Pretty bloody good team, probably best the Naki can field apart from maybe Crowley at 9.
Myself and better half will be in attendance!

Canterbury

G Bell
D Lienart-Brown
O Jager
S Darry
Z Gallagher
T Christie
B Harmon
C Grace
M Drummond
A Harford
S Alaimalo
R Pohipi
D McLeod
M Mataele
C Fihaki

Reserves
B Funnell
J Moody
S Calder
T Cahill
R Prinsep
J Lam
R Crotty
B Murray

@Chris I’m glad they went with Harford. We will miss Burke big time, but Harford has a bit of size and doesn’t mind taking on the line. My guess is they play a bit of left and right and have Pohipi in at 1st receiver a bit too.

Anyway it's time for me to think about heading up to NP for game, Mrs want to look at a couple of things and I need a meal before rugby.
The weather seems ok here in Hawera and meant to be same up there, so hasta la vista fellas. and
GO THE NAKI!!

Cullen Grace injured, Prinsep starts & Kellow on the bench

Finally some phase play after a slow start. Good support play and Taranaki get the first try

8-6

May I say a little... "Fuck yeah!"
8-6

After 15 minutes of kick-to-touch tennis, with an occasional 3-pointer as punctuation ... Taranaki have had territory, and suddenly some rugby is being played, but only 1 5-pointer to show for it thus far.

Taranaki look like the better side so far. They have to take their opportunities though.

Rona should have set it up there. Let Canterbury off the hook again.

@Canes4life said in SF - Taranaki v Canterbury:

Taranaki look like the better side so far. They have to take their opportunities though.

That's the problem ... I'm a little worried about how things are going to go when Cannerbrie get some opportunities... I'm suspecting they won't let so many go begging.

11-6

That was lazy stuff by JRK. Jogged back to get that ball with Alaimalo steaming down on him.

Terrible maul set up by the good guys deep in attack. But excellent disciplined defence to close the half.

Scrappy sort of game so far with both sides piling numbers into the collisions.

Harmon again a stand out for us. Drummond very busy and looks better than last week.

Naholo is clearly injured, needs to be replaced.

Update: maybe not haha

Take a drink every time the ref says "the ball was out"

Some of these calls are ‘interesting’, but the Naki are doing the job, so I’m going to call it ‘letting the game flow’

That could be a big moment

Naki can't exit and on comes Moody

Too many forwards getting in the way of the attack, just compounding some of Drummond's fluffing around

We're back in this boys