Cashmore & Fineanganofo such smart players

Too compressed by Otago. Nice vision by Cashmore.

Millar is a quality player. His team need to step up and stop turning the ball over.

Great game so far.

Mmmmm

subs are going to be needed by both teams after 30 minutes lol

Casey and Lio-Willie everywhere for Otago

Pin your ears back Whaanga

Judd uses his hands whilst the ball is in the ruck. Williams needs to warn him

Brilliant take by Lasaqa, but Otago on the ball quick and win the penalty.

Lasaqa is everywhere tonight

@Grooter said in SF: Otago v BoP:

Lasaqa is everywhere tonight

They should be. There's two of them!

Gassed players on both sides.

Uh oh

Big oli haig is playing well too

YC likely.

Joe Wheeler - “looking at the ball”.

He hasn’t played for a while ol Joey

Not ideal to lose one on that tackle.

Casey great both sides of the ball as they say

The duel between Casey and Lasaqa has been great.

What a kick!

Choc man Jona Nareki such a luxury to have him in our team

Otago just getting past that first Bay tackler.

Pressure built by Otago.

Otago look fitter and are handling the pace better

Will Stodart this guy is such a throwback loose forward to the 90s golden era

That was Millar who did that counter ruck. Good on him

Nareki chipped way too early

@Grooter said in SF: Otago v BoP:

Will Stodart this guy is such a throwback loose forward to the 90s golden era

He’s good. Needs to increase his tackle % but he has a lot of potential

Dumb play before half. Have sucked most of Broomfield's yellow xard though.

F*** me I am stuffed. Geez that's what you call playing at pace!!

@jimmyb said in SF: Otago v BoP:

Otago look fitter and are handling the pace better

Definitely showed in the final 10-12 minutes of that half and they were down a man too.

Otago loosies getting the better of their counterparts

Bay backs do have that game breaking ability and have created chances despite some of the forwards with hands on hips.

Excellent game

Cam Millar has been very good. I had never seen him carrying so often.

@cgrant said in SF: Otago v BoP:

Cam Millar has been very good. I had never seen him carrying so often.

We don't want him carrying!

Highly entertaining game.

That BOP winger is electric!

Let’s go Otaaaaagooooo!

Brilliant first half ,outta breath watching on the couch
This is another step up from last weekend’s quarter finals
For me the real difference is the ruck speed of Otago’s ball and they are winning most of contestable kicks .
Richard Judd has possibly got the best box kick going around but I don’t believe that tactic will win them the game
Starting to wonder why the Highlanders have gone after Jacomb
Miller looks more than solid and fair to say he can take a hit

@ACT-Crusader What you meant to say is that Wheeler makes Meg sound intelligent.

So Otago feels A-One is D-Minus?

Juts had a quick Look at the stats. Our forwards are completely out working BoP. Also doing a good job of slowing their breakdown down with 30% of BoP rucks being over 6+ seconds compared to just 8% for Otago.

Whigam, Tucker, and Haig all on 10+ tackles. Just need to keep the speed up

Nareki is a 5'9" Monster

Joseph needs to run this Pledger & Millar combo to be honest

soft but well done