This match will be the Hurricanes 1st match at your home in Wellington this period soon after they toured South Africa and Australia with rather productive success.
The Highlanders lead the new Zealand Convention and are closely followed by the Chiefs but neither of such teams happen to be on tour still. The Hurricanes are trailing by three details but using a tour behind them.
Even though the Hurricanes are at your house they do not have got a notably potent document in opposition to the Highlanders all round. The teams have played one another 17 instances and the Hurricanes have won ten periods.
On regular if the Hurricanes perform the Highlanders they score 23 details as well as Highlanders score 22 points. Even so in Wellington whenever they perform each other the Hurricanes do far better and score on ordinary 28 points plus the Highlanders score exactly the same 22.
The Hurricanes have played the Highlanders at home 8 times and won 6 periods. The fear for the Hurricanes though would be that the Highlanders have won the last two matches concerning the groups including the last time they visited Wellington.
In variety terms and conditions the Hurricanes have named exactly the same group that smashed the Drive in Perth very last weekend.
The Highlanders give their gamers Thursdays off so they announce their crew on a Friday. What we do know about their selections is the fact that Lima Sopoaga has dominated out of the next two months because of to injuries. There is a chance that Colin Slade could are available in at but we dropping Sopoaga is usually a blow no matter way you search at it.
The Hurricanes also have their issues regardless of whether they have not taken result yet. Several players say which the journey from West to east will be the much more tiring which is exactly what the Hurricanes have just finished. Count on a drop off in the finish with the match.
The Bookies have given the Hurricanes a three stage get started - with the offer you of Wager 5 and get 50 in Bets. The Highlanders are 1 of 4 unbeaten groups and have been a single of your shock packages. They maintain ruining our predictions every week but this week we expect the Sopoaga blow will strike them slightly also tough. The Hurricanes must sneak this a person by 2 factors.
This match might be demonstrated on Television NZ, Aus, SA and in the uk on Sky Sports activities one Hi-def.
Average score: Hurricanes 23 Highlanders 22
Final five success
thirteen May possibly 2011 Hurricanes v Highlanders 6-13 Invercargill
18 Feb 2011 Hurricanes v Highlanders 9-14 Wellington
24 Apr 2010 Hurricanes v Highlanders 33-31 Dunedin
20 Feb 2009 Hurricanes v Highlanders 22-17 Wellington
07 Mar 2008 Hurricanes v Highlanders 10-6 Dunedin
Hurricanes all round record versus the Highlanders
Played 17 , Wins ten , Losses 7 , Draws 0
Match No.24: Hurricanes v Highlanders
Date :Saturday 17 March
Venue : Wellington
Kick Off neighborhood: 19:35
Referee: Bryce Lawrence
Assistant Ref 1:Keith Brown
Assistant Ref 2:Mike Fraser
TMO : Richard Kelly
Teams
Hurricanes
1. Ben Could,two. Dane Coles,3. Jeffery Toomaga-Allen,4. Jeremy Thrush,five. Jason Eaton,six. Faifili Levave,seven. Jack Lam,8. Victor Vito,9. TJ Perenara,10. Beauden Barrett,eleven. Julian Savea,twelve. Tim Bateman,thirteen. Conrad Smith (c),fourteen. Cory Jane,fifteen. Andre Taylor
Replacements :sixteen. Motu Matu’u,17. Michael Bent,18. James Broadhurst,19. Brad Shields,twenty. Chris Eaton,21. Daniel Kirkpatrick,22. Charlie Ngatai
Highlanders
1 Jamie Mackintosh (C) 2 Andrew Hore three Ma'afu Fia King 4 Josh Bekhuis 5 Nick Crosswell six Adam Thomson 7 John Hardie eight Nasi Manu 9 Jimmy Cowan 10 Colin Slade 11 Hosea Gear 12 Phil Burleigh 13 Tamati Ellison 14 Kade Poki 15 Ben Smith
Reserves sixteen Jason Rutledge 17 Bronson Murray 18 Culum Retallick 19 James Haskell twenty Aaron Smith 21 Chris Noakes 22 Buxton Popoali'i
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