Highlanders Named To Play Rebels In Melbourne

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Highlanders’ Head Coach, Jamie Joseph, has named his team to play the Rebels in Melbourne tomorrow night.

Joseph has made two changes to the starting XV that played the Hurricanes last weekend in Wellington. In the forwards, captain Andrew Hore comes back into the run-on XV.

In the backs, Jason Emery will start at centre and Tamati Ellison will move to second five-eighth.

Shaun Treeby moves to the reserves and Buxton Popoalii drops out of the 22.

Highlanders v Rebels, AMII Park, Melbourne – Friday 12 July 2013, 9.40pm (NZT).

1. Tony Woodcock (124)

2. Andrew Hore – captain (140)

3. Ma’afu Fia (23)

4. Brad Thorn (106)

5. Josh Bekhuis (70)

6. TJ Ioane (12)

7. Elliot Dixon (15)

8. Mose Tuiali’i (76)

9. Aaron Smith (43)

10. Colin Slade (46)

11. Hosea Gear – vice-captain (102)

12. Tamati Ellison (76)

13. Jason Emery (10)

14. Kade Poki (41)

15. Ben Smith (71)

Reserves

16. Liam Coltman (12)

17. Bronson Murray (44)

18. Jake Paringatai (9)

19. Joe Wheeler (13)

20. Fumiaki Tanaka (13)

21. Hayden Parker (9)

22. Shaun Treeby (25)

Head Coach – Jamie Joseph. Assistant Coach – Scott McLeod, Assistant Coach – Jon Preston, Scrum Coach – Kees Meeuws. Manager – Graham Purvis.