Chiefs v Highlanders
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Highlanders name team for Chiefs clash
The Highlanders have named their side for their opening Super Rugby Pacific game against the Chiefs in Queenstown on Saturday. Loose forward...
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Sam Gilbert, Mosese Dawai, Fetuli Paea, Scott Gregory, Josh Timu, Mitch Hunt, Aaron Smith, Gareth Evans, James Lentjes, Shannon Frizell, Josh Dickson, Manaaki Selby-Rickit, Jermaine Ainsley, Liam Coltman, Ethan de Groot
Reserves: Andrew Makalio, Daniel Lienert-Brown, Josh Hohneck, Bryn Evans, Marino Mikaele-Tu’u, Folau Fakatava, Marty Banks. Thomas Umaga-Jensen
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Ive been wondering the same thing, after a bit of a break out season last year i would have thought a bit more press
Timu is the only one im a little worried about, when ive seen him for otago it has mainly been midfield so now worried we're a bit light on left wingers
Other than that pretty much full strength, glad Paea seems to have shaken off the arm injury
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@kiwiwomble Both Fijians are normally left wingers. Dawai played in the no.11 jersey for Waikato last season.
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@bovidae ....ok, maybe we're light on wingers in general then if we're having to swing left wingers to the right and play a midfielder (i know they list him as an outside) on the left. I do wish we'd picked up Freedom, at best he's a clinical finisher and at worst he has some things to work on positionally but was looking solid
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@crucial said in Chiefs v Highlanders:
Strong team on paper.
Could even look stronger than the Chiefs depending on how ABs are reintroduced.Where's Connor G-B at? Just no room in the 23 or is he still not ready for play?
Connor G-B has been out for a while with a broken wrist. Expected back soon.
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@canes4life yeah, he did it in April last year, seems like a long recovery
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@duluth said in Chiefs v Highlanders:
@bovidae said in Chiefs v Highlanders:
Both Fijians are normally left wingers. Dawai played in the no.11 jersey for Waikato last season.
It'll be interesting to see if Dawai has tightened up his defence. He missed a lot of tackles in the NPC
Yeah, still very raw but has the potential to be a weapon. I'm happy if he misses a few more tackles on Sat.
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@kiwiwomble must have been quite a break for that stint on the sideline.
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1 Ollie Norris
2 Bradley Slater
3 Sione Mafileo
4 Laghlan McWhannell**
5 Brodie Retallick
6 Luke Jacobson
7 Sam Cane (cc)
8 Pita Gus Sowakula
9 Xavier Roe
10 Josh Ioane*
11 Jonah Lowe
12 Quinn Tupaea
13 Alex Nankivell
14 Shaun Stevenson
15 Emoni Narawa*16 Samisoni Taukei’aho (50th Match)
17 Atu Moli
18 Angus Ta’avao
19 Naitoa Ah Kuoi
20 Kaylum Boshier
21 Brad Weber (cc)
22 Bryn Gatland
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@duluth interesting to have the co-captain on the bench...or maybe they are planning on subbing Cane earlyish, knowing they can bring Webber on?
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@taniwharugby looks like maybe their hand is forced around return to play protocols. Healthy bench though.
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@taniwharugby said in Chiefs v Highlanders:
@duluth interesting to have the co-captain on the bench...or maybe they are planning on subbing Cane earlyish, knowing they can bring Webber on?
We're going to have similar situations this year, Fakatava is going to be starting games and at very least going to coming on for smith, worked ok when smith was a CC but will be interesting who takes charge when hes off
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@duluth said in Chiefs v Highlanders:
That’s an annoyingly shit graphics layout!
As an aside, are we going to put a sweepstake on how many ABs exceed their limit this weekend?
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@arhs said in Chiefs v Highlanders:
@taniwharugby looks like maybe their hand is forced around return to play protocols. Healthy bench though.
Yeah, good idea to be able to interchange the experience and captaincy.
There are some ABs still missing though which slows down their participation in future matches if they still have to be introduced slowly.
Compared to the Landers that is a team that will have to play like a team (if you get what I mean). That is the Chiefs current style though so may work out OK
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