Northland v Canterbury
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Northland
1 Esile Fono, 2 Jordan Hutchings, 3 Chris Apoua, 4 Allan Craig, 5 Liam Hallam-Eames, 6 Rob Rush, 7 Jake Heenan, 8 Terrell Peita, 9 Josh Renton, 10 Rivez Reihana, 11 Paula Balekana, 12 Reesjan Pasitoa, 13 Solomon Alaimalo, 14 Nathan Salmon, 15 Jordan Trainor
Reserves: 16 James Mullan, 17 Olly Ryan, 18 Coree Te Whata-Colley, 19 Lachlan Hooper, 20 Zac Shanks, 21 Sam Howling, 22 Reuben Stewart, 23 Brady Rush
Canterbury
1 Lewis Ponini, 2 Nick Hyde, 3 Gus Brown, 4 Tahlor Cahill, 5 Zach Gallagher, 6 Dom Gardiner, 7 Tom Christie, 8 George Reeves, 9 Riley Williams, 10 Shun Miyake, 11 Kurtis MacDonald, 12 Toby Bell, 13 Tevita Latu, 14 Manasa Mataele, 15 Andrew Knewstubb
Reserves: 16 George Bell, 17 Daniel Lienert-Brown, 18 Seb Calder, 19 Liam Jack, 20 Xavier Treacy, 21 Tyson Belworthy, 22 Jone Rova, 23 James Cameron
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Corey Evans is out injured, Lay being rested, Brady Rush to bench.
Hutchings with his 1st Start, Mullan to the bench with Moulds put due to HIA protocols I assume
The Evans injury forces the most changes, with both bench wings from last week, being promoted to start and Alaimalo moving to centre, and Reuben Stewart comes onto the bench for his 2nd time.
Howling sits on the bench for a 3rd time, hoping for his debut, while Zac Shanks suits up to hopefully get his long awaited debut.
Te Whata-Colley brings up his 50th if he gets out there too.
He and Ryan will need to be better than they were when they came on together v Ta$man where we went from a slightly dominant scrum to getting dealt to.
Gonna need to be on our game for longer than the 20 mins we put out v NH.
Been a while since we last beat Canterbury too...
Bell-Latu midfield, Bell a northlander and Latu was here last year
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@taniwharugby if we could get a few more of these players back from Auckland, Canterbury, Otago we would be well set. Be interesting to know whether we had opportunities to grab them or they have left for school etc. We haven’t promoted the young players we have in the squad whether that be because they are not quite at the level required but it’s been a consistent pattern for years.
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@kev I dont believe we had a chance with Bell, although they were looking at loaning him one year, i believe Casey we absolutely had a chance to sign, but didn't, same with Beehre, but I also think these guys would probably fall away in our dev system.
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@taniwharugby our development system seems to be they warm the bench for 2 seasons, and leave. Needs to improve.
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@cgrant said in Northland v Canterbury:
Northland should win
Said no one who's followed us closely for far, far too long
Big difference between hope and reality
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Ever since yesterday I have loved the Taniwha. Have high hopes for them for the rest of this game
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@SouthernMann said in Northland v Canterbury:
Ever since yesterday I have loved the Taniwha. Have high hopes for them for the rest of this game
We tend to struggle against Northland for whatever reason
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Poor option. Keep going in the tight or just go the droppy
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Stubby with a shank off the tee.
Ends in a draw.
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Yay...fuck...wait.
