Wellington v Southland

[Duluth]

1 Cameron Orr
2 James O'Reilly
3 PJ Sheck
4 Caleb Delany
5 Akira Ieremia
6 Brad Shields Dominic Ropeti
7 Du'Plessis Kirifi
8 Keelan Whitman
9 Kyle Preston
10 Ruben Love
11 Pepesana Patafilo
12 Riley Higgins
13 Billy Proctor
14 Connor Garden-Bachop
15 Tjay Clarke

16 Josh Southall
17 Xavier Numia
18 Josiah Tavita-Metcalfe
19 Teofilo Paulo
20 Peter Lakai
21 Kemara Hauiti-Parapara
22 Aidan Morgan
23 Losilosivale Filipo

[Duluth]

SBS Bank Southland Stags named to take on Wellington for the Ranfurly Shield

SBS Bank Southland Stags vs Wellington Saturday August 19th 2:05pm Hutt Rec, Lower Hutt Ranfurly Shield Challenge...

1 Joe Walsh
2 Jack Taylor
3 Morgan Mitchell
4 Shneil Singh
5 Josh Bekhuis (c)
6 Blair Ryall
7 Leroy Ferguson
8 Dylan Nel (vc)
9 Jay Renton
10 Greg Dyer
11 Gabriel Hamer-Webb
12 Matt Whaanga
13 Noah Foster
14 Viliami Fine
15 Rory van Vugt

16 Ben Strang
17 Jonah Aoina
18 Quinn Harrison-Jones
19 Grayson Knapp
20 Semisi Tupou-Ta'eiloa
21 Kaisei Tamura
22 Dan Hollinshead*
23 Tevita Latu

[Bovidae]

The new Ranfurly Shield too.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/provincial/132760483/a-new-log-o-wood-ranfurly-shield-undergoes-major-restoration-as-old-version-is-retired

[Canes4life]

@Duluth they've got Dominic Ropeti starting over Brad Shields on the Wellington Lions socials so this may be a mis-print.

[frugby]

Resting for a Shield game... cheeky fiver on the Stags?

[Duluth]

@Canes4life

This was from the NPC site.. it’s more likely to be wrong than Wellington. Or it was an earlier version of the team

I've corrected the original post

[foobaNZ]

Wellington have no choice really but to mix it up a bit, given we'll need to be at our best against Ta$man on Wednesday.

There should be more than enough there to do the job, and the bench has enough in reserve if it's needed.

Should be a good one, will be heading along.

[BerhamporeNinja]

thats tough! 2 shield challenges in a week, still a strong team i guess, Dom Ropeti did well when he came on, great season for the mighty O and also good to see big Teofilo Paulo! had a good season for HOBM a recall to the Manu?

[frugby]

@foobaNZ Only stirring, hard to see Southland even mounting a challenge.

[foobaNZ]

@frugby they'll be up for it. They have some big scalps in recent years in Shield history. I don't think it's a given but the Lions would still be heavy favourites.

[SouthernMann]

Just drove past Hutt Rec. It'll be muddy.

[Duluth]

[Mattasaurus]

Go the Stags.

Just giving away meters too easily - and Lions to good a team to be giving that too.

Scrum looking good and Jack Taylor playing well.

[Winger]

Wellington scrum is rubbish. Time to bring on Numia

22-7 Wellington

[Winger]

29-7

[Winger]

Weird try to CGB. 34-7

[Winger]

33-12. 8 to go

[Winger]

Morgans hopeless.

[Winger]

Try to finish 39_17

[Mattasaurus]

Game went much as predicted...... Stags just toothless on attack and too passive on D.....

Well done Lions.