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    ARHS
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    @tim Togiatama in Moana Pacific?? Are any of Nathan Vella, Ricky Jackson or Quentin McDonald training with a franchise?

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    @arhs Vella could be handy. Are any Waikato hookers available?

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    @tim Not sure. Maybe Stephen Misa?

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    @arhs said in Blues 2022:

    @tim Not sure. Maybe Stephen Misa?

    Sam Cooper would be another. I thought I saw him in one of the Chiefs training videos but he wasn't in the list of replacement players. I also wonder what has happened to Sekope Lopeti-Moli.

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    @tim no WTG backups this year. Just the 3 contracted dudes Eklund, Vikena & Ricci.

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    @nogusta Can one of the props cover hooker or something?

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    I'm guessing you can probably snatch someone who is training with another team. Not everyone training with a team is contracted.

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    Kianu Kereru Symes from the Magpies is available if they want to look outside the region, I think he's trained with the Blues before.

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    @nepia He's with the evil empire (named on bench for pre-season game vs Highlanders).

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    @bovidae said in Blues 2022:

    @nepia He's with the evil empire (named on bench for pre-season game vs Highlanders).

    Well, that's ruined my day.

    Nah, not really I'm happy for him to be in the mix even if it is with the village of the damned.

    Edit: This is what happens when @Stargazer isn't around to update our Magpies threads. 🙂

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    @arhs

    @tim said in Blues 2022:

    Zuriel Togiatama

    He is playing for the Drua

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    @nepia said in Blues 2022:

    @bovidae said in Blues 2022:

    @nepia He's with the evil empire (named on bench for pre-season game vs Highlanders).

    Well, that's ruined my day.

    Nah, not really I'm happy for him to be in the mix even if it is with the village of the damned.

    Edit: This is what happens when @Stargazer isn't around to update our Magpies threads. 🙂

    It looks like you sent up the bat signal, because I see he is back.

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    @dice Yeah if you fall short in an area you just call in an uncontracted player. Guys like Nathan Vella do it all the time for teams.

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    @african-monkey said in Blues 2022:

    @dice Yeah if you fall short in an area you just call in an uncontracted player. Guys like Nathan Vella do it all the time for teams.

    That might not be so easy in Queenstown if the teams are in separate bubbles. The teams will have to take enough players to cover all positions.

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    @bovidae maybe they might have 'pool' players to call on?
    Some squads will have players they can loan, and maybe if only for a week while someone is in iso after.a call up?

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    The plan would have to be to avoid movement of players in and out of team bubbles. Otherwise, what is the point!

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    @bovidae but if they play against one another, how is that keeping a team bubble? I would have thought they are essentially operating one large bubble at multiple locations?

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    Blues backline for tomorrow will probably look something like this

    1st half
    9 Milo Harris
    10 Plummer
    11 Clarke
    12 RTS
    13 Tele'a
    14 Kneepkens
    15 Perofeta

    2nd half
    Nock
    Perofeta
    Lam
    RTS/Evans
    Tua
    Kneepkens/Tele'a
    Sullivan

    Funaki M.Telea Heem not quite 100%

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    @taniwharugby The NRL had a lot of player movement in their bubble over the last two seasons. Not sure if they'd allow that here though.

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    @dice not suggesting they do it willy nilly, if they are playing against one another, there is no way they can see that as still say a Blues bubble and a Chiefs bubble, so i wouldnt see how the Chiefs 3rd hooker couldnt be available for the Blues if they needed him due to injury (or vice versa)

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