Hawkes Bay

1 Hadlee Hay-Horton, 2 Jacob Devery, 3 Pouri Rakete-Stones, 4 Geoff Cridge, 5 Tom Parsons, 6 Miracle Faiilagi, 7 Cooper Flanders, 8 Devan Flanders, 9 Ere Enari, 10 Harry Godfrey, 11 Lukas Ripley, 12 Kienan Higgins, 13 Nick Grigg, 14 Jonah Lowe, 15 Zarn Sullivan

Reserves: 16 Kianu Kereru-Symes, 17 Nik Patumaka, 18 Lolani Faleiva, 19 Isaia Walker-Leawere, 20 Frank Lochore, 21 Folau Fakatava, 22 Le Roux Malan, 23 Andrew Tauatevalu

Canterbury

1 Daniel Lienert-Brown, 2 Nick Hyde, 3 Seb Calder, 4 Sam Darry, 5 Zach Gallagher, 6 Corey Kellow, 7 Tom Christie, 8 Cullen Grace (c), 9 Louie Chapman, 10 James White, 11 Manasa Mataele, 12 Jone Rova, 13 Braydon Ennor, 14 Chay Fihaki, 15 Andrew Knewstubb

Reserves: 16 Manumaua Letiu, 17 Finlay Brewis, 18 Gus Brown, 19 Jamie Hannah, 20 Dominic Gardiner, 21 Tyson Belworthy, 22 Dallas McLeod, 23 Johnny McNicholl

Nice start by Zarn! Godfrey is too laboured with his delivery - despite the work of Enari he's still managing to put his teammates under pressure.

How did Eddie Munster miss Cridge a mile offside interfering with the defence?

Clinical from the Cantab forwards

Nice lineout move five metres out and Kellow barges through the defence of Ripley and Cooper Flanders.

Cridge is tall until you see Darry standing beside him

Harsh against Hawkes Bay scrum. Thought they'd won the hit convincingly and timing was perhaps too perfect.

That dreaded chip kick ‍️

Another good scrum from HB. Devon Flanders goes off the back and sits Christie on his arse.

Has everyone else lost commentary or just me?

I have and better for it!

@Nepia maybe just you Canterbury have kept the crowd quiet

@Steven-Harris said in Hawkes Bay v Canterbury:

@Nepia maybe just you Canterbury have kept the crowd quiet

Downvote.

@Nepia said in Hawkes Bay v Canterbury:

Has everyone else lost commentary or just me?

Just you Nepia, well I still got it.

Laban has been even worse than Nisbett with his player ID in the 1st half.

@antipodean said in Hawkes Bay v Canterbury:

I have and better for it!

So how do you know? If you don't like commentary so much surely you just mute your tv?:beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Does’nt reflect the scoreboard but thats a dominant first 40 from the Cantabs
Can hardly recall the Magpies entering the visitors 22
Corey Kellow outstanding Darry looks really good and Fihaki looks dangerous whenever he gets space left Sullivan for dead

@Bovidae said in Hawkes Bay v Canterbury:

Laban has been even worse than Nisbett with his player ID in the 1st half.

I like Laban as commentator, not just because I have played against him, but because he loves the game and players so much.

And I love things like his comment when Flanders had come through maul and killed ball ,legally etc. He said there was a time in our game when you did that you left the lost some limbs. Mils added and you needed new a new jersey!

'@Dan54 said in Team A v Team B:

So how do you know? If you don't like commentary so much surely you just mute your tv?''

Perhaps I like hearing the players and crowd, not overwhelmed by the stupidity with a microphone describing to me what I can plainly fucking see?