1 Cameron Orr
2 James O'Reilly
3 PJ Sheck
4 Caleb Delany
5 Akira Ieremia
6 Brad Shields Dominic Ropeti
7 Du'Plessis Kirifi
8 Keelan Whitman
9 Kyle Preston
10 Ruben Love
11 Pepesana Patafilo
12 Riley Higgins
13 Billy Proctor
14 Connor Garden-Bachop
15 Tjay Clarke

16 Josh Southall
17 Xavier Numia
18 Josiah Tavita-Metcalfe
19 Teofilo Paulo
20 Peter Lakai
21 Kemara Hauiti-Parapara
22 Aidan Morgan
23 Losilosivale Filipo

1 Joe Walsh
2 Jack Taylor
3 Morgan Mitchell
4 Shneil Singh
5 Josh Bekhuis (c)
6 Blair Ryall
7 Leroy Ferguson
8 Dylan Nel (vc)
9 Jay Renton
10 Greg Dyer
11 Gabriel Hamer-Webb
12 Matt Whaanga
13 Noah Foster
14 Viliami Fine
15 Rory van Vugt

16 Ben Strang
17 Jonah Aoina
18 Quinn Harrison-Jones
19 Grayson Knapp
20 Semisi Tupou-Ta'eiloa
21 Kaisei Tamura
22 Dan Hollinshead*
23 Tevita Latu

The new Ranfurly Shield too.

@Duluth they've got Dominic Ropeti starting over Brad Shields on the Wellington Lions socials so this may be a mis-print.

Resting for a Shield game... cheeky fiver on the Stags?

@Canes4life

This was from the NPC site.. it’s more likely to be wrong than Wellington. Or it was an earlier version of the team

I've corrected the original post

Wellington have no choice really but to mix it up a bit, given we'll need to be at our best against Ta$man on Wednesday.

There should be more than enough there to do the job, and the bench has enough in reserve if it's needed.

Should be a good one, will be heading along.

thats tough! 2 shield challenges in a week, still a strong team i guess, Dom Ropeti did well when he came on, great season for the mighty O and also good to see big Teofilo Paulo! had a good season for HOBM a recall to the Manu?

@foobaNZ Only stirring, hard to see Southland even mounting a challenge.

@frugby they'll be up for it. They have some big scalps in recent years in Shield history. I don't think it's a given but the Lions would still be heavy favourites.

Just drove past Hutt Rec. It'll be muddy.

Go the Stags.

Just giving away meters too easily - and Lions to good a team to be giving that too.

Scrum looking good and Jack Taylor playing well.

Wellington scrum is rubbish. Time to bring on Numia

22-7 Wellington

29-7

Weird try to CGB. 34-7

33-12. 8 to go

Morgans hopeless.

Try to finish 39_17

Game went much as predicted...... Stags just toothless on attack and too passive on D.....

Well done Lions.