Reihana the Crusader and Reihana the Northlander look like two very different players

great tackle and hold up

How the fuck is that a knock on?

Manson wtf ????

The joy of the comp is the swing between the sublime and the WTF was that.

Nock isn't helping his ball-runners with some poor passes.

Muliaina has looked tidy cleaning up some kicks.

This is a very hard watch.

What's up with no replays?

credit to the ref she's been good so far

@delicatessen best out there

My stags actually look more comfortable without the ball

Great run by Peni

Kempton doing an Oli Mathias. Subbing onto the wing

thats stopped at least twice

How's Simon Parker going?

@Frank said in Northland v Southland:

How's Simon Parker going?

Reasonably well, some telling tackles ....

My hatrick bet came in due to the Taniwha 16 Mullan lol

piss poor body position by the stags in that maul...

@Grooter how good is that

bugger

scrappy game.

Northland too good in the 2nd 40 ... a couple of key moments. Both teams had a lot of opportunities go begging

Congrats Taniwha on the victory. good too see young Mika get the within 7 bonus at the end

@delicatessen said in Northland v Southland:

credit to the ref she's been good so far

Agreed - apart from the "knock on" that went two metres backwards she's had a good game. Good enough I'd like to see her ref more.

Well a win is a win and all that, but gee, that wasn't a great advertisement for NPC rugby.

3 very poor charge downs, 1 resulted in a try.

Thought Pasitoa was one of our better players out there this week, Mullan was also very good, Salmon had a good impact too.

At the game the Pasitoa held up looked like it should have been referred, did the TMO not turn up? Not a single replay in the whole game? Is this the future of NPC rugby?

Gonna have to be much, much better next week.

In better news, the stadium DJ seemed to have got a new play list and stadium speakers...

@taniwharugby said in Northland v Southland:

At the game the Pasitoa held up looked like it should have been referred, did the TMO not turn up? Not a single replay in the whole game? Is this the future of NPC rugby?

Here’s the highlights, he was held up in a great tackle

@Duluth fair enough, i hadnt seen replays, only live at the game, ref was good and right there so good call...live i thought he shouldn't have cut back...

Reckon Southland should have had a pen off that knock on after Manson blew that try, with us playing the ball in front of the player that supposedly knocked on.

Still wonder about the lack of replays in the game.

@taniwharugby I thought the first non try called back for a forward pass was ok - backwards out of the hands. But in ugly win is a win.