QF - Hurricanes vs Rebels
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A few question marks hang on the likes of Shields, Delany, Lomax and now Perenara and Love for next week but if all players are available I think the 23 picks itself.
- Numia
- Aumua
- Lomax
- Delany
- Walker-Leawere
- Shields (c)
- Lakai
- Iose
- Perenara
- Cameron
- Naholo
- Barrett
- Proctor
- Moorby
- Love
- O’Reilly
- Rakete-Stones
- Tosi
- Sangster
- Flanders
- Kirifi
- Judd
- Sullivan
Harsh to drop Rayasi and Vijoen after Saturday but I think we’ll go with a 6-2 split on the bench for the playoffs and Judd probably gets the nod because of experience. Sullivan gets the other bench spot because he covers more positions than Rayasi.
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@Canes4life said in QF - Hurricanes vs Rebels:
Harsh to drop Rayasi and Vijoen after Saturday but I think we’ll go with
Rayasi has hit form. Moorby has just made up the number recently. I would start Rayasi and see if he can continue his great form.
Vijoen offers a lot more than Judd.
I hope the selectors have the courage to start one and have the other in the reserves. Vijoen is also looking at the future. And to see if Rayasi has in fact turned a corner.
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@Winger Moorby’s been our right winger all year and has performed bloody well, lol you don’t make changes now we are in the playoffs.
Rayasi will take Naholo’s spot if anything but I can’t see it. They’ll stick with the tried and tested that have performed in the big games this year.
Rayasi looks good against weaker teams but when the pressure goes on he’s one of the stupidest players in the comp. You can’t have a player like that in the finals.
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Dropping Moorby would be madness. He's the exact type of wing you want in playoff footy.
I could see Rayasi getting picked over Naholo however, as you could argue on form he deserves the start.
Like Canes4life said though he's often error prone against the top sides.
I would have Viljeon over Judd, experience be damned. Judd is too pedestrian.
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@foobaNZ said in QF - Hurricanes vs Rebels:
Dropping Moorby would be madness. He's the exact type of wing you want in playoff footy.
I could see Rayasi getting picked over Naholo however, as you could argue on form he deserves the start.
Like Canes4life said though he's often error prone against the top sides.
I would have Viljeon over Judd, experience be damned. Judd is too pedestrian.
Lol pedestrian is what moorby has been second half of the session, especially compared to how he started
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@Machpants said in QF - Hurricanes vs Rebels:
@foobaNZ said in QF - Hurricanes vs Rebels:
Dropping Moorby would be madness. He's the exact type of wing you want in playoff footy.
I could see Rayasi getting picked over Naholo however, as you could argue on form he deserves the start.
Like Canes4life said though he's often error prone against the top sides.
I would have Viljeon over Judd, experience be damned. Judd is too pedestrian.
Lol pedestrian is what moorby has been second half of the session, especially compared to how he started
I disagree, Moorby has been solid. You don’t want two power wingers because it gets too unstructured. I think you guys are getting a little carried away with Rayasi. He’s looked good because he’s pretty much played against weaker defences this year.
Would be moronic to drop Moorby now, he’s performed when it’s mattered this season so I back him to go well in the playoffs. He's earnt the right.
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@Machpants said in QF - Hurricanes vs Rebels:
@foobaNZ said in QF - Hurricanes vs Rebels:
Dropping Moorby would be madness. He's the exact type of wing you want in playoff footy.
I could see Rayasi getting picked over Naholo however, as you could argue on form he deserves the start.
Like Canes4life said though he's often error prone against the top sides.
I would have Viljeon over Judd, experience be damned. Judd is too pedestrian.
Lol pedestrian is what moorby has been second half of the session, especially compared to how he started
Lol he leads the competition in clean breaks. He's pedestrian aye
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@Machpants that's not what I've been seeing
Plenty of breaks, good kick chase, often first to clear rucks on a break too if he doesn't receive the pass.
There is more to wing play than the fancy highlights reel stuff.
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@foobaNZ said in QF - Hurricanes vs Rebels:
@Machpants that's not what I've been seeing
Plenty of breaks, good kick chase, often first to clear rucks on a break too if he doesn't receive the pass.
There is more to wing play than the fancy highlights reel stuff.
100%, Moorby is the type of winger you want in finals. The flashy shit doesn't win you championships. Rayasi can get more opportunity next year when Moorby is gone.
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@Canes4life said in QF - Hurricanes vs Rebels:
@foobaNZ said in QF - Hurricanes vs Rebels:
@Machpants that's not what I've been seeing
Plenty of breaks, good kick chase, often first to clear rucks on a break too if he doesn't receive the pass.
There is more to wing play than the fancy highlights reel stuff.
100%, Moorby is the type of winger you want in finals. The flashy shit doesn't win you championships. Rayasi can get more opportunity next year when Moorby is gone.
Moorby started off brilliantly. AB quality, Recent games he's like a different player. In a bad way.
Whereas Rayasi's been the opposite. Maybe Moorby will come right. I hope so if he starts, To find his spark again. As we need players who are firing not just going through the motions
Hopefully the coaches can see what's going on at training and make a decision based on this.And it works out on the field this WE. Maybe his mind is already elsewhere.
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@Winger what did he do wrong against the Chiefs? You also can't look into Saturday's game against the Landers too much, watching the replay didn't do the wind justice, it was blowing an absolute gale at the Tin.
You guys are making him sound like he's been one of the worst wingers in NZ recently, he's actually the opposite to that if you look at the stats. Yes, he probably hasn't been as good as he was in the first half of the season but he hasn't been bad. Teams are obviously putting more numbers on Moorby now because of the danger he posed at the beginning of the year. The advantage of that is it opens up more space for our other wing e.g. Rayasi who was able to work his magic in a free flowing game. It won't be like that in the playoffs.
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@Machpants said in QF - Hurricanes vs Rebels:
We're not saying he's the worst we're saying he's been overtaken.
You guys obviously haven't learnt from previous years, the flashy stuff doesn't win titles.
Moorby hasn't been overtaken because Rayasi doesn't do the important shit off the ball.
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@Machpants Canes will rip their system apart once we get Lomax back. Their scrum won't hold up against ours IMO if we get Numia, Aumua and Lomax back firing together. If the Canes get parity up front against anyone it's almost curtains because of the way our loosies play and how deadly our backs are. Add home advantage to that and it's going to be bloody tough for anyone to come to Wellington and win. Cudos if they do.
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@foobaNZ said in Hurricanes v Highlanders:
Wonder what sort of crowd we'll get. Would be nice to hit at least 20K plus for a QF and if we get through hopefully sell outs from there.
I think we'll get 20k plus for the Rebels, close to 30k would be amazing. I've already got my tickets.
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From the post below, it looks like Shields and Lomax are back to work, will be good for them to both get half a game against the Rebels.
