Canterbury v Wellington
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@Chris said in Canterbury v Wellington:
@shark said in Canterbury v Wellington:
@Chris said in Canterbury v Wellington:
@shark said in Canterbury v Wellington:
@Chris said in Canterbury v Wellington:
Beautiful Isia Punivai good finish from another 20 year old pup ,7 players 20 year old or younger in that squad of 23.
This is good stuff, even if it isn't enough to carry us to a title this year. Brewis, Newell, Mellow, Darry, Fihaki, I Punivai and Williams?
Yep plus Klein and Burke are only 21 if we can keep hold of a few for SR future looks great.
Hope so, because we've seen some erosion recently as young blokes have gone elsewhere for opportunities. I'm really unimpressed that we haven't retained at least one of Sam Darry (Blues) and Will Tucker (Otago and the Highlanders). Whitelock only has a year or two left, surely, and Strange and Dunshea are decent SR players but punching at the moment due to lack of depth nationally. That leaves Barrett as our only relatively youthful, class lock in SR. Both Darry and Tucker are local lads, 2m+ and have national age grade pedigree. Really disappointing.
Yes big lose losing Darry and Tucker I reckon we may lose Isia to the Highlanders and Newell,Brewis and Williams must be vunerable to be signed elsewhere .
I would drop Harry Allen off to keep one of Newell, Williams or Brewis who was strong today.Maybe Gen Whatever is bucking the old stereotype that classy players will bide their time in the Crusaders system, and instead they want instant gratification elsewhere.
Alaimalo
Jordan
Gilbert
N Punivai
ALB
Smith
Lentjes
Darry
W Tucker
Tokolahi / Laulala
DLB
All guys who left Canterbury and/or the Crusaders system early in the last few years.
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@Chris said in Canterbury v Wellington:
@shark said in Canterbury v Wellington:
@Chris said in Canterbury v Wellington:
@shark said in Canterbury v Wellington:
@Chris said in Canterbury v Wellington:
Beautiful Isia Punivai good finish from another 20 year old pup ,7 players 20 year old or younger in that squad of 23.
This is good stuff, even if it isn't enough to carry us to a title this year. Brewis, Newell, Mellow, Darry, Fihaki, I Punivai and Williams?
Yep plus Klein and Burke are only 21 if we can keep hold of a few for SR future looks great.
Hope so, because we've seen some erosion recently as young blokes have gone elsewhere for opportunities. I'm really unimpressed that we haven't retained at least one of Sam Darry (Blues) and Will Tucker (Otago and the Highlanders). Whitelock only has a year or two left, surely, and Strange and Dunshea are decent SR players but punching at the moment due to lack of depth nationally. That leaves Barrett as our only relatively youthful, class lock in SR. Both Darry and Tucker are local lads, 2m+ and have national age grade pedigree. Really disappointing.
Yes big lose losing Darry and Tucker I reckon we may lose Isia to the Highlanders and Newell,Brewis and Williams must be vunerable to be signed elsewhere .
I would drop Harry Allen off to keep one of Newell, Williams or Brewis who was strong today.Those young props really kept Canterbury in that game (along with Wellington's poor handling). Scrum seemed to be about the only place Canterbury was on top.
Isi Tuúngafasi seems to be doing well with Ta$man, as well.
As I may have mentioned before, why the investment in Irish Oli Jager? Seems like there would have been plenty of NZ props who would have developed as well or better given the amount of time he's been in the system.
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@Chris-B Jager doesn't look big enough for me to play prop. I'm with you though, yes he's had a few injury problems, but he's been around for about 5 seasons now and hasn't really made a lot of progress tbh.
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@African-Monkey Not for someone who isn't or wasn't an NZ national.
Not really even a starting Super prop yet.
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@Chris-B said in Canterbury v Wellington:
@African-Monkey Not for someone who isn't or wasn't an NZ national.
Not really even a starting Super prop yet.
I find it weird the investment put in him ... at least your boy Shannon will be a decent AB.
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@African-Monkey said in Canterbury v Wellington:
@Chris-B Jager doesn't look big enough for me to play prop. I'm with you though, yes he's had a few injury problems, but he's been around for about 5 seasons now and hasn't really made a lot of progress tbh.
He is a decent size 1.92 cm and 128 kg
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@Chris Really? Looks can be deceiving I guess, he doesn't look that big at all and I have seen him play club rugby up close so that does surprise me weight wise.
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@Chris said in Canterbury v Wellington:
@African-Monkey said in Canterbury v Wellington:
@Chris-B Jager doesn't look big enough for me to play prop. I'm with you though, yes he's had a few injury problems, but he's been around for about 5 seasons now and hasn't really made a lot of progress tbh.
He is a decent size 1.92 cm and 128 kg
Yeah, I thought that was a weird call. Maybe he's been confused with DLB??
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@African-Monkey said in Canterbury v Wellington:
@Chris Really? Looks can be deceiving I guess, he doesn't look that big at all and I have seen him play club rugby up close so that does surprise me weight wise.
Yeah he is quite a big unit
