North Harbour v Steamers

Bay of Plenty:
1 Aidan Ross (C) (27), 2. Kurt Eklund (3), 3. Ross Geldenhuys (11), 4. Alex Ainley (2), 5. Baden Wardlaw (11), 6. Hugh Blake (27), 7. Mitch Karpik (19), 8. Ajay Mua (8), 9. Richard Judd (20), 10. Dan Hollinshead (30), 11. Fa’asiu Fuatai (12), 12. Lalomilo Lalomilo (2), 13. Joe Webber (13), 14. Emoni Narawa (4), 15. Chase Tiatia (38)

Reserves: 16. Nathan Vella* (0), 17. Tevita Mafileo (2), 18. Jeff Thwaites (34), 19. Aaron Carroll (12), 20. Hoani Matenga (11), 21. Leroy Carter (2), 22. Kaleb Trask (7), 23. Joe Ravouvou (2)

*Denotes debut
() Denotes number of games

@Stargazer no Harris that's a big loss

Good start by BOP but Harbour finding plenty of space now

NH 14-7

That interception try was needed by BOP. They have been giving up too many easy metres and also on the wrong side of the ref

Most of the penalties are justified, but he isn't policing both sides the same way.

14-21 at HT and BOP will feel a bit lucky to be in the lead you have to think. Harbour will rue the interception and not kicking out for HT.

Ian Jones is as biased as Cooper

@Baron-Silas-Greenback Being at the ground I have no commentary

@DrivingMaul You are very lucky. He started talking yellow cards because BOP had conceded 10 penalties in 50 minutes. No context required

Great comment on the radio:

Wouldn't want to be in the receiving end of the first James Parsons tackle

Goodness, how did the referee arrive at that call. The BoP tighthead claerly caused that scrum collapse.

@Higgins totally agree that scrum penalty against KT was about as poor as you will ever see ,the official can’t work out who has the dominant scrum

North Harbour continue to pass up relatively easy three points form penalty kicks. By my count there have been about five that they could have been successful with with a half decent kicker. That's 15 points and they are still behind by ten.

That was an awesome fend..Weber won’t want to see that at the video review

Survived the yellow with just the loss of 5 points, BOP might just pull this off!

@DrivingMaul this goes over,Harbour are done

@Higgins said in North Harbour v Bay of Plenty:

Goodness, how did the referee arrive at that call. The BoP tighthead claerly caused that scrum collapse.

No, The harbour prop did by over extending and not creating the right gap. That was what caused the BOP prop to collpase down.

Parsons confusing ability with ambition..why does he think he’s a ball carrier..?

Hollinshead doing his best to lose this, missing the kick and then throwing a 50/50 pass when all BOP needed was to keep posession inside the NH 22