try of the NPC!

Great interplay between Edmed and Banks in a narrow space. Plenty of hands after that.. 98m in total

41-19 Harbour after 50mins

Harbour keep finding space. Banks has been prominent this half

48-19 after 57mins

Leo and Stevenson combine for another

Leo having a great game. I've always been a bit dissapointed with him in xv's.. a high error rate etc. He's been extremely good today. A shame he's gone to league

55-19 after 60mins

Stevenson and Suafoa must be enjoying thrashing the shit out of Scott Robertson favourites and likely All Black EOYT's Zac Gallagher, Brayden Ennor and Chay Fihaki.

9th NH try

62-19 after 72mins

A very enjoyable watch this

@Duluth said in Canterbury vs North Harbour:

29-19 at HT

Cantabs should be confident. The better side in the second quarter, they have the wind in the 2nd half, NH storm week and Harbour have been shit at closing out matches

Not today though! Canterbury getting teared a new one

So two big provinces get a spanking this week. Yikes.

@JK

Happy to be wrong about that

Harbour had some great tries today

Final score 65-19

This game shows why AB Rugby is in trouble. Harbour never had to commit anyone to their rucks because Canterbury weren't contesting abut 75% of the time.

I'm not sure that Edmed's form means anything in the context of this NPC

65-19 is Canterbury’s worst score conceded and it equals the worst margin (the previous worst was 60-14 v Wellington in 2017)

@NTA

Because we keep picking easybeats from Canterbury for the wider squad?

Paradoxically the ABs won more turnovers than any other team in the RC and the Boks won the least.

@brodean You can only win turnovers when the opposition team has the ball hence one of the reasons why the Boks won the least.

@Higgins
Certainly in theory however the AB's won 40 turnovers and the Springboks won 26. It's a massive difference which can't be explained by the possession stats.

The fact this scoreline barely rates a mention tells you how dead the NPC is

Well that was enjoyable. Canterbury lucky to come second in that one.