Canterbury

1 Finlay Brewis, 2 Manumaua Letiu, 3 Seb Calder, 4 Sam Darry, 5 Jamie Hannah, 6 Zach Gallagher, 7 Tom Christie (C), 8 Torian Barnes, 9 Louie Chapman, 10 James White, 11 Ngatungane Punivai, 12 Dallas Mcleod, 13 Braydon Ennor, 14 Chay Fihaki, 15 Andrew Knewstubb

Reserves: 16 Nick Hyde, 17 Daniel Lienert-Brown, 18 Gus Brown, 19 Liam Jack, 20 George Reeves, 21 Tyson Belworthy, 22 Jone Rova, 23 Kurtis Macdonald

Ta$man

1 Ryan Coxon, 2 Tomasi Maka, 3 Kershawl Sykes-Martin, 4 Quinten Strange, 5 Antonio Shalfoon, 6 Lopeti Faifua, 7 Sione Havili Talitui, 8 Fletcher Anderson, 9 Mitchell Drummond, 10 William Havili, 11 Macca Springer, 12 Levi Aumua, 13 Cooper Roberts, 14 Kyren Taumoefolau, 15 David Havili (C)

Reserves: 16 Josh Te Hira, 17 Lavengamono Moli, 18 Sam Matenga, 19 Hunter Leppien, 20 Tayne Hemopo, 21 Jay Renton, 22 Cooper Grant, 23 Leicester Fainga'anuku

George Reeves called back from Southland.

@Bovidae said in Canterbury v Ta$man:

George Reeves called back from Southland.

yeah Kellow is in a knee brace,Gardiner and Cahill out with concussion.

Interesting.

Man for man, we're not badly outgunned anywhere - except Canterbury are going to have a very tall lineout, with Gallagher at 6. Loosehead prop maybe a bit of a worry - especially moli from the bench.

Very disappointed that Oudenryn isn't available. Blackadder will obviously be missed along with Johnny Lee.

I will at least watch this one - without expectation, but not without hope!

Starting soon

Ta$man start with a really good try and then gift one back in comical fashion.

Lots of errors so far, but hard and fast.

Canterbury gift one back in almost identically comical fashion. Dave H. donor and beneficiary!

Entertainiing game, so far.

Ta$man had the better of the first half hour - didn't bang a nail in the coffin and from a 15-7 lead, conceded two late tries.

19-15 to Canterbury at halftime.

Big Leicester causing some problems in midfield. Annoyingly, Louie Chapman has scored two tries and the other with an assist.

KSM a late withdrawl, I think - so our starting props will have to go deep.

Fihaki scored the third with a dominant aerial catch!

@Chris-B said in Canterbury v Ta$man (RS):

Fihaki scored the third with a dominant aerial catch!

It says a lot about the state of the AB wings at the moment he would actually be an improvement - he can kick the ball and catch a high ball for a start

@Chris-B Did McLeod go off injured or get yanked after his brain fart?

And now a huge brain fart from Fihaki doing the exact same thing as McLeod

Third comical one - Taumoefolau scores.

McLeod looked like ribs!

Ta$man take the lead and playing with the wind!

Big Leicester creates more havoc and then delivers a pass for Maka to score in the crner.

Can't convert. Crucial miss.

Ta$man 25-19

Canterbury score.

We're defending too much - gotta force an early error from the restart.

25-24

Aaaargggh!

Fuck it.

Great effort, boys - but you could feel it coming at the end.

Hard luck @Chris-B

Shield rugby summed up there

How goods the NPC! What a game. Bring on the shield challenge next week!

Something about that log that produces more close games no matter how good or dumb the teams play.

Just ground the ball you eggs.

But in saying that, good to see some decent kick chasing going on.

Thought the Cantab pack took a. Bit of time to get into it, but finished strong.