Manawatu v North Harbour

[Duluth]

Friday 7:10pm - Central Energy Trust Arena

[UpTheHarbs]

As posted in the Harbour thread, on Friday, here's my predicted 23:

1. James Lay
2. Bryn Gordon
3. Sione Mafile'o
4. Tom Savage
5. Jack Lee
6. Tristyn Cook
7. Jed Melvin
8. Murphy Taramai
9. Manu Paea
10. Patrick Pellegrini
11. Sofai Maka
12. Tom Barham
13. Tima Fainga'anuku
14. Mark Tele'a
15. Kade Banks
16. Penaia Cakobau
17. Leka Tu'ungafasi
18. Riley Tofilau
19. Felix Kalapu
20. Karl Ruzich
21. Siaosi Nginingini
22. Oscar Koller
23. Tika Lelenga

[Duluth]

Rugbypass has these teams listed:

Manwatu

1 Malakai Hala-Ngatai
2 Vernon Bason
3 Flyn Yates
4 Rob Harley
5 Taine Roiri
6 TK Howden
7 Joe Fabish
8 Brayden Iose
9 Jordi Viljoen
10 Brett Cameron
11 James Tofa
12 Ngani Laumape
13 Kyle Brown
14 Taniela Filimone
15 Drew Wild

16 Raymond Tuputupu
17 Joe Gavigan
18 Feleti Sae-Ta'ufo'ou
19 Ofa Tauatevalu
20 Rowan Slater
21 Jai Tamati
22 Sam Coles
23 Tofuka Paongo

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North Harbour

1 Leka Tu'ungafasi
2 Bryn Gordon
3 Sione Mafile'o
4 Tom Savage
5 Felix Kalapu
6 Tristyn Cook
7 Karl Ruzich
8 Jed Melvin
9 Luke Campbell
10 Patrick Pellegrini
11 Sofai Maka
12 Tom Hendrickson
13 Tom Barham
14 Nik Vikena
15 Kade Banks

16 Penaia Cakobau
17 Tony Tafa
18 Sam Davies
19 Jack Lee
20 Murphy Taramai
21 Siaosi Nginingini
22 Cam Howell
23 Ben Brownlee

[UpTheHarbs]

Harbour team locked in... Tele'a must be injured or rested, Taramai is off the bench

[Duluth]

Starting soon

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Here we go!

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Maka almost scored on the corner

[UpTheHarbs]

Another missed opportunity here

[Duluth]

Harbour with loads of ball. Will be disappointed they haven’t scored yet

[Duluth]

Nice break by Brown

[UpTheHarbs]

MELVIN MELVIN MELVIN!

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Pellegrini misses the conversion

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Terrible kick from the Turbos

[Duluth]

17-5 Manawatu at HT

They’re playing well.. some really dumb play from Harbour helping them too

[Bovidae]

Hogan and the ARs don't seem bothered with players being in front of the kickers.

[Mauss]

Malakai Hala-Ngatai looks to be in great shape. He's shed quite a few kg's, I'd think, but he's holding his own so far against Sione Mafileo in the scrum so it doesn't seem to have impacted his ability at set-piece too much. He seems like a player who's actually benefitted from regular game time in the MLR.

Also, it's weirding me out how Parsons is continuously referring to Jed Melvin as the veteran. The guy is 24 years old and has played 29 games for Harbour. Even for NPC standards, that's not that experienced.

[Duluth]

3mins 30 secs of TMO

[Bovidae]

@Duluth said in Manawatu v North Harbour:

3mins 30 secs of TMO

And the wrong decision. Are the cameras not good enough for NPC games?

[UpTheHarbs]

And now it got interrupted by a technical glitch. Switched over to the Wahs game anyway

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