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Winger Julian Savea named for 150th Hurricanes match
By Finn Morton
Winger Julian Savea will reach an incredible milestone for the Hurricanes on Friday night when they take on the Brumbies at Sky Stadium.
Savea, who scored 46 tries in 54 Test matches for the All Blacks, will run out for his 150th appearance in Hurricanes colours later this week.
The man who is famously known as ‘The Bus’ holds a special place in the history of both New Zealand Rugby and the All Blacks.
Savea played a key role in the Rugby World Cup triumph in 2015, and the Hurricanes' maiden Super Rugby title a year later.
The winger was at his rampaging best throughout that 2015 World Cup, especially in the quarter-final against France – having crossed for a hat-trick of tries during the 62-12 thrashing in Cardiff.
Savea will line up on the right wing on Friday, while his younger brother Ardie will captain a relatively unchanged Hurricanes side.
Coming off a bye week, coach Jason Holland has only made one change to the starting XV ahead of the trans-Tasman derby with the Brumbies.
Lock Isaia Walker-Leawere comes into the starting side following a short stint on the sidelines through injury, and will pack down alongside James Blackwell in the second row.
Hooker Asafo Aumua will start at hooker again this week, while veteran Dane Coles has been deemed unavailable for selection.
The exciting halves duo of Cam Roigard and Aidan Morgan will get another run this week, while Jordie Barrett will look to handle some of the playmaking duties from inside centre.
Hurricanes team to take on Brumbies
- Xavier Numia
- Asafo Aumua
- Tyrel Lomax
- James Blackwell
- Isaia Walker-Leawere
- Devan Flanders
- Du’Plessis Kirifi
- Ardie Savea (c)
- Cameron Roigard
- Aidan Morgan
- Salesi Rayasi
- Jordie Barrett
- Peter Umaga-Jensen
- Julian Savea
- Josh Moorby
Replacements:
- Jacob Devery
- Tevita Mafileo
- Owen Franks
- Caleb Delany
- Brayden Iose
- Jamie Booth
- Harry Godfrey
- Kini Naholo
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No he's just limited in what he can do. Like Scott Robertson. And Eddie Jones.
Sometimes it doesn't work out so you have to go looking for another national coach who supports his country and believes in what he is doing. Like NZ replacing Ian Foster. And South Africa bringing Erasmus back in to over see Neinbar.
This is the real world. Not the fantasy oh you don't need passion for your country for international rugby. Ask a kiwi, or a south african or a frenchman.
Go to commentsDont complain too much or start jumping to conclusions.
Here in NZ commentators have been blabbing that our bottom pathway competition the NPC (provincial teams only like Taranaki, Wellington etc)is not fit for purpose ie supplying players to Super rugby level then they started blabbing that our Super Rugby comp (combined provincial unions making up, Crusaders, Hurricanes, etc) wasn't good enough without the South African teams and for the style SA and the northern powers play at test level.
Here is what I reckon, Our comps are good enough for how WE want to play rugby not how Ireland, SA, England etc play. Our comps are high tempo, more rucks, mauls, running plays, kicks in play, returns, in a game than most YES alot of repetition but that builds attacking skillsets and mindsets. I don't want to see world teams all play the same they all have their own identity and style as do England (we were scared with all this kind of talk when they came here) World powerhouse for a reason, losses this year have been by the tiniest of margins and could have gone either way in alot of games. Built around forward power and blitz defence they have got a great attack Wingers are chosen for their Xfactor now not can they chase up and unders all day. Stick to your guns its not far off
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