1 George Blake, 2 Sase Va'a, 3 Feleti Sae-Ta'ufo'ou, 4 Josh Taula, 5 Johan Momsen, 6 Mosese Bason, 7 Elyjah Crosswell, 8 Brayden Iose (C), 9 Luke Campbell, 10 Brett Cameron (VC), 11 Ataata Moeakiola, 12 Caleb Leef, 13 Drew Wild, 14 Taniela Filimone, 15 Reece MacDonald
Reserves: 16 Vernon Bason, 17 Joe Gavigan, 18 Flyn Yates, 19 Lachlan Shaw, 20 TK Howden, 21 Jordi Viljoen, 22 Isaiah Armstrong-Ravula, 23 Jason Emery
While confident, I still a bit nervous on this one. End of Naki storm week and we getting a bit beat up on injury front, hance no team been named as yet.
@Dan54 said in Taranaki v Manawatu:
End of Naki storm week and we getting a bit beat up on injury front, hance no team been named as yet.
I'm not a fan of storm week because it creates unbalanced matches. Injuries happen, but they are more likely to compound during this week. Meanwhile the opposition has a regular week vs a team with two quick turnarounds
The team being named late is standard though. It seems the teams that played midweek both name their sides for Sunday on Friday. So this week the two that haven't named sides yet are Taranaki & North Harbour
1 JJ Pokai, 2 Ricky Riccitelli, 3 Michael Bent, 4 Jesse Parete, 5 Josh Lord, 6 Nathaniel Peters, 7 Michael Loft, 8 Kaylum Boshier (C), 9 Logan Crowley, 10 Josh Jacomb, 11 Brad Kooman, 12 Ethan Reti, 13 Josh Setu, 14 Jacob Ratumaitavuki-Kneepkens, 15 Obey Samate
Reserves: 16 Bradley Slater, 17 Perry Lawrence, 18 Reuben O'Neill, 19 Jayden Sa, 20 Jackson Morgan, 21 Leone Nawai, 22 Adam Lennox, 23 Kini Naholo
I wish NZ did more to keep Armstrong-Ravula, he’s a classy operator for his age, calm, composed and looks to have all the tricks in the book.
