Otago with the driving maul and the Taranaki defense dissipates allowing the ball carrier to break away but the final pass goes fowards and the scoring opportunity goes a begging. The home side with the defensive scrum to tend with

Otago finds some space in the Taranaki defense and break out of their 22 but, put the ball to boot allowing the home side to send it back up field and into touch. The ball was carried back into the 22 so the line out will take place all the back from where the kick was made and the visitors have the feed

Baker with a pearl of a clearance kick in difficult conditions finds touch inside the visiting 22

The home side now on the move towards the Otago try line but, there is a little knock on from the home side resulting in a scrum for the visitors to feed

**** it's wet

In an attempt to clear their lines the box kick from Otago's number 9 goes straight into touch and Taranaki will have the line out feed

The kick from Otago is not into touch and the home side run the ball all the way back up the field . Some slick inter passing between the backs and forwards sees a magical try being scored by the big number 8

Taranaki break out from their half through Ormand who collected a well timed pass from his half back but, the visitors manage to turn over the possession and clear their lines

this guy's got his kicking boots on today

The visitors doing very well to keep the ball alive and keeping the passes small and direct. The home side defense getting sucked in resulting in them being caught offside but, the kick from Smith is well wide