Canterbury v Wellington

[Stargazer]

@Winger I agree that the young props were a weakness last week, but Thompson had a good game. I'd prefer a Numia-Thompson-Fidow frontrow.

[Winger]

@Stargazer said in Canterbury v Wellington:

@Winger I agree that the young props were a weakness last week, but Thompson had a good game. I'd prefer a Numia-Thompson-Fidow frontrow.

I was very impressed with Thompson. But sometimes its best to let young players find their feet first.

[Winger]

@Canes4life said in Canterbury v Wellington:

Damn I was hoping Collins would start over Hauiti-Parapara.

What do you think of Ruben Love.

[booboo]

@Stargazer said in Canterbury v Wellington:

@Duluth FFS, should have given Tyrone Thompson the start instead of that d*ckhead.

Care to elaborate?

[Stargazer]

@booboo

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12237554

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/provincial/122589125/wellington-hooker-james-oreilly-gets-fiveweek-ban-for-abusing-referee-when-water-boy

[mariner4life]

just another mouthy doolan with a coke problem...

[Canes4life]

@Winger no rush on Ruben, he's still 19 I think so best to drip feed him minutes in his first year on the scene.

Haven't actually seen too much of him to be fair but he finished off that nice try last week. Probably needs to reign some of that excitement back a little bit though.

[Winger]

https://www.crfu.co.nz/newsarticle/95979?newsfeedId=1043163

1 FINLAY BREWIS

2 SHILO KLEIN

3 OLI JAGER

4 LUKE ROMANO

5 MITCHELL DUNSHEA

6 REED PRINSEP (C)

7 TOM CHRISTIE

8 TOM SANDERS

9 MITCHELL DRUMMOND

10 FERGUS BURKE

11 MANASA MATAELE

12 RAMEKA POIHIPI

13 NGATUNGANE PUNIVAI

14 CHAY FIHAKI

15 JOSH MCKAY

16 SCOTT MELLOW

17 TAMAITI WILLIAMS

18 FLETCHER NEWELL

19 SAM DARRY

20 BILLY HARMON

21 EREATARA ENARI

22 BRETT CAMERON

23 ISAIAH PUNIVAI

[Stargazer]

Some necessary changes from last week; I expect this Canterbury team to play better than last week, when Romano didn't play. Christie and Sanders starting with Harmon moved to the bench (he actually wasn't bad against Hawke's Bay) and Douglas dropped; also Burke starting instead of Cameron and McKay shifted to fullback (and Knewstubb dropped). No Lienert-Brown; IIRC he got injured, last week?

I find it hard to predict the result for this game.

[Canes4life]

@Stargazer I’d say it will be fairly close looking at both teams.

[shark]

DLB got injured at training yesterday.

[cgrant]

So we will probably watch Williams coming off the bench. He is a very big unit and was a standout for the AB schoolboys.

[shark]

We're very thin up front now. The young guys are very promising but very, very green.

[Duluth]

Is Sanders staying on?

[Duluth]

Hmmm I think they should take the 10 mins on that one

[African Monkey]

Very willing at breakdown especially Canterbury bringing the intensity up front so far.

Don't know why Wellington didn't go for 3 just before.

[Stargazer]

Burke already showing he's better than Cameron.

[Canes4life]

Fuck sake Hauiti Parpapara, get the pill out faster.

[taniwharugby]

jeez, Cantabs lucky to get away with that, #6 touching the defender

[African Monkey]

Mataele should have been penalised for picking the ball up from the side.