NZ Provincial Barbarians v B&I Lions (Whangarei, 3 June 2017)
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Certainly makes sense. Squad for the first game more or less picks itself (would expect Warburton to captain). Everyone should have started a game by the third match and be pretty much at a starting test team for Maori, as you say.
Short, sharp tour, so some that aren't obviously inked in as test starters will only have perhaps a game and a sub appearance to press their case
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Ok - so going on that premise, and recognising that he'll have to use some of the semi-finalists at least on the bench, my take on possible Lions side for Saturday might look like the below from this squad:
Back-three: Hogg, Halfpenny, Watson, Williams, Daly, North, Seymour, Nowell
Midfield: Payne, Joseph, Davies, Henshaw, Te'o
Out-halves: Sexton, Farrell, Biggar
Scrum-halves: Murray, Webb, Laidlaw
LH: McGrath, Marler, Vunipola
TH: Furlong, Cole, Sinckler
Hookers: Best, Owens, George
Locks: Itoje, Henderson, Kruis, Jones, Lawes
Backrowers: Haskell, Moriarty, Stander, O'Mahony, Faletau, Warburton, Tipuric, O'BrienLions v Provincial Barbarians XV
15 Hogg 14. Watson 13 Joseph 12 Te'o 11 Seymour 10 Biggar 9 Laidlaw
1.Marler 2 Best 3 Sinckler 4 Henderson 5 Jones 6 Tipuric 7 Warburton 8 Faletau
Reps: 16 Owens 17 Vunipola, 18 Cole 19 Kruis 20 Moriarty 21 Webb 22 Farrell 23 Payne -
@Pot-Hale do you not think he will take an opportunity to get some combos going that he may want to use later ie guys that haven't played together alot?
I'm thinking in the loose forwards (instead of trotting out the Wales back three) and maybe the centres.
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@Crucial said in NZ Provincial Barbarians v B&I Lions (Whangarei, 3 June 2017):
@Pot-Hale do you not think he will take an opportunity to get some combos going that he may want to use later ie guys that haven't played together alot?
I'm thinking in the loose forwards (instead of trotting out the Wales back three) and maybe the centres.
Yes - I agree. I was ignoring combos for this match and just working on rest time.
Some of the possible untried midfield combos are:
Sexton/Farrell/Davies (all previous Lions experience)
Sexton/Te'o/Joseph (Sexton & Te'o/Joseph haven't played together)
Farrell/Henshaw/Davies (Farrell & Davies previous Lions experience)
Farrell/Te'o/Henshaw
Biggar/Henshaw/Joseph
Biggar/Farrell/Payne
Biggar/Te'o/PayneDavies is the only one who played last weekend.
Loose forwards - Stander, O'Mahony and Haskell played last weekend. O'Brien, Faletau, Warburton and Tipuric have previous Lions experience. Moriarty is a newbie.
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It'll be after the powhiri and the choral response from the Lions - Thursday earliest I reckon
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from this morning, the stadium is under 24 hour surveillance with restricted access in the wake of recent attacks around the world
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Lions 23 to be announced 8pm BST.
To lazy to try and figure what time that is in NZ
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@Margin_Walker said in NZ Provincial Barbarians v B&I Lions (Whangarei, 3 June 2017):
Lions 23 to be announced 8pm BST.
To lazy to try and figure what time that is in NZ
7am
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@Stargazer said in NZ Provincial Barbarians v B&I Lions (Whangarei, 3 June 2017):
@Margin_Walker said in NZ Provincial Barbarians v B&I Lions (Whangarei, 3 June 2017):
Lions 23 to be announced 8pm BST.
To lazy to try and figure what time that is in NZ
7am
Thursday.
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@Pot-Hale said in NZ Provincial Barbarians v B&I Lions (Whangarei, 3 June 2017):
It'll be after the powhiri and the choral response from the Lions - Thursday earliest I reckon
Good to see you are learning Maori time. Next lesson is koha.
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Not far off at all on the prediction Pot Hale
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@Margin_Walker said in NZ Provincial Barbarians v B&I Lions (Whangarei, 3 June 2017):
Not far off at all on the prediction Pot Hale
Pretty damn good! And I claim my Scottish bingo.
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pretty strong looking team.
Drove past the stadium earlier, hive of activity, and the field is looking perfect!
Isnt any rain about today (so far) lovely warm winters day!
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That's a pretty strong side for the Lions. Hopefully the conditions are good.
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NZ Provincial Barbarians squad:
1 Aidan Ross (Bay of Plenty)
2 Sam Anderson-Heather – Captain (Otago)
3 Oliver Jager (Canterbury)
4 Josh Goodhue (Northland)
5 Keepa Mewett (Bay of Plenty)
6 James Tucker (Waikato)
7 Lachlan Boshier (Taranaki)
8 Mitchell Dunshea (Canterbury)
9 Jack Stratton (Canterbury)
10 Bryn Gatland (North Harbour)
11 Sevu Reece (Waikato)
12 Dwayne Sweeney (Waikato)
13 Inga Finau (Canterbury)
14 Sam Vaka (Counties Manukau)
15 Luteru Laulala (Counties Manukau)Reserves:
16 Andrew Makalio ( Ta$man)
17 Tolu Fahamokioa (Wellington)
18 Marcel Renata (Auckland)
19 Matt Matich (Northland)
20 Peter Rowe – Vice Captain (Wanganui)
21 Richard Judd (Bay of Plenty)
22 Jonah Lowe (Hawke’s Bay)
23 Junior Ngaluafe (Southland)http://www.allblacks.com/News/30863/provincial-barbarians-team-named-for-lions-encounter
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