Match thread

ARHS

And no Taukeiaho either then! Assume Tucker is injured. Could be a fierce battle. BOP won't play so poorly twice in a row.

Bovidae

No way ST was ever going to be released to play. ALB was targeting this game for his return. Maybe he's not ready yet.

Tucker and Johnstone must be unavailable.

ARHS

@Bovidae they released bench players from last test though so I was hoping. Go figure re Ofa.

taniwharugby

good game so far, nice try by Eklund

taniwharugby

looked like that was off BOP

taniwharugby

that last scrum summed up alot of what is wrong with how scrums are reffed and time wasting.

BOP had a scrum, ball gets to back, ref says ball is back, stable, 5 sec later, scrum starts marching sideways, so ref calls a reset, really need to encourage quicker play from the back, but so many teams play for penalties, they wait for the 2nd drive or a collapse...

BOP take an 8 point lead into the break 14-22

Yeetyaah

Jesus Christ Leroy Carter is unreal

KiwiMurph

Cook-Savage having a bit of a mare.

taniwharugby

14-29 early in the 2nd

taniwharugby

wow, what a try for BOP

antipodean

Kaka running his winger out of room instead of straightening, giving him the ball and working around in support.

taniwharugby

great scramble by BOP defence, Waikato looked to be scoring for all money

Yeetyaah

Ref missing a lot. Waikato were on the line there.

antipodean

Bay supporters: How the hell did we lose that?

Duluth

Ran out of gas because of storm week?

Entertaining game

taniwharugby

stole the lineout, lost the match?

taniwharugby

35-34, time almost up