Quite a good looking North Harbour team; great to see the likes of Rudi Wulf, Brent Wilson, Chris Smith, and Willie Walker coming back to NZ rugby.  It will be really interesting to see how Otago goes this season - we certainly can't do any worse than last year...  The Otago team will almost be unrecognisable from last years team though - literally over half of this years squad have never played for Otago!  The squad does look better than in previous years, though the loss of Thomson and Ben Smith (assuming they are away with the AB's) is huge, as they were in a different class to all the other Otago players last year.  I'm particularly looking forward to seeing how some of out younger players such as Coltman, Franklin, Evans, Parker, Fenner, and Galo go this year, and I'm sure recruits like McGoughan, Ramsey, Brown, Atiga will add plenty of expereince to the team.