Highlanders 2022
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Hooker is an interesting one.
Looks like we may have lucked out a bit and might be going back to the future again with Greg Pleasnte-tate. Would really be running with three very average hookers and be quite jealous of the depth at other franchises.
I wouldn't think we would be looking for a 4th lock. I thought all the guys from last year are coming back.
If we sign Naholo, I'd hope it would only be as an injury replacement for Nareki. Give Freedom the full contract.\
In terms of the loosies and the likes of Misiloi not getting gametime. It was also because he was rubbish and should never have got a contract, let along a two year gig.
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@southernmann i think Ricky Jackson has really stepped up fr otago this year, it always going to be a step down from Dixon but jackson has a better throw than Coltman and get around the pitch
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@southernmann said in Highlanders 2022:
Hooker is an interesting one.
Looks like we may have lucked out a bit and might be going back to the future again with Greg Pleasnte-tate. Would really be running with three very average hookers and be quite jealous of the depth at other franchises.
Nathan Harris could be available.
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@bovidae said in Highlanders 2022:
@southernmann said in Highlanders 2022:
Hooker is an interesting one.
Looks like we may have lucked out a bit and might be going back to the future again with Greg Pleasnte-tate. Would really be running with three very average hookers and be quite jealous of the depth at other franchises.
Nathan Harris could be available.
Was just going to mention Nathan Harris if he’s been cut from the Chiefs for Thomson.
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I hope Kianu Kereru-Symes will return from injury soon. He'll be Dixon's replacement for the Magpies and has been good in previous seasons and as NZ U20s captain. I rate him higher (in potential) than Jackson and he has been in the Highlanders environment before as injury cover. Just needs consistent game time now and - if healthy - will get it if Dixon has to leave for Japan before the NPC is over.
I doubt the Canes will sign him. They'll probably sign the white line snorter as their 3rd hooker.
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@stargazer can't push your case when you're injured. Seems to be a consistent trend with Hawkes Bay players at that stage of their careers.
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@canes4life Quite a statement. Do you have any other examples of Hawke's Bay players who weren't signed by the Canes because they couldn't "push their case" due to injury (during NPC)? McClutchie isn't one of them; Fakatava wasn't. Mikaele-Tu'u wasn't. Makene wasn't. Falcon wasn't.
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Just probably Hugh Renton and he was signed by the Canes.
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@southernmann That's why Renton is not a good example. He was signed. So were Cridge and Lowe. They all got injured while at the Canes, and then didn't get opportunities when they were fit again.
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Anyway, Kereru-Symes has already several seasons of NPC under his belt. He has already had two years with the Canes on a development contract; just unlucky there was such a queue at the time. Now the queue, or at the least the quality in the queue, is gone. But he has also been with the Highlanders for a short while. And the Blues. He was rated by the other players while there. -
@stargazer said in Highlanders 2022:
@canes4life Quite a statement. Do you have any other examples of Hawke's Bay players who weren't signed by the Canes because they couldn't "push their case" due to injury (during NPC)? McClutchie isn't one of them; Fakatava wasn't. Mikaele-Tu'u wasn't. Makene wasn't. Falcon wasn't.
Neither was Israel Dagg
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you would think it must be pretty serious, who are going to bring in to alternate with Lentjes
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@kiwiwomble said in Highlanders 2022:
you would think it must be pretty serious, who are going to bring in to alternate with Lentjes
Too soon for Withy so maybe shoulder tap Lamborn.
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@bovidae thats what i was wondering about Withy..seeing as Lentjes had a huge injury only last season
lamborn seems to be everyones answer to everything, i was wondering about slade mcdowell, hes been in the environment before, only 23
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I thought the complaint against speights hadn’t been upheld…but here we are anyway, doesn’t look bad at least
edt: i went back and looked at the statement when we announced Speights and they talk about a new four year deal
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@kiwiwomble Speights logo relegated to the collar. I find the whole thing funny tbh. I do think advertisement of alcohol is a little glorified and having a large Speights logo on your clothes doing a charity or kids event is kinda weird. But holy shit the Facebook comments are hilarious, people losing their shit over a printed logo on a rugby jersey, Speights isn't even brewed in Dunedin anymore. SBS is at least a southern company.
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