Wellington v North Harbour

[Stargazer]

Wellington Lions

1 Xavier Numia
2 James O’Reilly
3 Alex Fidow
4 James Blackwell
5 Naitoa Ah Kuoi
6 Vaea Fifita
7 Du’Plessis Kirifi [C]
8 Teariki Ben-Nicholas
9 Kemara Hauiti-Parapara
10 Jackson Garden-Bachop
11 Julian Savea
12 Vince Aso
13 Peter Umaga-Jensen
14 Wes Goosen
15 Billy Proctor

16 Tyrone Thompson
17 Morgan Poi
18 Ben Aumua-Peseta
19 Caleb Delany
20 Mateaki Kafatolu
21 Connor Collins
22 Aidan Morgan
23 Ruben Love

https://www.wellingtonlions.co.nz/news/news-single/post/lions-name-squad-for-north-harbour-clash-at-sky-stadium/

[Duluth]

Important game for Harbour.

The top six are all playing each other this weekend (Auckland v Ta$man, Canterbury v Waikato). A Harbour loss starts to open up a gap between 5th & 6th

[Stargazer]

@Duluth By that same reasoning, it's an important game for Wellington; they'd want that gap to stay away from the bottom and to keep in touch with the top four for a semi-final spot.

[Bones]

Bloody good looking for an NPC side. Even better if Proctor plays better than an average club rugby player...

[Duluth]

1 Nic Mayhew, 2 Luteru Tolai, 3 Sione Mafileo, 4 Gerard Cowley-Tuioti, 5 Jacob Pierce, 6 Ethan Roots (cc), 7 Dillon Hunt, 8 Murphy Taramai, 9 Bryn Hall, 10 Bryn Gatland (cc), 11 Tomas Aoake, 12 Asaeli Tikoirotuma, 13 James Little, 14 Jared Page, 15 Shaun Stevenson

Reserves: 16 Zane Turner, 17 Teague McElroy, 18 Jimmy Roots, 19 Xavier Cowley-Tuioti, 20 Tim Sail, 21 Lewis Gjaltema, 22 Jack Heighton, 23 Fine Inisi

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Tikoirotuma replaces Mikaele-Tu'u

[Tim]

@Duluth said in Wellington v North Harbour:

Mikaele-Tu'u

Is he still with Harbour on loan?

[Duluth]

@Tim

I bet @Stargazer will know

I thought he was playing ok. If fit and available he should be in the 23

[Tim]

@Duluth said in Wellington v North Harbour:

I thought he was playing ok. If fit and available he should be in the 23

Yeah definitely. Defence looked better with him there.

[Stargazer]

@Duluth I have no idea, I don't know who he was replacing. Why wouldn't he still be there?

[Higgins]

@Bones Eastbourne are playing the Axemen in the cutainraiser at The Caketin. It is a quarter final match in the National 80/80s (AKA Under 85kgs ) Championship. Kick off at 11.30am from what I got told (or was that 11.05am?). It is being televised live on one of the Sky Channels in case you can't make it to the ground. Will be taking my boots along (I am under 85kg!) just in case

[Bones]

@Higgins yeah saw that! Awesome eh, Welly teams dominating nationally. Unfortunately I might be delayed making it to the ground and not sure I'll be able to find a sky channel feed. I'm UK based in case ya missed that one...

Up the seagulls!

[mikey07]

I can see Wellington taking this game but by less then 6, Harbour always seem to get really close to us when we play at the home.

[Canes4life]

@mikey07 really depends what kind of Wellington side turns up. They could win this game comfortably or lose it comfortably. It's been a roller coaster ride so far this year.

[Higgins]

@Bones A pretty close battle with a couple of intercept tries (one to each team). Your mob getting theirs with about ten minutes to go proving to be the difference. They won 22 - 15.

It is not really a Wellington domination of the grade as there are only Wgtn, Waikato, and Auckland (possibly Nth Harbour) that really have organised unde3r 85Kgs Competitions. The Axemen only finished 6th in the Wgtn one after they lost a couple of crucial games by conceding late points whereas Eastbourne eventually finished runners up in the Competition to Upper Hutt

[Canes4life]

Ruben Love has come into the starting side for PUJ. Proctor moves to 13.

[Bones]

@Higgins yeah stoked! Thanks for the update.

[Stargazer]

@Canes4life Who has taken Love's place on the bench?

[mikey07]

Interesting PUJ might be on the bench for the ABS

[Canes4life]

@Stargazer Renata? Not too sure.

Early signs look like North Harbour are the dominant side. Hope i'm wrong.

[Higgins]

Wellington scrum already being shown up with that demolishing.