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?

Commentary back on for the second half.

What about the penalty for not back 10?

Poor option Godfrey

Miracle Faiilagi showing his SR form in the NPC there.

Fakatava simply is in the top five halfbacks in NZ. Has totally changed this game.

Almost the try of the year sensational counter from the Cantabs ..Fihaki wow ..!

Sheesh, even Ennor thinks he knocked that on.

Zarn Sullivan is more rocks than diamonds

Godfrey having a rough game

@Steven-Harris said in Hawkes Bay v Canterbury:

Zarn Sullivan is more rocks than diamonds

His relaxed kicking motion really is quite slow it seems

@Landers92 seen that happen far too often i dont think hes a player that always looks to link with his outsides either
A good footballer but i dont see any more than a super rugby ceiling

Johnny McNicholl looking like he's turned back the clock this NPC.

What was the point of that kick when your 7-26 down

@Steven-Harris yeah he doesn’t look like a player playing with confidence. He had some pretty rough off field stuff happening throughout the super rugby season so that could be impacting him a bit.

Not sure what that was from the replacement half back for Canterbury
Wont want to see that in the video review

@Nepia said in Hawkes Bay v Canterbury:

Commentary back on for the second half.

Where are you to lose commentary Nepia?

Clinical as it gets final score flattered HB
Cantebury looking very good in 2025

Well beaten by the too good Cantabs, too many errors and penalties.

Might be time to go back to the old guard of McClutchie and Fakatava.

@Dan54 Sydney, I think Stan lost the commentary.

Impressive D two weeks in a row by Canterbury.

Some poor decisions to kick from HB.

@Steven-Harris I had big wraps on him when he first played NPC in 2020 and Super Rugby the year after but hasn't kicked on how I thought he would.