1 Pouri Rakete-Stones
2 Asafo Aumua
3 Tyrel Lomax
4 James Blackwell
5 Scott Scrafton
6 Te Kamaka Howden *
7 Du’Plessis Kirifi
8 Ardie Savea (c)
9 TJ Perenara
10 Jackson Garden-Bachop
11 Wes Goosen
12 Jordie Barrett
13 Billy Proctor
14 Julian Savea
15 Josh Moorby

Replacements:
16 James O’Reilly
17 Alex Fidow
18 Tevita Mafileo
19 Caleb Delany
20 Devan Flanders
21 Jamie Booth
22 Bailyn Sullivan
23 Ruben Love

Kirifi just gets rewarded with another start and still no PUJ. Cripes. At least Jordie is still at 12.

Well at least we dropped Prinsep.

Rayasi and PUJ must be leaving. Our two most potent backs and they can't even make the bench. Laughable.

@duluth Thanks for posting that. It now makes submitting my Super Rugby picks that much easier now. Was seriously considering an Away 1 - 8 but now it makes an Away 17plus more than a serious consideration.

@foobanz said in Crusaders v Hurricanes:

Well at least we dropped Prinsep.

Rayasi and PUJ must be leaving. Our two most potent backs and they can't even make the bench. Laughable.

Scarcely believable. Could be a ploy to confuse the Crusaders, especially when he makes the starting lineup as a late change.

The only thing Holland got right is the frontrow.

@foobanz said in Crusaders v Hurricanes:

Well at least we dropped Prinsep.

Rayasi and PUJ must be leaving. Our two most potent backs and they can't even make the bench. Laughable.

Rayasi is signed through to 2023, but PU-J, Flanders and Sullivan all come off contract this year. Sullivan only in his first year at the Canes, so might sign on for another year, but I can see PU-J and Flanders look elsewhere. Not sure where Flanders would get more starts though. Ardie will likely leave after the RWC ...

Julian Savea still has another year after this one. :man_facepalming_light_skin_tone:

@foobanz said in Crusaders v Hurricanes:

Well at least we dropped Prinsep.

But didn't put Flanders straight in there.

@stargazer

The irony is I'm sure most Canes fans have PUJ, Sullivan & Flanders in their run on 15, or on the bench at worst.

@nepia said in Crusaders v Hurricanes:

@foobanz said in Crusaders v Hurricanes:

Well at least we dropped Prinsep.

But didn't put Flanders straight in there.

Lol with Holland I take what we can get. I'd have Flanders there too but at least Howden is a step up from Prinsep.

@foobanz Totally agree with Howden the rest of the team though….I can’t believe I’m saying this I hope we get pumped big time MIGHT wake the board up to this crap.

I'm looking forward to seeing how Howden goes. I was impressed with him when I first saw him playing for the NZ Schools Barbarians. He was playing lock but 6 is his position.

@mikey07 said in Crusaders v Hurricanes:

@foobanz Totally agree with Howden the rest of the team though….I can’t believe I’m saying this I hope we get pumped big time MIGHT wake the board up to this crap.

I said the same thing last week, then about 30 minutes from kick off the lifelong fan in me kicked in and I wanted us to murder the Chiefs haha.

But in the long run - the sooner this coaching group is gone the better.

@bovidae he'll play well, but make a few mistakes as he's young, so Holland will drop him for a month and bring Prinsep back.

@foobanz said in Crusaders v Hurricanes:

@nepia said in Crusaders v Hurricanes:

@foobanz said in Crusaders v Hurricanes:

Well at least we dropped Prinsep.

But didn't put Flanders straight in there.

Lol with Holland I take what we can get. I'd have Flanders there too but at least Howden is a step up from Prinsep.

Have you met me before? I care about the Magpies, and Magpies players first and foremost. I don't care about your Canes other than how the two quota Magpies players go.

Disgraceful selections. F&%k Holland.

I’m at a point where I hope we get absolutely destroyed just so they have no choice but to sack Holland.

That must be a deeply unhappy squad having to put up with this level of selection muppetry.

The Canes Facebook posts are pretty interesting now.

Normally it's a bunch of "Go hard Canes!!!" type posts but those are in the minority now. Mostly fans rightly ranting about the selections.

Wonder if they read it.

@foobanz said in Crusaders v Hurricanes:

The Canes Facebook posts are pretty interesting now.

Normally it's a bunch of "Go hard Canes!!!" type posts but those are in the minority now. Mostly fans rightly ranting about the selections.

Wonder if they read it.

I very seldom venture over to Facebook but did out of interest after your post. Good God it is almost as if TSF members have hit the Canes Facebook page en masse offering excellent suggestions to the coaching staff. Frankly I am surprised they have not deleted all the helpful suggestions but even the Canes fish heads must know that the populace is not dumb and they cannot hide from the general angst and fury that is out there, nor try to pretend that there isn't any. To try and deny it would further enhance their ineptness rankings amongst the Hurricanes followers, be they former or those still hanging in there out of loyalty.

@higgins I'm happy to see it. The NZ rugby media is a circlejerk who don't want to hold coaches / players to account. At least the fans can now do it in public.

How often do we get the coaches on the Breakdown and other shows and it's just a bunch of wanky questions or jokes?

Have heard Canes are deleting some of the posts on Insta. Probably get to Facebook next. Sad state of affairs.