Southland v Otago

NPC — Round 1

• Kick-off: Saturday 1 August 2026 at 5:05 pm NZST
• Venue: Rugby Park Stadium, Invercargill, New Zealand

Southland

1 Jack Sexton, 2 Jack Taylor, 3 Sef Fa'agase, 4 Mitch Dunshea, 5 Ale Aho, 6 Clem Halaholo, 7 Sean Withy, 8 Sam Fischli, 9 Nic Shearer, 10 Jimmy Taylor, 11 Hayata Taniyama, 12 Scott Gregory, 13 Tuidraki Samusamuvodre, 14 Michael Manson, 15 Glen Vaihu
Reserves: 16 Jayden Henderson, 17 Jack Barrett, 18 Paula Latu, 19 Kasaloma Ahokovi, 20 Konrad Toleafoa, 21 Charlie Marsh, 22 Josh Jennings, 23 Sloane Lankshear

Otago

1 Ben Lopas, 2 Henry Bell, 3 Rohan Wingham, 4 Will Stodart, 5 Joseva Tamani, 6 Oliver Haig, 7 Lucas Casey, 8 Christian Lio-Willie, 9 Kieran McClea, 10 Cameron Millar, 11 Jona Nareki, 12 Jake Te Hiwi, 13 Josh Timu, 14 Jae Broomfield, 15 Sam Nemec-Vial
Reserves: 16 Liam Coltman, 17 Marley Pearce, 18 Saula Ma'u, 19 Harry Irving, 20 Cody Lokotui, 21 Joel Lam, 22 Patrick Pellegrini, 23 Riley Lucas

Couple of nice.margin bets for this game. Otago either 21 - 30 paying $4.6 or 31 - 40 paying $7.5.

Don't like to see Southland get slapped. I can see it though with the injuries they have and losing STT.

Mika Muliaina is only just coming back from U20s as well.

@southernmann would be great if Otago come out firing and do a number on Southland. Got Canterbury, Wellington, Waikato, Hawkes Bay, Ta$man within the next six games. Strong start is needed

Looking at the two teams, this will be an absolute hiding

Will be interesting to see the Millar/Pellegrini dynamic