But Raedeen Blake, injured playing first five-eighths in the opening match against Canterbury, returns at halfback, with Hales expected to take a place among the reserves.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also some good news in the return of Olioli Mua, also on the bench. <\/p>\n
Despite the winless records of the two sides, and the TAB\u2019s odds at $1.87 for each side, the Volcanix have marginally the better record this year.<\/p>\n
The side has picked up two bonus points, with a scoring differential of -259 points, while the Tui have no points and a differential of -267.<\/p>\n
BoP were beaten 88-0 by Canterbury, 45-31 by Manawatu, 104-30 by Auckland and 88-5 by Waikato, while the Tui were beaten 72-0 by Canterbury, 73-5 by Manawatu, 65-14 by Counties-Manukau, and 81-5 by Auckland. <\/p>\n
The Tui match starts at 11.35am and the Magpies match, with Bay of Plenty a $1.60 TAB favourite to win, at 2.05pm.<\/p>\n
The Tui team is: Whitley Mareikura (co-captain), Jaye Nepia, Nina Poletti; Caterina Poletti (co-captain), Pippa Giddens; Kaya Whaitiri-Dee, Rebecca Dickson; Patrice Mareikura; Raedeen Blake, Cassie Siataga; Arwen Tipoki, Hinemoa Hubbard, Lua Semisi-Sa\u2019e, Kate Donald, Rakai McCafferty. Subs: Neva Mua, Denise Aiolupotea, Tori Iosefo, Zaire Courtney, Makayla Cameron, Olioli Mua, Reneigh Edwards, Briar Hales.<\/p>\n
Doug Laing has been a reporter for 52 years, most of it in Hawke\u2019s Bay, covering most aspects of general news and sports, including rugby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Raedeen Blake, injured playing first five-eighths in the opening match against Canterbury, returns at halfback, with Hales…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1863,5837,7793,3246,10542,20152,20156,2082,305,1976,78,20154,10543,111,139,69,1118,20157,20155,1527,17891,6327,20153,17893,6102,213,1227,223,2044,20151,1533,2834,377],"class_list":["post-18588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-back","tag-battle","tag-bays","tag-both","tag-cup","tag-doordie","tag-farah","tag-for","tag-have","tag-hawkes","tag-in","tag-manusina","tag-match","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-palmer","tag-representatives","tag-return","tag-rookie","tag-rugby","tag-samoan","tag-saturdays","tag-side","tag-sports","tag-tauranga","tag-the","tag-time","tag-tui","tag-will","tag-womens","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}