Highlanders 2019 Discussion
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@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$man-ians he's another North Island poach.
Yeah, I assume Squire is number 1 still and Hemopo will be the back up.
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@Bones We do not discriminate in Ta$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!
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@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.
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@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
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@African-Monkey Home of those bastards at the East-Christchurch Shirley Cricket Club?
I did several years of missionary service in Breezes Road!
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You anti Hemopo?
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No, of course, but I think Liam Squire will be the starter with the "6" jersey. Hemopo, who can cover lock and 6, is a perfect player for the bench. However, maybe there won't be a typical XV but a rotation with the likes of Dixon, Frizell and Lentjes who are not far behind in terms of talent.
The XV I wrote in my earlier post was what I think that could be the probable XV.
My personal team is :Lienert-Brown
Coltman
Lomax
Hemopo
Parkinson
Squire
Lentjes
Whitelock
Smith
Banks
Mackay
Buckman
Thompson
Naholo
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@Chris-B said in Highlanders 2019 Discussion:
@Nepia Silence, Viking!
the bared-faced cheek that a fan of one unholy alliance franchise would harass the fan of another unholy alliance franchise.
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@mariner4life Not quite as unholy as these fuckers.
And you can bet the junior Nepia was into it boots and all - running round with one of those orange and white Cully 13 jerseys on his schoolboy back!
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@Chris-B Settle down grandpa
, I was well out of school when that unholy mess was forced on the province by the NZRU (who promptly ensured it would fail) and I don't know of any HB fan who was a supporter of the concept.By the second year it was basically just a HB team with the high paid Manawatu imports (like Cullen etc).
You can rationalise it now but I'm sure the hatred between Nelson and Malborough was equal to or eclipsed by HB v Poo hatred. However, you guys have accepted that you're being propped up by your big brother Canterbury in the Crusaders who can't import all the players they want under the current rules so you guys are the chief beneficiary, and have made peace with it. Ta$man, a franchise within a franchise.
