Powerful Mako

A potent mix of international stars, Super Rugby players and club competitors make up an enlarged Tasman Mako men’s squad named last week to contest the 2023 Bunnings Warehouse NPC competition.

In this World Cup year, the Tasman selectors have had to work around impending international commitments for several of their contracted players, while putting together a group of players capable to competing week-afterweek in the National Provincial Championship which begins for them on Friday, August 4, against Otago in Nelson.

A feature of the team is the naming of three Moli brothers - Atu, Monu and Sam - in the mix, although Sam is likely to be part of the Tongan World Cup squad heading for France.

Prop Tyrel Lomax, new loose for-