Highlanders 2019 Discussion

[cgrant]

I would have taken Selby-Rickitt instead of Dickson. Same type of lean locks but Selby-Rickitt is looking more athletic. He was the standout forward in a weak Stags pack.

[Yeetyaah]

@cgrant Saw a video on the Stags FB page that Selby-Rickit has signed a development contract with the landers coming into the full squad in 2020, he said he wants to build muscle first.

[cgrant]

This is good news. Thanks for the information.

[Yeetyaah]

Promised a kiwi derby in Invers but gets the Waratahs instead
(stuff.co.nz/southland-times/100808988/Highlanders-commit-to-2019-Kiwi-derby-match-in-Invercargill-after-taking-Chiefs-game-to-Fiji-this-year)

[Nepia]

@yeetyaah Personally I prefer seeing NZ teams v Oz/SA teams than Kiwi derbies so I'd be happy with that if I lived in Invercargill.

[Siam]

Get what you're bloody well given.

Start making a few more Goldies again and then we'll see

[Duluth]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/110112432/highlanders-to-unleash-giant-pari-pari-parkinson-use-jackson-hemopo-at-no-6

[Nepia]

@Duluth I hope so ... I like the look of Hemopo more so than the Tongan. Request from the AB selectors maybe?

[Bones]

@Nepia probably makes sense when you have a lock that big! Geez, where did he come from? Although does that mean Squire to 8? I can't see that happening, which would probably mean him and Tongan on the bench.

[Nepia]

@Bones said in Highlanders 2019 Discussion:

@Nepia probably makes sense when you have a lock that big! Geez, where did he come from? Although does that mean Squire to 8? I can't see that happening, which would probably mean him and Tongan on the bench.

Like many of @Chris-B's Ta$man-ians he's another North Island poach.

Yeah, I assume Squire is number 1 still and Hemopo will be the back up.

[Bones]

@Nepia well he better be starting somewhere.

[Tim]

@Bones Auckland

[Chris B.]

@Bones We do not discriminate in Ta$man. We do not say, "he is from Auckland and therefore a worthless fellow". We make concessions for the disadvantaged and give opportunities.

We are a charitable people.

We send missionaries to the unenlightened, even though they are regularly faced with heathen ingratitude.

We do our best to raise others toward our standards - as best as they are able!

[Nepia]

@Chris-B said in Highlanders 2019 Discussion:

We do our best to raise others toward our standards - as best as they are able!

You sent Ben Franks to us as a thug and we tried our best to temper his thuggishness, but alas it was too ingrained.

[Chris B.]

@Nepia He went to high school in Christchurch, in the Eastern Suburbs.

It's very hard to come back from that!

[Nepia]

@Chris-B said in Highlanders 2019 Discussion:

@Nepia He went to high school in Christchurch, in the Eastern Suburbs.

It's very hard to come back from that!

Ta$man, Canterbury, Crusaders - all the same isn't it.

[Chris B.]

@Nepia Silence, Viking!

[Nepia]

@Chris-B said in Highlanders 2019 Discussion:

@Nepia Silence, Viking!

All right then, Ta$man!

[African Monkey]

@Chris-B said in Highlanders 2019 Discussion:

@Nepia He went to high school in Christchurch, in the Eastern Suburbs.

It's very hard to come back from that!

Hey now, not a bad word is to be said about the beautiful Christchurch East

[Chris B.]

@African-Monkey Home of those bastards at the East-Christchurch Shirley Cricket Club?

I did several years of missionary service in Breezes Road!