Round 2 continues in Wellington, where the home side will look to go 2 from 2 against the visiting Perth lads.
The Hurricanes really turned it on against the Blues last week and really should do the goods at home, against a Western Force side reeling from no fewer than five injury withdrawals this week.
Ref: Vinny Munro (New Zealand)
ARs: Chris Pollock (New Zealand), Mike Fraser (New Zealand)
TMO: Glenn Newman (New Zealand)
Venue: Westpac Stadium, Wellington
Kick-off: 08.36 SA time; 06.35 GMT
Western Force: 15 James O’Connor, 14 Dane Haylett-Petty, 13 Mitch Inman, 12 Josh Tatupu, 11 Haig Sare, 10 Sam Harris, 9 Brett Sheehan, 8 Sam Wykes, 7 Matt Hodgson, 6 Ben McCalman, 5 Nathan Sharpe (captain), 4 Tom Hockings, 3 Tim Fairbrother, 2 Pek Cowan, 1 Matt Dunning.
Replacements: 16 Ryan Tyrrell, 17 Nic Henderson, 18 Richard Stanford, 19 Luke Jones, 20 Chris O’Young, 21 Stefano Hunt, 22 Joelin Rapana.
Hurricanes: 15 Cory Jane, 14 Tamati Ellison, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma’a Nonu, 11 David Smith, 10 Willie Ripia, 9 Piri Weepu, 8 Victor Vito, 7 Scott Waldrom, 6 Michael Paterson, 5 James Broadhurst, 4 Bryn Evans, 3 Neemia Tialata, 2 Andrew Hore (captain), 1 John Schwalger.
Replacements: 16 Dane Coles, 17 Jacob Ellison, 18 Rodney So’oialo, 19 Karl Lowe, 20 Tyson Keats, 21 Aaron Cruden, 22 Andre Taylor.

3-0 to an injury-ravaged force
Ripia pulls on back, 3-3
18-8 to the canes, will give a half time score
Penalty Force and O Connor misses it
18-8 still
and its halftime
Canes try!!!
23-8 Canes
43mins
Ripia doesnt have his kicking boots on today
I pick Canes by 10, margin now is 15 with 30mins remaining
and Rodney So’ialo is on the field
David Smith try !!! His second of the match
Conversion missed again π―
28-8 H’canes
55mins
I think i’m safe on LMS for this round, I picked the Canes to win π
Force try!!!!
Conversion is Good!
28-15 Canes
61min
margin back to 13 π
The force try-scorer dane haylett-petty was born in durban, interesting
Tialata try!!! In my FL starting 15
Tialata try!
33-15
65mins
@war1 (Comment 16) : π
Nonu Try!!! In my FL starting 15
Conversion by Weepu is over
40-15
68mins
25 point margin π π₯
Canes under the posts, waiting for TMO……
@Jarsonβs (X + V) (Comment 24) : …..and its a no try
@Jarsonβs (X + V) (Comment 25) : I think the TMO got it wrong π
Tyson Keats try!!!
47-15
6mins remaining
2mins remaining Force has an attacking scrum 5m out
Force try in the dying seconds!!!
FULLTIME
Hurricanes 47 – 22 Force
See u guys later π
Force seem to be struggling this year…
well at least i got this game right