Final: Canterbury vs Wellington
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Cowan starting. O'Reilly is back. Higgins at 2nd 5.
It about our strongest team possible. Look forward to this game with some optimism. Whereas if Cowan (and O'Reilly to a lesser extent but great to have him back) was out I would have had (major) concerns about our scrum
Wellington: 1-Xavier Numia, 2-Asafo Aumua, 3-Pekahou Cowan, 4-James Blackwell, 5-Dominic Bird, 6-Caleb Delany, 7-Du'Plessis Kirifi (c), 8-Peter Lakai, 9-TJ Perenara, 10-Jackson Garden-Bachop, 11-Pepesana Patafilo, 12-Riley Higgins, 13-Billy Proctor, 14-Julian Savea, 15-Ruben Love
Reserves: 16-James O'Reilly, 17-PJ Sheck, 18-Tietie Tuimauga, 19-Taine Plumtree, 20-Keelan Whitman, 21-Richard Judd, 22-Aidan Morgan, 23-Connor Garden-Bachop
National Provincial Championship: Final team announcements | Newshub
After 14 seasons, Saturday's match will likely be Romano's last in a red-and-black jersey.
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@Winger said in Final: Canterbury vs Wellington:
Cowan starting. O'Reilly is back. Higgins at 2nd 5.
It about our strongest team possible. Look forward to this game with some optimism. Whereas if Cowan (and O'Reilly to a lesser extent but great to have him back) was out I would have had (major) concerns about our scrum
Wellington: 1-Xavier Numia, 2-Asafo Aumua, 3-Pekahou Cowan, 4-James Blackwell, 5-Dominic Bird, 6-Caleb Delany, 7-Du'Plessis Kirifi (c), 8-Peter Lakai, 9-TJ Perenara, 10-Jackson Garden-Bachop, 11-Pepesana Patafilo, 12-Riley Higgins, 13-Billy Proctor, 14-Julian Savea, 15-Ruben Love
Reserves: 16-James O'Reilly, 17-PJ Sheck, 18-Tietie Tuimauga, 19-Taine Plumtree, 20-Keelan Whitman, 21-Richard Judd, 22-Aidan Morgan, 23-Connor Garden-Bachop
National Provincial Championship: Final team announcements | Newshub
After 14 seasons, Saturday's match will likely be Romano's last in a red-and-black jersey.
Only really big weakness is no 18. Sheck can cover both sides anyway so he will come on first no matter what I’d say.
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@Canes4life said in Final: Canterbury vs Wellington:
Only really big weakness is no 18. Sheck can cover both sides anyway so he will come on first no matter what I’d say.
Good to know. But unlikely Cowan will last the full match. But Numia might. So expect to see Sheck on early in the 2nd half at TH. And pray Numia can last the full 80.
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@foobaNZ said in Final: Canterbury vs Wellington:
I think we're all old enough that losing finals to Canterbury has been a consistent part of the life of a Lions fan. Let's hope these boys can flip that around and replicate the 2000 team.
Go well boys.
100%, let’s finally turn the tide in our favour. It’s 22 years too long.
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@Chris said in Final: Canterbury vs Wellington:
Wellington by a thousaaaaand.
Too much fire power for Canterbury.Wellington fans aren't falling for that, we've been in this situation plenty of times. We have already claimed the underdogs tag.
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Given that I hope both teams lose* what are the tie breakers for this?
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- maybe hoping Wellington lose a little less than Canterbury
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@Nepia said in Final: Canterbury vs Wellington:
@foobaNZ said in Final: Canterbury vs Wellington:
Surely no neutral wants anything other than a Cant loss.
0-0 draw.
BS! Are there Canterbury players in the Welly squad?
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@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Final: Canterbury vs Wellington:
@Nepia said in Final: Canterbury vs Wellington:
@foobaNZ said in Final: Canterbury vs Wellington:
Surely no neutral wants anything other than a Cant loss.
0-0 draw.
BS! Are there Canterbury players in the Welly squad?
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Anyone heard news about the Canterbury side? I wonder if they are waiting on a few players to be given the all clear? Seems to be very late in the week to be announcing a team for a final.
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1 Tamaiti Williams, 2 Brodie McAlister, 3 Owen Franks, 4 Zach Gallagher, 5 Dominic Gardiner, 6 Corey Kellow, 7 Tom Christie, 8 Billy Harmon (c), 9 Willi Heinz, 10 Fergus Burke, 11 George Bridge, 12 Rameka Poihipi, 13 Dallas McLeod, 14 Manasa Mataele, 15 Chay Fihaki
Reserves: 16 George Bell, 17 Daniel Lienert-Brown, 18 Oli Jager, 19 Luke Romano, 20 Reed Prinsep, 21 Mitchell Drummond, 22 Isaiah Punivai, 23 Ngatungane Punavai
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Didn't think this game would have blown out..
