Crusaders v Sunwolves

[Stargazer]

Sunwolves
15 William Tupou, 14 Hosea Saumaki, 13 Timothy Lafaele, 12 Michael Little, 11 Kenki Fukuoka, 10 Hayden Parker, 9 Fumiaki Tanaka, 8 Kazuki Himeno, 7 Lappies Labuschagne (c), 6 Yoshitaka Tokunaga, 5 Grant Hattingh, 4 James Moore, 3 Jiwon Koo, 2 Jaba Bregvadze, 1 Craig Millar

Reserves: 16 Yusuke Niwai, 17 Shintaro Ishihara, 18 Takuma Asahara, 19 Sam Wykes, 20 Edward Quirk, 21 Yutaka Nagare, 22 Ryoto Nakamura, 23 Semisi Masirewa

[ShadowTrooper]

@stargazer That's a pretty international-looking Sunwolves starting 15 to face the Saders.
Be interesting to see how Little goes.

[MN5]

@stargazer said in Crusaders v Sunwolves:

Sunwolves
15 William Tupou, 14 Hosea Saumaki, 13 Timothy Lafaele, 12 Michael Little, 11 Kenki Fukuoka, 10 Hayden Parker, 9 Fumiaki Tanaka, 8 Kazuki Himeno, 7 Lappies Labuschagne (c), 6 Yoshitaka Tokunaga, 5 Grant Hattingh, 4 James Moore, 3 Jiwon Koo, 2 Jaba Bregvadze, 1 Craig Millar

Reserves: 16 Yusuke Niwai, 17 Shintaro Ishihara, 18 Takuma Asahara, 19 Sam Wykes, 20 Edward Quirk, 21 Yutaka Nagare, 22 Ryoto Nakamura, 23 Semisi Masirewa

Must be awkward for the captain to be named after something a stripper does.

[Chris B.]

@machpants said in Crusaders v Sunwolves:

@antipodean said in Crusaders v Sunwolves:

Owen and Izzy are back!

Yes Boy!

It'll be a cricket score, that's a good looking saders - injuries permitting. Just lack of Mo'unga will hold them back a bit.

Interestingly, this week I'm certain we can pick a better starting XV from the guys who aren't playing:

Moody, Taylor, Alaalatoa, Whitelock, Dunshea, Taufua, Harmon, Read, Hall, Mo'unga, Havili, Goodhue, Macilai, Ennor, Jordan

[gt12]

Goddamn Sunwolves have already scored. Fucking up my tipping again.

14-5 after 17.

[MajorRage]

Game is 15 mins old, 2 tries to 1, Saders up ...

And nobody has written a thing on the game so far.

Man, the sun wolves have REALLY added a lot to this tournament ...

[Bones]

That's even a harsh penalty. He pretty much put cushions down for Dagg.

[gt12]

@majorrage

Snap.

Yep, I appreciate them, but only because I can occasionally go to games. They need to get a better recruitment policy, and they’d be at least less uncompetitive...

[Bones]

Thunder, lightning, hail.

@MajorRage Parker and Little are good SW players...

[Donsteppa]

Sunwolves like lifting in the tackle...

[gt12]

I don’t know how Little missed out on a contract.

Bit of a lift there.

[Machpants]

What lovely weather, wolves making the most of it!

[Bones]

@gt12 did he miss out or did he move? I can't see any typical starters at any kiwi sides who he'd be ahead of.

[gt12]

@bones

I doubt he was looking to start in NZ (but I could be wrong). My understanding is that he went to the SWs because of a lack of interest in NZ, mainly by the Blues, I guess.

I’d have him about Faiane (who is slowly getting better), or as a squaddie in the Chiefs.

[Tordah]

Crusaders lineout an absolute shitshow so far

[Bones]

@gt12 yeah definitely ahead of Faiane, but what I mean is - he probably got an offer (I imagine a decent one) and thought hey I get to live in Japan and get to start every week. Why sit around holding tackle bags?

[gt12]

@bones

Especially after living here. He was pretty good at Japanese when he left, so for any number of reasons I can’t argue with the decision to come here.

[Donsteppa]

Sunwolves tight five are feeble

[Machpants]

Saders discipline appalling

[gt12]

I thought the ruck was being assessed in a different way this year? I can’t see anything different noawadayz. Seems to have last about a week.