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    Would like to show some appreciation to Harris - Tavita. Hes been a integral part of our success so far this season. A defensive rock, A steadying influence at 6 and becoming more comfortable in his role.

    Unfortunately, He doesn't get the grace that Metcalf gets. Continually mocked for his disastrous goal kicking/drop goal efforts in a certain game we lost.
    Kid is improving and I hope him & Metcalf become the longterm halves partners we've been waiting for.

    Ford, I haven't been a fan of. But shit, He is impressing me! Big quality minutes, Speed , Footwork & now a try scoring wizard!? Lol. I tip my hat to you sir.
     
    drunk_monk said:
    Just finished watching a replay. Cracking game.

    Man when we think about a few years ago many of us couldn't figure out how Berry was a first squad member. But my god he's gotten so much better!
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    Yeah I just watched the replay already knowing the score

    great game to watch! No stress!! 😂

    Two no-try’s from CNK and TT
    Casey Badger was our friend for once. Lots of no-try’s to the Knights thank you Ms

    Could have won by a lot more but I’m not complaining …

    Grade : A

    Leka is a beast. Wished he’d just pin his head back and go for the try line when in the red zone on his first touch. instead he stopped to step which killed his momentum ….

    Old man Caps has really grown on me the last few weeks. High football IQ. That catch and pass for Pompey’s try was so good. Also found a few gaping holes to run into

    Oh yeah, Clark is a BEAST

    CNK solid as ever. Takes the hard yards up the middle when we need it early in the count.

    Two pies to FORD. Congrats

    Great way to start the weekend.

    Up the Wahs
     
    We Rocked 'em, a Fantastic crowd all round here tonight, Onya Christchurchians, Onya!! Celebrating and high five'n strangers' an adrenalin filled wholesome feeling, I mean, yeah Let's GO Baby haha! Definite result and the halftime Entertainment was just so... Right! Savage "Ooo Aah Up The Wahs, Ooo Aah Up The Wahs!" ✊:D

    Egan's lead, Tackles and Try was Brilliant (again fan'fu(k^n'tastic!) Ford deserves as he serves Perfect off the pine (2 trys, right time and perfectly placed!) Pompey, guys he got some smarts (errors aside but 2 trys!) Charnze IS Our FB (Monster!) Could and should post more but I'm goooone as Fatty V would say.

    Anyhow, Sleep well my NZWarriors Whanau. We gonna beat them cowgirls next weekend.

    Up The Wahs! *Drops mike :sleep:
     
    Citygirl said:
    It actually wasn't very cold at the game, quite mild in fact. I didn't think it was an ugly win, we never looked like losing, only time Knights got on top was at the start of the second half. Knights kicking was terrible. Savage was great and we're not sick of the team song down here in CHC 😝
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    Awesome atmosphere, big ups to the Cantabs for getting out to support the boys. I agree with you, being at the ground it didn't seem like an ugly game at all and we were fairly dominant throughout. Also, unlike most, I thought Marata was pretty good tonight.

    Bring on next year at the new stadium!
     
    Our attack is still clunky but I actually think we made some real progress on attacking shape this game. Just to drop a few comments here:

    1. Kicking: I'm tempted to giving the kicking tee to TT. He kicked a clutch goal for us in magic round last year and nailed his not-so-difficult attempt today. Sooner or later the kicking is going to cost us a game.

    2. Forwards: Even without JFH, we dominated the middle. Outran by over 300m and ran for close to 2000M again. 5 forwards ran for over 100 m (Capewell, Ford, Barney, Leka, Clark). In comparison Knights only had one (Thompson). Ford gets a lot of shit on this forum sometimes but he always does a job for us in the middle, both on attack and in defense. Capes finding a bit of form. The four forward bench works for us.

    3. CNK: 270M. What a beast. Vindicated the extension decision. He may not be the flashiest FB in the Reece Walsh mould but he's exactly what we need within our system. TT has flair but he can't do what CNK does for us in terms of yardage. It's no wonder we went back to our 2000ish meter average in this game. Our meters in the Broncos game was down without him (only roughly 1500m instead of our 1900-2000m norm).

    5-2-1 and solidifying our position in the top 4 for another week is awesome. Next week we can do even better and solidify a top 3 position because Canberra plays Melbourne. So if we beat the cows, we can move 2 pts ahead of the loser of that game who will be 4th.
     
    Tookey 2.0 said:
    I thought Metcalf's bombs were largely too long for Rocco and the Chasers (great band name by the way) to put any pressure on Ponga. I think you give up the extra 5 min and let our players compete, especially in the rain.

    Overall Metcalf was pretty impressive tonight I thought, continuing to grow and now that he's getting used to the players around him. It was a shame Ali bombed that try as that was a Metcalf try assist gone begging
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    That and the cut out pass to TT bulleting right past Ali. Shame TT didn't lift his legs, DWZ lands that every time. And before that the Leka shepherd no try. There were a good few set plays that were inches away from being a try.
     
    Two players that I reckon are getting unfair criticism tonight

    Pompey - had a big hand in 3 of our tries and is usually safe in the air and safe in defence. Yes, he's a bit slow, but still a great player for us with such an outside back crisis right now.

    Ponga - what's he gonna do in that Knights team right now? Front foot ball for us running off our plays and he'd be great I think. In fact I think there'd be a few good players looking at us right now knowing that they might be the missing piece. I reckon we need one big signing to get 1 or 2 more as players look for the next big premiership contender.
     
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    Be a pretty boring game for the neutral, ol’ Kasey badge getting the microscope out, lots of bomb to Pompey.

    Metcalf plays with heaps of effort, how many halfbacks are scrambling to the corner to save tries.

    Good to see leka start and also a good reality check that he won’t just break the line for tries every week.

    Poor old knights looked like the late stage Kearney teams, toiling away but no idea how to score points.
     
    With 2 fullbacks and 3 centres we won with zero wingers and our marquee signing and a whole bunch of mid level wouldn't get a start at any other club guys.

    Winning in itself is a challenge. But winning cold night games, wet rainy night games and being where we are after 7 games is so much further ahead than I envisaged pre season.
     
    Clark has been our player of the year by landslide so far. What a guy.

    Metcalf was class tonight. I think our halves cop of a lot of flack for clunky attack that I would blame on Capewell, Ford, Niukore etc running shit lines and being uncoordinated in running shape.

    Halasima needs to be starting for the rest of the season. Which means Niukore needs to stay at prop which suits him better imo, he doesn't have enough footwork or ball skills to justify him being out wide.

    Overall was a pretty messy win. A lot of opportunistic tries. But cant complain with a W against a team we were expected to beat.
     
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