Jamie Wall

this year, Asafa Oumuamua and Pasoleo Tosi back into the starting front row alongside Xavier Noumea and so that's two All Blacks and a guy who's almost certainly going to be an All Black this year and then Warner Doones back into the second row as well.

I would say probably the form player, well forward anyway, of this entire competition.

Yeah, well, it's a good discussion.

Maybe we can talk about this a bit more later on.

But I think that this is the area where they're really going to target the Brumbies because the Brumbies have historically been very good at set-piece.

Yes, they have some fantastic attacking prowess out wide, but this is where the game's going to be won and lost.

Brad Shields gets a start on the blind side.

Kind of interesting.

Yeah, and you want him there at those key moments throughout the game.

He's not going to go the 80 minutes.

They've got Braden Yossi on the bench who's going to come on.

So keeping Braden Yossi fresh to come on and finish the game off, I think that's a really interesting move from Clark Laidlaw.

And then out the back, you mentioned Kenny Naholo before.

Kind of the forgotten man a little bit.

I feel like Fahey's kind of had the career we thought Kenny Naholo was going to get in terms of scoring heaps of tries and being in the All Black conversation.

Obviously, Kenny's been struck down by injuries and it's sad, but hopefully this is the restart of a really promising career because as a winger, you've only got quite a short window to make your mark, make the All Blacks.

score a whole bunch of tries and get that big fat overseas contract or in Rico's case move to sender so yeah that's that I'm I think he's he's in for a big game he's been really good since he came back and then he's got obviously Billy Proctor Josh Morby as well and Callum Harkin like that all the Hurricanes backs that's a strong side you know and then we haven't even talked

It feels like it and historically it points towards a Hurricanes victory given the results between these two teams in New Zealand.

I will say though that that is a really strong Brumbies side.

There's a lot of Wallabies in there.