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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

#USMLR #rugby

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[–] baronvonj 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] baronvonj 3 points 1 year ago

Conradie made that run look easy.

[–] [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

[–] baronvonj 2 points 1 year ago

The Flying Fijian!

[–] [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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well post has been up for two days and still don't see it on lemmy.one or sh.itjust.works. Paging a few regulars to get it sent out.

@[email protected] @[email protected]

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

Checking in from Lemmy.one

[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago

trying another account over there @[email protected]

[–] baronvonj 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.

[–] baronvonj 2 points 1 year ago

Really miss Balekana down here in Houston

[–] Bobbboberson 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago

gracias amigo!

[–] baronvonj 2 points 1 year ago

I have to say I'm quite surprised to see Scott Green had no appointments for the entire 2023 playoff season! Just glad we don't have Anselmi helming the final.

[–] baronvonj 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] baronvonj 2 points 1 year ago

that was crazy

[–] baronvonj 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [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 (1 children)
[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago

I hope he scores today.

[–] baronvonj 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] 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)
[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

San Diego is just making so many mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 2 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.

[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago

And then they do that! Try Augspurger!

[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago

Another mishandling turnover by Legion!

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

Wooot,

spoilerPotroz 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

[–] baronvonj 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.

[–] baronvonj 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.

[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago

off the field now though.

[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] baronvonj 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
[–] [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.

[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] baronvonj 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)

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

[–] baronvonj 1 points 1 year ago

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

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