Hawkes Bay v Auckland

[Duluth]

1 Sika Pole, 2 Soane Vikena, 3 Angus Ta'avao, 4 Ola Tauelangi, 5 Tuaina Tualima, 6 Che Clark, 7 Adrian Choat, 8 Anton Segner (c), 9 Kemara Hauiti-Parapara, 10 Rico Simpson, 11 Xavier Tito-Harris, 12 Tanielu Tele'a, 13 Xavi Taele, 14 Caleb Tangitau, 15 Zarn Sullivan

Reserves: 16 Millenium Sanerivi, 17 Oscar Cowley-Andrea, 18 Marcel Renata, 19 Michael Curry, 20 Vaiolini Ekuasi, 21 Chris Vunipola, 22 Lolagi Visinia, 23 Nigel Ah Wong

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A few interesting selections because of the midweek shield challenge

[Canes4life]

[Duluth]

Kicking off soon

[Duluth]

Good turnover Taele

[Duluth]

Tualima has been in good form recently

[Kirwan]

Splitting them open. Slick handling

[Kirwan]

Well that was a clean exit. lol.

[Duluth]

Ha that was messy

[Duluth]

We're really missing Funaki

[Kirwan]

Sullivan is stepping up. Great read on defence there, and counter ruck

[Duluth]

Giving up too many maul chances..

[Kirwan]

Pretty dangerous scrum disintegration there. Hawkes Bay racing backwards

[nzzp]

Sullivan's boot is awesome

[Kirwan]

Fucking make up your mind

[Kirwan]

Crowd doesn’t know the rules very well

[Kirwan]

I can see our halfback think. Everything he does is slow

[Duluth]

Zarn couldn’t pull out of that. The tj was reacting to the crowd

[Kirwan]

Yep. Bullshit call

[Kirwan]

Lucky for us that the HB hooker throws as straight as Freddy Mercury.

[brodean]

Auckland's kick chase has been quite poor. There is no intent.

Hard to believe Fihaki got called up over Sullivan