Wellington 2025
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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.
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I rip on the guy but decent effort from JGB. Surprising how low the highest capped players are, but i guess players too often head overseas before they rack up 10+ seasons of NPC
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@DurryMexted said in Wellington 2025:
I rip on the guy but decent effort from JGB. Surprising how low the highest capped players are, but i guess players too often head overseas before they rack up 10+ seasons of NPC
Mad respect has to go to Jackson, he will always be a part of two championship winning sides, a long with a Ranfurly Shield win and defence. Tragic circumstances brought him home and he is still an integral player in this side, despite most of us wanting to see Harkin get a crack in the 10 jersey. He performed well on Saturday against Waikato so hopefully he can keep that form up as the season unfolds.
With a number of Wellington players making the step up to international duties recently, experience is vital at this level and Jackson has that in spades.
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@Darren said in Wellington 2025:
Just looking at the team named this week, crazy how much better lasts years team was.
With people leaving/injuries/AB'sWhen you note the talent that isn't there compared to last year we've lost a bit of firepower.
- Du Plessis Kirifi (All Blacks)
- Peter Lakai (All Blacks)
- Kyle Preston (All Blacks)
- Billy Proctor and Ruben Love were also available for a few games but are now more involved with the All Blacks
- Peter Umaga-Jensen (Japan)
- Riley Higgins (Injury)
- Pepesani Patafilo (Japan)
Positive is that we have Aumua and O'Reilly back available.
Hopefully if we make the top 8 this year we should get a few players back for the quarter and potentially semi final.
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@Canes4life said in Wellington 2025:
@Darren said in Wellington 2025:
- Riley Higgins (Injury)
Riley Higgins is never injured. Riley Higgins chooses not to be utterly dominant for a while.
