09 R4 :: Sun 12pm AEST :: Warriors 16 Rabbitohs 22 @ Mt Smart

[Timmah]

AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) ENDED 3am Sunday 5 April.
NSW, QLD & Victoria times are now all AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time)​

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Gates open 11:30am​

NEW ZEALAND WARRIORS
1. Wade McKinnon
2. Denan Kemp 3. Patrick Ah Van 4. Jerome Ropati 5. Aidan Kirk
6. Joel Moon 7. Stacey Jones
8. Sam Rapira 9. Ian Henderson 10. Steve Price (c)
11. Simon Mannering 12. Jacob Lillyman
13. Micheal Luck

Interchange: 14. Nathan Fien 15. Russell Packer 16. Jesse Royal 17. Ukuma Ta’ai
Reserves: 18. Lewis Brown 19. Daniel O’Regan​

SOUTH SYDNEY RABBITOHS
1. Rhys Wesser
2. Nathan Merritt 3. Colin Best 4. Shaune Corrigan 5. Fetuli Talanoa
6. John Sutton 7. Chris Sandow
8. Luke Stuart 9. Issac Luke 10. Roy Asotasi
11. Ben Lowe 12. Shannan McPherson
13. David Fa'alogo​

Interchange: 14. Craig Wing 15. Eddy Pettybourne 16. Jaiman Lowe 17. David Kidwell​

Referees
Tony De Las Heras
Gavin Badger
Sideline Officials: Adam Devcich & Steve Carrall
Video Referee: Chris Ward​

Toyota Cup
New Zealand v South Sydney
Mt Smart Stadium, Sunday 11:45am NZST (FOX Sports 2 LIVE 9:45am AEST)​

NSW Cup
Shellharbour City (STG) v Auckland (NZW)
Ron Costello Oval, Saturday 1:00pm​

North Sydney (SOU) v Western Suburbs (WST)
North Sydney Oval, Saturday 5:00pm​

 

[renouf]

lol, plenty of interest in this game I see

 

[Meth]

This is going to be a great game

The Rabbitohs are a great side this year, especially with Wing back in the squad. They also are something of a Bunny team to the Warriors- beat us twice last year and nearly cost us a place in the semis. I am looking forward to seeing Sandow and Luke play.

Plenty of emotion will be there as well- its a tribute game to Sonny Fai, who obviously means a great deal to the Warriors' squad and also meant a great deal to the Kiwi boys in the Souths' team. I am sure it will be a great match

Warriors by 6

 

[Timmah]

lol, plenty of interest in this game I see

Classy, f**kwit

 

[Lambretta]

This has all the hallmarks of being an absolute ripper of a game.

The Warriors will be (Mount) smart-ing after their loss to the Pony's last week and will be fired up. Hopefully Vatuvei will be back and ripping in once more.

Joel Moon had a weak game (Brisbane obviously had his measure) and will be looking to get back to his best.

Put that up against a Rabbits team with their tails up and hopefully Wing at five eighth and Sutton at lock and you have a brilliant game in the making.

...........and I havent even gotten round to talking about the forwards going hammer and tongs, ripping into each other.

:salivate:

 

[Timmah]

Rabbitohs
1. Rhys Wesser
2. Nathan Merritt
3. Colin Best
4. Shaune Corrigan
5. Fetuli Talanoa
6. John Sutton
7. Chris Sandow
8. Luke Stuart
9. Issac Luke
10. Roy Asotasi
11. Ben Lowe
12. Shannan McPherson
13. David Fa'alogo

14. Craig Wing
15. Eddy Pettybourne
16. Jaiman Lowe
17. David Kidwell

www.rabbitohs.com.au

 

[dragondad]

With this being the Sonny Fai day,can we expect another bumper 25k crowd?

 

[Shorty]

I'm tipping the Warriors to bounce back and smash the Bunnies...

 

[Timmah]

1. Wade McKinnon 2. Denan Kemp 3. Patrick Ah Van 4. Jerome Ropati 5. Aidan Kirk 6. Joel Moon 7. Stacey Jones 8. Sam Rapira 9. Ian Henderson 10. Steve Price (c) 11. Simon Mannering 12. Jacob Lillyman 13. Micheal Luck

Interchange: 14. Nathan Fien 15. Russell Packer 16. Jesse Royal 17. Ukuma Ta’ai; Reserves: 18. Lewis Brown 19. Daniel O’Regan

 

[LeagueNut]

With this being the Sonny Fai day,can we expect another bumper 25k crowd?

I doubt it, although 20k should still be a realistic target. It's our first day game at home for '09 and that might bring a lot of families out.

 

[Timmah]

If you guys get 20k through the gates, you'll be averaging over 20,000, a quite remarkable figure for NZ...

 

[NGR]

tough game for the bunnies... gonna have to tip agaisnt us for this one.

sandow is about to face his biggest defensive challange, corrigan too for that matter.

our pack is going to need one hell of a tallis rev up to even come close to matching the warriors...

gonna have to say warriors have the edge over us...

 

[One Warrior]

Warriors are smarting after last week, plus also all the injury concerns, very emotional game, the Sonny memorial game, Bunnies also had the better of us last year, hopefully we rebound big time.

 

[Joker's Wild]

Sandow will sh*t his dacks with all the big Warrior forwards running in his direction all game long. NZ boys to be up for a big one.

Warriors by 37

 

[LeagueNut]

Worth noting that Chris Sandow has played against the Warriors twice and has yet to lose ...

 

[Ziggy the God]

No Tate or Vatuvai, that makes it more even out wide.

No doubt that the Warriors will be fired up for the first 20 minutes, so if we can stick to them and be down by less than 6 at halftime, we can win. Did it twice last year.

Souths by 4.

 

[Ziggy the God]

Sandow will sh*t his dacks with all the big Warrior forwards running in his direction all game long. NZ boys to be up for a big one.

Warriors by 37

Still upset about the weekend?

 

[SSFC Hitman]

And now no Steve Price. Souths have a real chance IMO.

 

[MattJ]

would have tipped warriors clear winners, but injuries have evened things up a lot.
Our kiwi boys seem to lift playing against there countrymen, i remember Luke had a blinder over there last year.
Tough to call, NZ deserve to be favourites but i think we are in with a decent chance.
If it stays close we might pull away in the 2nd half, nervous to see Corrigan in the side and Champion dropped back to the bears, would prefer it the other way around.

 

[byrne_rovelli_fan82]

Well it's always nice to let your opposition think they have won