Southland v Northland

What do you say about a draw like that?

Southland looked capable of breaking us open in the 1st half, but weren't quite able to, we managed to get a bit of a spark going once Goodhue got out there and straightened our line and carried strong.

Excellent game from Reihana, nice nice touches with all aspects of his game, defence, running and kicking, shame he couldnt slot that final kick, but overall a draw was probably the fairest result in that game.

Most of the pack had moments where they were bloody good, while also some they will not want to see again.

Starting front row was not great and our lineout was poor.

Pleased how MIlo-Harris is going, stepped into Nocks role quite well, only really one kick was poor being not deep enough, but does some good work otherwise.

Our starting mid-field was poor, didn't really get going, given they have played alot together at Kamo as well in the past, they dont seem to feed off one another, Goodhue was very good when he came on, Tua had a couple of nice touches, a couple of poor ones, otherwise anonymous.

Moorby certainly brings something, even if he struggled a bit in the openign 50 or so, but his wing, Murray was excellent, popped up all over the show to carry the ball, make a tackle, clean a ruck, and scored on both sides of the posts too.

Brady Rush was poor, some poor decisions and execution, chased well in teh 1st half, but that was about it.

Bench certainly helped us out though, mostly sorted our set peice, some scrums we still struggled though

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