vs Cowboys

[Blair]

Gubb two big tackles saving another try. Lousi good too in that last tackle, held up player.

Big Lisone on and fired up.

Thurston's rampaging, the game's changing in favour of the Cowboys, how's our captain going at this crucial point?

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Morgan down injuried, looks ankle or knee on replay under the weight of Mannering tackle, stretcher called. While Thompson and Tomkins head clash.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Gubb two big tackles saving another try. Lousi good too in that last tackle, held up player.

Big Lisone on and fired up.

Thurston's rampaging, the game's changing in favour of the Cowboys, how's our captain going at this crucial point?

Killing it in defense, sorted out Tamou and now Morgan!

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Dam, I'm out, Tamou delay cost me 10mins.

 

[Blair]

Dam, I'm out, Tamou delay cost me 10mins.

Cheers Phil.

Can we get some bloody possession? We can't compete without ball.

Thompson holds up Cow on line...but then another goal line drop out, we're defending 18 tackles!

At least Tomkins knows how to drop out.

We had to defend 20 tackles! Couldn't do it with a Cowboys penalty in there too. JT converts from sideline (of course). 18-16 to Cows.

There was an excellent Kata tackle on Thurston in there, 'ball and all'.

 

[lafai]

These outside backs are shit

 

[WithTheDawn]

Looking more like the last few weeks now. At least they gave us an enjoyable 15mins there for a bit, that was nice. Our left edge defends is absolute shit, they will keep running through there all night at this rate.

 

[Blair]

Maumalo knocked on in return set. Commentators said it's a 'coach-killer'.

Just can't do that in FG. 24-16 to Cows. Half-time. Glad poor Phil had to clock-off, after that opening 16-0 buzz got him misty-eyed for better times ahead.

Cows complete 17 out of 19 sets. Warriors one set in final 15 minutes of half. We can't win with these stats.

 

[Blair]

Where's Konnie? We need a momentum changer.

 

[Blair]

Tomkins in but no try, Hoffman obstructing. That might be our night. We needed to score first after the break.

Cowboys score at next set, 28-16.

Crowd gone silent, Warriors in danger of being mugged and murdered here.

 

[Blair]

Hurrell on, powerful run, two quick play the balls gets us a penalty.

A try here and we're back in it.

Two metres out, Friend tries to off-load but knocks on. Tomkins backchat gets a penalty against us.

We aren't a smart team on so many levels. Cows blow a chance at the other end, keeps us in it.

Crowd back in it now Gubb's on, but he gets too aggro and gives a crucial penalty away. Cows lining up to kill our season for sure.

Hess scores off JT. 34-16. The season's over for us, it's official now.

 

[WithTheDawn]

I know we aren't playing great, but these refs are such crap. They send everything to the video ref, incorrect lost ball call on Friend, miss the incorrect play the ball off the last try. So frustrating to watch that rubbish.

 

[Blair]

Konnie comes out off the line but misses his man. If you do that you must make the tackle. It's U14s stuff.

 

[Blair]

Painful isn't it? Our body language is shot.

Unacceptable defence by Maumalo. 38-16.

Massive self-doubt on that left-edge, they're hopeless at sliding defence.

 

[Matua]

Taumalolo looking good for the Kiwis tour.

 

[WithTheDawn]

Love the penalty for a strip when he didn't even lose the ball. Our defence is shit, but the refs are worse...

 

[Blair]

Can we at least finish with a try? Another big shot by Kata on Thurst! But he missed more than he made.

There's no way the coach can survive this, even if he's not completely to blame.

Then Kata misses a howler, went too soon on sliding D. Who's coaching him?

Big FIVE-O up for the visitors. 50-16. The end is now.

 

[WithTheDawn]

I want to see Cappy with our team next year. It was going solid this year until 6 weeks ago, and could have been a successful year. It went to shit, but he needs the first 10 rounds next year to prove himself id say.

 

[Matua]

I want to see Cappy with our team next year. It was going solid this year until 6 weeks ago, and could have been a successful year. It went to shit, but he needs the first 10 rounds next year to prove himself id say.

But if this shit continues then we're another season down. Oh, and it did go to shit, and Cappy is the coach.

Cappy hasn't got the goods, and relying on Luke and RTS to give him the goods is futile.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

I'm starting to get the feeling Cappy was simply riding SJs mid season form. The team has enough raw talent by itself to be upper mid-table competitive when he's firing, without him and the others we're missing they're exposed as a rudderless ship.