Blues vs. Highlanders
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<p>Highlanders team hot off the press.</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Daniel Lienert-Brown 2. Liam Coltman 3. Josh Hohneck 4. Tom Franklin 5. Joe Wheeler 6. Elliot Dixon 7. Shane Christie ( co-capt) 8. Liam Squire</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">9. Aaron Smith 10. Lima Sopoaga 11. Patrick Osborne 12. Teihorangi Walden 13. Malakai Fekitoa 14. Waisake Naholo 15. Ben Smith ( co-capt )</span></p>
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<p style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Reserves:</em></span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">16. Ash Dixon 17. Brendon Edmonds 18. Ross Geldenhuys 19. Alex Ainley 20. Dan Pryor 21. Fumiaki Tanaka 22. Hayden Parker 23. Matt Faddes</span></p>
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<p>Look forward to seeing whether Mafileo has the goods at this level. The kid is one to watch for the future imo.</p>
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<p>be good to see the Pryor brothers get a chance to square off against one another! </p>
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<p>Stoked to see Waa on the bench, he musta put in some work in the off season!! </p> -
<p>YEah I think it was Daffy, I had heard he was highly rated but struggled with fitness (weight) and injuries last season.</p>
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<p>Anything has to be an upgrade on Sam Prattley. Good luck to him.</p>
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<p>Really looking forward to this game, and to the rarefied air of the Soup season in general - have taken Friday off to watch.</p>
<p>Better than the stodge served up by the likes of the NH comps - 6 nations/European Cup/Top 14 and the godawful pro 12.</p>
<p>Wales has been good - but the 8 nations draw hinders their progress.</p>
<p>Will be good to see free-spirited, creative open running rugby for a change.</p> -
<p>1 Blues <span style="margin:0px;">1.92</span></p>
<p>2 Highlanders 1.82</p>
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<p>1 Blues 13 & Over <span style="margin:0px;">5.25</span></p>
<p>2 Blues 12 & Under <span style="margin:0px;">2.85</span></p>
<p>3 Draw <span style="margin:0px;">18.00</span></p>
<p>4 Highlanders 12 & Under <span style="margin:0px;">2.75</span></p>
<p>5 Highlanders 13 & Over <span style="margin:0px;">4.75</span></p> -
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<p>Really looking forward to this game, and to the rarefied air of the Soup season in general - have taken Friday off to watch.</p>
<p>Better than the stodge served up by the likes of the NH comps - 6 nations/European Cup/Top 14 and the godawful pro 12.</p>
<p>Wales has been good - but the 8 nations draw hinders their progress.</p>
<p>Will be good to see free-spirited, creative open running rugby for a change.</p>
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<p>Don't get your hopes too high in the early stages. Some of the first rounds can produce messy crap and I am apprehensive as to the rule changes until teams get used to them.</p>
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<p>But generally, yeah I'm ready to watch some good rugby.</p> -
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<p>Don't get your hopes too high in the early stages. Some of the first rounds can produce messy crap and I am apprehensive as to the rule changes until teams get used to them.</p>
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<p>But generally, yeah I'm ready to watch some good rugby.</p>
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<p>Sorry, please remind me, which rule changes are you talking about? I'm only aware of a trial of rule changes in the Mitre10 Cup, not Super Rugby (apart from the bonus points). Did I miss something?</p> -
<p>If we can keep this game close for the first half, we might have a chance with that bench.</p>
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<p>Hopefully Tana can get the best out of our young outside backs. Most of the outside backs at Counties have performed really well under him over the years.</p>
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<p>Really looking forward to seeing how our defense holds up this season with Alistair Rogers as our defense coach. Our defense in pre-season was quite promising.</p> -
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1 Blues 1.92<br>
2 Highlanders 1.82</p></blockquote>Whoops I picked the Blues for my multi thinking that Ranger and the Ioane brothers would be too much for the Highlanders to handle. Now none of them have made the starting line-up. Sigh<br><br>
Other picks are: Waratahs win<br>
Sharks to beat point start.<br>
Lions to beat point start.<br><br>
But on reflection I probably should have only picked the Lions for a win, picked the Jaguares to beat the Cheetahs, left out the Blues v Highlanders game and then maybe one of the following:<br>
Chiefs to beat Crusaders?<br>
Hurricanes beat the Brumbies<br>
Stormers beat the Bulls (reasonably confident) -
<p>Any idea what sort of crowd might be on the cards for this one?</p>
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<p>Cracking day by all accounts, Blues with a bit of a positive vibe under a new regime and some class ABs in the Highlanders - I'd like to think at least 20k would be expected. </p>
