Otago

1 Abraham Pole, 2 Henry Bell, 3 Rohan Wingham, 4 Will Tucker, 5 Joseva Tamani, 6 Will Stodart, 7 Lucas Casey, 8 Christian Lio-Willie, 9 Dylan Pledger, 10 Cameron Millar, 11 Jona Nareki, 12 Jake Te Hiwi, 13 Josh Timu, 14 Jae Broomfield, 15 Sam Gilbert (C)
Reserves: 16 Liam Coltman, 17 Benjamin Lopas, 18 George Bower, 19 Oliver Haig, 20 Harry Taylor, 21 Nathan Hastie, 22 Josh Whaanga, 23 Sam Nemec-Vial

Northland

1 Jordan Lay, 2 Matt Moulds (C), 3 Chris Apoua, 4 Allan Craig, 5 Sam Caird, 6 Rob Rush, 7 Jake Heenan, 8 Terrell Peita, 9 Sam Nock, 10 Rivez Reihana, 11 Brady Rush, 12 Corey Evans, 13 Solomon Alaimalo, 14 Nathan Salmon, 15 Jordan Trainor
Reserves: 16 Jordan Hutchings, 17 Esile Fono, 18 Coree Te Whata-Colley, 19 Liam Hallam-Eames, 20 Lachie Hooper, 21 Josh Renton, 22 Quinton Nichols, 23 Paula Balekana

Sounds like Renata may have picked up an injury that could end his season

@taniwharugby said in Otago v Northland:

Sounds like Renata may have picked up an injury that could end his season

Bugger. Hope they have sorted CTC’s scrummaging issues.

@kev yeah CTC is an odd one, sometimes he can be devastating, next scrum he gets destroyed...think it's a concentration and fitness issue.

@taniwharugby said in Otago v Northland:

@kev yeah CTC is an odd one, sometimes he can be devastating, next scrum he gets destroyed...think it's a concentration and fitness issue.

I remember him as being good - just that game against Ta$man. Hopefully they will have it sorted. The scrum has been very good for us.

Expecting a big game from Lucas Casey against his home province. Hoping him and Pledger continue to standout like dogs nuts.

Do commentators get a bonus everything they describe an all Maori/pacific islander midfield as “powerful”?

A very well taken intercept, and relatively little interest in tackling from Otago.

Damn, Solomon's hands...

Dumb from CLW

A few forward floaters being let go

Some good continuity on attack from both sides if not a.bit predictable

All that territory and possession pressure too much there...we need to get some ball

It’s a good game to watch but the lack of innovation on attack by both teams will likely mean they won’t be able to compete with the top 2-3 teams

Handling errors still a big problem for us

Man we have seen some awful kicks from hand by Reihana this year...if we stop kicking the ball away and put some phases together a few wide, we have a shot but if we keep giving them the ball, the heat will be too much

Otago will be disappointed with that scoreline. They had loads of ball

Northland getting a few good turn overs at the rucks

Man we need to get some linking from thier kicks instead of just kicking it straight back to them.

Our discipline is not good enough, too much pressure.