NZ Club rugby (general)
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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.
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@higgins said in NZ Club rugby (general):
@tim The problems at Glenfield must be pretty bad as that was their second default in a few weeks.
They couldnt even field a premier side last year (or possibly year before) so guess it is slightly better than previous but still very sad
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@tim said in NZ Club rugby (general):
@bovidae said in NZ Club rugby (general):
Auckland imports
Any names of note?
You might have noted that D'Angelo Leuila was listed as a Fraser Tech player in the Samoan squad announcement. There may be others but I haven't looked closely at the team lists.
It was based on a comment to me from someone associated with another club.
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Broom relishing time playing another sport
Former Black Caps batsman Neil Broom is probably not going to be a double international but he more than held his own at Kettle Park on Saturday....
I thought this is fantastic. A guy most thought would be in the twilight of his cricket career, making his debut as a premier rugby player.
Great work from Broomy.
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Went along yo watch the top of the table clash between OBM and Kamo.
OBM took the lollies 19-10.
Think they were up 13-3 at half time, in a pretty physical encounter.
Isi Manu again central to OBM game, but I'm really warming to Noah Cooper at the back, looks really assured, and with a booming right foot both out of hand and off the tee, could be an option for Northland at FB.
Kamo made hard work for themselves losing 7 of thier own lineouts in a row from about 20 mins through to about 60, several that were attacking lineouts in OBM 22.
Iose Brown the reserve prop made a massive impact the moment he came off the bench with huge carries and brutal defence.
Hohaia looked sharp today, good running, passing and vision.
Packs were pretty even, OBM just took thier chances a bit better.
Kamo were down 10-16 with about 5 to go, got a kick able penalty but opted to run but didn't come off, several minutes later Cooper slotted a 52m shot to put the game out of reach.
That result sees Kamo drop from 2nd to 4th:
OBM 49
Western Sharks 47
Mid Northern 46
Kamo 44United Kawakawa 11 back in 5th.
