Match thread

How's that not a penalty?

Piss poor defence by welly, BoP in

antipodean

"I've got a grounding"

No you don't.

Canes4life

This ref is a turkey.

Yeetyaah

Refs hands were going up before Rossy had even got the ball near the line. Preemptive knock on, is this guy from Welly?

Canes4life

Fucking Apisai.

Yeetyaah

Good to see Hori Bop in the crowd.

Yeetyaah

Apisai is so shit lmao

antipodean

How's Higgins allowed to pick up that ball when there's clearly a fucking ruck?

Yeetyaah

Kirifi on the floor impeding the cleaner

Yeetyaah

Naitoa having a field day at the lineout

antipodean

This standard of refereeing simply can't be the best available for a final.

Lol high tackle right in front of ref missed

I know the conditions aren't great - but the throwing and options at line out time by the lions are not great so far.

antipodean

Why is Tahuriorangi kicking high from the base of rucks into this wind? Just dumb rugby.

Canes4life

If we can’t throw into the lineout, get Hika on.

I think we can safely say this is more than a 3 point wind, welly need to score otherwise BoP will be feeling rather good going into half time

Canes4life

Savea of old right there. Wow

Winding back the clock the BUS

Donsteppa

Poor attempted tackling.

antipodean

Narawa going high on Savea. That's Stevenson type defence.

JGB is not quite Andy Goode, but still!

Canes4life

Around the legs Narawa.

Canes4life

Superb turnover from Kirifi.

Narawa offside at the turn over ruck, then tackles shields around the head... Carry on πŸ™„