Maia Joseph

Uh, you start looking at the side, you're seeing some of the, uh, the best available players.

Maia Joseph comes back, uh, at halfback to play alongside Hina King, uh, as well.

So that is, uh, a great in, uh, to have, uh, there.

The back line, uh, does read, uh, Joseph, King, Letoiga, Brunt, Du Preez, Paul, and Sorensen-Magee.

Landon-Lane is an injury replacement for co-captain Ruhaame Demant.

But coach Whitney Hansen says halfback Maia Joseph will be first of five backup for Hannah King.

Those will be the two tens that will play over the next couple of weeks unless there's injury.

Arina's role for us really will be very much to come in and learn.

It's all good stuff.

Has Maya turned up on time yet, or is she still running late?

Hey, hey, hey, you just keep quiet in those cheap seats, Steph, because remember, who said it the other day? I'm a goddess.

Have you seen the text

Clearly.

Do you like that, though, Steph, that Millsy would not be interested in jumping on? He'd just make me do it.

Whereas Maya, the diligent worker that she is, sitting right here, puts her microphone on as well, doesn't need someone else to do that for her.

I mean, it's nice to have someone who's actually willing to do some work.

And so Hannah King is going to be taking over there.

Maya Joseph had a great tournament at the Rugby World Cup.

Then on the bench, interestingly enough, is Amarante Satiti, who is the sister of Wallace Satiti and the daughter of former Samoan rugby player and i can't remember what his first name is sorry um but yes so very big rugby family um they're uh they're four children two girls and two boys and the youngest son also plays um first 15 rugby at a school in new zealand and then um the other daughter is actually uh 2025 miss samoa So I just thought I'd throw that in there.

If you have a watch, watch for when Amarante Satiti.

Uh, I know there's been some mixed feedback over- overseas from some players, but our girls, um, yeah, have adapted really well to it, our kickers in particular.

And then I think you've seen, um, the, the likes of our halfbacks, uh, Maia Joseph, Tara Turner, the, the width they're getting in their pass now and their, their power, um, has really opened up our game.

So, um, yeah, we're all for it.

Yeah, okay.