Third 'import' well known to locals

Wairarapa-Bush have named their third allowable "import" for their 2008 Heartland rugby championship campaign, and he will need no introduction to local fans.
Peato Lafaele, from the Wellington-based Northern United club, was a regular at fullback in the Wairarapa-Bush team which won the inaugural Meads Cup title in 2006.
Also returning to the fold from that side is Tawa winger Junior Togia while the third "import" for this season is young Upper Hutt lock James Measor.
Wairarapa-Bush coach Kelvin Tantrum was yesterday unable to announce his full starting line-up for the opening Heartland match against West Coast at Memorial Park, Masterton on Saturday because of injury hassles but he did confirm that Lafaele, Togia and Measor will all be part of the run-on team.
Lafaele impressed with his sound positional play and speed on the counter attack when last in the Wairarapa-Bush colours and he showed consistently good form throughout Northern United's highly successful club season this year which ended with them sharing the Jubilee Cup title with Marist St Pats.
They drew 10-10 in the grand final.
His inclusion in the Wairarapa-Bush team is likely to mean that youngster Dean Grant, who was at fullback against Wellington B last weekend, will go onto the reserve bench where he will not only be a valuable understudy to Lafaele but to first-five Patrick Rimene as well, having taken the latter role on a regular basis for Gladstone at club level.
Togia could be at wing or centre but with Jordan Watene doing enough in the Wellington B fixture to make the centre berth his own the odds are he will replace either Charlie Walker-Blair or Lance Stevenson on the wing.
Stevenson has been the more consistent of the two and therefore Walker-Blair could find himself in the reserves as well.
Both of them will be under enough even more pressure to keep their spots when the talented Nick Olson comes off the injury list, probably the following weekend.
Measor will probably join Tomasi Kedrabuka in the middle row at Jared Bambry's expense although with Nathan Rolls out of the reckoning because of his wrist injury any of that trio could be an outside chance for the blindside flank if an extra lineout option is considered necessary.
Otherwise specialist flanker Mike Wilson is likely to come from the reserves into the starting line-up and be replaced on the bench by Joe Feast.
Meanwhile, coach Tantrum is taking nothing for granted regarding Saturday's match despite the comments made by his West Coast counterpart Anthony Lawry in yesterday's Times-Age.
Lawry indicated there that hassles caused by roads being closed by snow and slips, plus unfavourable travel arrangements, meant the players fielded against Wairarapa-Bush would not have trained together as an entire unit.
"Obviously they have had their problems but then so have we & no, complacency won't be an issue at all," Tantrum said. "We need to get a win on the board, that's the only focus for us."
Tantrum's sentiments are certainly understandable when you take even a cursory look at Wairarapa-Bush statistics from their four lead-up matches this season. All have been lost and they have conceded 251 points (39 tries) while scoring just the six (two penalty goals) themselves.
However, on the brighter side of things it can be taken for granted that West Coast are very, very unlikely to offer the standard of opposition of the Wellington XV (98-0), Hawke's Bay (77-0) and Wellington B (57-0), or even Poverty Bay (19-6) for that matter.