Highlanders 2024
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Just want to rule out one player from the board now. We don't want Losi Filipo as our new centre
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How good would that be! JJ calling in the favour and the lad comes over. What is the Japanese schedule?
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@Bovidae said in Highlanders 2024:
JRK has talent, but was usually stuck on the wing for the Blues.
@Bones Gilbert has looked very average in some NPC games this year.
Yeah haven't seen any Otago games. But he's a proven super rugby performer rather than looking ok in NPC and then ordinary at super rugby.
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@Bovidae said in Highlanders 2024:
JRK has talent, but was usually stuck on the wing for the Blues.
@Bones Gilbert has looked very average in some NPC games this year.
for someone thats been shuffled around three different position almost from game to game i think hes looked really good, if nothing else he gets picked on his kicking, conversion rate must be in the high 90's and has a huge punt that has regularly got otago either out of danger zone or in an attacking position
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@Kiwiwomble Gilbert had a shocker against Waikato, although he wasn't alone there. Him passing the ball into touch to end the game summed up his performance.
If you want Gilbert to play 12 next year you better hope he spends the off-season working on his tackling. His stats against the NZ teams were really bad this year.
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@Bovidae said in Highlanders 2024:
@Kiwiwomble Gilbert had a shocker against Waikato, although he wasn't alone there. Him passing the ball into touch to end the game summed up his performance.
If you want Gilbert to play 12 next year you better hope he spends the off-season working on his tackling. His stats against the NZ teams were really bad this year.
You can't seriously hold that Waikato game against him... it was a team-wide shocker, and he was nowhere near the worst. We'll see on his defence, but I think it is improving, and also, straight percentages aren't always the best measure of how good someone is at defence.
Example being, if you aren't in the right position, sometimes you don't miss the tackle, you just miss the assignment.
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can you post a link? never sure where to find reliable stats
i do have to say some of this stuff get tiresome, otago and the highlanders obviously have issues, several...but gilbert is a long way down the list...perfect? far from it....but lots of things more pressing....so the constant (not just from you but lots of people) really feels like people just coming around to take shots
"hey, that guy you guys kind of like...he also shit...so suck on that"
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@Kiwiwomble said in Highlanders 2024:
can you post a link? never sure where to find reliable stats
Check out the ESPN stats. I did post them in the match threads for the Highlanders games against the Blues and Chiefs, in particular.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Highlanders 2024:
so the constant (not just from you but lots of people) really feels like people just coming around to take shots
Reading this thread, Highlanders fans have been taking far more shots at their own players than non-Highlanders fans. Negative all the time, often over the top.
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If I was a Highlanders fans I would be pretty happy with Dunshea,JKR and Timoci Tavatavanawai, signings plus Saula Ma’u,Fabian Holland and Jack Taylor look like quality coming through.
Max Hicks is having a great NPC and you still have quality in Harmon,Ainsley,DE Groot and Nareki
Basis of a competitive team imo.
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@Stargazer thats kind of my point, we're far from rose tint glasses wearers...so taking shots at the few things we're kind of happy about just comes across like...taking shots for the fun of it
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@Kiwiwomble I don't think anyone is taking shots for the fun of it. You're just oversensitive, probably because the last few seasons of the Highlanders and now also Otago have been quite disappointing. Quite understandable by the way.
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@Stargazer of course, no way it could be a little of both, my bad
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@Stargazer said in Highlanders 2024:
@Kiwiwomble I don't think anyone is taking shots for the fun of it. You're just oversensitive, probably because the last few seasons of the Highlanders and now also Otago have been quite disappointing. Quite understandable by the way.
I can’t think of better response, well said. Especially from someone who is never hyper-sensitive about rugby players or teams.
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@Hooroo Yep, I totally admit to being oversensitive at times. That's why I added my last sentence. I can understand where @Kiwiwomble is coming from. TSF is sometimes a nasty, biased place. Usually the nastiness is not aimed at the Highlanders though.
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The Highlanders are where the NZ rugby revolution should start. If you can't attract the same level of talent as everywhere else, find different ways to win. Find a coach that can put together a plan that best uses what you've got. Playing the same way as everyone else but with less talent is a recipe for, well, the last few years really.
