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Manawatu take both trial matches |
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Friday, 23 June 2006 |
One of the stand-in Manawatu coaches, Jonathon Phillips, asked the rhetorical question: Where else in New Zealand would a Super 14 union come to the aid of one of its provinces like this?
Answer: Probably nowhere. Only the Hurricanes have the staff in place and Phillips said Hurricanes coach Colin Cooper insists the staff never forget the region.
Of Hurricanes' hue, besides Phillips, was new coach Dave Rennie and managers Tony Bedford, Alex McKenzie and John Knowles.
There's plenty more graft needed before fronting up to Auckland after Manawatu A, in Evergreens camouflage, finally subdued third division champion Wairarapa-Bush 24-16 after trailing 16-5 too long into the second half.
The games were switched to the Arena after the Massey University fields were closed yesterday in anticipation of the southerly blast which didn't come.
To epitomise the chasm between the neighbouring unions, the Evergreens Green whipped Wairarapa-Bush B 72-0.
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