NZ Club Rugby 2022 ( General)

[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.

[Bovidae]

[Tim]

[Stargazer]

Interesting to see that Kahn Fotuali'i is playing club rugby in Manawatū again (at 10 for Freyberg Old Boys).

[Bovidae]

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.

[Tim]

Shore vs. Silverdale should be a good game.