Canterbury 2020

[Chris]

@NateHill74 said in Canterbury 2020:

@Stargazer Ngane Punivai first position is wing, Fihaki is wing/midfield, Scott Mellow is usually a hooker. He played for Taranaki for a while

Mellow is a TH Prop play for Mari st Albion Punivai was always a centre in CHCh but was used on the Wing sometimes. Fihaki plays all his rugby in the Crusader Knights and in club for HSOB as a wing /FB never seen him in the centres

[NateHill74]

@Chris ok, I live in Dunedin so I'm not the master so I'm believing you

[Chris]

@NateHill74 said in Canterbury 2020:

@Chris ok, I live in Dunedin so I'm not the master so I'm believing you

all good sorry you are right on Mellow but the others are as I posted.

[Yeetyaah]

Cullen Grace (also lock)

A 1.90m lock?

[Chris]

@Chris said in Canterbury 2020:

@NateHill74 said in Canterbury 2020:

@Chris ok, I live in Dunedin so I'm not the master so I'm believing you

all good sorry you are right on Mellow as he plays TH and Hooker,but the others are as I posted.

[Chris]

@Yeetyaah said in Canterbury 2020:

Cullen Grace (also lock)

A 1.90m lock?

No He will play 6 or 8 not Lock has played there but not now.

[Stargazer]

@Yeetyaah I added that more to indicate that he's capable of playing there (like for NZU20s), not that I expected him to play there (he didn't for the Crusaders).

[shark]

Grace will cover lock if needed. Hell, we used Reed Prinsep there at times last season.

Ngani Punivai is 100% a centre who just happens to be able to cover wing. The Highlanders used him on the wing and Canterbury also, but only as a stop-gap.

So annoyed Otago have poached Will Tucker and Sam Gilbert.

[NateHill74]

@shark To be fair, Gilbert is injured so he wasn't going to be playing anyways and Otago lost Josh Dickson. Yous have already got Whitelock and Barrett, share your players to the teams that need a lock

[shark]

@NateHill74 that's far from the point. I'd like to see these young locally produced kids with potential at least establish themselves with - and add value to - Canterbury for a season or three before possibly having to go elsewhere to advance themselves, if indeed they need to move to do so. I'd much rather see a good young local kid retained than someone else brought in.

[shark]

Canterbury beat Ta$man yesterday 19-17. It was live on Facebook and can be watched on replay, which might be my thing this arvo.

[Stargazer]

@shark If you read the general Mitre 10 Cup thread, you can find some livescoring. The link to the FB livestream is posted there, too.

[shark]

Cheers. I'm gonna watch a replay on fb and cast it

[shark]

I count a minimum of 17 locally schooled squaddies. Some of the debutants I haven't looked up.

[Duluth]

Canterbury have a new captain

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/provincial/300103077/mitre-10-cup-new-canterbury-captain-reed-prinsep-a-calmer-head

[shark]

That's a fair appointment.

[Nepia]

@shark said in Canterbury 2020:

That's a fair appointment.

I'd suggest that the Canterbury captain should be playing for the Crusaders, just seems wrong otherwise.

[shark]

@Nepia Like Luke Whitelock? 😝

[cgrant]

https://www.wearecanterbury.co.nz/newell-drives-forward/

Who is the big guy standing on the right, next to Fletcher Newell ?

[shark]

Unsure of Dallas McLeod's injury status after last night, but with he and Ennor unavailable we're getting a bit thin. Hopefully N Punivai gets back soon to help his little brother out.