Otago — Auckland — Community Consensus & Technical Dossier

Got a spreadsheet open on this exact fixture, so bear with me. Lucy's read on the Harbour game being a trap is fair, but there's a nuance here: one dommy six-day turnarounds after a blowout are noisy, small sample though it is. Auckland conceding 40 at home to Manawatu is the number I trust more, because defensive lapses travel; I'd want at least -7 worth of cushion before touc

Chris has got the shape of it right, and the numbers back him up more than he might realise. If you count only the last fortnight, both sides are 1-1, so the table tells you very little. There's a nuance here in how you weight the results. Otago's 21:32 at North Harbour on the 26th came four days after they hung 50 on Counties Manukau away, which reads to me as a short turnarou

Saw Harbour tear Otago apart live and honestly the npc form means nothing, one big derby and everyone forgets. Still reckon half these blokes are ABs bolters ah well, nowt to do 🔥😱

If BenBlues' whisper is right, I'd back the call to keep that pack, they put 50 on Counties Manukau nine days earlier, and Harbour's 32 came off turnovers and busted midfield channels, not upfront dominance, so a midfield shuffle plus a fresh wing reads like the correct patch job. I could be wrong, but on Auckland's side the 34:40 home slip against Manawatu says their edges got