Highlanders v Hurricanes
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@mikey07 No worries as we have still got Ardie and S Scrafton (at least for the twenty minutes or so before he gets injured again). I'm picking they will be throwing heaps to R Prinsep at the back as he has to be in the team for additional reasons apart from his leadership.
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what is PU-J not doing well enough? Impressed me from what I saw of him. Didn't think NZ was that overrun by quality midfielders...
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@nostrildamus Yeah but the coaches love there next best thing in Proctor maybe trying to justify why he had a 5 year Canes contract.
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@nostrildamus His ABs spot must be in serious jeopardy if he is unable to oust Proctor from the starting position in the Horrorcanes.
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@higgins said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:
@nostrildamus His ABs spot must be in serious jeopardy if he is unable to oust Proctor from the starting position in the Horrorcanes.
Interesting regards AB13: while they play Goodhue at 12, PU-J is only competing against ALB perhaps, RIOane seems to have some distrib/vision issues? (I must have forgotten someone)..surely Ennor is not likely given he is still coming back from injury and green?
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Completely confused as to why PUJ remains on the bench. He outplayed or matched every opponent he came up against last year and the thanks he gets is a seat on the pine? These coaches really know how to knock a young players confidence.
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Brown said neither Alaimalo nor Milner-Skudder were in the selection picture for the Hurricanes game, with Alaimalo “unwell” and a few weeks away from playing. “He's still a few weeks off coming back in and being at his best,” Brown said. “He's actually a bit unwell at the moment, so we're not able to select him.” -
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@canes4life said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:
Completely confused as to why PUJ remains on the bench. He outplayed or matched every opponent he came up against last year and the thanks he gets is a seat on the pine? These coaches really know how to knock a young players confidence.
To be fair he has been decidedly average so fat yhis year though, and perhaps that may have something to do with the 9-10 combo. Be loody hard to shine outside them!
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@canes4life said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:
So I don't have to watch it does he make any sense on his selections.
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@chris said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:
@canes4life said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:
So I don't have to watch it does he make any sense on his selections.
Fuck it I watched it nothing much there I like Goosen,and Scrafton in there ahead of Savea and Blackwell.
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@dan54 yeah but Proctor hasn’t exactly been amazing. In fact Umaga-Jensen has probably shown more offensively than Proctor, he’s just not seen as a Holland favourite within the Hurricanes camp so therefore remains on the bench.
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@bones said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:
Ahh well. Looking forward to seeing Freedom carve it up.
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@stargazer said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:
@mofitzy_ said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:
Leger starting. Love debut on the bench.
Negatives: Flanders again on the bench instead of starting; PU-J on the bench and Proctor starting.
Positives: Rakete-Stones getting an opportunity, replacing Armstrong on the bench; no James Blackwell and Julian Savea!
IWL has the sole Magpies starting spot this week. We should just be happy they squeezed Rakete-Stones AND Flanders on the bench.
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@bones said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:
@chris-b you did that after saying he was soooo ginormous! He doesn't need to!
I think @MN5 thought it was funny, so that probably tells you enough 😁
My memory was that the whole conversation was a pisstake that went awry, but that doesn't matter.
What does need correcting is any implication that I may or may not have made that Pari Pari didn't need to get bigger.
One of my fundamental precepts of rugby is that bigger is better. If anyone can get bigger, without compromising other aspects of their game then that is a good thing.
I am in favour of a bigger Pari Pari unless he turns up playing like Billy Cavubati!
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@kiwiwomble said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:
@bones said in Highlanders v Hurricanes:
Ahh well. Looking forward to seeing Freedom carve it up.
Thanks, but couldn't they do a better highlights video? That's ridiculously naff! Two tries and one is just him falling over the line 😂
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@bones the fall over the line one was his first for Otago I think but the one v southland was pretty good
I’m seeing all the videos on the offical socials showing all these tries the canes have scored against us...we won the last game!
