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    Moana Pasifika Coach Tana Umaga has explained why he continues to change his first-five - going in to battle with the Blues tonight

    Moana Pasifika Coach Tana Umaga has explained why he continues to change his first-five - going in to battle with the Blues tonight


    Patrick Pellegrini returns to the ten jersey, relegating Jackson Garden-Bachop to the bench.

    Umaga says each game requires a particular skillset.



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     Other Rugby News
     17 May: Vern Cotter's happy for his side to be labelled the 'boring Blues' if the results keep rolling in - ahead of tonight's trip to Albany to face Moana Pasifika
     17 May: A battle of the back-row's in tonight's Super Rugby clash between Moana Pasifika and the Blues at North Harbour Stadium
     17 May: Sevu Reece has become the joint leading try scorer in Super Rugby during the Crusaders 48-33 win over the Waratahs in Sydney
     17 May: Highlanders coach Jamie Joseph is feeling for his players after a tough 24-20 defeat by the Hurricanes in their Super Rugby clash in Wellington
     16 May: No qualms from Crusaders lock Antonio Shalfoon over a trio of All Blacks missing from their forward pack for tonight's Super Rugby Pacific clash against the Waratahs in Sydney
     16 May: New Zealand Rugby has backed down on its controversial proposal to field an Under-18 boys' side, which would have effectively supplanted the national Secondary Schools Fifteen
     16 May: Wellington's Stadium's lost its naming partner
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