Highlanders 2020

[Duluth]

@Stargazer

Well that's shit. I would have squeezed him into the AB squad to build depth at lock

[Kiwiwomble]

bollocks, attacking lines outs was somewhere we'd shown a lot of promise

[Yeetyaah]

Rough injury for Dickson, been playing well.

[Nepia]

@Stargazer said in Highlanders 2020:

I wonder if this will be Cridge's chance to turn his career around, assuming he gets some gametime.

Is he still contracted to the Magpies?

[Stargazer]

@Nepia said in Highlanders 2020:

@Stargazer said in Highlanders 2020:

I wonder if this will be Cridge's chance to turn his career around, assuming he gets some gametime.

He'll be the 4th lock behind Parkinson, Whetton and Selby-Rickit, so I doubt he'll get much game time, but if he does, I hope he makes the best of it! I assume it will take some time to get match fit and up to speed with the calls.
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Is he still contracted to the Magpies?

The HBRU never publish contract duration of players. Hell, they hardly ever publish signings. So who knows? He was playing club rugby for Central, I think?

[Nepia]

@Stargazer said in Highlanders 2020:

The HBRU never publish contract duration of players. Hell, they hardly ever publish signings. So who knows? He was playing club rugby for Central, I think?

@Number-10 ?

[Machpants]

ISRA?

[Kiwiwomble]

@Machpants said in Highlanders 2020:

ISRA?

Investec Super Rugby Aotearoa im guessing..had to think about it though

i had to look up this guy, didnt remember him

[Duluth]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/300054463/super-rugby-aotearoa-nehe-milnerskudder-eyes-highlanders-debut-against-blues

The new signing might be available in round eight. In a ten round competition.

[Higgins]

@Duluth Unless he injures himself between now and then.

[Bones]

@Duluth said in Highlanders 2020:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/300054463/super-rugby-aotearoa-nehe-milnerskudder-eyes-highlanders-debut-against-blues

The new signing might be available in round eight. In a ten round competition.

Got to ease him in, don't want him reinjuring himself and missing 5 minutes in round 10.

[Stargazer]

Magpies lock Tom Parsons has been called up by the Highlanders.

[shark]

Who the fuck is that?? 😝

Another Iike Aaron Carroll in the Blues squad last night.

Yikes we're thin these days.

[Stargazer]

@shark Tom Parsons is a very good lock at NPC level, who was in the Hurricanes wider training squad, last year. Quite unlucky not to get a SR contract, the last few years. With his 1.98m he adds some valuable height and he has a huge workrate. Also has a nose for the try line. Unfortunately, on the contracting front, his age (he's almost 30) is going to count against him now.

[Yeetyaah]

I thought the fern condemned any locks under 2m.

[Crucial]

@Yeetyaah said in Highlanders 2020:

I thought @mariner4life condemned any locks under 2m.

FIFY

[shark]

@Stargazer said in Highlanders 2020:

@shark Tom Parsons is a very good lock at NPC level, who was in the Hurricanes wider training squad, last year. Quite unlucky not to get a SR contract, the last few years. With his 1.98m he adds some valuable height and he has a huge workrate. Also has a nose for the try line. Unfortunately, on the contracting front, his age (he's almost 30) is going to count against him now.

I watch a fair bit of NPC and I couldn't tell you who he plays for.

That he's almost 30 and he's only just breaking into an injury depleted and already thin SR squad, indicates he isn't all that flash.

[Stargazer]

@shark All it tells you that you haven't watched Magpies games very well. He's a good NPC level player. No one is saying he would have been a great SR player if he had been given the opportunity. We'll never know.

[shark]

@Stargazer Well yes, I'll grant you that I probably don't pay much attention to HB. Their games might be on, but in the background kinda style. Still, I would have thought his name would ring a bell.

[Number 10]

@Nepia Yes, Geoff Cridge is signed to HB for 2020.