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Match Thread: 2023 Championship | July 8th @ 3:00 PM Eastern (www.majorleague.rugby)

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With the federation lags we've been seeing, I'm posting this early and will fill in details as game day approaches.

Standings: San Diego 1st in West (15-1-0, 74 pts), New England 1st in East (14-2-0, 68 pts)
Kickoff: 3:00 PM Eastern, 12:00 PM Pacific
Location: Seat Geek Stadium, Bridgeview, Il
Where to watch: Fox TV, The Rugby Network
Referee: Joe James
Assistant Refs: Cam Stone, Lex Weiner
TMO: Nick Hannon

Lineup

Legion	Pos	Free Jacks

Pifeleti	1	Kianu Kereru-Symes
Malolo	2	Andrew Quattrin
Green	3	Joel Hintz
Grant	4	Semisi Paea
Franklin	5	Conor Keys
Poidevin	6	Mitch Jacobson (C)
Ma'afu Afungia	7	Joe Johnston
Tameilau	8	Wian Conradie
Judd	9	John Poland
Hooley	10	Jayson Potroz
Augspurger (VC)	11	Paula Balekana
Nonu	12	Le Roux Malan
Brache (C)	13	Ben LeSage
Aoake	14	Mitch Wilson
Te'o	15	Reece MacDonald

Klein	16	Mills Sanerivi
Sylvia	17	Kyle Ciquera
Barumann	18	Cole Keith
Turori	19	Sam Fischli
Ross	20	Cam Davidowicz
Smith	21	Holden Yungert
Henderson	22	Spencer Jones
Matyas	23	Zach Bastres

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Let's see the replay a couple more times. Not because the try call was questionable, just to revel in that close by Balekana.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Super impressive try. Couldn't believe he got the ball down before his knee hit in touch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Flying Fijian!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Conradie made that run look easy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What an exciting half. Can't ask for much more in a championship match.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Good first half! Match is close, plenty of turnovers keeping every pass interesting. Looking forward to the second half!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Balekana brings the BOOM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I hope he scores today.

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

well, not the result I wanted but it was a great match to the end

San Diego is no 0-2 in the championship, the league's first cursed team?

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

Free Jacks should have brought Rene Rancourt from Boston for the anthem.

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

Really miss Balekana down here in Houston

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

The exponential improvement in teams' kicking games since the start of MLR is impressive.

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

I wasn't expecting this, but apparently the match is streaming on https://foxsports.com/live after all! In addition to breaking out an antenna there's also free trials of a multitude of streaming services such as DirecTV Stream, Fubo, Hulu+Live, Sling, YouTubeTV, and I'm sure plenty more.

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

That was a b-e-a-utiful offload!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Another mishandling turnover by Legion!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that guy unconscious?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh there he goes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

off the field now though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love clutch defensive tackles like that one on MacDonald! And then those diving touch line tries like Balekana!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is that, the third mishandle turnover by Nonu?

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

If he had any one of those back, the outcome could have been SD on top. What a match.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Two minutes left. Does San Diego goof or does NE get a penalty?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ope, San Diego goofs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

and at a time when a drop goal would get them back in the lead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That was a huge gap to leave open for Malan that close to the try line.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh? I thought MLR didn't allow for more than one scrum reset.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was thinking the same. I wonder if SDL ownership will file a complaint or inquiry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Huzzah!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's go, FreeJacks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wooot,

spoiler

Potroz getting his kick blocked

wasn't the start I was hoping for but making up for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

spoiler tags are weird here. I had to edit that comment a good half dozen times

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Appreciate the effort there, I think I'll refine the spoilers rule though, to no spoilers in post titles/bodies. Anybody clicking into a match thread, especially during the match, should be expecting spoilers within I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol, fair. It was mostly to try out their spoiler tag formatting. I don't really like it from the browser, will have to see what it looks like from mobile apps later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not very good on LiftOff, appears to just be showing the text literally, ignoring the spoiler markdown entirely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The Connect app is ignoring the spoiler tags too. And Jerboa too. Bummer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That sucks. I'm surprised to hear Jerboa too, since main developer works on Lemmy itself too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

that was crazy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Another blocked kick. People were speaking some concerns for NE's starting forward pack put they're not slouching.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Appreciate the level of technical commentary here; pointing out Wilson shifting up to Potroz's spot to take some of the beatings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

agree. hope they can have more like it on a regular basis next season.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

San Diego is just making so many mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ha, I feel the same about NEFJ. Clean it up! Says the person sipping a drink from their air conditioned living room.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And then they do that! Try Augspurger!

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