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NZ NPC Round 5 (lemmy.nz)

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Table:

Pos.	Team	P	W	B	PTS
1	Hawke's Bay	5	5	5	25
2	Wellington	4	4	4	20
3	Tasman	4	4	3	19
4	BoP	5	3	5	17
5	Waikato	5	3	4	16
6	Taranaki	4	3	3	15
7	Southland	4	2	2	10
8	Otago	4	2	2	10
9	Canterbury	5	2	2	10
10	North Harbour	4	1	5	9
11	Northland	5	1	3	7
12	Counties-Manukau	5	1	3	7
13	Auckland	4	0	2	2
14	Manawatū	4	0	2	2

Fixtures: Friday 06/09: BoP v Manawatū

Saturday 07/09: Auckland v North Harbour Wellington v Southland Otago v Canterbury Hawke's Bay v Tasman (Ranfurly Shield)

Sunday 08/09: Taranaki v Waikato Counties-Manukau v Northland

Wednesday 11/09: Otago v Wellington

Notes: The biggest game this round is the Ranfurly Shield match on Saturday night, Tasman have never one it as the combined union of Marlborough/Nelson Bays so they'll be up for it; and of course Hawke's Bay will be desperate to keep their winning record. Whoever wins gets both the log o' wood and top of the table.

Other than that, there's a couple of other usually fierce derbies. The Battle of the Bridge on Satuurday, then Otago v Canterbury. Most of the rest of the matches aren't especially exciting.

My Predictions: BoP 24+ North Harbour 9- Wellington 18+ Otago 3- Hawke's Bay 3- Taranaki 9+ Northland 9- Wellington 6+

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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Well the Hawke's Bay v Tasman game lived up to the billing, hell of a match. Hawke's Bay had it won by scoring a late try and then Toala kicking an incredible side line conversion. Only to inexplicably try to take it back to 2010 and grind out ruck after ruck with 3 minutes to play around the halfway line.

They needed to get a kick into the Tasman 22m and force them to try to run it back, but instead the inevitable happened and they gave up a stupid holding on penalty at 48m, which the Tasman replacement pivot kicked with metres to spare to take the shield off us.

Absolutely gutted.