North Harbour v Hawkes Bay

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15 Shaun Stevenson
14 Kade Banks
13 Tom Barham
12 James Little
11 Sofai Maka
10 Tane Edmed
9 Bryn Hall

1 Tevita Langi
2 Shilo Klein
3 Sione Mafileo
4 Felix Kalapu
5 Cameron Christie
6 Cameron Suafoa
7 Karl Ruzich
8 Lotu Inisi

16 Bryn Gordon
17 Karl Tu'inukuafe
18 Tevita Mafileo
19 Samuel Slade
20 Jed Melvin
21 Aisea Halo
22 Oscar Koller
23 Fine Inisi

[Duluth]

I just noticed Samuel Slade

He wasn't named in the NH squad initially. His 4th NPC side

[Duluth]

Lotu Inisi is out, Suafoa to 8 and Tristyn Cook at 6

[Duluth]

Harbour with plenty of ball early

Banks scores after NH shift the ball quickly from a tap kick. Nice pass from Suafoa

[Duluth]

Banks has started well. He just stepped Protheroe easily

[Grooter]

This Habour 10 looks promising

[Duluth]

Tristyn Cook has gone well on debut

[Duluth]

Haha Maka embarrassed Godfrey with that try

20-7 Harbour after 46min

[Grooter]

Kade banks brilliant

[Duluth]

Great high catch Banks!

25-12 after 57mins

[Grooter]

Shaun Stevenson great try

[Duluth]

Harbour have scored 3 of the best tries this weekend

[Duluth]

Alternating tries now. Lead down to 1

The most entertaining game of the weekend.

[Duluth]

Fun game. It looked like NH was about to run away with it but they faded at the end. Not as much depth?

HB win 41-32

[Nepia]

Well, surprised we won that. Harbour were on fire in the early stages and always looked like they'd score if they held on to the ball with Stevenson and Banks making our outsides look pedestrian.

Definitely need McClutchie to start at 10 if we want success this season. The Canes can give Godfrey experience in their development team at 10 of they want him there.

That Welsh dude had a couple of good runs but has hands like Brad Shields and defence like Aaron Mauger.

We're going to have to rely on our pack a lot this year.

[Winger]

@Nepia said in North Harbour v Hawkes Bay:

Well, surprised we won that. Harbour were on fire in the early stages and always looked like they'd score if they held on to the ball with Stevenson and Banks making our outsides look pedestrian.

Definitely need McClutchie to start at 10 if we want success this season. The Canes can give Godfrey experience in their development team at 10 of they want him there.

That Welsh dude had a couple of good runs but has hands like Brad Shields and defence like Aaron Mauger.

We're going to have to rely on our pack a lot this year.

Godfrey was OK but needs to improve big time to eb considering a starting 1st for the Canes

Shame

[Duluth]