1 Xavier Numia, 2 James O'Reilly, 3 Siale Lauaki, 4 Dominic Bird, 5 Caleb Delany, 6 Brad Shields, 7 Du'Plessis Kirifi, 8 Peter Lakai, 9 Kemara Hauiti-Parapara, 10 Aidan Morgan, 11 Connor Garden-Bachop, 12 Riley Higgins, 13 Billy Proctor, 14 Losilosivale Filipo, 15 Ruben Love
Reserves: 16 Penieli Poasa, 17 Cameron Orr, 18 PJ Sheck, 19 Hugo Plummer, 20 Dominic Ropeti, 21 Kyle Preston, 22 Peter Umaga-Jensen, 23 Julian Savea
1 Pouri Rakete-Stones, 2 Tyrone Thompson, 3 Joel Hintz, 4 Geoff Cridge, 5 Tom Parsons, 6 Marino Mikaele-Tu'u, 7 Josh Kaifa, 8 Devan Flanders, 9 Brad Weber, 10 Lincoln McClutchie, 11 Jonah Lowe, 12 Chase Tiatia, 13 Nick Grigg, 14 Ollie Sapsford, 15 Lolagi Visinia
Reserves: 16 Jacob Devery, 17 Tim Farrell, 18 Bo Abra, 19 Frank Lochore, 20 Sam Smith, 21 Folau Fakatava, 22 Stacey Ili, 23 Caleb Makene
Pricks, though I shouldn’t be surprised.
HB has always just been a bogan version of Manawatu
Permission to rename the Log o Wood to the Kindling o Distant Memories.
Just a shit province with no respect. Kick them out of the comp
Breakers media team 
This is why Hawke's Bay shouldn't be trusted with anything precious. Absolute trash behaviour. I am both appalled and disgusted.
Sanctions should.be:
- Shield-holding status is relinquished and given to East Coast
- HB stripped of all points in this year's NPC, and unable to collect any points in 2024 or 2025.
- BOP get "The Bay" usage rights for the next 10 years, regardless of results.
- Forced to play all 2024 home games at a shitty ground with noted drainage and sunstroke issu-... wait, they already do that.
- Magpie supporters must not be navel-gazing, one-eyed, chip-on-shoulder-carrying knobends for five years. This will clearly be the hardest to maintain based on the HB fans on the Fern.
I'm loving the hate. We have the Shield bitches. (Even if it is in multiple parts).
Let's be honest. The locals proved they were unfit to host Warriors games this year, so this is just a continuation of the scummy behaviour emerging from Napier, Hastings and all the other two-bit towns that make up so-called "Magpie country". In fact, I'm surprised the union hasn't tried to blame a rogue streaker.
I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed. Sadly I’m not surprised given the area. Fucking scum supporters too. Only place in NZ that I have gone to a rugby match and felt threatened. Even the fucking can tabs are t that bad. Fucking filth.
The new shield was built by a company in Wellington. Absolute stitch up. Likely inserted something in the wood to explode once they lost the shield. Shoddy workmanship.
@Smudge said in Wellington v Hawkes (RS):
I think that's what annoys most people. Everyone would acknowledge that accidents happen, but it's what you do next that matters, and taking photos of said broken shield and posting it on social media (even in a semi-private setting like Snapchat or a WhatsApp group or whatever) is dumb.
I suspect there's more to come too...
Well, I guess we know the identity of the guy who sent the photo to NZR with the caption about snorting drugs. 
Agree, the break in itself isn't the issue, but fuck me young people are dumb with their phones, and posting that shit has just inflamed this.
I for one am pleased to see that winning the shield still warrants a solid celebration.
@Stargazer said in Wellington v Hawkes (RS):
Too many assumptions about what happened.
Based on what I’ve read I’m assuming someone split it in half