Wellington v Canterbury

[Stargazer]

Wellington Lions:
1 Xavier Numia, 2 Dane Coles, 3 Alex Fidow, 4 James Blackwell, 5 Dominic Bird, 6 Caleb Delaney, 7 Du’Plessis Kirifi (captain), 8 Keelan Whitman, 9 Richard Judd, 10 Ruben Love, 11 Julian Savea, 12 Peter Umaga-Jensen, 13 Vince Aso, 14 Pepesana Patafilo, 15 Wes Goosen

Reserves: 16 James O’Reilly, 17 Vince Sakaria, 18 Pekahou Cowan, 19 Taine Plumtree, 20 Sam Smith, 21 Connor Collins, 22 Aidan Morgan, 23 Tomasi Alosio

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/provincial/300424331/julian-savea-gets-travel-exemption-to-return-from-auckland-for-wellingtons-npc-match

[Stargazer]

Media release: https://www.canterburyrugby.co.nz/newsarticle/108701

[mikey07]

Canterbury by 12….can’t see us lifting when we’ve failed to do so all year.

[Canes4life]

@mikey07 Canterbury have looked just as bad though but seemed to have picked up a couple of ugly wins in the process. This could be a bit of a shit fight.

Hopefully the likes of Coles, Whitelock and Savea can bring some life into both teams.

[mikey07]

@canes4life They’ve still won games when it came down to it unlike us.

Yes I also hope so.

[Tim]

Canterbury are paying $2.23 at the TAB for the win. I know they are poorly coached, and their backline is decidedly average, but that seems crazy to me.

[Chris]

Wellington by 10 I reckon, until we get rid of the Muppett coaches.Who have really had no game plan , direction and selections and recruitment have been poor,And Get back a bit of pride in the jersey Canterbury will struggle.

[Duluth]

10-0 Wellington after 5mins

Messy work from Romano in the lead up to the try

[Tim]

Canterbury certainly look pedestrian.

[Tim]

Fergus Burke got skinned by Coles.

[Stargazer]

That's a great try from McKay! Excellent chip kick from Burke, too.

[Tim]

Game has changed all right. Canterbury getting over the advantage line.

[Duluth]

First 20mins looked easy for Wellington. Then the Cantabs controlled possession in the next 20 and worked their way back into it

Two even but flawed teams

[Bovidae]

The Bus is looking good after his break.

[Dice]

@bovidae said in Wellington v Canterbury:

The Bus is looking good after his break.

I wonder what he weighs now.

This is a tweet from a couple of weeks ago.
https://twitter.com/juliansavea7/status/1441853819919298562

[Bovidae]

More BS from Williams. If that was a YC so was Romano's.

[mikey07]

@bovidae I also wonder how long you have to jackal over the ball to win the penalty Kirifi was there on the ball for at least 5 seconds.

[Stargazer]

Great decision-making there from Drummond.

[mikey07]

Annddd in typical Wellington fashion we start to roll over.

[Stargazer]

@mikey07 Still plenty of time.