NZ Club Rugby 2022 ( General)
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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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The other funny thing about the TA Sports vs Hautapu game is the coaches. Jackson Willison is one of the TA coaches, and he played all of his club rugby for Hautapu. Similarly, Jono Armstrong is one of the Hautapu coaches, and he was a TA stalwart, who IIRC, only moved to Hautapu at the very end of his career.
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@Stargazer said in NZ Club Rugby 2022 ( General):
@Bovidae I noticed that Adam Thomson is a player/coach, too.
He had that role last year too.
I scanned through the list and there are quite a few well-known ex players involved as coaches. de Malmanche is another at HOB. I see that James Semple is one of the Matamata coaches. I don't know if that is the Nathan Harris.
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Waikato Draught Premiership Week 3 (Kickoff A's 2:45 pm)
Fraser Tech v Morrinsville Sports - Waikato Steel Fabricators Park (Ron Crawford Memorial Trophy)
Hamilton Old Boys v Te Awamutu Sports - Fred Jones Park
Hautapu v United Matamata Sports - Memorial Park, Cambridge
Otorohanga v Melville - island Reserve
University v Hamilton Marist - Waikato University
Waikato Club Rugby Preview 7 May 2022
Waikato Draught Premiership Week 3 Kickoff A s 2:45pm B s 1:00pm After 2 weeks of competition three teams remain...
Out of curiosity, I will likely go along to watch HOB vs TA Sports.
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TA Sports beat Hamilton OB 33-24. I'll post the full rounds results when available.
I over-heard someone say that Malachi Wrampling will be missing some games when involved with the Chiefs U20s. He is a beast for a no.8, one year out of school. Some of the other younger players might also be part of the squad.
@Stargazer Smiler-Ah Kiong looked very dangerous with the extra space at fullback.
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My club Te Rapa hosted Taupiri. A couple of losses but the top team is improving. Bev's Broadcasting was there so it was good for out of towners to get to watch the team and get we get to see a highlights package too. Us old boys had a run around against a couple of other Presidents teams. Geez we could do with some rain in Hamilton, dust flying everywhere.
