Closing Time/Inside Out: All Blacks team naming against Barbarians (My 1st blog of November (AKA Movember) & my favourite Gran Turismo memory)

Well, the All Blacks team has been named to play against the Barbarians (Who have got plenty of New Zealand players such as Vince Aso, Dominic Bird, George Bridge, Richard Buckman, Mitchell Drummond, Andy Ellis, Ben Franks, Dillon Hunt, Steven Luatua, Richie Mo'unga, Atu Moli, Julian Savea & Luke Whitelock) in a uncapped match at Twickenham Stadium over in London so here is the starting lineup:

FRONT ROW
1 (Loose head prop): Kane Hames (Tasman/Chiefs)
2 (Hooker): Nathan Harris (Bay Of Plenty/Chiefs)
3 (Tight head prop): Nepo Laulala (Counties Manukau/Chiefs)

SECOND ROW
4 (Lock): Luke Romano (Canterbury/Crusaders)
5 (Lock): Scott Barrett (Taranaki/Crusaders)

BACK ROW
6 (Blindside Flanker): Vaea Fifita (Wellington/Hurricanes)
7 (Openside Flanker): Ardie Savea (Wellington/Hurricanes)
8 (Number 8): Jerome Kaino (Auckland/Blues)

HALVES
9 (Half-back): TJ Perenara (Wellington/Hurricanes)
10 (First five eighth): Beauden Barrett (Captain, Taranaki/Hurricanes)

MIDFIELD
12 (Second five eighth): Ngani Laumape (Manawatu/Hurricanes)
13 (Centre): Anton Lienert-Brown (Waikato/Chiefs)

OUTSIDE BACKS
11 (Left Wing): Seta Tamanivalu (Taranaki/Crusaders)
14 (Right Wing): Waisake Naholo (Taranaki/Highlanders)
& 15 (Fullback): David Havili (Tasman/Crusaders)

And in the reserves are:

16. Asafo Aumua (Who will make his All Black debut off the bench replacing Codie Taylor after an impressive season with Wellington in the Mitre 10 Cup)
17. Tim Perry (Son of All Black Grant Perry who will also make his All Black debut off the bench replacing Wyatt Crockett)
18. Jeffery Toomaga-Allen (Who replaces Ofa Tu'ungafasi for this game)
19. Patrick Tuipulotu
20. Sam Cane (Who replaces Matt Todd for this game)
21. Tawera Kerr-Barlow (Takes TJ Perenara's place as reserve halfback with Perenara who has been elevated into the starting lineup replacing Aaron Smith)
22. Lima Sopoaga (Takes Anton Lienert-Brown's place as reserve first five-eighth with Lienert-Brown who has also been elevated into the starting lineup replacing Ryan Crotty)
& 23. Matt Duffie (A league convert who replaces David Havili (Who is elevated into the starting lineup replacing Damian McKenzie) to make his All Black debut off the bench).

So that is my 161st blog of the year 2017 (MMXVII) & my 81st this year (Only 39 blogs left until I reach the 200 mark).

P.S. And I've got Gran Turismo Sport on the PS4 now (Along with F1 2015 that I bought back as well as Rugby Challenge 3, F1 2016, F1 2017 & Project CARS 2 but the next PS4 game I'm getting is possibly the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia game then FIFA 18 once the FIFA World Cup in Russia next year ends) so I told both Aunty Tania & my Dad on the phone as well about me & my Dad used to play Gran Turismo on the old Playstation in Raetihi way back because not only it brings me back memories so I'm feeling a bit nostalgic now (Well I've played the 1st 3 Gran Turismo games (The 1st 2 (The original then the sequel) are from the original Playstation then Gran Turismo 3 on Playstation 2) but never played Gran Turismo 4 before I played the last 2 Gran Turismo games (Which are Gran Turismo 5 & the last one before I played Gran Turismo Sport, Gran Turismo 6) on both the PS3 (And it's been over a year since I got the PS4 for my 25th birthday because I managed to save some money for that).

And finally it is the 3rd day of the moustache month of Movember so I have been growing a mo like that (And the rules say that I must begin this month clean shaven but I've ignored that protocol) but it'll be tomorrow that Pops takes a picture of me with my moustache.