Moana Pasifika v Brumbies Rd 10 Sat 19th April @ Pukekohe 2.35pm AEST

[Major Tom]

Where was this TMO last year when sione tuipulotu scored off the lineout after going early

 

[Derpus]

That's a collapsed maul surely?

 

[Derpus]

Hate that. If the ball has come back play on. Anti-rugby ruling.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Suppose it’s also a bit of drive from where they have been playing in North Auckland as well

Where they've been playing is North Harbour where there's only a small PI community. Pukekohe is literally just down the road from Manukau where there's a very large PI community. I'd say the fact the Warriors are playing at Mount Smart which is just up the road from Manukau tonight may have a lot more to do with how few have turned up.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

We are seeing the implications of Super Rugby not replacing poor performing referees. Games descend into knockonathons at the hands of referees not up to Super rugby standard.

Imagine playing under the refs below these guys…

 

[Major Tom]

10 - 3 pen count. Same story as last week. I know your supposed to adjust to the ref but pretty hard when you have no idea what he’s going to rule

 

[Happy]

Corey Toole.

 

[Tomikin]

Let's go Noah Wright Muirhead and Toole

 

[rugboy]

Nice try. Lolesio and Wright followed by Muirhead and Toole.

 

[Happy]

Brumbies have that strong breeze in the second half so hopefully will be playing down the right end

 

[Rudderless]

HT
Brumbies 5-0

 

[griffins]

Great reward for muscling up defensively there. Huge effort from the pack in particular. Lot of dropped ball but very physical. Would have liked Noah to kick the conversion there.

Great to see Frost continuing his improved physicality from last week.

 

[Dan54]

There isn’t anyone else. Plus the rest aren’t much better

As I keep saying , it seems all the best refs are sitting in frony of their tvs, and making there calls on rugby forums?

 

[Dan54]

That was a good try by O'Toole
. Funny thing that impressed me a bit, when he slid into the fence, he looked genuinely concerned at fella behind fence he knocked over,

 

[Dan54]

Brumbies to just kick it down field with wind behind them in next half. MP (Moana Pasifika) seem to struggle with anyone doing anything, Pellergrini seems to be only bone they relying on to do anything.

 

[Derpus]

Toole has the right idea. Ball slippery so just play soccer.

 

[Derpus]

Handling across both games so far pretty horrible.

 

[Pokinacha]

As I keep saying , it seems all the best refs are sitting in frony of their tvs, and making there calls on rugby forums?

Gotta love the ‘why don’t you do better?!’ crowd who are worse than the keyboard referees.

 

[griffins]

Looks fkn wet to be fair

 

[rugboy]

Hats off to Goddard and Wright there. Toole with the jets to finish