North vs South

[Canes4life]

@Tim can't disagree with that starting tight five on form. My loose forward trio on form would be 6. Boshier 7. Savea 8. Sotutu. Sorry Cane but I would have Papalii on the bench.

[Tim]

@Canes4life I'm hoping that both Sotutu and Robinson will be available for the game.

[Tim]

@Canes4life Would like to see more of Fidow too. Thought he provided good impact last night.

[Canes4life]

@Tim forgot about Robinson, when is he due back? He could be the reserve lock/loosie if fit.

[Tim]

@Canes4life There's a lot of good loosies running around. Trained with the Blues this week, but not sure when he will be match fit.

[Canes4life]

@Tim yeah he's still improving IMO, still has his work ons at scrum time but he's a devastating guy to bring off the bench.

[Tim]

South backs.

9 Drummond
10 Mo'unga
11 Bridge
12 Thompson
13 Goodhue
14 Jordan
15 Barrett

21 Weber
22 Ioane
23 Ennor

[Tim]

North backs:

9 Smith
10 Black
11 Clarke
12 ALB
13 Ioane
14 Telea
15 Barrett

21 TJP
22 Laumape
23 Stevenson

[Canes4life]

@Tim

I would go:

9. Smith
10. Barrett
11. Ioane
12. Laumape (if he's still in PUJ comes in)
13. Leinert-Brown
14. Reece
15. McKenzie

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21. Perenara
22. Umaga-Jensen
23. Telea/Clarke

[Tim]

@Canes4life Perenara covering first five?

[Canes4life]

@Tim McKenzie

[Canes4life]

@Tim agree on this, however I would start Weber over Drummond.

[Bones]

@Tim said in North vs South:

Thompson

Is criteria NPC or SR?

[Tim]

@Bones I think it's 1st class rugby debut, so which ever came first.

[Bones]

@Tim ah right..Manawatu I guess there then?

[Tim]

@Bones Canterbury.

[Bovidae]

Laulala will start at TH for the SI with Lomax on the bench.

I also don't think Thompson will start ahead of Ennor either.

[Tim]

North $1.63
South $2.18

[sparky]

Sparky had a go at naming the teams.

North

1 Karl T, 2 Aumua, 3 Ofa T, 4 Tuipulotu, 5 Scafton, 6 A. Savea, 7 Cane, 8 Sotutu, 9 A. Smith, 10 B. Barrett, 11 C. Clarke, 12 ALB, 13 R. Ioane, 14 Reece, 15 DMac, 16 Coles, 17 Johnstone, 18 Ta'avao, 19 Cowley-Tuioti , 20. D. Papali'i, 21. TJP, 22, O. Black, 23. P. Umaga-Jensen

South

1 Moody, 2 Taylor, 3 Laulala, 4 Whitelock, 5 Parkinson, 6 Frizell, 7 Hunt, 8 Evans, 9 Weber, 10 Mo'unga, 11 Bridge, 12 Goodhue, 13 Ennor, 14 Jordan, 15 J. Barrett, 16. Coltman, 17 Hodgman 18 Lomax, 19 Dunsha, 20 Sanders, 21 Drunmond, 22. J. Ioane, 23 Thompson

[Machpants]

@sparky One must be very posh, to refer to oneself in the third person.

I don't disagree with your selections tho