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@Tim wow, a reporter has actually done some real research and spoken to someone north of Wellsford about Northland rugby, instead of shooting straight from the hip and assuming Northland will be in all sorts of financial trouble because thats the way it was 10 years ago.
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North Harbour Mitre 10 Cup Squad:
Forwards:Hooker
Luteru Tolai (Northcote), 16 caps
Zane Turner (Silverdale), 0 capsProp
Sione Mafileo (North Shore), 53 caps
Nic Mayhew (Northcote), 33 caps
Teague McElroy (Northcote), 0 caps
Jimmy Roots (East Coast Bays), 2 caps
Karl Tu’inukuafe (Takapuna), 27 capsLock
Gerard Cowley-Tuioti, (Massey), 56 caps
Xavier Cowley-Tuioti (Massey), 1 cap
Jacob Pierce (North Shore), 17 caps
Mitchell Ryan (Northcote), 0 capsLoose forward
Tate Evans (East Coast Bays), 2 caps
Dillon Hunt (Marist), 17 caps
Lotu Inisi (Takapuna), 9 caps
Tamarau McGahan (Marist), 0 caps
Ethan Roots (East Coast Bays), 10 caps
Tim Sail (Northcote), 0 caps
Murphy Taramai (Northcote), 41 capsBacks:
Halfback
Lewis Gjaltema (East Coast Bays), 21 caps
Bryn Hall (Northcote), 78 caps
Brad McNaughten (North Shore), 1 capFirst five
Kade Banks (Takapuna), 0 caps
Bryn Gatland (Takapuna), 31 caps
Jack Heighton (East Coast Bays), 0 capsMidfield
Fine Inisi (Takapuna), 4 caps
James Little (North Shore), 8 capsOutside back
Tomas Aoake (East Coast Bays), 5 caps
Walter Fifita (Massey), 0 caps
Ngarohi McGarvey-Black (Marist), 0 caps
Jared Page (East Coast Bays), 3 caps
Shaun Stevenson (Northcote), 30 caps
Asaeli Tikoirotuma (Northcote), 9 caps -
@Machpants said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:
@Bovidae said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:
Chris is such a boring name for a front rower!
Are those names for real?
Yeah, the entire forward pack, or tight-5 at least, have excellent names, except for Chris.
POWER just writes the punny headlines for himself.
Rhodes Featherstone sounds like he should be a lawyer in an Agatha Christie novel.
Jack Jordan - a beautiful alliterative name that belongs to the protagonist in a FPS video game. -
Harbour starting XV is probably straight forward. Not sure about the reserves though. Depth not looking so good this year.
1 Mayhew
2 Tolai
3 Mafileo
4 Pierce
5 G Cowley-Tuioti
6 Roots
7 Hunt
8 Taramai
9 Hall
10 Gatland
11 Aoake
12 Little
13 Tikoirotuma
14 Stevenson
15 Page -
I think he was playing halfback in club rugby in the BOP this season.
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@Tim said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:
Bryn Hall is a champion for staying in NZ so long.
At the risk of starting a war (or at least an 80s movie punch up) , Bryn Hall was average at the Blues, he was lucky to be getting Super games back then. The object of your derision Weber's poor form this year would still be better than when Hall was chucking his pies around for the Blues.
Definitely turned his game around at the Crusaders although has struggled to distance himself from Drummond - weird that Drummond has been an AB and Hall hasn't.