WFR News Magpies Make Final

The Hawkes Bay Magpies have made their first ever WFR Grand Final by defeating Southern Conference Champions the Melbourne Bushrangers.

Now for the Biggest test of the season a meeting with the undefeated Perthshire Blades.

The Final to be held in Neutral Territory has been confirmed as Tokyo Stadium . The WFR has decided to promote WFR in Japan and what better way on doing so than by playing the biggest showcase there.

A sellout crowd of around 75,000 are expected as ticket sales have been swift since the announcement.

Hawkes Bay are playing down the underdog status though as they are fully aware of the power of the Blades and their seemingly unstopple march towards the WFR Crown. At this stage the Magpies look to be keeping their line up from the Preliminary final which was

1 Josh Keys 2 Hikawera Elliot 3 Clint Newland 4 Matt Egan 5 George Naoupu 6 Karl Lowe

7 Michael Johnson 8 Thomas Waldrom 9 Chris Eaton 10 Dane Shelford

11 Zac Guilford 12 Sam Giddens 13 Andrew Horrell 14 Nick Thomson 15 Israel Dagg

RESERVES

16 Richard Buckman 17 Matt Berquist 18 Mark Jackman 19 Ross Kennedy

20 Trent Boswell-Wakefield 21 Sona Taumalolo 22 Tom Simpson

A Couple of niggly injuries are in the squad with Chris Eaton Hurting from a leg Strain and Karl Lowe with Back Spasms but the final line up will be decided on Wednesday Morning.

A number of Special flights left Auckland International Airport this morning that were specially charter by the Magpies Supporters and a very vocal number of around 2,500 are expected.

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