Blues 2019

Tim

@dice said in Blues 2019:

What are the chances Alama coaches the development team?

Last season the Harbour coaches took the U20 and Dev team, IIRC.

Sounds like Ieremia has a lot planned for Auckland in early 2019 though, including a tour with an Auckland Dev team in February.

Dice

@kiwimurph said in Blues 2019:

@daffy-jaffy he got injured again in Mitre 10 Cup.

Blues tend to have a history of picking impressive U20 players who get injured early on in their career - Faiane, Gibson, to some degree Papali'i etc

They just happen to be all from St Kents.

Duffie also went to St Kents and he started his career with so many injuries. He was the Blake Gibson before Blake Gibson.

Scrafton is another St Kents boy, but he didn't start his career with injuries, he's just getting all his big injuries now.

I wonder how serious Telea's injury is, because I saw him at the final and he had a big knee brace on. There didn't seem to be much in the contact that injured him, so I'm assuming it was an ACL.

Tim

@dice said in Blues 2019:

I wonder how serious Telea's injury is, because I saw him at the final and he had a big knee brace on. There didn't seem to be much in the contact that injured him, so I'm assuming it was an ACL.

Who's the likely replacement? Leger?

African Monkey

@dice St Kents makes you soft! If Scrafton stayed at Kelston he wouldn't be so injury prone haha.

Dice

@tim If we do call someone up, he might be the option. Not sure if we'd call anyone up with 4 healthy midfielders still available though.

If Telea has done an ACL, he should be back around March or April.

Northlandallday

@dice
ACL recovery is a minimum 8 months. Look at Coles pretty much a year before playing, this is normal process. Yeah some people play when they are 6-8 months post op but they aren't usually professional sports people.

Nogusta

Hearing there'll be some 'big' news out of Blues HQ in the next day or so.

Kirwan

@nogusta said in Blues 2019:

Hearing there'll be some 'big' news out of Blues HQ in the next day or so.

++ crosses fingers ++ please be Tana quitting.

KiwiMurph

@kirwan said in Blues 2019:

@nogusta said in Blues 2019:

Hearing there'll be some 'big' news out of Blues HQ in the next day or so.

++ crosses fingers ++ please be Tana & Redman quitting.

Fixed.

antipodean

@kiwimurph said in Blues 2019:

@kirwan said in Blues 2019:

@nogusta said in Blues 2019:

Hearing there'll be some 'big' news out of Blues HQ in the next day or so.

++ crosses fingers ++ please be Tana & Redman signing extensions.

Fixed.

Fixed for reality.

mariner4life

word is Michael Collins is to be named Captain

SouthernMann

@mariner4life said in Blues 2019:

word is Michael Collins is to be named Captain

He's a very good captain.

Snowy

@southernmann said in Blues 2019:

@mariner4life said in Blues 2019:

word is Michael Collins is to be named Captain

He's a very good captain.

Great communicator (and @mariner4life - you are just a cruel bastard).

Nogusta

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Kirwan

@southernmann said in Blues 2019:

@mariner4life said in Blues 2019:

word is Michael Collins is to be named Captain

He's a very good captain.

Can't be a good captain if you your place in the team is under threat, and you don't deliver on the field.

Nogusta

@rocky-rockbottom said in Blues 2019:

LOL, it'll be something earth-shattering like "The Blues are proud to announce the signing of back-up reserve prop Puddingface Mcdumplingwaddle to the Wider Training Group."

:smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes: :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes:

No Quarter

Wow didn't see that coming. Tana gone.

Edit - not completely gone.

jegga

Why isn’t the headline “ Failure factory claims another scalp”?

Kirwan

YESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cyclops

So four out of five franchise head coaches now have come out of the crusaders.

The Silver Fern

Blues 2019