Match thread

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

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Casey and Lio-Willie everywhere for Otago

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Pin your ears back Whaanga

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

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

Torian
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Lasaqa is everywhere tonight

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@Grooter said in SF: Otago v BoP:

Lasaqa is everywhere tonight

They should be. There's two of them!

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Gassed players on both sides.

jimmyb
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Uh oh

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Big oli haig is playing well too

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YC likely.

Joe Wheeler - “looking at the ball”.

He hasn’t played for a while ol Joey

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Not ideal to lose one on that tackle.

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Casey great both sides of the ball as they say

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The duel between Casey and Lasaqa has been great.

jimmyb
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What a kick!

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

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Otago just getting past that first Bay tackler.

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Pressure built by Otago.

jimmyb
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Otago look fitter and are handling the pace better

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

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

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Nareki chipped way too early

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@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

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

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

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@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

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

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@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!

Gunner
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Highly entertaining game.

That BOP winger is electric!

Let’s go Otaaaaagooooo!

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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

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

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So Otago feels A-One is D-Minus?

jimmyb
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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

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Nareki is a 5'9" Monster

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

bayimports
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soft but well done

jimmyb
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That 5:40mins was absolutely brilliant. Bashed them to bits on defence, then just took them apart on attack. Fuck that was satisfying to watch

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Wow from Cam Millar. Never knew he had it to make that break. Good from him.

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Pledger’s pass really is a thing of beauty. Both ways too.

Millar is very good but a huge gap in the Bay defensive line.

Casey has shades of Matt Todd in the way he plays.

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This has a floodgates look to it.