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Nine changes for USA side to take on Samoa

31 Jul 2019

USA playmaker AJ MacGinty. (Photo by Getty Images)

Despite dispatching Canada with relative ease last weekend, coach Gary Gold has still made nine changes to his USA side to take on Samoa.

James Hilterbrand takes over from Dylan Fawsitt at hooker while lock Greg Peterson will replace the injured Nick Civetta. Civetta suffered a lower limb injury against Canada last week and his availability for the World Cup is now under a cloud of uncertainty.

Former Hurricanes flanker Tony Lamborn replaces Malon Al-Jiboori on the blindside flank.

In the backs, scrumhalf Ruben de Haas is in for Shaun Davies and center Paul Lasike returns from injury while Marcel Brache continues HIA protocol.

Nate Brakeley, Ben Pinkelman, Nate Augspurger and Will Magie have all been named in the reserves. Pinkelman is the sole debutant in the squad. Augspurger last played for the Eagles in June of 2018 and has spent the last several test windows recovering from injury.

USA: 15 Will Hooley, 14 Blaine Scully (c), 13 Bryce Campbell, 12 Paul Lasike, 11 Martin Iosefo, 10 AJ MacGinty, 9 Ruben de Haas, 8 Cam Dolan, 7 John Quill, 6 Tony Lamborn, 5 Gregory Peterson, 4 Ben Landry, 3 Paul Mullen, 2 James Hilterbrand, 1 Chance Wenglewski.

Reserves: 16 Dylan Fawsitt, 17 David Ainu’u, 18 Paddy Ryan, 19 Nate Brakeley, 20 Ben Pinkelman, 21 Nate Augspurger, 22 Will Magie, 23 Madison Hughes.

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Koro Teeps 12 minutes ago

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Well shift workers and factory workers all do. Guys on night shift can’t get to training and guys working weekends can’t play. It’s caused a massive drop in player numbers for last 20 years.

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BH 1 hour ago

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Hasn’t used them!? You must not have watched any of the Chiefs games this year. Jacobson has smashed the Blues and Crusaders players 2 times each this year, amongst being a standout in every other game he’s played.

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IkeaBoy 4 hours ago

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Pretty sure he split the posts. Then reminded the opposition physio that he's an insult to humanity.

Munster lost. Jack won.

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I'd say friendly banter, sledging or a bit of craic is part of combat sport.

Rolling around like a used tampon for 5 mins to prevent an opponent taking their kick, ain't sledging.

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IkeaBoy 4 hours ago

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Stop it! Now!!!!

I can't handle violent laughter at my age!

Absolute fire.

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IkeaBoy 4 hours ago

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Is the ‘broomstick’ game you refer to the same Irish sport which, in it's original form, pre-dates Christianity? By a thousand years?

I'd hope you don't take international sport for granted.

Your mob got locked out of it for decades.

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JC 5 hours ago

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Hahahaha, greatest cricket era, you mean that game where they’re dressed in private schooled white jumpers and drink tea during the numerous breaks and intervals over hours of monotonous and tedious tip toeing?! Ya, hard men and a tough game! Sledging is part of every team sport no problem with it and players don’t have. When it comes down to kicking penalties or during a penalty shootout in this instance, you should respect the kicker as a player or management and shut up. Some integrity and respect is needed in that case.

By the way , what’s the deal with changing your name from Bull Shark? It’s a very weak move changing your name if you thought you were getting bullied. I would have thought you had abit more balls, with the couple tough shark names you go by? It would seem to me ironically, going by what you posted above, that you can’t handle the sledging?! I think periwinkle or the little mermaid may be more apt???

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John 5 hours ago

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Hey Derek, cheers fo rthe comment, I think it’s important to note that a swathe of new players and coaches, no matter how good, is not a sure recipe to sucess.

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John 5 hours ago

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I am not sure if I saw improvement, but I like his work ehtic and his agression, he just needs to be involved more. His raw stats are nothing to write home about but he’s young.

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JC 5 hours ago

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Ed, what did i tell you about choking on that saffer slong?! Take your time with it and don’t get all excited, after all it’s just bull shark with a different name, don’t gag on it…..

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jb 5 hours ago

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To be honest, I have no issue with the sledging although I’d always like it to stop when the final whistle goes. I was delighted after Glasgow’s win over the Stormers to see the great interaction between both sets of players with George Horne and fellow ex Sevens players from the Stormers laughing and obviously loving the post match rugby moment.

On the kicking issue, a huge amount has been written with lots of contrasting views from fans, experts and commentators and really it did nothing to change the result. However, and this cannot really be proven one way or another, I am of the opinion that the lad did not have cramp and that just riles me up much like the obvious coached tactic of anyone who takes any kind of glancing high blow staying down to try and gain some sanction for the opponent. I know the pressure is huge to win and finance relies on results but for high shots, I think that players who stay down should automatically have a head injury assessment and seeing as what I am having a wee whinge, I would really like referees to clamp down on players who ask for sanctions against opponents.

Mind you, the sun still shines and I love the game.

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Affectionately known as ‘Concrete Shoulders’ for his hard-hitting defence

Those were what he injured weren’t they? Kinda hasn’t used them since then, very good technical 7 and link man at 8 still though.

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