Waikato v Northland

[Duluth]

Waikato

1 Mason Tupaea, 2 Manaaki Boyle-Tiatia, 3 George Dyer, 4 Hamilton Burr, 5 James Tucker, 6 Malachi Wrampling-Alec, 7 Liam Anderson, 8 Senita Lauaki, 9 Xavier Roe, 10 Lima Sopoaga, 11 Dan Sinkinson, 12 Gideon Wrampling, 13 Bailyn Sullivan, 14 Oli Mathis, 15 Tepaea Cook-Savage

Reserves: 16 Sean Ralph, 17 Will Martin, 18 Sefo Kautai, 19 Dylan Eti, 20 Andrew Smith, 21 Charlie Marsh, 22 Aaron Cruden, 23 Aki Tuivailala

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Northland

1 Jordan Lay, 2 Matt Moulds, 3 Chris Apoua, 4 Allan Craig, 5 Lachlan Hooper, 6 Rob Rush, 7 Jake Heenan, 8 Terrell Peita, 9 Josh Renton, 10 Rivez Reihana, 11 Brady Rush, 12 Reesjan Pasitoa, 13 Corey Evans, 14 Solomon Alaimalo, 15 Jordan Trainor

Reserves: 16 Jordan Hutchings, 17 Esile Fono, 18 Coree Te Whata-Colley, 19 Sam Caird, 20 Zac Shanks, 21 Marley Murphy, 22 Paula Balekana, 23 Nathan Salmon

[taniwharugby]

Ha, well looks like some of those injuries were not as bad as initially thought, although LHE & Mullan both out on HIA I guess?

Coach back to his 2 wing bench, he loves him some Balekana!!

[taniwharugby]

Heating Reihana and Caird out.

Pasitoa to 10, Evans to 12, Alaimalo to 13 and Balekana to wing...Mau'u comes to bench for Caird, although Rush covering lock, Jade Stewart to the bench for possible debut.

[taniwharugby]

still nothing official yet, but some of those under injury clouds at start of week are falling over...Evans and Renton both with niggles, so yeah, that will make it much more interesting if they fall over too.

Pasitoa likely out, Jade Stewart promoted to get his debut, Rueben Stewart to bench.

Updated:
1 Jordan Lay, 2 Matt Moulds, 3 Chris Apoua, 4 Allan Craig, 5 Lachlan Hooper, 6 Rob Rush, 7 Jake Heenan, 8 Terrell Peita, 9 Josh Renton, 10 Rivez Reihana Jade Stewart, 11 Brady Rush, 12 Reesjan PasitoaCorey Evans, 13 Corey EvansSolomon Alaimalo, 14 Solomon Alaimalo Paula Balekana, 15 Jordan Trainor

Reserves: 16 Jordan Hutchings, 17 Esile Fono, 18 Coree Te Whata-Colley, 19 Sam Caird Jonah Mau'u, 20 Zac Shanks, 21 Marley Murphy, 22 Paula Balekana Reuben Stewart, 23 Nathan Salmon

[Bovidae]

The Waikato team. 50th game for George Dyer. I doubt Waikato has started the same XV in consecutive games all season.

[taniwharugby]

Confirmed that Reihana and Pasitoa out, although graphic shows the Stewart brothers playing at 10 and 12 (and Reuben is wearing the 10 in the image) so assume Evans staying at 13 and back 3 unchanged.

[Bovidae]

Both teams will be Ta$man supporters for the weekend.

[taniwharugby]

Surprised that was awarded so quickly...

[taniwharugby]

Man that was dumb.

Nice try though

[booboo]

@taniwharugby said in Waikato v Northland:

Man that was dumb.

Nice try though

By Waikato 6?

[taniwharugby]

Yeah the YC

[taniwharugby]

Well taken by Waikato, looked a small knock on way back but too far to review

[booboo]

Replay going on on the Stan stream.

First knocked on by Northland into Waikato who knocked it on back into him.

Too many phases to call back I think.

[taniwharugby]

Somenaverage defence by us to trail at the break.

[booboo]

14-12 to Waikato at half time.

Entertaining game.

[taniwharugby]

Yet to see why coach keeps giving minutes to Balekana, Alaimalo has been poor again, not a centre.

[booboo]

Disappointed with the mascot race. They should have let the kid/calf win.

[taniwharugby]

Great width there, shame about the nfl pass to finish...

[taniwharugby]

Aside from the card, Malachi Wrampling has been strong

[ploughboy]

shes a cripple fight