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@Stargazer Surely Garden-Bachop is gone, he's meh IMO. Smith is decent so they'll probably keep him around. Marshall is more of a fullback isn't he?
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@Stargazer with Beauden most likely taking a sabatical next year they will most likely end up with all three (Bachop, Smith & McCLutchie).
If they are going to get rid of anyone, it should be Smith. Garden Bachop looked alot better than he did before his injury.
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@Canes4life Ideally, from a learning perspective, the Crusaders sign him (they probably won't), so he can learn off Mo'unga and - if he stays - with O'Gara as his coach. If BB isn't at the Canes, he doesn't have a good senior player to train with. But I don't know whether he'd be better off at the Chiefs; he may get more game time behind MMac (if he's staying); not sure whether they'll re-sign Falcon.
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The Crusaders have that young kid from Aussie in their system, surely they will bring him through.
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@Canes4life This young Player
[link text](link url)https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2018/08/10/star-queensland-schoolboy-campbell-parata-signs-with-crusaders -
@Chris that's the one. How's he going down there? Anyone know?
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@Canes4life He should now be in the Ta$man Academy. You'd expect him to be in the Ta$man U19 squad this year.
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@Stargazer surely then if they have put that much effort into getting him over from Aus, they wouldn't then go and sign McClutchie.
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@Canes4life In experience, McClutchie is well ahead of him, having played Mitre 10 Cup. It depends entirely on how much experience they're looking for in their third first five-eighth. Something we don't know; so everything is just speculation. If you read my earlier post, you will have noticed that I said between brackets "they probably won't".
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@Stargazer I don't have much faith in Cameron ,So experience would be a good option. Random thought Bateman as 3rd back up 10 he did play there for the Crusader Knights
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@Chris Bateman could be a stop-gap, but it's not really a solution. He turns 32 in June.
Edit: I wouldn't write off Cameron just yet. Maybe he'll have a blinder of an NPC season this year and show us what the coaches are apparently seeing in him.
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@Stargazer yeah but the Canes have already lost Fakatava so wouldn't be suprised if we lost him to a team like the Crusaders.
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@Stargazer as well as Cameron Parata,Fegus Burke, and Chay Fihaki sit within the Crusaders system.
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@Stargazer Hes a First Five here is an article signing for The Crusaders
[link text](link url)https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2018/08/10/star-queensland-schoolboy-campbell-parata-signs-with-crusaders
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@Chris That would be a good move for Mitch Hunt and good timing by him, as well, I think. People were already suggesting he should move on from the Crusaders last year and I think even the year before, but I don't think he had the experience to be a good bet at the helm.
He's improved markedly for the Mako over the past couple of seasons and hopefully will take another step forward this year.
Hopefully another season of NPC will also see significant improvement in Cameron. It's a tough job being a Super rugby first five and you've got to give these guys time.
I'm a bit concerned that the Highlanders might also be sniffing around the likes of Will Jordan. He's not someone I'd be happy seeing go south.
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