Pasifika SR team
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@stargazer The Inisi brothers have played for North Harbour NPC & Tongan 7s. One is a Number 8 and the other a midfielder.
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i have to say i like how MP are doing this
Its been said before most of the Aussie teams were only up to NPC standard so this team with a couple of real talents supported by quite a bit of NPC experience should be mid table i would think
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@dice that would be a good XV to put together , the ghosted Hurricanes XV ..
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@steven-harris said in Pasifika SR team:
@dice that would be a good XV to put together , the ghosted Hurricanes XV ..
15 ..?Dagg
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@steven-harris said in Pasifika SR team:
@nepia 14.Buckman/Naholo
Depends on selection criteria I guess as I think Bucky had half a game for the Canes.
- Smith with Fakatava as back up.
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@nepia said in Pasifika SR team:
@steven-harris said in Pasifika SR team:
@nepia 14.Buckman/Naholo
Depends on selection criteria I guess
Good point. I don't think you could count people that Hammer sacked.
King Carlos might be a contender.
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So….we’re just going to list a whole lot of highlanders?
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@chris-b said in Pasifika SR team:
@nepia said in Pasifika SR team:
@steven-harris said in Pasifika SR team:
@nepia 14.Buckman/Naholo
Depends on selection criteria I guess
Good point. I don't think you could count people that Hammer sacked.
King Carlos might be a contender.
Or the ones who left because of the Hammeteur.
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@kiwiwomble Or chiefs
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@stargazer heard a rumour their preseason training will be down in Bay 😐
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@stargazer said in Pasifika SR team:
They should play games at McLean Park.
It would be a lot better if the new team was a geographic region like all of the others.
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@duluth Yeah, I agree, but the reason for making Mt Smart their home stadium is that the largest Pasifika population lives in Auckland. If they picked a region, then it would either have to (partially) overlap the Blues catchment, or be a region with a much smaller Pasifika population.
I think the first season will show whether the underlying assumption - the Pasifika population in Auckland will support the team and fill Mt Smart stadium - is correct. If not, then there won't be any reason to keep this team based in Auckland and they could actually create a new franchise region.
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@stargazer thats what i was kind of getting at a few posts back, i wouldn't be surprised if after a couple of seasons it gets rebranded and moved to Hawkes Bay or something
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@stargazer said in Pasifika SR team:
I think the first season will show whether the underlying assumption - the Pasifika population in Auckland will support the team and fill Mt Smart stadium - is correct. If not, then there won't be any reason to keep this team based in Auckland and they could actually create a new franchise region.
They should've just created a new regular franchise. If they want ~30 PI qualified players in the competition they could've created a rule that all the franchises needed to select 5 PI qualified players
