Manawatu v BOP

[Duluth]

Manawatu

1 Liam Pratt, 2 Raymond Tuputupu, 3 Misinale Epenisa, 4 Ofa Tauatevalu, 5 Taine Roiri, 6 TK Howden, 7 Mosese Bason, 8 Brayden Iose, 9 Jordi Viljoen, 10 Brett Cameron, 11 Pena Va'a, 12 Ngani Laumape, 13 Kyle Brown, 14 Taniela Filimone, 15 Drew Wild

Reserves: 16 Vernon Bason, 17 Joe Gavigan, 18 Rhys Sheriff, 19 Reuben Allen, 20 Joe Fabish, 21 Jai Tamati, 22 Sam Coles, 23 James Tofa

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Bay of Plenty

1 Tevita Mafile'o, 2 Kurt Eklund, 3 Pasilio Tosi, 4 Jai Knight, 5 Naitoa Ah Kuoi, 6 Jacob Norris, 7 Joe Johnston, 8 Nikora Broughton, 9 Charlie Sinton, 10 Lucas Cashmore, 11 Fehi Fineanganofo, 12 Seamus Bardoul, 13 Lalomilo Lalomilo, 14 Kele Lasaqa, 15 Cole Forbes

Reserves: 16 Sione Tupou, 17 Josh Bartlett, 18 Filipe Vakasiuola, 19 Aisake Vakasiuola, 20 Veveni Lasaqa, 21 Taine Kolose, 22 Taine Craig-Ranga, 23 Tamiro Armstrong

[ARHS]

Kolose covering halfback?

[bayimports]

Looks like Trask has played his allotted injury free minutes? Missing again? The injuries this guy has had is insane

[Bovidae]

IIRC Kele Lasaqa was a halfback at TBC. Doing the Carter thing.

[KiwiPie]

Big win and back into the top 4

[ARHS]

Impressive from Brown and Filimone for Manawatu. But BOP far too good. Best game from Sinton this year. The Lasaqa boys are electric. And Fehi, Forbes, Ah Kuoi and Broughton all looked classy.

[KiwiPie]

Is Judd injured or just being rested? He's a solid player but can seem ponderous at times, Sinton really seemed to increase the ruck speed for us. I only got to see the highlights so did Kele Lasaqa go off at half time? He looked a bit lame after his 2nd try. I imagine NZ Sevens might be interested in him given his acceleration.

[ARHS]

Judd took a heavy knock in a recent match. Thought Sinton lacked confidence prior to this match, but showed his potential v Manawatu. Lasaqa was hobbling a bit. Amazing acceleration for sure