Crusaders vs Hurricanes
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First Super Rugby match thread of the year and both teams will likely go into this one with a few of their big guns missing.
Notable names that I’ve heard of include Lomax, Aumua, Love, Taylor and Bell with a few non All Blacks also missing.
Likely starting XVs at this stage are:
Crusaders:
- Williams
- Moananu (Taylor and Bell out)
- Newell
- Barrett
- Shalfoon (Strange and Hannah out)
- Grace
- Blackadder
- Kellow
- Hotham
- Kemara/O’Connor (Reihana out)
- Reece
- Havili (c)
- Aumua (Ennor and McLeod likely out)
- Fihaki
- Jordan
Hurricanes
- Numia
- Devery/Tuputupu (Aumua likely out)
- Tosi (Lomax likely out)
- Delany (Gallagher likely out)
- Walker-Leawere
- Shields (Flanders likely out)
- Lakai
- Iose
- Roigard
- Hohepa - Godfrey (has done enough in the pre season to get the gig over Hohepa). Hohepa might start at 10 with Godfrey able to cover 15.
- Naholo
- Higgins
- Proctor
- Banks
- Godfrey (Love out)
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@Canes4life said in Crusaders vs Hurricanes:
First Super Rugby match thread of the year and both teams will likely go into this one with a few of their big guns missing.
Notable names that I’ve heard of include Lomax, Aumua, Love, Taylor and Bell with a few non All Blacks also missing.
Likely starting XVs at this stage are:
Crusaders:
- Williams
- Moananu (Taylor and Bell out)
- Newell
- Barrett
- Shalfoon (Strange and Hannah out)
- Grace
- Blackadder
- Kellow
- Hotham
- Kemara
- Reece
- Havili (c)
- Aumua (Ennor and McLeod likely out)
- Fihaki
- Jordan
Hurricanes
- Numia
- Devery/Tuputupu (Aumua likely out)
- Tosi (Lomax likely out)
- Delany (Gallagher likely out)
- Walker-Leawere
- Shields (Flanders likely out)
- Lakai
- Iose
- Roigard
- Godfrey (has done enough in the pre season to get the gig over Hohepa). Hohepa might start at 10 with Godfrey able to cover 15.
- Naholo
- Higgins
- Proctor
- Sullivan
- Banks (Love out)
Pretty close to the crusaders starting xv with the injuries
Lilo-Willie will start at 8 and Kellow to the bench will probably be the only changeBower,
Cahill,
Kellow
Preston
O'Connor
Springer
will likely be the bench with a prop and Hooker from outside the squad filling in. -
Oh yup forgot about Lio-Willie. I don’t rate Grace, I think you’d be better moving Blackadder to 6, start Kellow at 7 and Lio-Willie at 8. Grace could then cover lock/loose forward from the bench.
Canes likely bench:
- Devery/Tuputupu
- Rakete-Stones
- Mafileo
- Plummer/Allen/Taula
- Kirifi
- Vijoen
- Harkin
- Umaga-Jensen
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I'm changing the likely team for this week with the unfortunate news of Devan Flanders breaking his leg. I feel like this could be a bit of a cripple fight to start the season, it could go either way IMO.
Hurricanes
Starters:
Numia
Devery
Tosi
Delany
Walker-Leawere
Shields
Lakai
Iose
Roigard
Hohepa
Naholo
Higgins
Proctor
Banks
GodfreyImpact:
Tuputupu
Rakete-Stones
Mafileo
Gallagher??
Kirifi
Vijoen
Harkin
Umaga-JensenUpdated list of players unavailable:
- Ruben Love (5-6 weeks)
- Asafo Aumua (2 weeks)
- Tyrel Lomax (5 weeks)
- Devan Flanders (season)
- Brett Cameron (season)
- Lucas Cashmore (10 weeks)
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@Canes4life said in Crusaders vs Hurricanes:
Devan Flanders (season)
Is it confirmed he is out for the season? The article yesterday mentioned it was tbc how long he was out for.
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@KiwiMurph said in Crusaders vs Hurricanes:
@Canes4life said in Crusaders vs Hurricanes:
Devan Flanders (season)
Is it confirmed he is out for the season? The article yesterday mentioned it was tbc how long he was out for.
TBC on timeframe still but his leg is apparently broken so that's at least 3-6 months out of the game and could be longer by the sounds of it as it was described as nasty which isn't a good sign. Feel for Devan, I feel like this was his year to make a stamp on that 6 jersey and push for international honours.
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Opta pdf for this match
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Crusaders
Tamaiti Williams, Ioane Moananu, Fletcher Newell, Scott Barrett, Antonio Shalfoon, Cullen Grace, Ethan Blackadder, Christin Lio-Willie, Noah Hotham, Taha Kemara, Sevu Reece, David Havili, Levi Aumua, Chay Fihaki, Will Jordan
Reserves: Manumaua Letiu, George Bower, Sam Matenga, Tahlor Cahil, Corey Kellow, Kyle Preston, James O'Connor, Dallas McLeod
Hurricanes
Xavier Numia, Jacob Devery, Tevita Mafileo, Caleb Delany, Isaia Walker-Leawere, Brad Shields (co-c), Du'Plessis Kirifi, Brayden Iose, Cameron Roigard, Harry Godfrey, Kini Naholo, Peter Umaga-Jensen, Bailyn Sullivan, Fatafehi Fineanganofo, Callum Harkin
Reserves: Raymond Tuputou, Pouri Rakete-Stones, Pasilio Tosi, Hugo Plummer, Peter Lakai, Ereatara Enari, Riley Hohepa, Ngatungane Punivai
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Re the Hurricanes lineup all of Higgins, Proctor and Banks haven't made selection but aren't listed as injured. Wtf is going on?
Unavailable due to injury are:
Daniel Sinkinson
Tjay Clarke
Tyrel Lomax
Asafo Aumua
Devan Flanders
Lucas Cashmore
Brett Cameron
Ruben Love
Zach GallagherNot selected: reason unknown
Riley Higgins
Kade Banks
Jordi Vijoen
Billy Proctor -
@Canes4life wow no Higgins or Proctor…
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Referee: Nic Berry
Assistant Referees: Jackson Henshaw & Jeremy Markey
TMO: Brett Cronan
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@Landers92 said in Crusaders vs Hurricanes:
@Canes4life wow no Higgins or Proctor…
Surely has to be niggles. I guess we’ll see when the Hurricanes Hunters team is named.
If they are in there we may as well kiss the season goodbye.
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From Stuff:
Like their round one opponents, the Hurricanes have major injury concerns with centre Billy Proctor the latest high-profile withdrawal. One of four co-captains named this week, Proctor was a late scratching with what was described as a minor leg injury.
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@Bovidae said in Crusaders vs Hurricanes:
From Stuff:
Like their round one opponents, the Hurricanes have major injury concerns with centre Billy Proctor the latest high-profile withdrawal. One of four co-captains named this week, Proctor was a late scratching with what was described as a minor leg injury.
Fair enough if it’s niggles. Let’s hope that’s the case with Banks and Higgins. They are way too good not to make this team.
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@game_film said in Crusaders vs Hurricanes:
I’m thinking a comfortable win for the Saders here. Canes got too much quality out of the squad. More ABs in red and black should count for something.
And it would, if those ABs had earned their jersey....alas...
Plus, Penney.
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Both teams have decent forward packs.
But the Canes back line is very cobbled together. Could actually be pretty dangerous if they fire, but some inexperience in key positions... As long as Roigard takes control and stays on the field it is going to be very interesting.
