NPC - news, injuries etc

[Bones]

This would be funny though.

[Yeetyaah]

@mikedogz that's not the same photo

[mikedogz]

I'm not saying it is but from the same moment.

[Yeetyaah]

@mikedogz Ah my bad. Looked through that album.

[Yeetyaah]

Some dude on Facebook posted this. Terrible quality but looks like the same moment with a different angle.

[Yeetyaah]

[Dice]

@Yeetyaah Sweet. So Tupaea and Messam in the midfield? And Sweeney into the frontrow?

[WillieTheWaiter]

@Chris-B said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

@Stargazer said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

@Yeetyaah Isn't Kerr-Barlow still in France?

Edited: I just checked. TKB is still contracted to La Rochelle. It won't be him.

Google tells me Messam is in NZ - running a coaching clinic in Tauranga three weeks ago.

36 yo.

My money is on Liam.

he's playing club rugby for Raglan!

[Bones]

@Yeetyaah is that Nick Evans in the background?

[Bovidae]

@WillieTheWaiter said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

he's playing club rugby for Raglan!

Hautapu couldn't find a spot for Liam in their stacked team?

Messam is a Waikato legend so it's great that he wants to give something back to the province, but we've got some promising loose forwards so I hope this doesn't limit their opportunities.

[Stargazer]

Result preseason game:

Counties Manukau Cavaliers 40 - 24 North Harbour

[Crucial]

@Stargazer said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

Result preseason game:

Counties Manukau Cavaliers 40 - 24 North Harbour

I'm waiting on the Steelers to release a match report.

Edit: Just found a comment on the Harbour FB page that indicates it was one of those games that it is hard to take anything from the result. NH won the first two spells but CM romped over them in the third.
Without knowing the lineups in each time period it is difficult to judge.

[Bovidae]

Adam Thomson will be playing for Waikato in the M10 Cup. The Mooloos to have their own fossils.

I assume that means both McWhannell and Tucker aren't available.

[Stargazer]

@Bovidae Not a bad fossil to have. Will be good at mentoring the younger players with all his experience. Both he and Messam.

[Yeetyaah]

@Bovidae got confirmation of that anywhere? Or is it inside source?

[Bovidae]

@Yeetyaah

Stuff article today.

Thomson said his nomadic career was “no accident”, that he was happy with his career in New Zealand – which included the 2011 World Cup win – and it was almost an overseas experience for him.

Now back home, he noted every phone call had been a surprise during this return up the ranks in New Zealand, which he also revealed will have him playing for Waikato in this year’s Mitre 10 Cup.

[shark]

@Bones Looks like him when you zoom in. Both teams must have been at full strength. In other pics you can see Kahui and Anton Oliver

[WillieTheWaiter]

@Bovidae said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

@WillieTheWaiter said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

he's playing club rugby for Raglan!

Hautapu couldn't find a spot for Liam in their stacked team?

Messam is a Waikato legend so it's great that he wants to give something back to the province, but we've got some promising loose forwards so I hope this doesn't limit their opportunities.

Time to wind back the clock and restart the 'messam would be an awesome centre or hooker' conversations.. ha

[Bovidae]

@WillieTheWaiter Do you know when the Waikato squad is named? Locks and halfbacks would be the biggest concerns.

[Yeetyaah]

@Bovidae based on how shit they were at announcing the team last year, expect it a couple of weeks before. I feel like I heard Roe is back from Taranaki. With locks, here's hoping McWhannell doesn't get injured.....again.