Waratahs vs Hurricanes

[antipodean]

First match (Tahs vs Canes) could be a cripple fight as both teams seem to have problems finding fit props.

[KiwiMurph]

@antipodean Sounds like it will be a good crowd though - there's talk of it being a sellout at Brookvale.

[Canes4life]

@antipodean The rest of that Tahs side looks fairly stacked with Wallabies though, will be a bloody tough job going over there and tipping them over without much of a tight five and no Beaudy.

I'm picking they will run with something like this:

1. ? 2. Latu 3. Kepu 4. Simmons 5. Hollaway 6. Hannigan 7. Hooper 8. Dempsey 9. Phipps/Gordon 10. Foley 11. Rona 12. Beale 13. Hunt 14. Ashley Cooper 15. Folau

[Nepia]

@KiwiMurph said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:

@antipodean Sounds like it will be a good crowd though - there's talk of it being a sellout at Brookvale.

I'm waiting on two options for free tickets - hopefully I don't miss out on buying tickets if they don't come through.

[antipodean]

@KiwiMurph said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:

@antipodean Sounds like it will be a good crowd though - there's talk of it being a sellout at Brookvale.

Saturday evening in Manly, very nice. Two problems; Manly residents and capacity.

[KiwiMurph]

@antipodean third problem - the state of the pitch.

[antipodean]

@Canes4life said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:

@antipodean The rest of that Tahs side looks fairly stacked with Wallabies though, will be a bloody tough job going over there and tipping them over without much of a tight five and no Beaudy.

I'm picking they will run with something like this:

1. ? 2. Latu 3. Kepu 4. Simmons 5. Hollaway 6. Hannigan 7. Hooper 8. Dempsey 9. Phipps/Gordon 10. Foley 11. Rona 12. Beale 13. Hunt 14. Ashley Cooper 15. Folau

Yes, we should win comfortably.

[NTA]

@antipodean said in Waratahs vs Hurricanes:

Yes, we should win comfortably.

[Canes4life]

From yesterdays news on a fairly hefty injury toll to the tight five I think the 23 to face the Tahs will look somthing like this:

1. Armstrong
2. Coles (c)
3. Eves
4. Cridge
5. Walker-Leawere
6. Fifita
7. Henwood
8. Savea
9. Perenara
10. Smith
11. Lam
12. Laumape
13. Proctor
14. Aso
15. Barrett
16. Aumua
17. Numia
18. May
19. Mitchell
20. Blackwell
21. Christie
22. Garden Bachop
23. Rayasi

[Crucial]

@Canes4life at least the backline will get a lot of tackle practice before the big games.

[Stargazer]

@Canes4life It will be interesting to compare some of the team selections over the next few months with those of last season. Where does the new coach differ from the previous one, in case he has (almost) the same players available in some positions.

[Unite]

It’ll probably be a flogging ala Brumbies v Hurricanes a few years back. Happy to be proved wrong though!

[Canes4life]

@Unite with the Tahs, Saders, Ponies & then the Landers - it could be a very sobering start for the Canes. Also happy to be proved wrong.

[Hooroo]

@Nepia said in Waratahs vs Hurricanes:

@KiwiMurph said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:

@antipodean Sounds like it will be a good crowd though - there's talk of it being a sellout at Brookvale.

I'm waiting on two options for free tickets - hopefully I don't miss out on buying tickets if they don't come through.

Ha ha! Good one! Super Rugby selling out big stadiums in Oz in Summer!

[KiwiMurph]

@Hooroo

I wouldn't call Brookvale Oval a big stadium but...

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/waratahs-looking-at-super-rugby-sellout

Last year's Australian conference champions are tracking for a rare sellout in their season-opener against the Hurricanes at Brookvale Oval on Saturday night.

[Hooroo]

@KiwiMurph said in Waratahs vs Hurricanes:

@Hooroo

I wouldn't call Brookvale Oval a big stadium but...

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/waratahs-looking-at-super-rugby-sellout

Last year's Australian conference champions are tracking for a rare sellout in their season-opener against the Hurricanes at Brookvale Oval on Saturday night.

Well colour me shocked and pleasantly wrong!

[mariner4life]

@Hooroo said in Waratahs vs Hurricanes:

@KiwiMurph said in Waratahs vs Hurricanes:

@Hooroo

I wouldn't call Brookvale Oval a big stadium but...

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/waratahs-looking-at-super-rugby-sellout

Last year's Australian conference champions are tracking for a rare sellout in their season-opener against the Hurricanes at Brookvale Oval on Saturday night.

Well colour me shocked and pleasantly wrong!

Brookvale is a toilet

Also, for most of the year

[NTA]

@mariner4life describes most of the NRL's "suburban" grounds. They're fucking awful.

[KiwiMurph]

Referee Angus Gardner
AR1	Ben O'Keeffe
AR2	Damon Murphy
TMO James Leckie

[antipodean]

@KiwiMurph well that's a lottery