Advantage to Canterbury as Bird takes another great break and is tackled 3m out. The referee played plenty of advantage and lose the ball forward

TMO being called in to see if he was in touch but Codey Rei does very well to collect a kick ahead after a fortuitous bounce. Rei runs about 30m for the corner and a brilliant try saving tackle by Jack Goodhue saves some Canterbury blushes

Taranaki attack well and find themselves deep in the Canterbury half with numbers and width. Canterbury do very well to get their hands on the ball and earn a ruck penalty as Taranaki don't release it

Tighthead for Taranaki as Smylie sends the ball to McKenzie

Nasi Manu receives the restart and sends it to Tom Marshall who kicks it down field

Canterbury earn a penalty early on as they come out firing.

Taranaki nearly sneak a try at the end of the half as they run well at the Canterbury line

Penalty to Taranaki inside their half after a late hit by Canterbury and 3 minutes remain in this first half.

What an unbelievable try by Taranaki and Tamanivalu with one of the offloads of the season to Codey Rei

Slade with a kick ahead and the bounce avoids James Marshall and lands well for Slade but a handling error in the pass halts the attack