Preseason - Canon Eagles v Blues

[Tim]

Reserve bench is a bit odd. A few injuries among locks and loose forwards?

[Duluth]

DARRY TO LEAD IN JAPAN| CLARKE RETURNS TO WING — Blues Rugby

Promising lock Sam Darry will captain the Blues for the first time this weekend as the team prepare for their second pre-season match in Japan against the Yokohama Canon Eagles at Nippatsu Mitsuzawa Stadium in Tokyo on Saturday February 10 at 4:10pm (NZT). Blues Head Coach, Vern Cotter, also confir

[Tim]

Blues Head Coach, Vern Cotter, also confirmed Dalton Papali’i will stand in as Captain on a more permanent basis until regular Skipper, Patrick Tuipulotu, recovers from his injured jaw.

[Duluth]

@Tim said in Preseason - Cannon Eagles v Blues:

Reserve bench is a bit odd. A few injuries among locks and loose forwards?

Haven't seen Rush yet. Maybe he's injured?

[Daffy Jaffy]

@Duluth No Akira or Plummer yet either.

YOKOHAMA CANON EAGLES
STARTING LINEUP

1 Takato Okabe
2 Yusuke Niwai
3 Ryosuke Iwaihara
4 Max Douglas
5 Matthew Philip
6 Kobus van Dyk
7 Naoto Shimada
8 Sione Halasili
9 Kouki Arai
10 Yu Tamura
11 Viliame Takayawa
12 Yusuke Kajimura （C）
13 Ryo Tabata
14 Inoke Burua
15 Junpei Ogura

Replacements

16 Shunta Nakamura
17 Changho Ahn
18 Tatsuro Sugimoto
19 Liakimatagi Moli
20 Sioeli Vakalahi
21 Kazufumi Yamasuga
22 Luteru Laulala
23 Masayoshi Takezawa
24 Katsuto Kubo
25 Sosefo Fakatava
26 Lekima Nasamila
27 Matsui Chihito
28 Ryu Fukuhara

Faf and Kriel are both injured apparently.

[KiwiMurph]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350172721/caleb-clarke-ready-kickstart-super-rugby-season-against-eagles-yokohama

Darry, senior lock until Tuipulotu returns, was rapt to get the callup for his first captaincy assignment since his first XV days in Christchurch.

“We had a wider leadership group meeting Sunday night, and it was kind of dropped on me then,” he said from Japan. “I had to do a bit of a double-take. But I see it as a leadership by committee, with guys like Ricky Riccitelli, Anton Segner, Stevie [Perofeta] and Caleb [Clarke] all working together to lead the boys on Saturday.”

First-year head coach Vern Cotter said it had been an easy call to up the responsibility for his young lock. “Sam’s a logical choice because he’s well organised, he’s professional, he speaks well in front of the group and it is a natural fit with him.”

And Cotter was looking for more of the same after an impressive first-up hitout in the 43-7 victory over the Sungoliath.

“A lot of good things happened because we did things well that we’d trained and there were things we were exposed in that we need to work on,” he said. “We’ve looked at some things we want to change this weekend, and to tighten up a few things where we felt we were a bit loose. Canon will be bigger, and more physical, which will be good.”

[Bovidae]

Great conditions to be training in (see video).

Stuff

[Duluth]

[cgrant]

Blues by a thousand.

[African Monkey]

@Daffy-Jaffy Liaki Moli, now there's a name from the past!

[Duluth]

That pass from Zarn was never on

[Duluth]

Great work Sotutu

[Duluth]

Nice hands. Clarke scores the first try

[Duluth]

Sullivan’s boot is so useful at fullback

[Nepia]

My mate just let me know I can watch these matches in Oz on NZR+.

[Duluth]

Perofeta picks up a gift try. Cannon sloppy inside their 22

14-0

Cannon have been more of a test than Suntory. Good line speed

[bayimports]

@Nepia said in Preseason - Cannon Eagles v Blues:

My mate just let me know I can watch these matches in Oz on NZR+.

Most places seem ok this week, last week used USA on vpn, this week no vpn required for India

[Nepia]

@bayimports said in Preseason - Cannon Eagles v Blues:

@Nepia said in Preseason - Cannon Eagles v Blues:

My mate just let me know I can watch these matches in Oz on NZR+.

Most places seem ok this week, last week used USA on vpn, this week no vpn required for India

No VPN needed in Oz.

[Duluth]

Evans with a try after a long build up. Perofeta with the inside ball

[Duluth]

Sullivan untidy at first receiver again