North Harbour v Auckland
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Auckland
1 James Lay (University), 2 Leni Apisai (Ponsonby), 3 Marcel Renata (University), 4 Scott Scrafton (Grammar TEC), 5 Hamish Dalzell (College Rifles), 6 Adrian Choat (c) (Waitemata), 7 Blake Gibson (Ponsonby), 8 Akira Ioane (Ponsonby), 9 Jonathan Ruru (University), 10 Harry Plummer (Grammar TEC), 11 Tanielu Tele’a (Marist), 12 Inga Finau (Grammar TEC)(DEBUT), 13 Tumua Manu (College Rifles), 14 AJ Lam (Grammar TEC), 15 Zarn Sullivan (College Rifles)
Reserves:
16 Mike Sosene-Feagai (Marist), 17 Jarred Adams (Suburbs), 18 Marco Fepulea’i (Ponsonby), 19 Liam Hallam-Eames (Grammar TEC), 20 Sione Tuipulotu (Eden), 21 Danny Tusitala (Ponsonby), 22 Simon Hickey (Grammar TEC), 23 Joel Cobb (Ponsonby)(DEBUT)Two players will be set to make their debut for the Blue and White Hoops this weekend. Grammar TEC midfielder, Inga Finau will be given his first cap at Second-Five with Captain TJ Faiane being injured. Waitemata Loose Forward, Adrian Choat will be given the Captaincy for the Round 7 fixture. Ponsonby Wing, Joel Cobb will be in line to make his first appearance off the bench as Auckland’s ninth player to debut this season. Tanielu Tele’a starts on the left wing with an injury to Salesi Rayasi in last weeks’ Ta$man game. -
@KiwiMurph said in North Harbour v Auckland:
Big tick for Choat to be named captain.
Another quality player out of Auckland Uni's engineering school.
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What happened to Rayasi? I don’t recall him getting injured last weekend.
Congrats to Choat.
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Plenty of banter in the flat.
There is also a potential debut off the bench for Joel Cobb, while Auckland continue to be without 2019 All Black Angus Ta’avao who is battling a baffling leg injury thought to be some form of compartment syndrome. Ieremia isn't sure whether they will get him back this year but is hopeful of a return for the business end.
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Suprised Canterbury let Finau go with their lack of depth showing in their midfield. Hope he goes well.
Hard to know what Harbour side will turn up. They've been very inconsistent this year.
@African-Monkey said in North Harbour v Auckland:
Hard to know what Harbour side will turn up. They've been very inconsistent this year.
Harbour's form has been all over the place. At times they've looked like they have the best pack in the competition
I think we'll get the best version. Not just because of the cross town rivalry but because this is basically a knockout game for them
After this match they have:
Northland (away), Counties (Home), BOP (away)I think they should be warm favourites for those matches
Currently they are on 12 points
In previous years the points needed to qualify for the semis were:
29, 34, 31, 34, 32, 30, 28, 33, 314 wins gets them to 28.
4 wins and 2-3 bonus points gets them in that mixThey probably will still need someone else to have a bad run
Lose and they are fucked
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1 Nic Mayhew, 2 Luteru Tolai, 3 Sione Mafileo, 4 Gerard Cowley-Tuioti, 5 Jacob Pierce, 6 Ethan Roots, 7 Dillon Hunt, 8 Murphy Taramai, 9 Bryn Hall, 10 Bryn Gatland, 11 Tomas Aoake, 12 Jack Heighton, 13 James Little, 14 Asaeli Tikoirotuma, 15 Shaun Stevenson.
Reserves: 16 Zane Turner, 17 Teague McElroy, 18 Jimmy Roots, 19 Xavier Cowley-Tuioti, 20 Tim Sail, 21 Lewis Gjaltema , 22 Antonio Mikaele-Tu’u , 23 Jared Page
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This should be a good one.
Harbour were decent against Wellington last week, but their downfall was their wingers not being able to deal with Wellington's kicking, especially the high ball.
It seems like Page is the one who got punished for that this week, but it could've easily been Aoake too.
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Great work from no workrate Akira Ioane to set up AJ Lam there.
@African-Monkey Wouldn't have him ahead of ... Whetu Douglas ...
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@African-Monkey Wouldn't have him ahead of ... Whetu Douglas ...
@Tim Nah neither.
Zarn Sullivan showing what a talented player he is so far. Choat and Ruru also been very impressive so far.
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Is that really a yellow?
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@Machpants said in North Harbour v Auckland:
Nothing wing with that, didn't go beyond horizontal
Yep, his legs flew up from the impact
