NZ Club Rugby 2022 ( General)
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@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.
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@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.
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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.
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@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?
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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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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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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 - BrownTA 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. -
Here is the draw for week 2 of the Waikato Draught Premiership:
Fraser Tech v Otorohanga - Waikato Steel Fabricators Park (Ron Crawford Memorial Trophy)
Hamilton Marist v Hamilton Old Boys - Marist Park
Morrinsville Sports v United Matamata Sports - Campbell Park
Te Awamutu Sports v Hautapu - Albert Park
University v Melville - Waikato University
Jack Lam is playing for Marist. Adam Thomson on the bench for HOB.
@gt12 Here's your TA team.
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