Auckland have a scrum near their own 22m line, they clear the ball down field before the kick is returned with interest by Ngaluafe. Auckland lineout near their own 22m line.

Shigeno does not roll away at the ruck. Moeke lines up an easy kick to regain the lead.

Penalty to Southland

Auckland put the ball through the hands near the tryline where Moala receives the ball and barges through a couple of defenders to get over the tryline in the corner.

Lam breaks through the defensive line and offloads to Moala who draws a number of defenders before offloading to his winger who does well to fend off an attempted tackle before stretching over to score, but unbelievably the ball is poached by Schrader in the air to stop the ball from being grounded. Unbelievable! by

Southland form a maul from the lineout but it is lost forward as they attempt to break away. Auckland gather the ball and counter attack.

Hickey clears the ball from the scrum to set up a lineout near halfway.

After some heroic defence by Auckland, Southland eventually lose the ball forward metres from the tryline.

Southland will be in the premiership nek year, too much quality in their side

Great defence by Auckland, Southland are putting on a serious onslaught on the tryline.