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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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[–] baronvonj 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] baronvonj 3 points 2 years ago

Conradie made that run look easy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] baronvonj 2 points 2 years ago

The Flying Fijian!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Checking in from Lemmy.one

[–] baronvonj 1 points 2 years ago

trying another account over there @[email protected]

[–] baronvonj 2 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Really miss Balekana down here in Houston

[–] Bobbboberson 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seeing it on Lemmy.world.

[–] baronvonj 1 points 2 years ago

gracias amigo!

[–] baronvonj 2 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] baronvonj 2 points 2 years ago

that was crazy

[–] baronvonj 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

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

Balekana brings the BOOM

[–] baronvonj 1 points 2 years ago

I hope he scores today.

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

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

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

Ope, San Diego goofs.

[–] baronvonj 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] baronvonj 1 points 2 years ago

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

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

San Diego is just making so many mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

And then they do that! Try Augspurger!

[–] baronvonj 1 points 2 years ago

Another mishandling turnover by Legion!

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

Let's go, FreeJacks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] baronvonj 1 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] baronvonj 1 points 2 years ago

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

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

Is that guy unconscious?

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

oh there he goes.

[–] baronvonj 1 points 2 years ago

off the field now though.

[–] baronvonj 1 points 2 years ago

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

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

What is that, the third mishandle turnover by Nonu?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

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

Huzzah!

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

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

[–] baronvonj 1 points 2 years ago

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

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

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

[–] baronvonj 1 points 2 years ago

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

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