Wellington v North Harbour
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Wellington Lions
1 Xavier Numia
2 James O’Reilly
3 Alex Fidow
4 James Blackwell
5 Naitoa Ah Kuoi
6 Vaea Fifita
7 Du’Plessis Kirifi [C]
8 Teariki Ben-Nicholas
9 Kemara Hauiti-Parapara
10 Jackson Garden-Bachop
11 Julian Savea
12 Vince Aso
13 Peter Umaga-Jensen
14 Wes Goosen
15 Billy Proctor16 Tyrone Thompson
17 Morgan Poi
18 Ben Aumua-Peseta
19 Caleb Delany
20 Mateaki Kafatolu
21 Connor Collins
22 Aidan Morgan
23 Ruben Love -
Important game for Harbour.
The top six are all playing each other this weekend (Auckland v Tasman, Canterbury v Waikato). A Harbour loss starts to open up a gap between 5th & 6th
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@Duluth By that same reasoning, it's an important game for Wellington; they'd want that gap to stay away from the bottom and to keep in touch with the top four for a semi-final spot.
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Bloody good looking for an NPC side. Even better if Proctor plays better than an average club rugby player...
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1 Nic Mayhew, 2 Luteru Tolai, 3 Sione Mafileo, 4 Gerard Cowley-Tuioti, 5 Jacob Pierce, 6 Ethan Roots (cc), 7 Dillon Hunt, 8 Murphy Taramai, 9 Bryn Hall, 10 Bryn Gatland (cc), 11 Tomas Aoake, 12 Asaeli Tikoirotuma, 13 James Little, 14 Jared Page, 15 Shaun Stevenson
Reserves: 16 Zane Turner, 17 Teague McElroy, 18 Jimmy Roots, 19 Xavier Cowley-Tuioti, 20 Tim Sail, 21 Lewis Gjaltema, 22 Jack Heighton, 23 Fine Inisi
Tikoirotuma replaces Mikaele-Tu'u
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I bet @Stargazer will know
I thought he was playing ok. If fit and available he should be in the 23
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@Duluth said in Wellington v North Harbour:
I thought he was playing ok. If fit and available he should be in the 23
Yeah definitely. Defence looked better with him there.
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@Duluth I have no idea, I don't know who he was replacing. Why wouldn't he still be there?
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@Bones Eastbourne are playing the Axemen in the cutainraiser at The Caketin. It is a quarter final match in the National 80/80s (AKA Under 85kgs ) Championship. Kick off at 11.30am from what I got told (or was that 11.05am?). It is being televised live on one of the Sky Channels in case you can't make it to the ground. Will be taking my boots along (I am under 85kg!) just in case
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@Higgins yeah saw that! Awesome eh, Welly teams dominating nationally. Unfortunately I might be delayed making it to the ground and not sure I'll be able to find a sky channel feed. I'm UK based in case ya missed that one...
Up the seagulls!
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I can see Wellington taking this game but by less then 6, Harbour always seem to get really close to us when we play at the home.
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@mikey07 really depends what kind of Wellington side turns up. They could win this game comfortably or lose it comfortably. It's been a roller coaster ride so far this year.
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@Bones A pretty close battle with a couple of intercept tries (one to each team). Your mob getting theirs with about ten minutes to go proving to be the difference. They won 22 - 15.
It is not really a Wellington domination of the grade as there are only Wgtn, Waikato, and Auckland (possibly Nth Harbour) that really have organised unde3r 85Kgs Competitions. The Axemen only finished 6th in the Wgtn one after they lost a couple of crucial games by conceding late points whereas Eastbourne eventually finished runners up in the Competition to Upper Hutt
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Ruben Love has come into the starting side for PUJ. Proctor moves to 13.
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@Higgins yeah stoked! Thanks for the update.
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@Canes4life Who has taken Love's place on the bench?
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Interesting PUJ might be on the bench for the ABS
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@Stargazer Renata? Not too sure.
Early signs look like North Harbour are the dominant side. Hope i'm wrong.
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Wellington scrum already being shown up with that demolishing.
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only 12 mins in but the Welly hooker getting through some work.
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@Higgins I wonder why Fidow got benched last minute?
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What a dumb kick.
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@Canes4life said in Wellington v North Harbour:
@Stargazer Renata? Not too sure.
Early signs look like North Harbour are the dominant side. Hope i'm wrong.
Apparently, it's Pepesana Patafilo who has moved onto the bench.
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@Stargazer he should be starting instead of Savea.
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Number 18 has been a huge weakness for us so far.
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Thompson on, early.
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@Nepia said in Wellington v North Harbour:
What a dumb kick.
An astonishing lack of rugby intellect.
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It starts up front and Wellington just don't look upto it.
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I think the two 85s team that played before this game could beat Wellington our support play is non existence, you get taught at a young age to not go by yourself.
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Ethan Roots has been very impressive so far
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@mikey07 Wellington are shit. They look lazy and poorly coached. The only guy putting in the effort is Kirifi.
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@Canes4life include Wes Goosen who’s made like 6 tackles and I agree
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Bombed!
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@Tim that took a while to get a try 😂
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Julian Savea is a waste of space. Man I hope he doesn't get a Super contract. He's not upto it anymore.
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@Canes4life I agree but because he’s from Wellington and his Past reputation I fear he will.
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Ruben Love is wasting a lot of energy with some of his runs. Headless chicken stuff, or maybe I should say spring chicken stuff.
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@mikey07 yeah it's a worry. Jeez get 18 off, he's costing us this game.
