Wellington 2025
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@Darren said in Wellington 2025:
Just looking at the team named this week, crazy how much better lasts years team was.
With people leaving/injuries/AB'sWhen you note the talent that isn't there compared to last year we've lost a bit of firepower.
- Du Plessis Kirifi (All Blacks)
- Peter Lakai (All Blacks)
- Kyle Preston (All Blacks)
- Billy Proctor and Ruben Love were also available for a few games but are now more involved with the All Blacks
- Peter Umaga-Jensen (Japan)
- Riley Higgins (Injury)
- Pepesani Patafilo (Japan)
Positive is that we have Aumua and O'Reilly back available.
Hopefully if we make the top 8 this year we should get a few players back for the quarter and potentially semi final.
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@Canes4life said in Wellington 2025:
@Darren said in Wellington 2025:
- Riley Higgins (Injury)
Riley Higgins is never injured. Riley Higgins chooses not to be utterly dominant for a while.
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@pakman said in Wellington 2025:
Any indications of Higgins return date?
Unlikely to feature in the NPC unfortunately.
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@pakman said in Wellington 2025:
He should have gone off when he broke his leg.
He didn’t know it was broken until the following week. They even had him starting but had to pull him before they got on the plane.
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@pakman said in Wellington 2025:
Extraordinary! But if bones set wrong initially it is very difficult to correct. Hope he gets back to 100.
I remember in the post game he said he just had a dead leg and was confident he would be right but then it was actually worse once the dust settled. Not sure if it was a fracture or a break but he’s been out for a while now and it didn’t sound like he was returning this NPC. A shame because our midfield is mud with Savea at 12.
