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    @Bones Yeah, a bit early, although we're well past the halfway mark. I assume they're doing it now, because - assuming they reach the final - there is no time in-between the final and players having to join the ABs.

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    @Bones said in Crusaders 2019:

    @Stargazer wait...what? How do you have an awards ceremony halfway through the comp?

    haha that's retarded.

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    Um what's Champion Crusader when it is at home? Obvs not Player of the Year?

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    @Machpants said in Crusaders 2019:

    Um what's Champion Crusader when it is at home? Obvs not Player of the Year?

    Google says its the players vote. Includes off field stuff.

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    @Machpants said in Crusaders 2019:

    Um what's Champion Crusader when it is at home? Obvs not Player of the Year?

    From the media release quoted in my previous post:

    ... champion Crusader a peer-voted award for the player's contribution to the team environment.
    
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    Makalio: two years (2021)
    Jordan: three years (2022)

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    @Stargazer Great stuff - especially Will Jordan!

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    @Chris-B I like Jordan, but Makalio is probably a more important signing. The Crusaders have plenty of good outside backs, but Makalio is the only good sub for Taylor. Funnell is always injured and doesn't seem to be of SR level anymore, while McAlister is too green.

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    @Chris-B said in Crusaders 2019:

    @Stargazer Great stuff - especially Will Jordan!

    Isn't there some noise about Jordan being eligible for the Scots?

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    @antipodean And the Warratahs 😲

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    Yup. https://www.fantasticfiction.com/j/will-jordan/ :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:

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    @Stargazer Yeah Agree with that I was very Keen for Makalio to resign.He has been getting better and better for the Crusaders over the last 2 years, he's been outstanding this season.Adds impact of the bench and when he has started been very very good.Was worried the Blues may grab him but we retained him important re-signing .

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    I recommend watching the "story", too.

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    Ronan O’Gara to depart BNZ Crusaders for La Rochelle
    Published: 12 June 2019

    BNZ Crusaders Backs Coach Ronan O’Gara has confirmed the 2019 season will be his last with the Christchurch-based club, having accepted a coaching role with French club, La Rochelle. 
    
    O’Gara said: “My family and I have thoroughly enjoyed our time in Christchurch and were welcomed in to the Crusaders family with open arms when we arrived in early 2018. This is one of the best rugby clubs in the world, and it certainly wasn’t an easy decision to move on from this team and their high-performance environment.
    
    “I’m grateful to the Crusaders for the faith they’ve shown in me as a coach, and I’m incredibly fortunate to have worked alongside a world-class playing and management group for the last two seasons. While I see this move to La Rochelle as the next step in my coaching career and an exciting opportunity for my young family, I’d like to think, long-term, this is not necessarily the end of my time with the Crusaders.
    
    “My focus now is helping to deliver a successful 2019 campaign with the side before my family and I return to France at the end of the season,” O’Gara said.
    
    (...) 
    
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    Bryn Hall has re-signed with the Crusaders for 2 more seasons!

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    This interview with Sevu Reece was on Sky tv last night, before the QF:

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    @Stargazer what’s the guts of the interview I cannot access the video ??

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    Maybe this will work (you have to watch it on Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=323984648533334

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    @Stargazer thanks mate but no can’t get it
    Anything interesting in it ?

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    @Chris Do you have a FB account and are you signed in? That might be the issue.

    In the interview Reece tells about how he got the call from Robertson and could hardly believe it. In the video, you can still see the surprise on his face when he continues how it was for preseason only (initially) and how awesome (and unbelievable) it was that he got to play for the Crusaders, and now a QF. He never expected to be a Crusader and he loves it in Chch; in the city and in the squad; how nobody judges him and how he can just ask questions and everybody is there to become better.

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