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Warriors coach Payten on forming a team with four departures

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Newstalk ZB staff,
Publish Date
Tue, 28 Jul 2020, 8:37PM
Warriors coach Todd Payten. (Photo / Getty)
Warriors coach Todd Payten. (Photo / Getty)

Warriors coach Payten on forming a team with four departures

Author
Newstalk ZB staff,
Publish Date
Tue, 28 Jul 2020, 8:37PM

The Warriors will be fielding a different looking side for this weekend' NRL match against the Wests Tigers.

George Jennings and Daniel Alvaro are both set to feature, having been loaned from Parramatta following the departure of four Warriors players.

Those players - Ken Maumalo, David Fusitu'a, Agnatius Paasi and King Vuniyayawa - elected to return home to New Zealand to be with their families, who could not get exemptions to travel over to Australia.

Jennings will start on the wing while Alvaro will come off the bench.

Warriors coach Todd Payten told D'Arcy Waldegrave it was not difficult to name the team despite their losses.

"We've got enough numbers, obviously lost some quality and some big parts to our game.

"[Jennings and Alvaro] have jumped straight into it."

The Mount Smart club have also been able to extend their current loan deal for Penrith forward Jack Hetherington, which Payten is very pleased with.

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