Auckland v Manawatu
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Just had a peek, he was in U20 tournament team named at end of comp too. Seems he went to high school in Aus and then came to a Christchurch college then to Manawatu. Is he contracted to Crusaders?
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@Dan54 said in Auckland v Manawatu:
I realised U20s didn't capture players, used to for Fiji but WR stepped in?
It's the result of a change in the World Rugby eligibility rules that came into effect on 1 January 2018. From that date, national rugby unions could no longer nominate their U20s team as their "next senior national representative team". As you'll remember players can be captured by a country's "senior national representative team", "next senior national representative team" and their senior national representative sevens team.
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@Chris said in Auckland v Manawatu:
He is Ritchie Moungas nephew that is how he ended up at St Andrew’s college,Ritchie’s school.
I hear he has signed with the Crusader’s.
Ahh cheers Chris, I remember hearing he was Richie's nephew, but as the old memory glands seem to have a leak, it had slipped my mind completely!
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Seriously, how do you lose to the Turbos?
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@antipodean said in Auckland v Manawatu:
Seriously, how do you lose to the Turbos?
I saw bits of the first half and a very occasional glimpse of the second.
Slack defence basically, and unforced errors. Same as every rugby game.
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@Stargazer that was the big factor for us last week when we lost, in fact all season so far except v Ta$man, we must be the most ycd team.
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It's the timing of the penalties too. I think the count was 12-5 but the bigger issue was that there was 3 in a row more than once. That means 60-70m given up and a 5m lineout
Auckland should of put them away at 14-0.. they had a second chance to kill the game off at the start of the second half
Manawatu scored a couple of very good tries too but it was those sequences of penalties that got them back into it
On the positive side some of the young backs performed well. McKenzie might be the best ten in the squad? However this result probably means that the top XV won't see many changes from now on
Also vote in the Auckland player of the match poll if you have an opinion. When Auckland lose there's a few people that don't vote in these ('no one deserves a vote' grumpiness?)
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/6216/auckland-motm-v-manawatu -
@taniwharugby said in Auckland v Manawatu:
we must be the most ycd team.
Northland and Bay of Plenty; both have 4 yellow cards.
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@nzzp said in Auckland v Manawatu:
@antipodean said in Auckland v Manawatu:
Same as every Auckland rugby game.Fixed
