Three hundred sixty-five days after please the Polekura Park which is crowded with a thrilling victory over Hawke's Bay, the Rugby Taranaki team gave a damp squib on Sunday with a 13-11 defeat to Northland.
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Pita Gust Sowakula left the bank for Taranaki against Northland in Pukekura Park. Opinion: What difference is a year ago. Three hundred and sixty-five days after delighting a Pukekura park full with an exciting victory over Hawke’s Bay, Taranaki's rugby team delivered a wet squi on Sunday with a 13-11 defeat against Northland. Yes, fans packed the park for the second return of the team in 76 years, but this time there were no clear skies, not a pulsating length of the field and there is certainly not so much hope on the horizon of this national provincial championship. It is a pity that the $ 248 million plan of the new Plymouth District Council to fix the pipes around the joint did not include a budget to improve drainage in its "jewel in the crown". * Taranaki Rugby Confident Yarrow Stadium will be ready
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The innumerable days of rain in the supposed capital of the country of the country meant that I was always going to try to have Pukekura Park to a standard that a modern player hopes to exhibit his SS. The test failed. Andy Jackson/ Fans found more interest in their phones than in rugby sometimes in Pukekura Park. Sliding on a Sunday afternoon could adapt to those exhibited throughout the country at the high school level, but those who played in what was once a superior form of domestic sport deserves something better. It is difficult to know how many of the injuries that came out of Sunday's game could be attributed to the state of the game surface, but it would have been an interesting point of discussion on the medicine table after the game. It is not that the game surface can be totally attributable to the starting nature, beginning-part of the so-called entertainment. Andy Jackson/ Referee Jono Bredin had a good training with his arms in Pukekura Park. The type disguised as a referee has brought the friendly nature with the whistle of its previous appearance as Netball official in the Rugby sand and the sport is much worse because of that. It was not a coincidence that the largest cheers of the afternoon have been reserved for the great half -budget show when the injured Taranaki players shot the ball in the gray sky when the young people tried to catch it. Surely it had more to do with the fact that they did not have to see or listen to Jono Bredin blowing in his whistle for 12 elegant minutes than anything else. Andy Jackson
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