Sunwolves vs Hurricanes

[Machpants]

@Stargazer As well as it being his first SR game for a fair few years, he also covers 10 and 15 from the bench I guess

[Stargazer]

@Machpants He played and got injured in the Hurricanes' game against the Waratahs, but yes, very little SR in recent years.

[Daffy Jaffy]

Match Sunwolves v Hurricanes @ Prince Chichibu Stadium, Tokyo
Referee Angus Gardner
AR1 Ben O'Keeffe
AR2 Shuhei Kubo
TMO Minoru Fuji

[Daffy Jaffy]

SUNWOLVES - 10 NZ players in the starting team (counting Kiwi born Hendrik Tui).
15 Ryohei Yamanaka
14 Gerhard van den Heever
13 Josh Timu
12 Rahboni Warren-Vosayaco
11 Semisi Masirewa
10 Hayden Parker
9 Jamie Booth
8 Hendrik Tui
7 Dan Pryor
6 Ben Gunter
5 Luke Thompson
4 Mark Abbott
3 Hiroshi Yamashita
2 Nathan Vella
1 Pauliasi Manu

SUBSTITUTES
16 Atsushi Sakate
17 Masataka Mikami
18 Takuma Asahara
19 Tom Rowe
20 Shuhei Matsuhashi
21 Fumiaki Tanaka
22 Jason Emery
23 Jamie Henry

[Machpants]

@Daffy-Jaffy oh why oh why (apart from Japan refusing to pay for it) did Stupid SANZAAR drop the sunwolves, look at that team doing so much for Japanese rugby....

[Canes4life]

Hurricanes Hunters named to face Japan A in Tokyo

Notable starters:
Fidow, Cridge & Umaga Jensen back from injury.
Bedwell Curtis to captain the side and Tim
Farrell to make his long awaited return to rugby.

[Tim]

Is Little injured?

[Higgins]

@Canes4life said in Sunwolves vs Hurricanes:

Hurricanes Hunters named to face Japan A in Tokyo

Notable starters:
Fidow, Cridge & Umaga Jensen back from injury.
Bedwell Curtis to captain the side and Tim
Farrell to make his long awaited return to rugby.

Hopefully none of thje first three named do not resume using their normal place at the head of the "unavailable for selection because of injury" list at the conclusion of the fixture.

[Canes4life]

Does anyone know a streaming sight for this match? I am in Bali for a couple of weeks so it will be good to chuck it on...

[Tim]

@Canes4life Try RugbyPass.

[Canes4life]

Any free trials on that?

[Tim]

@Canes4life Don't think so.

Reddit might have some ideas.

[Canes4life]

@Tim Can you watch delayed coverage on RugbyPass? Might be worth getting if I can watch the game later on tonight.

[Tim]

@Canes4life yeah, they do replays on demand

[Canes4life]

Sweet as. Cheers @Tim

[Higgins]

Did that lineout throw look down the red side?

[Higgins]

Some nice running in the resultant try though, aided by a bit of wrongfooting of the defenders not helping.

[Stargazer]

I hope the Canes are not going to regret resting three of their ABs in addition to Coles, esp Savea.

[Higgins]

Fletcher Smith seems to make more distance vertically than horizontally with his kicks so far. Tha Hurricanes are not playing well at the moment.

[Canes4life]

These locks prove time and time again that they
are too small for this level. The Sunwolves are
making us look like school kids for christ sake.