Waikato v BOP
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15 Joshua Moorby
14 Newton Tudreu
13 Bailyn Sullivan
12 Quinn Tupaea
11 Gideon Wrampling
10 D'Angelo Leuila
9 Xavier Roe1 Ollie Norris
2 Manaaki Boyle-Tiatia
3 George Dyer
4 James Tucker
5 Laghlan McWhannell
6 Malachi Wrampling-Alec
7 Oli Mathis
8 Patrick McCurran16 Pita Anae Ah-Sue
17 Ayden Johnstone
18 Solomone Tukuafu
19 Tai Cribb
20 Andrew Smith
21 Quintony Ngatai
22 Taha Kemara
23 Austin Anderson -
If that's the team there must be a lot of injuries/unavailabilities.
Tudreu isn't even in the Harlequins squad. No LCF, Sinkinson or Cook-Savage. I was expecting Mathis to be playing for the U19s against Counties. He has leap-frogged some older no.7s, and Filipo could have played McCurran at 7 and Saifoloi at no.8.
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Media release. It would be nice to list who is unavailable for selection.
Waikato named for season opener against Bay of Plenty Steamers.
Waikato have announced their first side of 2024 as they get set to face Bay of Plenty Steamers in game one of the...
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Ah no stress.
Good to see both Wramplings back on the field.
Also nice to see plenty of young talent in there. Waikato have had a habit of fielding quite a few journeymen in years gone by - maybe it's just the injuries but whatever the cause, there are some great prospects in there.
Also interesting to see Oli Mathis get the start ahead of Andrew Smith. Likely two NZ U20 7s in a row.
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@Mr-Fish said in Waikato v BOP:
Also nice to see plenty of young talent in there. Waikato have had a habit of fielding quite a few journeymen in years gone by - maybe it's just the injuries but whatever the cause, there are some great prospects in there.
Last year Filipo played a lot of young players, many of whom were U20. They are in the squad/wider squad this year. These younger players need to be physically ready to play NPC. Refer to Neil Barnes' comments about Fiti Sa.
Also interesting to see Oli Mathis get the start ahead of Andrew Smith. Likely two NZ U20 7s in a row.
Smith isn't a 7 so that was never a selection decision. He will be covering lock/6, and Cribb lock/6/8.
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@Bovidae said in Waikato v BOP:
@Mr-Fish said in Waikato v BOP:
Also nice to see plenty of young talent in there. Waikato have had a habit of fielding quite a few journeymen in years gone by - maybe it's just the injuries but whatever the cause, there are some great prospects in there.
Last year Filipo played a lot of young players, many of whom were U20. They are in the squad/wider squad this year. These younger players need to be physically ready to play NPC. Refer to Neil Barnes' comments about Fiti Sa.
Also interesting to see Oli Mathis get the start ahead of Andrew Smith. Likely two NZ U20 7s in a row.
Smith isn't a 7 so that was never a selection decision. He will be covering lock/6, and Cribb lock/6/8.
Fair, I've forgotten a lot of last year. Don't recall the original squad having too many youngsters (could be completely wrong) but the nature of the competition now is that teams regularly dip into the player pool outside the original squad (as is already the case this week).
Shows how much I know re Smith!
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BOP 29 - 7 Wai at 60 mins if anyone is interested.
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McWhannell scores 29-14 to the Bay at 62 mins.
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in Waikato v BOP:
BOP 29 - 7 Wai at 60 mins if anyone is interested.
Very interested and also hopeful
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Bay in again 36 - 14
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