Otago 2020
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Wider Training Group The wider training group announcement
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with Ben smith playing club rugby in dunners...might we see him turn out for Otago, a bit less stressful than super rugby
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@Stargazer I don't think we have any sevens players apart from Taylor Haugh, Vilimoni Koroi, and Jona Nareki, but then again they were all pretty much guaranteed to play provincial anyways. Not sure about the Japanese rugby players returning though. Like Sekonaia Pole
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@Kiwiwomble No, he's not playing club rugby, just helping out the coaching team for Green Island as they can't risk injury cause they can't pay the Japanese club that he'll turn out for
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@NateHill74 said in Otago Mitre 10 Cup 2020:
@Kiwiwomble No, he's not playing club rugby, just helping out the coaching team for Green Island as they can't risk injury cause they can't pay the Japanese club that he'll turn out for
bugger, thought i had seen him say he was looking forward to turning out for green island
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Players guaranteed gone from last year:
Aki Seiuli - Glasgow Warriors
Angus Williams - Northern Hemisphere
Sekonaia Pole?? - Japan
Louis Conradie - South Africa
Joe Latta - Not too sure, not playing club rugby
Joketani Koroi - Stade Francais
Rowan Gouws - South Africa
Connor McLeod - Hawke's Bay?
Harumichi Tatekawa - Japan
Henry Purdy - Bristol Bears
Saula Ma'u - Injured
Josh Dickson - Injured
James Lentjes - Injured -
@Kiwiwomble yeah, on his instagram he said that he wouldn't be playing but helping out coaching wise
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@NateHill74 Yep, Connor McLeod has returned home to Hawke's Bay and is playing club rugby there.
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Players signed for this season:
George Bower - Prop (Crusaders/Harbour)
Jonah Aoina - Prop (Kaikorai)
Hisa Sasagi - Prop (Southern)
Liam Coltman - Hooker (Highlanders/Alhambra Union)
Ricky Jackson - Hooker (Highlanders/University)
SIone Misiloi - Lock/No 6 (Highlanders/Harbour)
Josh Hill - Lock (University)
Slade McDowall - No 7 (Kaikorai)
Dylan Nel - No 8 (Chiefs/Green Island)
Kayne Hammington - Half Back (Highlanders/Zingari Richmond)
Josh Ioane - First Five/Second Five (Highlanders/Southern)
Aleki Morris-Lome - Midfielder (Harbour)
Sio Tomkinson - Midfielder/Wing (Highlanders/Harbour)
Matt Whaanga - Midfielder (Taieri)
Jona Nareki - Wing (Highlanders/Alhambra Union)
Vilimoni Koroi - Full Back/Utility Back (Highlanders/Alhambra Union)
Michael Collins - Full Back (Highlanders/Taieri) -
Players from last season unsigned but playing in Dunedin:
Mika Mafi - No 8 (Southern)
James Arscott - Half Back (Green Island)
Josh Timu - Midfielder/Utility Back (University)
Mitchell Scott - Wing/Full Back (Taieri)
Taylor Haugh - WIng/Full Back (University) -
@NateHill74 Jamie Mackintosh? Assuming it is that JM, I thought he was back playing club rugby in Southland?
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@Bovidae Yeah, he's playing club rugby for Kaikorai in Dunedin, and in the Wider Training Group for Otago at the moment
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Possible 23 for this season:
- Jonah Aoina
- Liam Coltman
- Hisa Sasagi
- Josh Hill
- Sione Misiloi
- Not to sure yet
- Slade McDowall
- Dylan Nel
- Kayne Hammington
- Josh Ioane
- Jona Nareki
- Sio Tomkinson
- Aleki Morris-Lome
- Vilimoni Koroi
- Michael Collins (C)
- Ricky Jackson
- Jamie Mackintosh
- Not to sure yet
- Woody Kirkwood (North Otago last year)
- Not to sure yet
- James Arscott
- Matt Whaanga
- Freedom Vaha'akolo
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i assume Collins prefers fullback but he played a bit in the midfield when fin the otago team and thought he was ok, personally i prefer that and have Koroi at 15...i think hes wasted out wide and neither he nor Nareki are exactly big and i'd like at least one big winger
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@NateHill74 Have you seen Kegan Christian-Goss playing club rugby for Dunedin? I wonder how he is developing. He was a good 10/12 for Napier Boys a few years ago. Probably, still a bit early for NPC, if he reaches that level.
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@Stargazer I personally haven't seen him from what I remember but he's been on the verges on the team usually with playing in the development team. He's pretty good for Dunedin and of course versatile, playing wing and midfield. He's not a bad player to be fair though
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@Kiwiwomble Yeah like 2012-15 he played centre a lot especially if Ben Smith was there and Peter Breen etc. I personally like Vili in the action and not on the wing but with players in specific positions I can't see him anywhere else. Collins is great at full back, Josh (3rd best in NZ) at 10, and the midfield of Sio and Morris-Lome is perfect as they played together through schools, club and rep. So the wing is the only other spot for him, unless he's a super sub and have Freedom starting on the wing with Jona
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@NateHill74 do you think collins is better the koroi at 15 though? captain aside id have koroi ahead of him, collins is solid...koroi is electric
