Highlanders 2021
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@kiwiwomble No, he's definitely eligible. Even if they hadn't postponed the starting date of the 5-year residency requirement, I think he'd still be eligible. He arrived in NZ just in time.
Edited to add that the 5-year-residency rule enters into force on 1 January 2022. So the last day to enter NZ under the 3-year residency rule was 31 December 2016. Fakatava already played for Hastings Boys in 2016.
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@stargazer I'm pretty sure the clock only starts ticking once the player leaves High School.
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@higgins Oops, yes, that's true, but that doesn't change the fact that he's NZ eligible. The residency requirement up to and including December 31, 2021 is “thirty-six consecutive months of Residence immediately preceding the time of playing”. After that date, it's a sixty-month residency requirement . So if they cap him before 31 December 2021, it's three years. He left school at the end of 2017. That's more than enough.
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Himeno - Meeting the Highlanders
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'You can be an All Black': The message from Jamie Joseph that helped define Aaron Smith's career
Aaron Smith has lifted the lid on how Jamie Joseph helped inspire him to become one of the greatest halfbacks of all-time.
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@stargazer said in Highlanders 2021:
'You can be an All Black': The message from Jamie Joseph that helped define Aaron Smith's career
Aaron Smith has lifted the lid on how Jamie Joseph helped inspire him to become one of the greatest halfbacks of all-time.
"It was really cool, and then the shock of Jamie Joseph saying, ‘You can be Jimmy Cowan..."
I think Smith exceeded that target...buy quite a bit
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@kiwiwomble said in Highlanders 2021:
@stargazer said in Highlanders 2021:
'You can be an All Black': The message from Jamie Joseph that helped define Aaron Smith's career
Aaron Smith has lifted the lid on how Jamie Joseph helped inspire him to become one of the greatest halfbacks of all-time.
"It was really cool, and then the shock of Jamie Joseph saying, ‘You can be Jimmy Cowan..."
I think Smith exceeded that target...buy quite a bit
You could lump in Piri and Angela with the Southland bogan and he exceeded that target by lots still.
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PPP would be heavier than any AB lock so far. Cooksley is listed as 125 kg, BBBR and Mika at 123 kg.
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@bovidae said in Highlanders 2021:
PPP would be heavier than any AB lock so far. Cooksley is listed as 125 kg, BBBR and Mika at 123 kg.
Excellent! I've been saying for years that the players are too small and game is boring because of it.
I think 150kg per forward is probably peak, as the field may not be big enough if they were to get larger than that.
Can't wait for my little boy to get into rugby.
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@majorrage said in Highlanders 2021:
@bovidae said in Highlanders 2021:
PPP would be heavier than any AB lock so far. Cooksley is listed as 125 kg, BBBR and Mika at 123 kg.
Excellent! I've been saying for years that the players are too small and game is boring because of it.
I think 150kg per forward is probably peak, as the field may not be big enough if they were to get larger than that.
Can't wait for my little boy to get into rugby.
I can’t wait for Bill Cavubati to make a comeback
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@majorrage said in Highlanders 2021:
Can't wait for my little boy to get into rugby.
I know right, can only imagine how many 150kg monsters there are in little boy rugby.
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