Wellington 2025
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@DurryMexted said in Wellington 2025:
Finding this naming process rather drawn out as opposed to building any anticipation
Would be much better if they just named the team. It would be different if it was Super Rugby but I don't think the impact is the same at NPC level.
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6 more announcements.
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Will update the below list as announcements are made.
Announced so far:
Brad Shields
Ardie Savea
Julian Savea
James O’Reilly
Matt Proctor
Jackson Garden-Bachop
Asafo Aumua
Du Plessis Kirifi
Losi Filipo
Xavier Numia
Caleb Delany
Ruben Love
PJ Sheck
Peter Lakai
Riley Higgins
Siale Lauaki
Sione Halalilo
Hugo Plummer
Kyle Preston
Dominic Ropeti -
I can see they are trying to build suspense but can’t they just name a squad!?
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@Dancefloor said in Wellington 2025:
I can see they are trying to build suspense but can’t they just name a squad!?
Agreed, they are also naming the more well known players first, most of them won’t even feature due to AB commitments or because of injury so no major surprises so far.
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Management team announced:
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Head Coach/Party Starter
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Squad is building nicely with six more announcements. Looks like they are announcing players in order from when they made their debut.
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@Bones said in Wellington 2025:
Did they think they were the B&I lions and not a fucking NPC team when they bagged that amount of coaches?
Champions got to champion.
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@Canes4life said in Wellington 2025:
@Bones said in Wellington 2025:
Did they think they were the B&I lions and not a fucking NPC team when they bagged that amount of coaches?
Champions got to champion.
The bank account disagrees.
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@Bones said in Wellington 2025:
@Canes4life said in Wellington 2025:
@Bones said in Wellington 2025:
Did they think they were the B&I lions and not a fucking NPC team when they bagged that amount of coaches?
Champions got to champion.
The bank account disagrees.
Gone are the days of one head coach and one assistant.
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Official Lions Squad for 2025. Some completely unfamiliar names in this bunch. Anyone care to shed some light on how some of them have been playing at club level?
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@Kiwidom said in Wellington 2025:
Am surprised loose forward Jeremiah Avei Collins missed out, as he looks a real talent . Also a couple of Japanese imports there as well
No Harry Press and no Senio Sanele as well. Fairly surprised they missed out.
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Not sure the extent of the injuries to Aumua, Higgins and Lakai but our starting 23 for round 1 would be fairly close to the below I would have thought. Have included Love and Proctor from the ABs, but haven't included Kirifi and Savea as they were involved in all three tests.
- Numia
- O'Reilly
- Lauaki
- Delany
- Plummer
- Shields
- Halalilo
- Ropeti
- Preston
- Love
- Filipo
- Savea
- B Proctor
- Clarke
- Harkin
- Poasa
- Yamamoto
- Sheck
- Ieremia
- Irving
- Muriwai
- Garden-Bachop
- M Proctor
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@Canes4life Yep that would be the likely line up in my eyes. After watching him for the U20s, it would be good to see Solomon get a good crack in the starting line up this season. Not particularly excited about Savea at 12 but hes probably the only option until Higgins returns, though i am sure Billy P could slot in there well enough.
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@DurryMexted said in Wellington 2025:
@Canes4life Yep that would be the likely line up in my eyes. After watching him for the U20s, it would be good to see Solomon get a good crack in the starting line up this season. Not particularly excited about Savea at 12 but hes probably the only option until Higgins returns, though i am sure Billy P could slot in there well enough.
I think when the ABs drop back out, Solomon will be a real chance at starting. Wouldn't mind him getting a good run in the 15 jersey.
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Big fan of Solomon. Want to see him starting every week.
