Hurricanes v Blues

[Nogusta]

@KiwiMurph SBW & Ma'a fairytale reunion!? One for the fans! Haha

[Canes4life]

Nonu getting a start one last time on Westpac would be nice. Maybe even the Hurricanes could pay tribute and rename the stadium for the night.

[KiwiMurph]

Nonu to 12....WaterBoy Tana to 13?

[Canes4life]

@KiwiMurph quite funny that waterboy Tana is with the Blues and Waterboy Carlos is with the Canes.

[Canes4life]

Will most likely be a rookie midfield for the Canes, Umaga Jensen likely to start but who knows who his partner is going to be. Maybe Toala, Goosen or even Lowe?

[Stargazer]

[Canes4life]

@Stargazer Good team, however seeing Parsons there really gives me hope the Canes B side will still get up.

[taniwharugby]

not that numbers on jersies means a great deal, but they have again named Robinson as the lock reserve and Goodhue as the loosie reserve.

[Tim]

Pulu's final game for the Blues according to their website.

[Tim]

No faith in Lindenmuth this season.

[KiwiMurph]

Happy to see Tele'a at 13.

Bit of a missed opportunity otherwise - no Sotutu and why is Scrafton starting.

[Dice]

Sasagi is a strange call-up for us. He's 31 and probably not part of our future. I would've just chucked Adams in there.

[Dice]

@Tim said in Hurricanes v Blues:

No faith in Lindenmuth this season.

I'm wondering if he's been injured. He wasn't in the Suburbs team last week.

[Duluth]

Looks like the Blues deleted their tweet that listed the team?

Here's the team again

1 Alex Hodgman, 2 James Parsons, 3 Marcel Renata, 4 Patrick Tuipulotu, 5 Scott Scrafton, 6 Dalton Papalii, 7 Blake Gibson (c), 8 Akira Ioane; 9 Augustine Pulu, 10 Otere Black, 11, Rieko Ioane, 12 Sonny Bill Williams, 13 Tanielu Tele’a, 14 Caleb Clarke, 15 Melani Nanai.

Reserves: 16 Leni Apisai, 17 Hisa Sasagi, 18 Lua Li, 19 Tom Robinson, 20 Josh Goodhue, 21 Jonathan Ruru, 22 Harry Plummer, 23 Ma’a Nonu.

[Tim]

@Duluth Took it down on Instagram too. Their IG stories have Lindenmuth at 17 and Sasagi at 18.

[KiwiMurph]

Blues have put up a new team with some changes now.

11 Clarke 14 Rieko

17 Lindenmuth 18 Sasagi

[Stargazer]

New tweet:

[Stargazer]

Rieko moved to 14 at the request of the ABs coaches?

[Hooroo]

@Stargazer said in Hurricanes v Blues:

Rieko moved to 14 at the request of the ABs coaches?

I suppose that is fair given that nothing is riding on this game for the Blues. (Apart from not coming last in the NZ conference again)

[KiwiMurph]

Rieko has played 14 before - he started out there in his debut season for the Blues in 2016 and also for the Maori.