Hurricanes 2018

[Bones]

Anyone know when tickets usually go on sale for the tin?

[Stargazer]

@bones Not sure whether this is helpful. Note: posted on 13 October.

[Bones]

@stargazer nah just looking at the first home game but cheers.

[Higgins]

Getting close to the time the squad will be made public (in the next five or ten minutes?). Make sure your pencil is sharp and ready to go Starazer, we are all sitting here waiting for you to let us know who is in and who is out, the suspense is killing me!

[Stargazer]

@higgins I could break embargo ...

[Stargazer]

@higgins No good news for Renton, unfortunately.

[Nepia]

@stargazer said in Hurricanes 2018:

@higgins No good news for Renton, unfortunately.

Nuts, he's injured for two years and picks up a WTG and then a full contract. Is uninjured for nearly a whole season, plays some good rugby and doesn't get one. Weird.

[Higgins]

Your speculation?

[Higgins]

@nepia said in Hurricanes 2018:

@stargazer said in Hurricanes 2018:

@higgins No good news for Renton, unfortunately.

Nuts, he's injured for two years and picks up a WTG and then a full contract. Is uninjured for nearly a whole season, plays some good rugby and doesn't get one. Weird.

You could say the same about Geoffrey Cridge.

[Stargazer]

2018 Hurricanes squad:

PROP
Chris Eves
Alex Fidow
Reg Goodes
Ben May
Toby Smith
Jeffrey To'omaga-Allen

HOOKER
Asafo Aumua
Dane Coles
Ricky Riccitelli

LOCK
James Blackwell (also loose forward)
Murray Douglas
Michael Fatialofa
Sam Lousi
Isaia Walker-Leawere

LOOSE FORWARD
Gareth Evans
Vaea Fifita (also lock)
Sam Henwood
Reed Prinsep
Ardie Savea
Brad Shields
Blade Thomson

HALFBACK
Jamie Booth
Finlay Christie
TJ Perenara

FIRST-FIVE EIGHTH
Beauden Barrett
Jackson Garden-Bachop (also fullback)
TJ Va'a
Ihaia West

MIDFIELDER
Wes Goosen
Ngani Laumape
Jonah Lowe

WING
Vince Aso
Ben Lam
Matt Proctor (also fullback)
Julian Savea

FULLBACK
Jordie Barrett (also midfield)
Nehe Milner-Skudder
Peter Umaga-Jensen

So they signed Evans to replace Gibbins earlier this year, and now they've apparently picked Henwood over Renton? Ridiculous.

[Nepia]

@stargazer TBF, with Evans, Lowe and Ihaia they've clearly reached their Magpies quota (no May doesn't really count).

[Bovidae]

Henwood has been good for C-M.

Blackwell has never impressed me but perhaps there is a ginga quota too!

[Stargazer]

NMS expected back in April; Jordie about week 3.

[Kiwidom]

@higgins And about TJ Vaa

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, his selection is ridiculous

[Stargazer]

I love the number of ginger halves they have in the squad: West, Christie and Booth.

[Tim]

Canes fans, you know the drill. Name your XXIII.

[Stargazer]

@tim Assuming Goodes is fit (I don't like the LH alternatives):

1 Goodes
2 Coles
3 JTA
4 Fatialofa
5 Lousi
6 Fifita
7 A Savea
8 Shields
9 TJP
10 BB
11 J Savea
12 Laumape
13 Lowe
14 Proctor
15 Jordie

16 Aumua
17 May
18 Fidow
19 Blackwell
20 Evans
21 Christie
22 West
23 Aso

Obviously, I have taken the opportunity to ensure sufficient Bay representation.

[Higgins]

Just the three midfield backs named, looks like they are going to be rather busy. Having said that Vince Aso and Matt Proctor have been listed as wingers so in reality there are five midfielders and just two wingers, including Ben Lam who must be one of the luckiest in the country to get a contract.

[Stargazer]

Interestingly, the squad guide has midfielders and outside backs named in different positions than the Hurricanes graphic in their media release:

[Tim]

"It may be Vaea is better served in the locks where Izzy [Isaia Walker-Leawere] has had a shoulder reconstruction and won't partake in the first part of the season. Michael Fatialofa's still coming back from a knee injury, so we're a little bit lighter in the locks."

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/98440204/rising-star-asafo-aumua-headlines-2018-hurricanes-squad