Blues 2023

[taniwharugby]

@Duluth wouldn't be surprised if he ends up in Japan with his brother either.

[Tim]

@Duluth I wonder who they've signed for the front row?

[Canes4life]

@Tim is this Tevita? Jeez, I hope not. I was hoping the Canes would lock him into a long term contract.

[Tim]

@Canes4life Yeah. No idea if he's changing Super Rugby teams, but North Harbour did announce his signing for this season.

[Canes4life]

@Tim I would be pretty shocked if he made the shift, especially after last week's effort. Mafileo and Lomax were pretty dominant against the Crusaders.

[Duluth]

Final Blues player of the match voting tally

Points	Player
12	Papali'i
10	Sotutu
9	A Ioane
9	Telea
7	Choat
7	Clarke
7	Heem
6	R Ioane
5	Sullivan
5	Riccitelli
5	Segner
4	Tuipulotu
4	Robinson
3	Suafoa
3	Laulala
3	Perofeta
2	Barrett
2	Christie
1	RTS
1	Tu'ungafasi
1	Rush

Last year was Sotutu with Dalton 2nd. Both players got more points last year.

The big change from last year was Barrett, Christie and Perofeta were all prominent. Perofeta obviously missed a lot of games

Akira strong after his return from a long injury layoff somehow got into the top 4

Surprised Telea didn't get more points. Seems he got rewarded for the freakish games but not the others

[Machpants]

Shows how shit we are at abs selecting

[Stargazer]

@Machpants What? Who's "we"? And a Blues TSF poll shows that?

[Machpants]

@Stargazer said in Blues 2023:

@Machpants What? Who's "we"? And a Blues TSF poll shows that?

Best 3 players for the Blues, according to voters here. One dropped from ABs to XV, one dropped from ABs and XV. the collective voting 'we' obviously have no idea!

[Duluth]

@Machpants said in Blues 2023:

@Stargazer said in Blues 2023:

@Machpants What? Who's "we"? And a Blues TSF poll shows that?

Best 3 players for the Blues, according to voters here. One dropped from ABs to XV, one dropped from ABs and XV. the collective voting 'we' obviously have no idea!

Sure but it is just an aggregate though.

Sotutu deserves the points he got. However in some other games he was off the pace or he was making costly errors. It was an erratic season for him.. I strongly doubt he'd do well in an overall player of the season poll (Probably Telea followed by Dalton?)

[Stargazer]

The Blues have indeed poached HB halfback Joel Russell. Another local talent lost to the HB Academy!

[Stargazer]

And the Blues comms people still don't know how to make a readable graphic. This hurts my eyes.

[taniwharugby]

@Stargazer don't worry NRU couldn't read it properly either, thier post congratulating the Northland players they completely missed one of them.

[Stargazer]

@taniwharugby Ha, I was just thinking the person who makes the graphics for the Blues is also the person who makes the Northland graphics, considering those aren't readable either.

[nzzp]

fun fact: still no season memberships available for the Blues (or if there are, they haven't emailed me). I don't think the venues are yet locked in.

[Canes4life]

@Stargazer Blues seem a little desperate trying to get the most out of Sam Tuitupou. Surely it's time for him to hang up the boots.

[JK]

@Stargazer and blues have lost a number to others too with two of the westlake boys in the crusaders squad

[Stargazer]

@JK Although I don't like the Hurricanes losing talent, I'm less concerned about one SR franchise losing talented young players to another franchise than about a small province losing talent to another province. We (the Magpies Academy) are losing several good players every damn year!

[JK]

So those players wont come back to play for HB then?
Surely its the same situation for my beloved but lowly Harbour side.

[KiwiMurph]

@Stargazer isn't that the same as Harbour losing players to Canterbury/ Ta$man?