SF Wellington v Auckland
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@Machpants said in SF Wellington v Auckland:
@Bones said in SF Wellington v Auckland:
@Machpants said in SF Wellington v Auckland:
@Bones said in SF Wellington v Auckland:
@Machpants said in SF Wellington v Auckland:
I'll be watching W.T.F Heem in this game, because I have no idea why he is anywhere near a black jersey of any sort
Did you miss super rugby?
I missed Heem being any good.
That's strange because he was excellent for a team that made the final. Grew through the season and filled many positions.
I'm not going to disagree, just didn't stick in my mind.
Bloody Cane's fans.
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@Bones said in SF Wellington v Auckland:
@Machpants said in SF Wellington v Auckland:
@Bones said in SF Wellington v Auckland:
@Machpants said in SF Wellington v Auckland:
I'll be watching W.T.F Heem in this game, because I have no idea why he is anywhere near a black jersey of any sort
Did you miss super rugby?
I missed Heem being any good.
That's strange because he was excellent for a team that made the final. Grew through the season and filled many positions.
Pretty much never had a bad game, bailed us out when we had injuries and had some great games. Really good two seasons in a row now.
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@Machpants said in SF Wellington v Auckland:
@Bones said in SF Wellington v Auckland:
@Machpants said in SF Wellington v Auckland:
I'll be watching W.T.F Heem in this game, because I have no idea why he is anywhere near a black jersey of any sort
Did you miss super rugby?
I missed Heem being any good.
Heem was outstanding in Super rugby playing both midfield spots and wing.
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1. Xavier Numia, Oriental-Rongotai
2. Asafo Aumua, Avalon
3. Pekahou Cowan, Petone
4. James Blackwell, Petone
5. Dom Bird, Upper Hutt RAMS
6. Caleb Delany, Old Boys University
7. Du’Plessis Kirifi, Northern United (C)
8. Peter Lakai, Petone
9. TJ Perenara, Northern United
10. Jackson Garden-Bachop, Northern United
11. Pepesana Patafilo, Tawa
12. Riley Higgins, Petone
13. Billy Proctor, Marist St Pats
14. Julian Savea, Oriental-Rongotai
15. Ruben Love, Wainuiomata16. Josh Southall, Petone *
17. PJ Sheck, Tawa
18. Tietie Tuimauga, Marist St Pats
19. Taine Plumtree, Old Boys University
20. Keelan Whitman, Marist St Pats
21. Richard Judd, Paremata-Plimmerton
22. Aidan Morgan, Marist St Pats
23. Connor Garden-Bachop, Northern United*Denotes debut
Unavailable for Selection: Vince Sakaria, Connor Collins, Iona Apineru, Josh Toómaga, James O’Reilly, Solomona Sakalia, Peter Umaga-Jensen
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I'm not surprised but JGB again is a bummer.
It's so strange to me that after a strong season from Morgan we've switched to JGB at finals time. Looks like we're going to have to try and win a comp with a handbrake on. Hopefully the strength elsewhere can cover for him.
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@foobaNZ said in SF Wellington v Auckland:
I'm not surprised but JGB again is a bummer.
It's so strange to me that after a strong season from Morgan we've switched to JGB at finals time. Looks like we're going to have to try and win a comp with a handbrake on. Hopefully the strength elsewhere can cover for him.
Surprising when the Canes have let him go and kept Morgan yet Wellington have a different take on it.
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JGB aside, that's a strong side and we should be overwhelming favourites on Friday.
They need to inject Morgan on earlier, JGB was good in the first half but struggled to keep up when the game opened up in the second.
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Auckland's gameplan needs to be around tight 5 dominance, especially scrum dominance. No Ta'avao may mean that is less likely.
Despite playing pretty poorly all season Auckland have hung tough in most games this season.
Wellington definitely favourites but based on all the quarter finals I wouldn't be writing off Auckland.
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@Bovidae He's solid enough at scrum time imo, one of the true journeymen of Auckland rugby. Having said that, Ahio is probably the better scrummager out of him and Renata so its one area I expect us to have the upper hand on Wellington.
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@Canes4life based on the last 2 games Morgan won't come on early
I'm always cautious with Wellington about claiming the favorites tag. And good to see Cowan and Higgins back
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@KiwiMurph think the scrum has been pretty good with or without Ta'avao, but he has helped.
Auckland certainly have not been able to capitalise on thier scrum dominance as you'd expect (hope if you are an Auckland fan) but have managed to stay in the fight due to it.
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@Winger said in SF Wellington v Auckland:
@Canes4life based on the last 2 games Morgan won't come on early
I'm always cautious with Wellington about claiming the favorites tag. And good to see Cowan and Higgins back
I only say that because of the form we are in and the fact Auckland looked dodgy last week, even with the likes of Ta'avo, RTS and Ioane in their side.
Take those guys out this week and my assumption is that if the Lions play anywhere near their best they should win this one by 10-15 points.
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I thought JGB and CGB combined well together in the QF. Had a bit of a bro connection going on in attack.
JGB is a bit up and down in running the attack but he does have a half decent kicking game.
PUJ unavailable, I wonder what ratio of games he has been fit versus being injured.
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@ACT-Crusader said in SF Wellington v Auckland:
I thought JGB and CGB combined well together in the QF. Had a bit of a bro connection going on in attack.
JGB is a bit up and down in running the attack but he does have a half decent kicking game.
PUJ unavailable, I wonder what ratio of games he has been fit versus being injured.
PUJ has been available for most games I think. He's been injured recently luckily Higgins has been fit these weeks. And TUJ is worse on the injury front. But PUJ won't go further until he can stay fit game after game
