Highlanders 2021
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@Kiwiwomble I don’t know if you have Instagram or not but look at the Chiefs and the Canes players they had in the pre season class on the weekend, the Blues are useless in this regard as they didn’t post the team lists.
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@Kiwiwomble Unfortunately teams are poor at updating this info.
The Harbour boys McElroy (LH), Mayhew (LH) (if fit), and Roots (TH) are worth looking at. McElroy is WTG for the Blues, and played club rugby in Dunedin as well as for Otago U19.
From Auckland there's Marco Fepuleai (Blues WTG, TH)
From Counties Lindenmuth (LH, Chiefs WTG)
From BOP Jordan Lay and Tevita Mafileo (TH, Hurricanes WTG)
From Ta$man there's Samuel Matenga (TH) and Ryan Coxon (LH).
Maybe someone from the Crusaders, Highlanders, or Chiefs WTG I haven't seen too.
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@Tim said in Highlanders 2021:
Tevita Mafileo (TH, Hurricanes WTG)Mafileo has a full time contract with the Canes u til 2022
(https://www.superrugby.co.nz/news/hurricanes-bolster-forward-pack-for-2021/)
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@Stargazer yeah, but if you're a young prop on the up where are you more likely to want to go....
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so some thoughts after watching the pre season game on friday
Smith v Fakatava
im almost feeling like Fakatava should start, go nuts with fresh legs, and Smith come on later as the old/experienced head to close out a game
obviously i doubt it will, at least at the start of the season
a fun problem to have
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@kiwiwomble said in Highlanders 2021:
so some thoughts after watching the pre season game on friday
Smith v Fakatava
im almost feeling like Fakatava should start, go nuts with fresh legs, and Smith come on later as the old/experienced head to close out a game
obviously i doubt it will, at least at the start of the season
a fun problem to have
Nah let Smith start with his guile and pass that beats 3 men. Fakatava with his running game and speed to pick holes will be even more dangerous.
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What it's like as New Zealand's oldest returning Super Rugby player after nine years abroad
It's been 10 years since Bryn Evans last played Super Rugby. Now the 36-year-old is in the running to debut for the Highlanders against the Crusaders this weekend.
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fuck it...just reading Fetuli Paea is out for the season
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@kiwiwomble said in Highlanders 2021:
fuck it...just reading Fetuli Paea is out for the season
Sucks for him but I'm not all that upset for the Highlanders...plenty of other young fellas that are in the same ball park talent wise.
If only there was a player that had stuck his hand up at 13 last season...
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@bones collins?
i am a bit gutted, he looked like what we'd been looking for during pre season
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@kiwiwomble said in Highlanders 2021:
@bones collins?
i am a bit gutted, he looked like what we'd been looking for during pre season
Yep.
See that's the problem with investing yourself in preseason! Chiefs probably had a wicked preseason last year. Bet the blues had a few awesome ones in the years before that.
It's how you end up with a Sio/Josh midfield and Hunt at ten.
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@bones i was just so happy that we were all talking about how the midfield being a real weak link...and then they went out and got some midfielders...and then at least one of them showed some real promiss...and then he got injured and we end up with Sio...
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@kiwiwomble said in Highlanders 2021:
@bones i was just so happy that we were all talking about how the midfield being a real weak link...and then they went out and got some midfielders...and then at least one of them showed some real promiss...and then he got injured and we end up with Sio...
Midfield is only a weakness due to selection and bizarrely the only one getting it right seems to be Holland, it's a country wide thing!
Collins finished up strongly at centre last season. Prior to that we had Walden at 12 in excellent form and forming a great combination with matchbox.
We've seen the Crusaders take their 12 from last year (and the AB 12) and move him to 13 (where he should have been all along) to accommodate a young, inexperienced player at 12....who seems to be touted as a 13.
What the fuck is in the water over there?
