Gopperth to captain North Harbour
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:32
Jimmy Gopperth, on loan from the Wellington Lions, will captain North Harbour when they play their second Air New Zealand Cup pre-season game against Northland at the at East Coast Bays Club on Saturday.
The Harbour team will be without a host of player who are either on All Black Tri-Nations duty or out injured.
Those unavailable with injury include Sam Biddles, Matt France, Mike Harris, Jamie Helleur, Puanani Hunia, Jack McPhee, George Pisi, Michael Reid and Nick Williams.
The players on All Black duty are Anthony Boric, Anthony Tuitavake, Tony Woodcock and Rudi Wulf.
North Harbour: 15 Ken Pisi, 14 Villiame Waqaseduadua, 13 Nafi Tuitavake, 12 Hayden Abercrombie, 11 Jona Tuitoga, 10 Jimmy Gopperth (captain), 9 Luke Hamilton, 8 Richard Mayhew, 7 Malakai Ravulo, 6 Tom Chamberlain, 5 Martin Purdy, 4 James King, 3 Ben Afeaki, 2 James Hinchco, 1 James Afoa.
Replacements - from: James Parsons, Chris
Eves, Ryan Wilson, Villiame Maafu, Chris Smylie, Ben Botica, Josh York, Robbie Colhoun.
Date: Saturday, July 12
Venue: Windsor Park, East Coast Bays
Kick-off: 16.30 (0630 GMT)
