Date : Saturday, April 22, 2017 Kick Off : 07:15 Venue : Rugby Park Tournament : Super Rugby Round : pool stage
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Highlanders

40TB

Sunwolves

Match Highlanders vs Sunwolves

Match between Highlanders squad and Sunwolves squad was played at Rugby Park as of round #9 of Super Rugby . Before kick-off Highlanders was in 7th position and Sunwolves 18th.

Lineups

Game sheet Highlanders vs Sunwolves
YC	Conversion	Try	Players		Players	Try	Conversion	Penalty
			Dan LIENERT-BROWN	1	Keita INAGAKI
			Liam COLTMAN	2	Yusuke NIWAI
			Siate TOKOLAHI	3	Yasuo YAMAJI
			Alex AINLEY	4	Sam WYKES
			Joseph WHEELER	5	Uwe HELU
		34'	Liam SQUIRE	6	Ed QUIRK
			Dillon HUNT	7	Yuhimaru MIMURA
			Luke WHITELOCK	8	Willie BRITZ	58'
		40'	Aaron SMITH	9	Fumiaki TANAKA
	5' 35' 40' 43' 51'		Marty BANKS	10	Yu TAMURA		58'	11'
			Tevita LI	11	Yasutaka SASAKURA
		3'	Malakai FEKITOA	12	Timothy LAFAELE
		42' 50'	Matt FADDES	13	William TUPOU
			Waisake NAHOLO	14	Takaaki NAKAZURU
		53'	Ben SMITH	15	Kotaro MATSUSHIMA

			Greg PLEASANTS-TATE	16	Takeshi KIZU
			Aki SEIULI	17	Koki YAMAMOTO
			Siua HALANUKONUKA	18	Heiichiro ITO
			Tom FRANKLIN	19	Shinya MAKABE
			Gareth EVANS	20	Rahboni WARREN-VOSAYACO	64'
			Josh RENTON	21	Yuki YATOMI
			Tei WALDEN	22	Hayden CRIPPS
			Sio TOMKINSON	23	JJ TAULAGI
Replacements
NAHOLO 🡇 🡅 TOMKINSON 40'				#1	2' NAKAZURU 🡇 🡅 TAULAGI
SQUIRE 🡇 🡅 EVANS 52'				#2	7' LAFAELE 🡇 🡅 CRIPPS
LIENERT-BROWN 🡇 🡅 SEIULI 52'				#3	15' CRIPPS 🡇 🡅 LAFAELE
TOKOLAHI 🡇 🡅 HALANUKONUKA 52'				#4	52' YAMAJI 🡇 🡅 ITO
SMITH 🡇 🡅 RENTON 55'				#5	52' MIMURA 🡇 🡅 WARREN-VOSAYACO
COLTMAN 🡇 🡅 PLEASANTS-TATE 58'				#6	56' NIWAI 🡇 🡅 KIZU
WHEELER 🡇 🡅 FRANKLIN 58'				#7	58' INAGAKI 🡇 🡅 YAMAMOTO
BANKS 🡇 🡅 WALDEN 76'				#8	63' LAFAELE 🡇 🡅 CRIPPS
				#9	66' HELU 🡇 🡅 MAKABE
				#10	67' TANAKA 🡇 🡅 YATOMI

Interesting datas⁽¹⁾

Highlanders	VS	Sunwolves
897 kg (112.13 kg)	Pack weight (average)	864 kg (108.00 kg)
27 ans	Forwards average age	27 ans
25 ans	Backs average age	27 ans
200 cm	Tallest player	197 cm
New Zealand : 80% (12/15) Tonga : 13% (2/15) Fiji : 7% (1/15)	Differents nationalities for starters	Japan : 60% (9/15) Australia : 20% (3/15) Tonga : 7% (1/15) South Africa : 7% (1/15) Samoa : 7% (1/15)
New Zealand : 83% (19/23) Tonga : 13% (3/23) Fiji : 4% (1/23)	Differents nationalities for all the team	Japan : 61% (14/23) Australia : 17% (4/23) Samoa : 9% (2/23) Tonga : 4% (1/23) South Africa : 4% (1/23) New Zealand : 4% (1/23)

(1) Calculations based on data in the database, which may be incomplete.

Timeline

Score : 0 - 0, 5 - 0, 7 - 0, 7 - 3, 12 - 3, 14 - 3, 16 - 3, 21 - 3, 26 - 3, 28 - 3, 33 - 3, 35 - 3, 40 - 3, 40 - 8, 40 - 10, 40 - 15
Gap : 0, +5, +7, +4, +9, +11, +13, +18, +23, +25, +30, +32, +37, +32, +30, +25

Standings before and after

Before

Super Rugby Round 8		Pts	P.	W.	L.	Diff.	B.
1	Hurricanes	5	1	1	0	66	1
2	Blues	5	1	1	0	38	1
3	Chiefs	5	1	1	0	9	1
4	Stormers	4	1	1	0	13	0
5	Jaguares	4	1	1	0	13	0
6	Waratahs	4	1	1	0	6	0
7	Crusaders	4	1	1	0	4	0
8	Lions	4	1	1	0	3	0
9	Reds	4	1	1	0	2	0
10	Sharks	1	1	0	1	-2	1
11	Cheetahs	1	1	0	1	-3	1
12	Brumbies	1	1	0	1	-4	1
13	Western Force	1	1	0	1	-6	1
14	Highlanders	0	1	0	1	-9	0
15	Kings	0	1	0	1	-13	0
16	Bulls	0	1	0	1	-13	0
17	Rebels	0	1	0	1	-38	0
18	Sunwolves	0	1	0	1	-66	0

After

Super Rugby Round 9		Pts	P.	W.	D.	L.	Diff.	B.
1	Crusaders	36	8	8	0	0	145	4
2	Hurricanes	33	8	7	0	1	217	5
3	Chiefs	33	8	7	0	1	76	5
4	Lions	32	8	7	0	1	84	4
5	Stormers	26	8	6	0	2	69	2
6	Sharks	24	8	5	1	2	36	2
7	Highlanders	23	8	5	0	3	41	3
8	Jaguares	20	8	4	0	4	38	4
9	Blues	17	8	3	0	5	33	5
10	Brumbies	17	8	3	0	5	6	5
11	Bulls	14	8	3	0	5	-28	2
12	Kings	10	8	2	0	6	-71	2
13	Cheetahs	10	8	2	0	6	-88	2
14	Reds	10	8	2	0	6	-90	2
15	Western Force	9	7	2	0	5	-48	1
16	Waratahs	9	8	2	0	6	-76	1
17	Rebels	7	7	1	1	5	-160	1
18	Sunwolves	5	8	1	0	7	-184	1