NPC - news, injuries etc
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@Bovidae looks likely he will end up at the Canes. Not sure how I feel about this one. I suppose you can't get much worse than Hickey so it's an improvement.
Looks like the Canes see Ruben Love more as a fullback option aswell, unless they are just playing him there now before shifting him to 10 later on. (similar to how they utilised Beauden when he was younger / when Cruden was around).
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@Chris-B said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:
@Stargazer Definitely should be merit over geography IMO.
We have seen the geography conferences in Super rugby and they've been unfair (and rubbish).
I also think the Hawkes Bay argument in that article is a red herring. You've got to be good enough to get yourself into the First Division to be able to compete for the title.
North Harbour beat both Ta$man and Auckland (the finalists) in the regular season, but weren't good enough to make the play-offs and in fact got relegated!
Sadly, from my point of view, they also toweled up my guys big time by about forty as well.
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@Tim this is a good pick up for the Turbos , this could also be a good move for Cameron , I thinks he’s had to live in the shadow of some very good Canterbury 1st fives .
This will give him the opportunity to be the starting 10 and develop his game without the history of the players that worn the red and black jersey before .Rivez Reihana has also signed with the Northland Taniwha for 3 years ..Another one returning home , great to see .
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@Steven-Harris said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:
Rivez Reihana has also signed with the Northland Taniwha
Nice, a good 10 is a huge addition to their squad.
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@Tim it’s also raised some interesting questions for the Taniwha ,.Johnny Cooper has only signed for one year ..
Are Hawkins and Faiane still in the picture ...?.I suspect Faiane may shoot the gap . -
@Steven-Harris as in Cooper just re-signed for another year? Or he was only signed for one year meaning last year?
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Southland have announced several signings the past week:
- hookers Greg Pleasants-Tate and Flynn Thomas (GPT now with Suntory Sungoliath in Japan)
- forwards Charles Alaimalo and Joe Walsh (Alaimalo now with Zebre in Italy)
- outside backs Rory van Vugt and Isaac Te Tamaki (van Vugt will be playing MLR first)
- two young lads: Arese Poliko (no. 8 ) and Niko Manaena (prop)
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@Tim id missed that, would be good if they kept the comp name and just changed the naming sponsor
like the Premier League is always the Premier League
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@Kiwiwomble Yeah, would love to keep it as the NPC.
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So they're doing a survey about the proposed change, but they don't ask the questionwhether you agree with the proposed change. The only thing they're looking at is whether you'd watch more games, or not.
I've just written my opinion in one of the few boxes you could write text in.
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@Yeetyaah said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:
Are NZR possibly bringing back the NPC name?
Looking at that, wouldn't it be better to have three regions, from which the top team qualifies, plus a wildcard?
Bringing back the NPC name is a good idea.
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@Bovidae I think we all accept that, just rather than the "Mitre 10 Cup" it could have been the "Mitre 10 NPC"...the former sounds like a carpentry comp where the latter sounds like they are sponsoring a rugby comp
like they do for super rugby, same logo with a different name across the top
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@Stargazer said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:
So they're doing a survey about the proposed change, but they don't ask the questionwhether you agree with the proposed change. The only thing they're looking at is whether you'd watch more games, or not.
Why would they need to do a survey about that?
I'd think they'd have quite detailed data around viewing figures for closely matched teams vs mismatches - and games where significant league outcomes hang on results - and where the games are largely meaningless because one or both teams are out of contention for the finals or danger of relegation.
