PREVIEW: Waikato vs Northland
29th September 2010 08:38AM
• Northland's captain and current leading try scorer Jared Payne began his first class career with Waikato.
• Waikato lost 10-18 last time they visited Whangarei, but have won 16 of their last 18 games against Northland.
• Earlier this year Northland set an ITM Cup record of scoring 10 tries in 77 points against Manawatu.
• Both Sosene Anesi and Liam Messam have scored four tries against Northland; Stephen Donald and Dwayne Sweeney two tries with Aled de Malmanche and Brendon Leonard one try each.
• When Northland visited Hamilton in 1986 their fullback Darryl Going was listed in the programme as Darryl Cumming.
• Waikato have scored 212 points and conceded 166 points this year.
Northland have scored 261 points and conceded 206 points this year.
• Waikato have scored 22 tries and conceded 17 tries this year.
Northland have scored 31 tries and conceded 22 tries this year.
