Hurricanes First Encounter with Table Toppers
Hurricanes halfback, TJ Perenara makes his return against the Chiefs on Saturday. Photo by Bruce Taylor /Rugby15.
This Saturday the table topping Chiefs will host the Hurricanes in round 10 of the Super Rugby competition in Hamilton.
The Hurricanes’ line-up for this weekend has the return of TJ Perenara from his ankle injury, Julian Savea back on the wing after a week out due to illness and Cory Jane on the right wing, also after an ankle injury.
Reg Goodes could make his Hurricanes debut as he has been named in the number 17 jersey. Goodes suffered a shoulder injury in the team’s last pre-season match making him unavailable until now. Also on the bench, Jack Lam will return after two weeks out because of a concussion in the game against the Sharks.
This will be the first time the two New Zealand sides have met in the regular season of the 2012 competition. The two will play again in the last round of the competition in Wellington on Friday 13th July.
Kick-off at Waikato Stadium this week is at 9:35am
The Hurricanes team is as follows:
1. Ben May, 2. Dane Coles, 3. Jeffery Toomaga-Allen, 4. Jeremy Thrush, 5. Jason Eaton, 6. Faifili Levave, 7. Karl Lowe, 8. Victor Vito, 9. TJ Perenara, 10. Beauden Barrett, 11. Julian Savea, 12. Tim Bateman, 13. Conrad Smith (c), 14. Cory Jane, 15. Andre Taylor
Reserves:
16. Motu Matu’u, 17. Reg Goodes, 18. Mark Reddish, 19. Jack Lam, 20. Chris Eaton, 21. Charlie Ngatai, 22. Alapati Leiua.
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