Wellington v Waikato (RS)
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I'll add the teams when available here. But there was some discussion on the Ranfurly Shield thread about this match so best to have a thread for it
Kick off Saturday 4.35 at the Cake Tin
The Wellington starting side. Higgins comes in for the injured PUJ.
1 Xavier Numia, Oriental Rongotai
2 Asafo Aumua, Avalon
3 Pekahou Cowan, Petone
4 James Blackwell, Petone
5 Dominic Bird, Upper Hutt Rams
6 Caleb Delaney, Old Boys University
7 Du’Plessis Kirifi, Northern United ©
8 Peter Lakai, Petone
9 TJ Perenara, Northern United
10 Aidan Morgan, Marist St Pats
11 Pepesana Patafilo, Tawa
12 Riley Higgins, Petone
13 Billy Proctor, Marist St Pats
14 Julian Savea, Oriental-Rongotai
15 Ruben Love, Wainuiomata16 James O’Reilly, Hutt Old Boys Marist
17 Solomona Sakalia, Northern United
18 PJ Sheck, Tawa
19 Taine Plumtree, Old Boys University
20 Keelan Whitman, Marist St Pats
21 Richard Judd, Paremata-Plimmerton
22 Jackson Garden-Bachop, Northern United
23 Connor Garden-Bachop, Northern UnitedThe Waikato side vs Otago. Id like to see McKenzie back at 1st
Edit Waikato side linked to this one. Completely different side to the Otago game
Ollie Norris (Hautapu)
Rhys Marshall
George Dyer (Fraser Tech)
James Tucker (Hamilton Marist)
Hamilton Burr (Hautapu) – co-captain
Samipeni Finau (Hamilton Old Boys)
Patrick McCurran (Fraser Tech)
Jack Lam (Hamilton Marist)
Xavier Roe (Hamilton Old Boys)
Taha Kemara (Te Awamutu Sports)
Daniel Sinkinson (Melville)
D’Angelo Leuila (Fraser Tech)
Bailyn Sullivan (Hamilton Marist)
Tana Tuhakaraina (United Matamata Sports)
Damian McKenzie (University) – co-captai -
Hopefully it ends up being a dry track as both of these teams have been exciting to watch in recent weeks. Picking Welly to win by a small margin.
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@Canes4life said in Wellington v Waikato (RS):
Hopefully it ends up being a dry track as both of these teams have been exciting to watch in recent weeks. Picking Welly to win by a small margin.
Hope so. agree about the weather. Cake Tin needs a roof but will likely never get one.
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Gonna be tough for the Lions. We barely used our bench so hopefully they aren't too gassed early this week.
I'd keep mostly the same 15 but would like CGB to start at 11. Higgins on the bench too for JGB.
I thought Bird was a bit shit too TBH around the field, but if he's looking after the line out and our scrum is working well then I can live with that.
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@foobaNZ said in Wellington v Waikato (RS):
Gonna be tough for the Lions. We barely used our bench so hopefully they aren't too gassed early this week.
I'd keep mostly the same 15 but would like CGB to start at 11. Higgins on the bench too for JGB.
I thought Bird was a bit shit too TBH around the field, but if he's looking after the line out and our scrum is working well then I can live with that.
I thought Bird looked OK. Surprised as I thought he was a joke addition at first
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@Winger said in Wellington v Waikato (RS):
@foobaNZ said in Wellington v Waikato (RS):
Gonna be tough for the Lions. We barely used our bench so hopefully they aren't too gassed early this week.
I'd keep mostly the same 15 but would like CGB to start at 11. Higgins on the bench too for JGB.
I thought Bird was a bit shit too TBH around the field, but if he's looking after the line out and our scrum is working well then I can live with that.
I thought Bird looked OK. Surprised as I thought he was a joke addition at first
I agree, he probably had his best game against Hawkes Bay last week since he came to Wellington. He was instrumental in stopping their lineout drives.
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@foobaNZ said in Wellington v Waikato (RS):
I'd keep mostly the same 15 but would like CGB to start at 11. Higgins on the bench too for JGB.
I would keep the team as it is. Pepesana Patafilo has been playing well. Doesn't do anything super outstanding but is a safe option Although CGB is another good option I have been a bit disappointed with him. I expected more after his super rugby form
Maybe Love is a better 1st 5 replacement option. But moving him from FB to 1st say with 10 minutes left. And who would goal kick as Love is poor
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@Canes4life said in Wellington v Waikato (RS):
@Winger said in Wellington v Waikato (RS):
@foobaNZ said in Wellington v Waikato (RS):
Gonna be tough for the Lions. We barely used our bench so hopefully they aren't too gassed early this week.
I'd keep mostly the same 15 but would like CGB to start at 11. Higgins on the bench too for JGB.
I thought Bird was a bit shit too TBH around the field, but if he's looking after the line out and our scrum is working well then I can live with that.
I thought Bird looked OK. Surprised as I thought he was a joke addition at first
I agree, he probably had his best game against Hawkes Bay last week since he came to Wellington. He was instrumental in stopping their lineout drives.
Could say that he’s flying high.
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@Winger I'd literally have any one but JGB at 10 to be honest.
Last year against Ta$man, chip kick inside our 22 when we need to score.
This year against BOP - we're ahead and just need to phase and kick it out. Tries a dropkick.
Doesn't have the head for it unfortunately.
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Great opportunity for Riley Higgins.
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@Crucial said in Wellington v Waikato (RS):
@foobaNZ said in Wellington v Waikato (RS):
Wellington named, same 15 as last week except Higgins for PUJ.
Anyone know the status of PUJ injury?
@Higgins is getting a bit old to turn out isn’t he?
I would never contemplate prostituting myself that low. Bad enough having two whangai playing a game or two for them, fortunately neither of them ever being in a team that beat The Bay in proper rugby (15s) thankfully (one lost a couple of times though!) although there might have been one instance of it happening in the Central Region 7s warm up tournament where The Bay and Wgtn both fielded two teams for some reason many years ago.
