Canterbury v Wellington

Stargazer

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.

African Monkey

Shocking miss from Garden Bachop there.

African Monkey

@African-Monkey Which ended up working out well for Wellington.

Canes4life

Garden Bachop is having a shocker tonight.

Kicking it far too much, doing predictable lobby passes and misses a penalty in front. Just keep it simple, seems to be trying too hard.

Nepia

The Lord Ben Nicholas did well there.

The Silver Fern

Canterbury v Wellington