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Link goes to the series overview instead of the specific episode since most of the series predates this community.

The series follows the New England Free Jacks during the 2023 season.

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Eastern Conference Final
Teams: New England Free Jacks V. Old Glory DC
Venue: Veterans Memorial Stadium, Quincy
Kickoff: 5:30 PM Eastern, Saturday, July 1, 2023
Referee: Joe James
Assistant Referee 1: Federico Anselmi
Assistant Referee 2: Pete Pender
TMO: Chris Assmus

Western Conference Final
Teams: San Diego Legion V. Seattle Seawolves
Venue: Snapdragon Stadium, San Diego
Kickoff: 6:00 PM Eastern, Sunday, July 2, 2023
Referee: Cam Stone
Assistant Referee 1: Luke Rogan
Assistant Referee 2: Kahlil Harrison
TMO: Chris Assmus

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I believe these are for the regular season, should have collected them before yesterday's match. MLRStats on Instagram, run by JamDelay, posts their own unofficial stats from match reports and the league's analytics, so I may make another post highlighting those stats.

Points Scored:

Rank Team Player Points
1. New England Free Jacks Jayson Potroz 133
2. Houston SaberCats Davy Coetzer 124
3. Utah Warriors Joel Hodgson 124
4. Seattle Seawolves AJ Alatimu 85
5. Old Glory DC Tito Bonilla 79
6. NOLA Gold Rodney Iona 77
7. New York Ironworkers Jason Emery 75
8. San Diego Legion Will Hooley 73
9. Seattle Seawolves Jordan Chait 72
10. Utah Warriors Joe Mano 70

Tries Scored:

Rank Team Player Tries
1. Utah Warriors Joe Mano 14
2. New England Free Jacks Paula Balekana 13
3. Seattle Seawolves Ricky Hattingh 11
4. Houston SaberCats Gideon van Wyk 10
5. Seattle Seawolves Ina Futi 9

Successful Goal Kicking:

Rank Team Player Points
1. New England Free Jacks Jayson Potroz 55
2. Houston SaberCats Davy Coetzer 40
3. Utah Warriors Joel Hodgson 40
4. Seattle Seawolves AJ Alatimu 38
5. San Diego Legion Will Hooley 30

Carries:

Rank Team Player Carries
1. New England Free Jacks Wian Conradie 192
2. Chicago Hounds Billy Meakes 170
3. NOLA Gold JP du Plessis 153
4. Old Glory DC Jamason Faanana-Schultz 148
5. NOLA Gold Tesimoni Tonga’uiha 143

Ball Carry Meters:

Rank Team Player Meters
1. Utah Warriors Caleb Makene 1619
2. Utah Warriors Joe Mano 1602
3. San Diego Legion Nate Augspurger 1580
4. New York Ironworkers Andrew Coe 1429
5. Seattle Seawolves Ina Futi 1404

Kicking Meters:

Rank Team Player Meters
1. Utah Warriors Joel Hodgson 6198
2. Old Glory DC Tito Bonilla 5229
3. Chicago Hounds Luke Carty 4555
4. Seattle Seawolves JP Smith 3618
5. New England Free Jacks Jayson Potroz 3555

Made Tackles:

Rank Team Player Tackles
1. Dallas Jackals Jan Adriaan Booysen 257
2. Seattle Seawolves Charles Elton 244
3. Rugby ATL Matt Heaton 215
4. Dallas Jackals Sam Golla 213
5. New England Free Jacks Wian Conradie 206
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Standings: Seattle 2nd in West (12-4-0, 74 pts), Houston 3rd in West (10-6-0, 53 pts)
Kickoff: 6:00 PM Eastern, 3:00 PM Pacific
Location: Starfire Sports Complex, Tukwila
Where to watch: FS2, The Rugby Network (live international, 24 hr delay domestic)
Referee: Joe James
Assistant Refs: Luke Rogan, Austin Reed
TMO: Nick Hannon

Lineup

Seawolves Pos SaberCats
Majola 1 Rob Cobb
Malcolm 2 Dean Muir (C)
Matenga 3 Morgan Mitchell
Landry 4 Marno Redelinghuys
Herbst 5 Nathan Den Hoedt
Elton 6 Malon Al-Jiboori
Foley 7 Keni Nasoqeqe
Hattingh (C) 8 Gideon Van Wyk
Smith 9 Dillon Smit
Alatimu 10 Davy Coetzer (VC)
Futi 11 Vereniki Tikoisolomone
Kriel 12 Louritz Van Der Schyff
Lopeti 13 Dominic Akina
Matthews 14 Line Latu
Carelse 15 Gerrie Labuschagne
J. Malcolm 16 Joe Taufete'e
Turnbull 17 Alex McDonnell
Pedersen 18 Val Lee-lo
Mitchell 19 Emmanuel Albert
Penny 20 Danny Barrett
Ferris 21 Hanco Germishuys
Aisea 22 Carlo De Nysschen
Sio 23 Jax Hidalgo

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Standings: New York 2nd in East (8-8-0, 43 pts), DC 3rd in East (7-8-1, 43 pts)
Kickoff: 6:00 PM Eastern, 3:00 PM Pacific
Location: Memorial Field, Mt. Vernon, New York
Where to watch: FS2, The Rugby Network (live international, 24 hr delay domestic)
Referee: Federico Anselmi
Assistant Refs: Chris Assmus, Cisco Lopez
TMO: Derek Summers

Lineup

Ironworkers Pos Old Glory
Chance Wenglewski 1 Jack Iscaro
Dylan Fawsitt (C) 2 Nic Souchon
Kaleb Geiger 3 Kyle Stewart
Charlie Hewitt 4 Tevita Naqali
Hamish Dalzell 5 Kyle Baillie (CC)
Brad Tucker 6 Jamason Fa'anana-Schultz (CC)
Brendon O'Connor 7 Lautaro Bavaro
Pago Haini 8 Niko Jones
Connor Buckley 9 Danny Tusitala
Jason Emery 10 Gradyn Bowd
Ed Fidow 11 Junior Sa'u
Tei Walden 12 Doug Fraser
Faasiu Fuatai 13 William Talataina
Brooklyn Hardaker 14 Marcos Young
Sam Windsor 15 Kurt Baker
Daquan Perry 16 Facundo Gattas
Tevita LAngi 17 Calixto Martinez
Sam Davies 18 Quentin Newcomer
Monate Akuei 19 Collin Grosse
Kara Pryor 20 Langilangi Haupeakui
Conor McManus 21 John Rizzo
Quinn Ngawati 22 Thretton Palamo
Nick Feakes 23 Alejo Daireaux

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He's been called "the Mark Cuban of rugby," has Chicago Hounds Owner Phil Groves. Why? Because he ain't afraid to whoop it up with the fans -even going shirtless in the process! With that, this episode of MLR Weekly features Mr. Groves in an all-encompassing interview with Matt McCarthy, from the lessons learned from a tumultuous first year, to the players publicly lobbying for unionization.

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Seattle Seawolves V. Houston SaberCats
Starfire Stadium, Tukwila
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Referee: Joe James
Assistant Referee 1: Luke Rogan
Assistant Referee 2: Austin Reed
TMO: Nick Hannon

Rugby New York V. Old Glory DC
Memorial Field, Mt Vernon
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Referee: Federico Anselmi
Assistant Referee 1: Chris Assmus
Assistant Referee 2: Cisco Lopez
TMO: Luke Rogan

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Standings: San Diego (1st in West, 14-1-0, 69 pts), Seattle (2nd in West, 12-3-0, 59 pts)
Kickoff: 7:00 PM Eastern, 4:00 PM Pacific
Location: Snapdragon Stadium, San Diego
Where to watch: FS1, The Rugby Network
Referee: Mike Lash (New Zealand)
Assistant Refs: Marquise Goodwin (USA), Jack Gohl (USA)
TMO: Nick Hannon (USA)

Lineup

Legion Pos Seawolves
Sylvia 1 Donald
Malolo 2 Malcolm
Baumann 3 Pedersen
Franklin 4 Lotawa
Ross 5 Mitchell
Smith 6 Page
Cowan (C) 7 Penny
Kearns 8 Foley (C)
Higgins 9 Watkins
Henderson 10 Ferris
Te'o 11 Sio
Nonu 12 Aisea
Waqainabete 13 Busby
Matyas 14 Zarcone
Horan 15 Barry
Klein 16 Glover
Pifeleti 17 Turnbull
Kane 18 Tupou
Turori 19 Tupufia
Grant 20 Demers
Poidevin 21 Keane
Augspurger (VC) 22 Carelse
Hooley 23 Lopeti

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Standings: New York (3rd in East, 8-7-0, 42 pts), Utah Warriors(4th in West, 9-6-0, 45 pts)
Kickoff: 3:00 PM Eastern, 12:00 PM Pacific
Location: Memorial Field, Mt. Vernon, New York
Where to watch: MSG, The Rugby Network (en Español)
Referee: Joe James(UK)
Assistant Refs: Marty Steffens (USA), Miles McIvor (USA)
TMO: Greg Gilliam (USA)

Lineup

Ironworkers Pos Warriors
Chance Wenglewski 1 Kilifi
Dylan Fawsitt (C) 2 Bell
Kaleb Geiger 3 Mullen
Charlie Hewitt 4 'Uhila
Brad Tucker 5 Lane
Kara Pryor 6 Wilson (C)
Brendon O'Connor 7 Williams
Pago Haini 8 Havili
Conor McManus 9 Going
Jason Emery 10 Hodgson
Ishmail Shabazz 11 Hamilton
Tei Walden 12 Whiting
Faasiu Fuatai 13 Fisher
Brooklyn Hardaker 14 Makene
Sam Windsor 15 Loubser
Daquan Perry 16 J. Backe
Tevita Langi 17 E. Prior
Nic Mayhew 18 A. MacLellan
Hamish Dalzell 19 J. Van Vuuren
Joe Basser 20 T. Tu'avao
Connor Buckley 21 J. Noaese
Quinn Ngawati 22 C. McLeod
Nick Feakes 23 L. Tago

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Standings: New England (1st in East, 13-2-0, 63 pts), Houston (3rd in West, 10-5-0, 53 pts)
Kickoff: 1:30 PM Eastern, 10:30 AM Pacific
Location: Veterans Memorial Stadium, Quincy
Where to watch: FS2, The Rugby Network (Live internationally, 24hr delay USA)
Referee: Federico Anselmi (Argentina)
Assistant Refs: Amelia Luciano (USA), Mikey Rudzinsky (USA)
TMO: Luke Rogan (USA)

Lineup

Free Jacks Pos SaberCats
Kyle Ciquera 1 Alec McDonnell
Mils Sanervi 2 Dean Muir (C)
Cole Keith 3 Val Lee-Lo
Semisi Paea 4 CC Mahoni
Conor Keys 5 Emmanuel Albert
Mitch Jacobson (C) 6 Danny Barrett
Slade McDowall 7 Keni Nasoqeqe
Wian Conradie 8 Hanco Germishuys
John Poland 9 Carlo De Nysschen
Beaudein Waka 10 Kian Meadon
Paula Balekana 11 Zach Pangelinan
Le Roux Malan 12 Rob Povey (VC)
Ben LEsage 13 Kainoa Lloyd
Mitch Wilson 14 Nick Boyer
Reece MacDonald 15 Gerrie Labuschagne
Andrew Quattrin 16 Axel Zapata
Foster DeWitt 17 Frikkie De Beer
Joel Hintz 18 Will Vakalahi
Sam Fischli 19 Wynand Grassman
Joe Johnston 20 Asa Carter
Holden Yungert 21 Gideon Van Wyk
Spencer Jones 22 Davy Coetzer
Cam Davidowicz 23 Jaz Hidalgo

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Standings: NOLA Gold (6-9, 30pts, 4th in East) vs Toronto Arrows (1-12-2, 15pts, 6th in East)

Kickoff: 7:00pm ET, 4:00pm PT

Location: York Lions Stadium, Toronto, ON, Canada

Where to watch: The Rugby Network, TSN 3, KFMB

Referee: Lex Weiner (USA)

Assistant Refs: Stephen Stothers-Robert (Canada) & Clint Lemkus (Canada)

TMO: Greg Gilliam (USA)

Lineup

NOLA Gold Pos Toronto Arrows
Matt Harmon 1 Connor Grindal
Eric Howard 2 Jack McRogers
Jarred Adams 3 Isaac Salmon
Cam Dolan (c) 4 Hank Stevenson
Malcolm May 5 Mike Sheppard (c)
Moni Tonga’uiha 6 Mason Flesch
Tom Florence 7 James O’Neill
Maciu Korai 8 Travis Larsen
Sebastiano Vilanni 9 Will Grant
Reece Botha 10 Peter Nelson
Dougie Fife 11 Fabian Goodall
Ross Depperschmidt 12 Liam Bowman
JP Du Plessis 13 Mitch Richardson
Harley Wheeler 14 Kobe Faust
Jordan Trainor 15 Shane O’Leary
Reserves
Pat O’Toole 16 Gene Syminton
Kevin Sullivan 17 Ramón Ayarza
Dino Waldren 18 Conan O’Donnell
William Waguespack 19 Matt Fish
Alex Lopeti 20 Owain Ruttan
Rory Edwards 21 Ross Braude
Jack Webster 22 Dawson Fatoric
Kenny Jinkins 23 Sam Malcolm
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Standings: NOLA Gold (6-9, 30pts, 4th in East) vs Toronto Arrows (1-12-2, 15pts, 6th in East) Kickoff: 7:00pm ET, 4:00pm PT Location: York Lions Stadium, Toronto, ON, Canada Where to watch: The Rugby Network, TSN 3, KFMB Referee: Lex Weiner (USA) Assistant Refs: Stephen Stothers-Robert (Canada) & Clint Lemkus (Canada) TMO: Greg Gilliam (USA)

Lineup

||Pos|| |NOLA|Number|Toronto| |Matt Harmon|1|Connor Grindal| |Eric Howard|2|Jack McRogers| |Jarred Adams|3|Isaac Salmon| |Cam Dolan (c)|4|Hank Stevenson| |Malcolm May|5|Mike Sheppard (c)| |Moni Tonga’uiha|6|Mason Flesch| |Tom Florence|7|James O’Neill| |Maciu Korai|8|Travis Larsen| |Sebastiano Vilanni|9|Will Grant| |Reece Botha|10|Peter Nelson| |Dougie Fife|11|Fabian Goodall| |Ross Depperschmidt|12|Liam Bowman| |JP Du Plessis|13|Mitch Richardson| |Harley Wheeler|14|Kobe Faust| |Jordan Trainor|15|Shane O’Leary| ||Reserves|| |Pat O’Toole|16|Gene Syminton| ||17|| ||18|| ||19|| ||20|| ||21|| ||22|| ||23||

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Standings: Toronto (6th in East, 1-12-2, 15 pts), NOLA (4th in East, 6-9-0, 30 pts)
Kickoff: 7:00 PM Eastern, 4:00 PM Pacific
Location: York Lions Stadium, Toronto
Where to watch: TSN, The Rugby Network
Referee: Lex Weiner
Assistant Refs: Clint Lemkus, Stephen Stothers-Robert
TMO: Greg Gilliam

Lineup No roster from NOLA yet, will update when available

Arrows Pos Gold
Grindal 1
McRogers 2
Salmon 3
Stevenson 4
Sheppard (C) 5
Flesch 6
O'Neill 7
Larsen 8
Grant 9
Nelson 10
Goodall 11
Bowman 12
Richardson 13
Faust 14
O'Leary 15
Syminton 16
Ayarza 17
O'Donnel 18
Fish 19
Ruttan 20
Braude 21
Fatoric 22
Malcolm 23

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Standings: Old Glory DC (3rd in East, 6-8-1, 38 pts), Rugby ATL (5th in East, 5-9-1, 27 pts)
Kickoff: 7:00 PM Eastern, 4:00 PM Pacific
Location: Segra Field, Leesburg
Where to watch: MASN2, The Rugby Network (en Español) Referee: Chris Assmus
Assistant Refs: Aaron Davis, Craig Sakowski
TMO: Luke Rogan

Lineup Rugby ATL not posted yet, will update when available

Old Glory Pos RATL
Jack Iscaro 1
Nic Souchon 2
Kyle Stewart 3
Tevita Naqali 4
Kyle Baillie 5
Langilangi Haupeakui 6
Lautaro Bavaro 7
Niko Jones 8
Danny Tusitala 9
Gradyn Bowd 10
Junior Sa'u 11
Doug Fraser 12
William Talataina 13
John Rizzo 14
Peni Lasaqa 15
Koikoi Nelligan 16
Calixto Martinez 17
Quentin Newcomer 18
Collin Grosse 19
Jamason Fa'anana-Schultz 20
Thretton Palamo 21
John Lefevre 22
Alejo Daireaux 23

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Standings: Dallas (5th in West, 2-13-0, 17 pts), Chicago (6th in West, 2-13-0, 16 pts)
Kickoff: 6:00 PM Eastern, 3:00 PM Pacific
Location: Choctaw Stadium, Arlington
Where to watch: KTXA (OTA), Marquee Sports Network, The Rugby Network
Referee: Scott Green
Assistant Refs: Andrew Low, Justin Hale
TMO: Nick Hannon

Lineup (posting from mobile, too painful to flip back and forth between apps and type out the table)

Hounds:

Jackals:

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No Friday games this week. Only one match has playoff implications. New York and DC playing for home advantage in the playoff eliminator round. New York only needs one table point (score 4 tries, or lose by 7 or fewer points) to secure the home field.

We have a Western Conference Toilet Bowl as #5 Dallas hosts #6 Chicago. Both teams are 2-13-0, within 1 table point of each other. So Chicago can move up to #5 if they can repeat last week's performance.

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NEW YORK, NY - This sixth year of Major League Rugby flew by, as we're in the final week of the regular season, with all but one question re the playoffs, MLR Weekly has all you need, including an interview with Rugby NY GM, Stephen Lewis, who weighs in on all things 7s.

ALSO INCLUDED:
-MLR headlines from Rugby Morning’s John Fitzpatrick -Predictions from Bryan Ray of Americas Rugby News
-Rugby's Best Recap

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I feel pretty confident that the players will vote to unionize. I don't see a date for when a vote would be held.

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Courtesy of James Deeley

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Standings: Seattle wnd in West (12-2-0, 58 pts), New England 1st in East (12-2-0, 58 pts)
Kickoff: 10:30 pm Eastern, 7:30 pm Pacific
Location: Starfire Sports Complex, Tukwila
Where to watch: Root Sports, NBCSB, The Rugby Network
Referee: Luke Rogan
Assistant Refs: Brad Schwalger, Saro Turner
TMO: Derek Summers

Lineup

Seawolves Pos Free Jacks
Turnbull 1 Kereru-Symes
Malcolm 2 Quatrin
Matenga 3 Hintz
Manoa 4 Paea
Krumeri 5 O'Gorman
Mitchell 6 Fischli
Elton (C) 7 Johnston (C)
Durutalo 8 Davidowicz
Smith 9 Poland
Alatimu 10 Potroz
Iosefo 11 Balekana
Futi 12 Jones
Kriel 13 Van Der Bank
Lopeti 14 Filimone
Matthews 15 Waaka
P. Malcolm 16 Hilterbrand
Donald 17 Dewitt
Pedersen 18 Young
Penny 19 Parete
Foley 20 Fryer
Ferris 21 Yungert
Carelse 22 Olson
Mooneyham 23 Jacobson

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Standings: Toronto 6th in East (1-11-2, 15 pts), San Diego 1st in West (13-1-0, 64 pts)
Kickoff: 4:00 PM Eastern, 1:00 PM Pacific
Location: York Lions Stadium, Toronto
Where to watch: TSN, The Rugby Network
Referee: Kat Roche
Assistant Refs: Pater Pender, Clint Lemkus
TMO: Andrew Hosie

Lineup

Arrows Pos Legion
Grindal 1 Pifeleti
Wong 2 Klein
Rowland 3 Green
Flesch 4 Grant
Sheppard 5 Franklin
Rumball (C) 6 Poidevin
Ruttan 7 Pryor
Larsen 8 Tameilau
Grant 9 Judd
Nelson 10 Hooley
Fatoric 11 Augspurger (VC)
Bowman 12 Loots
Richardson 13 Brache (C)
Bowen 14 Aoake
O'Leary 15 Te'o
McRogers 16 Malolo
O'Donnell 17 Sears-Duru
Salmon 18 Sylvia
Kerry 19 Turori
O'Neil 20 Ma'afu Afungia
Braude 21 Smith
Tasi 22 burton
Malcolm 23 Matyas

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Standings: Utah 4th in West (9-5-0, 44 pts), Chicago 6th in West (1-13-0, 11 pts)
Kickoff: 10:00 PM EDT
Location: Zions Bank Stadium, Herriman
Where to watch: AT&T Sports Net, Marquee Sports, The Rugby Network
Referee: Cisco Lopez
Assistant Refs: Kahlil Harrison, Kage Green
TMO: Nick Hannon

Lineup

Warriors Pos Hounds
Kilifi 1 Larome White
Bell 2 Hugh Roach
Mullen 3 Paddy Ryan
Lane 4 John Cullen
Havili 5 Duke Krishnan
Wilson 6 Mike Matarazzo
Williams 7 MacLean Jones
Tu'avao 8 Tinashe Muchena
McLeod 9 Sidney Shoop
Hodgson 10 Luke Carty
Mano 11 Julian Dominguez
Whiting 12 Billy Meakes
Kruse 13 Bryce Campbell (C)
Makene 14 Matai Leuta
Loubser 15 JP Eloff
Backe 16 Stevens
Prior 17 Lombard
MacLellan 18 Abel
'Uhila 19 Peri
Van Vuuren 20 De Waal
Going 21 Nkombua
Tonga 22 Baska
Fisher 23 Mattina

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Standings: RATL 4th in East (5-8-1, 27 pts), RNY 3rd in East (7-7-0, 37 pts)
Kickoff: 8:00 pm EDT
Location: Silverbacks Park, Atlanta
Where to watch: FS2, The Rugby Network (Live international, 24 hour delay domestic)
Referee: Federico Anselmi
Assistant Refs: Dave Edwards, Bryan Hall
TMO: Greg Gillman

Lineup

ATL Pos Ironworkers
Alex Maughan 1 Chance Wneglewski
Sidney Tobias 2 Dylan Fawsitt (C)
John-Roy Jenkinson 3 Kaleb Geiger
Justin Basson 4 Charlie Hewitt
Johan Momsen 5 Hamish Dalzell
Yiliami Helu 6 Brad Tucker
Matt Heaton 7 Brendon O’Connor
Ross Deacon 8 Pago Haini
Ryan Rees 9 Connor Buckley
Chris Hilsenbeck 10 Jason Emery
Nolan Tuamoheloa 11 Ed Fidow
Martini Talapusi 12 Tei Walden
Will Leonard 13 Faasiu Fuatai
Te Rangatira 14 Brooklyn Hardaker
Austin White 15 Andrew Coe
Isaac Bales 16 Daquan Perry
Lincoln Si’i 17 Tevita Langi
Will Burke 18 Nic Mayhew
Manuel Milan 19 Quinn Ngawati
Dremon Torres 20 Kara Pryor
Connor Cook 21 Cono McManus
Niall Saunders 22 Sam Windsor
Kurt Coleman 23 Jack Heighton
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