Hurricanes 2019 Discussion
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@antipodean said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:
@Crucial I'm confident we will beat them twice with the players we have still yet to come back in.
I hate to break it to you, but Collins, Cullen, So'oialo and Snakey aren't coming back.
maybe the Blues will give them Tana?
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@mariner4life said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:
@antipodean said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:
@Crucial I'm confident we will beat them twice with the players we have still yet to come back in.
I hate to break it to you, but Collins, Cullen, So'oialo and Snakey aren't coming back.
maybe the Blues will give them Tana?
At least he knows a lock when he sees one.
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@antipodean said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:
@mariner4life said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:
@antipodean said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:
@Crucial I'm confident we will beat them twice with the players we have still yet to come back in.
I hate to break it to you, but Collins, Cullen, So'oialo and Snakey aren't coming back.
maybe the Blues will give them Tana?
At least he knows a lock when he sees one.
likes to play the best player at 12 too, so those guys pining for Ardie to the midfield will get their wish
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@antipodean yeah but aslong as we have Spencer the Blues won't be winning anything.
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@Duluth I take this with a grain of salt. Goodes and Broadhurst suffering career ending concussions are out of the Canes hands and the likes of Fatialofa & Uhila heading overseas are personal choices. There are only so many quality locks and props in New Zealand and when guys like Lousi, Cridge etc get injuries on top of that, then it makes it bloody tough. I'm not making any excuses but you have to do with what you've got and it could be alot worse right now.
I guess the downside for the Canes heading into the bye is we've had a wave of much needed firepower sitting in the stands. Dane Coles, Gareth Evans, Alex Fidow, Toby Smith and Geoff Cridge are all quality players who will make a big difference for us in the late stages of the campaign if they can get back to full fitness. Whether that is enough to take down the Crusaders is a another question altogether.
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Hurricanes Hunters line-up for their game against Japan Wolfpack (that's Japan 'A', not a Sunwolves Dev squad as has been written in some media):
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Look who are there: Alex Fidow and Geoff Cridge are apparently not/no longer injured!
And with the NZ U20 players unavailable, some new faces - including Tyrone Thompson - on the bench.
From a Bay perspective, also happy to see Tim Farrell back. IMO, he should have gotten the starting LH spot. Also Tom Parsons still there.
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From the media release;
The Hurricanes Hunters will have a chance to end their season unbeaten when they meet Japan A in Tokyo on Saturday. The match is the second time the two sides will meet after the Hunters won their first encounter 52-31 in Porirua last month. Hunters coach Darren Larsen has made nine changes to his starting XV from the last match. Hurricanes Super Rugby squad member Peter Umaga-Jensen returns to the run on side after he scored a try off the bench at Jerry Collins Stadium. He is joined by fellow squad members Alex Fidow, Geoff Cridge, Salesi Rayasi and Heiden Bedwell-Curtis who will captain the side. Rayasi and No 8 Teariki Ben-Nicholas were two of the stand-out players against the Jamie Joseph coached Japan A side in their first meeting with both men scoring a brace of tries. The Hunters bench features a number of promising players who have been involved in the Hurricanes development programme at age-group level, including former Wairarapa Bush halfback Isaac Bracewell who started in the Hurricanes Heartland Under-20 side. "This is a massive opportunity for a large number of players who get the chance to play an international side," Larsen said. "It also allows them to experience preparing and playing overseas alongside fully fledged professionals." -
Anyone know much about Ben Werthmuller?
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@Canes4life Not much, only that he's from Manawatu and has played NPC for them last year; he wasn't named in their 2018 squad but called up later due to injury. Went to Palmerston North HS.
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@Duluth he will get a run, still only 22. I'm not too
fussed tbh, I'd rather give him a crack when he is
a bit stronger and has a few more NPC games
under his belt. No point ruining his confidence by
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@Stargazer said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:
From a Bay perspective, also happy to see Tim Farrell back. IMO, he should have gotten the starting LH spot. Also Tom Parsons still there.
Are you sure about that? He has played about half a game in two years and must be way short of match fitness. I was priviledged to see the named looshead prop (Veni Paonga) cruelly expose the starting tighthead prop (Alex Fidow) when Wellington College played Scots College a few years back so is perhaps a little bit better than given credit for. Having said that I also saw Paongo get comfortably handled by my club's veteran tighthead prop when he made his debut as a second half replacement for Tawa two or three years back.
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@Canes4life said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:
@Tim Plumtree obviously likes easing his players
into Super Rugby, personally I would have liked to
see Umaga Jensen & Rayasi get a run against the
Sunwolves.I would have liked to see Ben-Nicholas as well.
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Not sure they can play Ben-Nicholas as he is not a part of the squad. Their contracted loose forwards are as follows: Heiden Bedwell-Curtis, James Blackwell, Gareth Evans, Vaea Fifita, Sam Henwood, DuPlessis Kirifi, Reed Princep and Ardie Savea. From memory none of them have been replaced by someone on an injury replacement contract.
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@Nepia said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:
Also a loose forward.@Higgins said in Hurricanes 2019 Discussion:
James Blackwell,
Best lock in the team isn't he?
Could they play Ben-Nicholas while Evans is out injured?
Don't recall reading anything about Gareth Evans being replaced but with the level of reporting in the Dominion-Post being almost non existent I no longer purchase it so
might havemissed something.
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