Chiefs 2019
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@nepia Going by what was published (in the HBT?), he is sitting the SR season out - although he is symptom free - and he'll be back for the Magpies in 2019. I guess he'll have to earn a new SR contract by having a good and injury free Mitre 10 Cup season next year.
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@arhs Someone said on here that Quinn Tupaea was offered a wtg spot at the Blues and turned it down. maybe he does not feel he's ready and is on a development contract with the Cheifs or is trying out for sevens?
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@daffy-jaffy Or maybe he's loyal and wants to stay as far away from the Blues as possible.
I'm sure the Chiefs have signed him, as they had for Nanai-Seturo previously, and he'll be involved in the larger squad but focus on the U20s.
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Feel like it lacks a the classy, polished names of some of the other teams (they don't have 14 AB loose forwards like the Highlanders for instance)
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In a world cup year, with the whole system geared up to fire around late October, that's not necessarily a bad thing, at least until June.
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@mariner4life Your first choice backline should be really good.
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@tim said in Chiefs 2019:
@mariner4life Your first choice backline should be really good.
Maybe if we had two ALBs (or one ALB and one Maori Jesus) it would but we have a huge whole in the midfield, so much so that I mentioned Wainui as a starting midfielder earlier in the thread.
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@tim said in Chiefs 2019:
@mariner4life Your first choice backline should be really good.
plenty of wheels for sure. If they can stay fit they'll be good, and there is a lot of hard workers picked up front (from what i know of them anyway) so we should get ball.
I think we'll finish 3rd in the conference, 2nd if we get a bit of injury luck.
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@mariner4life said in Chiefs 2019:
BUT
In a world cup year, with the whole system geared up to fire around late October, that's not necessarily a bad thing, at least until June.
That's the key point, really.
In a RWC year all bets are off because you know all the senior ABs are going to have their eyes on another prize.
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@chris-b said in Chiefs 2019:
@mariner4life said in Chiefs 2019:
BUT
In a world cup year, with the whole system geared up to fire around late October, that's not necessarily a bad thing, at least until June.
That's the key point, really.
In a RWC year all bets are off because you know all the senior ABs are going to have their eyes on another prize.
yea, you look at your mob, and your 5 best forwards probably should barely play until April.
The flip side being i think your 10 will be playing his ass off all season.
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@mariner4life said in Chiefs 2019:
@chris-b said in Chiefs 2019:
@mariner4life said in Chiefs 2019:
BUT
In a world cup year, with the whole system geared up to fire around late October, that's not necessarily a bad thing, at least until June.
That's the key point, really.
In a RWC year all bets are off because you know all the senior ABs are going to have their eyes on another prize.
yea, you look at your mob, and your 5 best forwards probably should barely play until April.
The flip side being i think your 10 will be playing his ass off all season.
How many SR games are the AB's being made to have off?
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A quick scan through the Chiefs FB page has a comment from a good source (re: Tupaea's non-selection). If he signed a SR contract he would be ineliglble for the NZ U20s and he wants to play for them.
That must apply for all players. Let's see if Fakatava gets selected.
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