An interesting team selection coming up this afternoon. Brown took the safe option last week going back to his halves pairing from earlier in the season, likely the pairing he was planning on all off season.
Nikorima and
Walsh probably deserved another run after their previous outing.
Now add it Browns comments about giving
Walsh more game time or he should have started him I'm expecting he'd be named at 6. Now what does Brown do with
Chanel Harris-Tavita and
Nikorima?
I'd guess he is likely to play both of them with one off the bench. If
Walsh has issues defensively they can replace him but will likely go to dummy half.
The main thing we need with
Nikorima if he is in the halves or dummy half he needs to run. I made the comment last year when he occassionally goes into dummy half while playing in the halves he runs, seems to run more than when he is playing dummy half. If he plays at dummy half he needs to be a bit more selfish and run. I'd instruct him to pick certain players like
Ben Murdoch-Masila and when they do a big run, take off out of dummy half.