North Harbour v Auckland
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1 Joshua Fusitua, 2 Soane Vikena, 3 Angus Ta'avao, 4 Patrick Tuipulotu, 5 Joshua Beehre, 6 Adrian Choat, 7 Blake Gibson, 8 Akira Ioane, 9 Kalani Thomas, 10 Zarn Sullivan, 11 Salesi Rayasi, 12 Harry Plummer (c), 13 Bryce Heem, 14 AJ Lam, 15 Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
Reserves: 16 Leni Apisai, 17 Ben Ake, 18 Sione Ahio, 19 Hamish Dalzell, 20 Che Clark, 21 Taufa Funaki, 22 Corey Evans, 23 Caleb Tangitau
Same pack as last week. The problems were in the backs..
Thomas instead of Funaki & Rayasi instead of Tangitau are the changes in the backs
Evans ahead of McKenzie on the bench
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I want to see some progress from Sullivan this week. He's still having some good generic rugby moments but he's struggling as a ten
He kicked some good ball away last week. Also I'd like to see some contestable kicks. When Auckland does do a contestable it's almost always from Plummer (ands usually too shallow)
Sullivan has an enormous boot but he kept kicking it straight to defenders. The extra distance is immediately eaten up by that
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15 Shaun Stevenson, 14 Kade Banks, 13 Tom Barham, 12 Henry Taefu, 11 Danyon Morgan-Puterangi, 10 Oscar Koller, 9 Jamie Booth, 8 Cameron Suafoa (c), 7 Jed Melvin, 6 Tamarau McGahan, 5 Mahonri Ngakuru, 4 Ben Grant, 3 Tevita Mafile'o, 2 Shilo Klein, 1 Nic Mayhew
Reserves: 16 Bryn Gordon, 17 Sione Mafile'o, 18 Tevita Langi, 19 Wallace Sititi, 20 Lotu Inisi, 21 Karl Ruzich, 22 Aisea Halo, 23 Alapati Leiua
Stevenson back for Harbour
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Superb chase from Banks
