NZ Club rugby (general)
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Glenfield cover a huge swathe of the western North Shore with no other club competition, I say this without actually knowing where Northcote club rooms are.
A hinterland of Glenfield, Birkenhead, Birkdale etc. Gee that's worrying if they cant get a team. All that uncompeted suburbia to its west.
The Kaipātiki Local Board area is 94k people. I guess, technically Takapuna grounds also located in this district. 3 clubs for 94k people. But, tbf, that is actually better than the 1.5 clubs in Devonport/ Takapuna local board area, 64k people. (Navy only really worth being described as half a club these days? Agree?)
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Maybe it has been mentioned before, but I only just noticed that Tima Fainga'anuku is playing club rugby in the North Harbour comp (Marist). Also prop Jody Allen (former HB and most recently Poverty Bay).
Also, is the Lucas Goodin playing for Kerikeri in the Northland comp, the same Lucas Goodin that played for the Magpies (as an injury replacement, several years ago; and Clive)?
I knew he was back in the country, but Carl Axtens is playing for Tauranga Sports.
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@higgins said in NZ Club rugby (general):
@mikey07 Scheduled to be in Napier that weekend for a family function but will see what I can do
Hey @Higgins might have to postpone that beer my seasons done I’ve torn the tendon on my bicep I have the whole Popeye arm going on just waiting on scans to see if I need surgery to reattach.
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Continued from my previous post:
In April, I noticed his name on the team sheet of an Auckland club, but Lisati Milo-Harris is back playing in Taranaki.
Also, there's an Eli Ratumaitavuki-Kneepkens playing for Tukapa in Taranaki. I assume he's a brother of Jacob; does anyone know him? Younger, older; good or not?
Now to the South Island. Robbie Malneek, who last played for Ta$man in 2017, is still playing club rugby (Nelson).
Surprised to see former NZ U20 hooker Flynn Thomas play at 6 for Marist RC in the Southland comp.
I haven't finished going through the team lists on my search for "players on the move". Maybe more later.
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@stargazer said in NZ Club rugby (general):
Surprised to see former NZ U20 hooker Flynn Thomas play at 6 for Marist RC in the Southland comp.
I wouldn't get too hung up on the positions played in club rugby. I watched a little bit of a club game at the local park on Sat and Sekope Lopeti-Moli (Waikato and Chiefs Dev hooker) was playing openside for Varsity. He scored a try from a long-range try too. From memory, Thomas wasn't that big and was mobile.
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watched Kamo v Hikurangi today, which ended up a one sided affair with 2nd placed Kamo dealing to bottom placed HIka 60-5.
Hika were competitive for about 40, trailing by a 15 or so at the break, but fatigue set in, Kamo upped the tempo and ran away with it.
Blake Hohaia with one of his better games, think he got 3 tries, one was a cracker solo effort to open the scoring, but he also blew a try by trying to be too flash in the 1st half by trying a SBW back hander to the FB who wasnt expecting it (and dropping it) instead of drawing and passing to the unmarked centre and wing to run in 30m.
Nikau Graham ran well again and also his kicking was solid today, with a nice kick pass for Brodie Lam to run onto and gallop 40m to score.
Another player I am surprised hasnt been selected in the trial teams, Grayson Thyne. Very good #6 (although playing well at 8 ) Just goes 100% all day, hits rucks, tackles, turns the ball over, runs hard.
#8 for Hika was a tall rangy fella (Brian Williams) but has a motor on him and was into everything, but gee, Hika lacking some size out there, with TR Jnr looking bigger than 3 or 4 of thier players!!
Results are late as HH at home v Mid NOrthern was a 5.15 k/o, which is a shame cos weather turned to custard about then this evening.
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Well Southern boys are in New Plymouth tomorrow again, and last couple of weeks I haven't been up there to follow them, they been getting knocked around a bit too. Instead what I have been doing is picking a shall we say a 'village team', one of the 3rd division clubs, really enjoying it, generally make sure I wander into clubrooms and join their for a beer. Loveing it, will do same thing tomorrow and just wander over to Stratford and watch their 3rds play Kaponga where I was last week!
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OBM hold thier spot at the top (45) Kamo nabbed a very late penalty to pick up a narrow win to hold 2nd (44) While the sharks keep thier impressive form going and move into 3rd (42) after MN have had 2 low scoring wins the past fortnight as they drop to 4th (41) 12 points clear of 5th place Moerewa.
