Counties v Wellington

[Duluth]

1. Xavier Numia, Oriental-Rongotai
2. James O’Reilly, Hutt Old Boys Marist
3. PJ Sheck, Tawa
4. James Blackwell, Petone
5. Dominic Bird, Upper Hutt RAMS
6. Taine Plumtree, Old Boys University
7. Du’Plessis Kirifi, Northern United
8. Keelan Whitman, Marist St Pats
9. Richard Judd, Paremata-Plimmerton
10. Jackson Garden-Bachop, Northern United
11. Connor Garden-Bachop, Northern United
12. Riley Higgins, Petone
13. Billy Proctor, Marist St Pats
14. Nehe Milner-Skudder, Eastbourne
15. Ruben Love, Wainuiomata

16. Asafo Aumua, Avalon
17. Solomona Sakalia, Northern United
18. Tietie Tuimauga, Marist St Pats
19. Caleb Delany, Old Boys University
20. Peter Lakai, Petone
21. TJ Perenara, Northern United
22. Aidan Morgan, Marist St Pats
23. Julian Savea, Oriental-Rongotai

Unavailable for Selection: Vince Sakaria, Connor Collins, Iona Apineru, Josh Toómaga, Siale Lauaki, Peter Umaga-Jensen

Lions Named for Final Round-Robin Clash against Counties Manukau

[Winger]

@Duluth

Thanks

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[Winger]

@Canes4life said in Counties v Wellington:

Props aside, how strong is that bench.

Agree. Regarding props. Hope Cowan is back next week and our 2 starting props stay injury free. Otherwise we won't last long in the finals

Ive just noticed that Cowan is not listed as unavailable. Maybe the replacement TH is better than the replacement LH.

Wellington have had good luck with a lack of injuries to key players this year. if it keeps up the team could do well in the finals.

If they win this game they will play HB in the quarter finals (as they beat BOP in the round robin who could with a bonus finish on equal points) Lose and Wellington play the loser out of BOP and Waikato

[Winger]

@Duluth

Ill watch 4 players with interest

Roigard for CM (as he's in the Canes)

Higgins and Sheck as Canes possibilities. And JGB and hope he plays a little better than so far this year

[mikey07]

Connor Collins, Iona Apineru I haven’t seen either of these 2 all season

[Winger]

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[mikedogz]

Counties Manukau Rugby Football Union

Throwback jerseys to honour legends

[mikedogz]

There will be a few more players with blonde hair today with pink added. Seen on his Instagram that Papali'i has gone blonde too, must have got a bulk lot for the whole household.

[MN5]

@mikedogz said in Counties v Wellington:

There will be a few more players with blonde hair today with pink added. Seen on his Instagram that Papali'i has gone blonde too, must have got a bulk lot for the whole household.

Geez I’m glad Pinetree and BJ Lochore aren’t around to see this.

[mikedogz]

They would have seen late nineties Carlos Spencer's dyed hair do.

[mikedogz]

The opposing halfbacks have both played for my hometown club, Onewhero.

[mikedogz]

Half Time 38-7 Wellington lead.

[Canes4life]

Lol get Aumua in the All Blacks. On form he's easily the second best hooker in the country.

[Canes4life]

Lakai replaces Kirifi at openside.

[broughie]

We need more than 60 Welly.

[antipodean]

How is that not tackled?

[Canes4life]

@antipodean the ref said release so therefore the player is tackled. I don't even know why they even went upstairs.

[Canes4life]

Superb performance from the Lions. I hope we smack Hawkes Bay next week.

Aumua scoring four tries was very impressive, that O’Reilly injury is a blight though and will rule him out for the rest of the year. Hopefully we get Dane Coles as a super sub for the quarter final.

[ACT Crusader]

@Canes4life said in Counties v Wellington:

Lol get Aumua in the All Blacks. On form he's easily the second best hooker in the country.

Did he hit one ruck in attack? I swear he was out wide for 50 minutes 😉