Ten players from Hautapu Sports Club have been selected in the 38-player Waikato squad for this year’s National Provincial Championship.
The group of Hautapu players have more than 300 NPC appearances between them and two Hautapu players will co-captain this season’s Waikato squad.
The Hautapu players named in the NPC squad are Hamilton Burr, Mosese Dawai, Luke Jacobson, Mitch Jacobson (co-captain, Ayden Johnstone (co-captain) Laghlan McWhannell, Liam Messam, Ollie Norris, Simon Parker and James Thompson.
This season’s squad includes two current All Blacks, 24 Super Rugby players and two current Samoan internationals.
Hautapu’s Liam Messam is expected to earn his 100th cap for Waikato when he takes the field for the first match, against Hawke’s Bay Magpies at FMG Stadium on Saturday August 6 (4.35pm).
The NPC match will be the third game of a triple header at the stadium, following a pre-season hit out between Thames Valley Swampfoxes and New Zealand Harlequins (11.35am), followed by Waitomo Group: Waikato FPC hosting Bay of Plenty Volcanix in week 4 of the Farah Palmer Cup (2.05pm).
Main photo: Last year’s NPC champions …
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2022 Waikato Bunnings Warehouse National Provincial Championship Squad
Player/caps/clubs
Hamilton Burr (29) Hautapu Sports
Rob Cobb (21) Hamilton Old Boys
Tepaea Cook-Savage (7) Fraser Tech
Liam Coombes-Fabling (22) Fraser Tech
Sam Cooper (10) Hamilton Old Boys
Mosese Dawai (15) Hautapu Sports
Rhys Dickinson (5) Fraser Tech
George Dyer (12) Fraser Tech
Samipeni Finau (22) Hamilton Old Boys
Luke Jacobson (22) Hautapu Sports
Mitch Jacobson (62) Hautapu Sports – Co-Captain
Ayden Johnstone (33) Hautapu Sports – Co-Captain
Sefo Kautai (46) Hamilton Marist
Taha Kemara (*) Te Awamutu Sports
Jack Lam (42) Hamilton Marist
Alapati Leuia (*)
D’Angelo Leuila (11) Fraser Tech
Anton Lienert-Brown (21) University
Tom Martin (4)
Rhys Marshall (4)
Damian McKenzie (26) University
Laghlan McWhannell (22) Hautapu Sports
Steven Misa (28) Hamilton Marist
Liam Messam (99) Hautapu Sports
Ollie Norris (31) Hautapu Sports
Simon Parker (11) Hautapu Sports
Cortez Ratima (21) Otorohanga
Te Rama Reuben (1) University
Xavier Roe (17) Hamilton Old Boys
Daniel Sinkinson (1) Melville
Bailyn Sullivan (45) Hamilton Marist
Samisoni Taukei’aho (44) Fraser Tech
James Thompson (20) Hautapu Sports
Ryan Tongia (5)
James Tucker (53) Hamilton Marist
Solomone Tukuafu (*) Hamilton Old Boys
Quinn Tupaea (32) Hamilton Old Boys
Gideon Wrampling (18) Te Awamutu Sports
() = caps for Waikato
* = uncapped for Waikato
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