UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO CHIEFS REGION UNDER 16 TOURNAMENT SET TO KICK-OFF

University of Waikato Chiefs Region Under 16 Tournament is set to showcase the up and coming rugby talent within Chiefs Country. The tournament proudly sponsored by University of Waikato will see Bay of Plenty, Counties Manukau, Taranaki and Waikato’s respective Under 16 sides take to the field from Monday 30 September through to Thursday 3 October. Teams will compete across three days with hosts Taranaki kicking off the tournament against Waikato at 5.00pm, followed by Counties Manukau and Bay of Plenty at 7.00pm. Both games will take place at TET Stadium, Inglewood on Monday 30 September, before the tournament moves to New Plymouth Boys’ High School for day two (Tuesday 1 October) and the final round robin matches on Thursday 3 October.

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The tournament format is as follows:

Monday 30th September 2019: TET Stadium, Inglewood
5.00pm Kick off: Taranaki vs Waikato
7.00pm Kick off: Counties Manukau vs Bay of Plenty

Tuesday 1st October 2019: New Plymouth Boys’ High School, New Plymouth
12.00pm Kick off: Bay of Plenty vs Waikato
2.00pm Kick off: Taranaki vs Counties Manukau

Wednesday 2nd October 2019: Education Day, New Plymouth Boys’ High School, New Plymouth
9.30am – 12.00pm

Thursday 3rd October 2019: New Plymouth Boys’ High School, New Plymouth
12.00pm Kick off: Counties Manukau vs Waikato
2.00pm Kick off: Taranaki vs Bay of Plenty

For team lists, see the article.

I've just reached out to the good folk at Austin Blacks Rugby, will see how I go.

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@Bones I think you hope for some insightful comments from the comms team, and not just saying what Joe Blogs sees from his telly or down the pub.

@Bovidae Close, very close, but that duck still not broken.

Not world cup but worth 2 and a half minutes to reminisce just for the sake of it

@Snollygoster Okay, predictably no response !!

I've since found out that Campbell is out for the season and Chris Eves is playing for the Development team on Saturday at the Domain (as are 4 or 5 other contracted players)

Oh good, first shot at a team of the week has someone out of position.

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Or use a VPN or geo-unblocker to avoid the geo-blocking? Or can't I post that suggestion?

Probably the best synopsis of Smith's batting I've seen.

'If Smith was Indian, his technique would just be accepted' http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/27641752/steven-smith-was-indian-technique-just-accepted
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@Bones said in Results of the RWC XV voting:

@jegga said in Results of the RWC XV voting:

@Snowy said in Results of the RWC XV voting:

I'm a bit shocked at all of the Polish chicks...

Did someone say Polish chicks?

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I have thought at times "was that post written by a polish chicken? Probably not, they know more about rugby".

@nzzp

That try and the 70 yard kick and chase gruber against the Wallabies 2005 were my absolute faves.

@Stargazer was watching a split screen with the Stags v Turbos game..from what I saw ..forward power won the day..congratulations to Canterbury, commiserations to Auckland..

@shark said in Southland Rugby:

@Kirwan said in Southland Rugby:

@Magpie_in_aus maybe the solution is to redistribute the teams along populations lines? Should Southland just become a heartland team?

The criteria being how many people in order to have a Div 1 team? 100,000 would see others such as Ta$man also demoted, and 16 sides from Greater Auckland.

Ta$man's catchment - i.e. Nelson City, Marlborough, Ta$man District has a population of 150,000.

Another tight game with Argies leading France at HT. Gobert yet to have any real influence so far.

@Salacious-Crumb

Those were the days!

Meh, it was only Waikato...

@Tim Hmmm, top team in the country can't get a player into the schools team.

Oh, I just saw who the coach is ....

@ACT-Crusader Touche' sir 😂