Northland v Southland
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1 Jack Sexton, 2 Jack Taylor, 3 Morgan Mitchell, 4 Mitch Dunshea, 5 Shneil Singh, 6 Sean Withy (c), 7 Dylan Nel, 8 Semisi Tupou Ta'eiloa, 9 Jay Renton, 10 Jake Strachan, 11 Charlie Powell, 12 Faletoi Peni, 13 Isaac Te Tamaki, 14 Viliami Fine, 15 Rory Van Vugt
Reserves: 16 Nic Souchon, 17 Hunter Fahey, 18 Hamdahn Tuipulotu, 19 Josh Bekhuis, 20 Leroy Ferguson, 21 Lachie Albert, 22 Byron Smith, 23 Angus Simmers
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I like moving Peita to 7, in club season I thought he (or Rory Woods) could be best suited to 7 when you look at finding the best balanced loose trio when you assume fit, Rush & Parker as the other 2 loosies, Peita no doubt adds a lineout option too.
Very surprised Salmon has been dropped out of the 23 and Rush straight in, sure Salmon made a couple of errors the other night, but he has a bit of x-factor about him, Brady Rush on the other hand, hasnt really done much in his numerous chances at this level so far, and can be very error prone too, so we shall see...I'd have given Milo-Harris a start too.
Great to see Bodene Davis get a run, rewarded after a top season for Moerewa / United KawaKawa, not the biggest lock, but has an engine and good pace too.
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@taniwharugby I thought Salmon was excellent. Very unlucky. We need the energy we had against Canterbury which apart from 5 maul tries was a good game for us. Will be making the trip up. Hopefully for a win
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@kev it was more a silly kick he tried and he needlessly came off his wing and they scored where he should have been...but then trainor was caught out twice from kick-passes when he was too far in, so Salmon wasn't the only one.
But Salmon was the spark for Nocks try and is strong in contact with great acceleration, certainly seems harsh to drop him completely.
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Mitch Dunshea making a play for the vacant Landers 10 jersey throwing an outstanding inside ball for the winger to run on to
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Cmon Stags... i had written them off at half time... bloody good game.. have enjoyed
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