Auckland 2018

Tim

@duluth Yeah, you'd think that must be why he hasn't been in either preseason game team.

cgrant

What about Slade (lock - 6) ?

Tim

@cgrant Was in the initial squad, but hasn't been named in either of the two preseason game squads.

African Monkey

@tim Doesn't look a terrible side on paper, better than I thought originally put it that way.

My lineup from that list would be

I'm sure the side will change a lot throughout the season.

trooa

Any word on where Havili is heading?

Steven Harris

Is Abel the same hooker that plays for the Brumbies..?

Tim

Duluth

I wonder if Prattley has gone back to Ta$man?

When he got called up to the Chiefs it was mentioned that he had been playing club rugby in Nelson

KiwiMurph

Daffy Jaffy

@trooa I noted his name on the bench for Ta$man for todays game. So you just know that he will score the winning try against Auckland!

Daffy Jaffy

Fulltime - auckland 16 - 14 over BOP.

Duluth

Narrow Auckland win in the preseason match with BOP 16-14

Plummer with the first try. BOP twitter didn't say who scored Aucklands second. Trask and Garland were the BOP try scorers

Tim

Was that a full strength BOP team?

Duluth

@tim Looks close to it. Loads of subs according to twitter so not sure if that means much

Tim

Anyone seen a match report etc?

Can't access social media at the moment.

Stargazer

@tim No match report, yet.

Steven Harris

@stargazer this where we need someone on the ground..anything on the Bop thread:..?

Stargazer

@steven-harris No, nothing more than the livescores on twitter, including that Dan Kirkpatrick kicked the winning penalty.

Tim

BOP lead 7 - 5 at half-time.

Tim

Ferner @Snollygoster was at the game:

The Silver Fern