Crusaders 2023

[mikey07]

Told ya everyone

[Chris]

@mikey07 said in Crusaders 2023:

Told ya everyone

Good oil from you.

[Stargazer]

Crusaders media release:

https://www.crusaders.co.nz/latest/news/christian-lio-willie-signs-with-crusaders/

[Chris]

And as I said a few weeks ago Noah Hothman signed as well.
Will be confirmed soon.

[Grooter]

@Chris what's next? Finn Hurley to replace Hickey😒

[macmanus]

@Kiwiwomble I want cry 😔

[Chris]

@FakatavaAllBlack said in Crusaders 2023:

@Chris what's next? Finn Hurley to replace Hickey😒

😳

[gt12]

Saders gonna Sade.

Hard to argue with it if you are a young player.

[Grooter]

@gt12 Razor more often than not gets his man! (well there was that 1 time Cortez Ratima proudly turned them down)

[SouthernMann]

Play the shit 'Landers or the championship Crusaders. Landers are a joke.

[gt12]

@SouthernMann said in Crusaders 2023:

Play the shit 'Landers or the championship Crusaders. Landers are a joke.

Sadly, unless an absolute miracle happens, you guys are going to be (over the course of the season), likely the worst NZ team.

There are no systems to do anything about that, and even though its not the main reason for their success, the Saders are incredibly hard to knock off their perch when there is nothing to stop them hovering up the best young talent, while keeping much of the best senior talent.

Edit: by the way, I think the halfback signing is a bit different to that. That’s likely the best place for talent distribution given the Lander resources.

[Grooter]

@gt12 the past two seasons we've had Lio-Willie, Tavatavanawai & Josh Moorby all in our wider training squad.. failed to lock them in to full contracts!!

[Crazy Horse]

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[macmanus]

@FakatavaAllBlack Tony Brown prefered Dawai or Tikoisolomone 🙃

[Canes4life]

@FakatavaAllBlack and Jordie, but he left Canterbury when the Canes were on top.

[Grooter]

@macmanus Derms was probably who bought down Renton & Hicks from the Mako$ so that's why at the time Lio-Willie didn't get a full contract (I do like hicks)

[mikey07]

@Chris Good pick up has some potential

[Chris]

@mikey07 said in Crusaders 2023:

@Chris Good pick up has some potential

Yeah I like what I saw in his couple of Landers starts and for Otago.
Power runner and hits hard in D.

[gt12]

@FakatavaAllBlack said in Crusaders 2023:

@gt12 the past two seasons we've had Lio-Willie, Tavatavanawai & Josh Moorby all in our wider training squad.. failed to lock them in to full contracts!!

That's a pretty sad indictment on the Landers.

What's your analysis?

Is it that they get close (indicating the identification part is working), but then never get a chance (e.g., the coaches are fucking it up by not using the talent they have and then losing it)?

[Grooter]

@gt12 I mean in short.. a guy like Josh Moorby was down south for 2-3 years and not once did he take the field in a landers jersey, yet a battler like Scott Gregory is given chance after chance