NZ Club Rugby 2022 ( General)

[Tim]

@higgins Maybe they've been replaced in Premier 1 by Helensville? Can't see them in Prem 2 either though. Weird.

[JK]

No prem side for Marist this year in North Harbour most their top players have gone to silverdale, hence the big win over bays.

Northcote are playing silverdale next week. The cote lads are already fizzing

[Bones]

@taniwharugby said in NZ Club Rugby 2022 ( General):

@stargazer said in NZ Club Rugby 2022 ( General):

gain HOBM: Fritz Rayasi from Northland

he was with OBM up here, played a couple of games in the Northland dev side and then went walk-about.

Certainly a talented player, so hopefully gets his head space right.

What little I saw of him in club looked very promising. Bit more Caleb Clarke than Salesi Rayasi.

[mikedogz]

With the comp start delay, my club Te Rapa went to Taupiri for a game of three halves with them and Pirongia. All teams were pretty even. Doesn't look like Taupiri have brought in any imports this year. Saw ex Counties player Adam Cathcart, who I know was retired due to hip issues playing for Taupiri.

[Bovidae]

@mikedogz said in NZ Club Rugby 2022 ( General):

With the comp start delay, my club Te Rapa went to Taupiri for a game of three halves with them and Pirongia. All teams were pretty even. Doesn't look like Taupiri have brought in any imports this year.

Have they in the recent past? Even though Huntly still appears to have a club I am surprised some of their better players don't migrate to Taupiri. Huntly is a RL town.

[mikedogz]

@bovidae There is always rumours going around that clubs pay players. They are always financially healthy through good sponsors and farmers donating calves. I am pretty sure the last time they made prems they were giving match payments. A player from that season approached Te Rapa through the Facebook page and they were talking about match payments.

[mikedogz]

Anyone in the North Waikato that wants to play a good level of rugby plays at Taupiri. Huntly has a good core of locals including a couple of ex Te Rapa people who went back to try and improve them. They get a few guys from South Auckland too. Ngaruawahia and Te Akau were combined for a while and now are gone.

[Bovidae]

@mikedogz Taupiri have probably run out of Litts.

The Gatland-coached 1992 winning team had some decent players like S Gordon and Hopa, and some other ex-HOB players.

[Pepe]

@tim said in NZ Club Rugby 2022 ( General):

@higgins Maybe they've been replaced in Premier 1 by Helensville? Can't see them in Prem 2 either though. Weird.

When was the last time Mahurangi actually won a game? Perhaps back in the old Navy club days?

[Tim]

@pepe Long time, that's for sure.

[ploughboy]

@bovidae they were paying big time then .taupiri at that time had taupiri sevens at their peak.

[mikedogz]

Onewhero are just running an U85s this year. The U85 side has a lot of local boys compared to what the premier side had.

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[Higgins]

I have heard whispers that there could be a covid19 related default in Wellington premier rugbys Swindale Shield tomorrow. Hopefully this is not a start of things to come. Take care of yourselves and get well soon guys if it proves to be true.

[Tim]

Big win for Silverdale, getting up over Northcote. Massey must be better this year, keeping Takapuna close.

[JK]

@tim yep great win for silverdale.

I’m not sure re Massey and I’m equally unconvinced about how good Takapuna are this year too. Looks an interesting season ahead!

[Higgins]

Disappointing to see both Otahuhu and University conceding their games by default in Auckland rugby in this weeks opening games of their pre-season tournament.

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[Tim]

@higgins Auckland Uni is remote only this semester (and last), so would have been tough for them to get organised, I suspect.

[Higgins]

@tim There must be a decent number of players in the club that still live in Auckland, be they students or non students.

[muddyriver]

@higgins they have had plenty of games in last couple of weeks maybe they were travelling

[Bovidae]

Waikato Premiership club rugby starts this weekend. Looking at the team lists there are a few of the Chiefs WTG players involved.

HOB - Cobb
Hautapu - Burr, M Jacobson
Varsity - Brown

TA Sports seem to have picked up at lot of the Hamilton BHS school leavers like Sean Ralph, Taha Kemara and Austin Anderson, as well as Malachi Wrampling-Alec (all named in the 2021 NZ Schools team). Latrell Smiler-Ah Kiong is at fullback.
Varsity has some of the young BOP players (Josh Bartlett, Nikora Broughten and Veveni Lasaqa) involved.