Hurricanes 2024
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@Canes4life
Have you heard if T Mafileo did sign with Blues or was that a Roigard, Ennor type rumour as well. -
@Chris yeah a rumour from old mate. I think he's sticking with the Canes.
I'm hoping the Canes starting front row in 2024 is Mafileo, Aumua and Lomax. Would be pretty handy.
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@Canes4life said in Hurricanes 2024:
@Chris yeah a rumour from old mate. I think he's sticking with the Canes.
I'm hoping the Canes starting front row in 2024 is Mafileo, Aumua and Lomax. Would be pretty handy.
Yeah that is a decent starting front 3.
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Hurricanes have just announced the signings of the following players:
- Tevita Mafileo - three year extension
- TK Howden - two year extension
- James Tucker - one year only
- Josh Taula - two year contract
- Daniel Sinkinson - two year extension
- Ben Grant - one year only. Who the fook is that guy? He looks to be a 2.05m lock who's formerly played for the Reds. 118kg aswell.
I'm really not sure about some of these signings. I think I would prefer signing Justin Sangster and Dominic Bird tbh. I hope we haven't failed to pick up Delany aswell.
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@Canes4life he is an Aussie lock, over 2m no less!
IIRC he was being looked at up here, so he is keen to get some experience in NZ I guess.
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@taniwharugby why are we signing Australians over Kiwis? Seems very odd. I see he recently played in USA's Major League Rugby which makes me question his ability aswell. He's also played for about 1000 teams in such a short period which can't be good either.
Grrrr, why can't we sign some good locks. Tucker seems a bit average aswell. Definitely not guys I would be investing in. Dumb signings IMO.
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Hurricanes
Six locked in for 2024! Returning ▪️ Tevita Mafileo ▪️ TK Howden ▪️ Daniel Sinkinson New for ‘24 ▪️ Ben Grant ▪️ Josh Taula ▪️ James Tucker
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@Canes4life said in Hurricanes 2024:
Definitely not guys I would be investing in.
Geoff Cridge would have made way more sense.
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@Stargazer or Dominic Bird or Justin Sangster or Hugo Plummer even. Atleast sign a kiwi.
That Ben Grant signing is so left field it makes me wonder who else the Canes will sign.
Very odd indeed.
I get the Josh Taula signing, he's over 2m tall, he's 124kg and he's young. I just hope they can get him to concentrate for more than two secs because he doesn't seem the sharpest.
The Tucker signing is dumb to me, he's going to be the Blackwell type player that I thought we had finally seen the back of.
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@Stargazer let's hope Laidlaw knows what he's doing.
I'm very stoked Mafileo and Howden have signed on.
Atleast our prop and loose-forward stocks are healthy. Locks are looking very weak at this stage though unfortunately.
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@Canes4life said in Hurricanes 2024:
- Ben Grant - one year only. Who the fook is that guy? He looks to be a 2.05m lock who's formerly played for the Reds. 118kg aswell.
He has played for Perth Spirit and then Western Force in the NRC in Australia. In 2022 and 2023 he played for San Diego Legion in the MLR. He's 25 years old.
Most recently he played 8 games for North Harbour in the NPC. Can't say I remember him, but you can't remember them all.
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@Canes4life said in Hurricanes 2024:
I hope we haven't failed to pick up Delany aswell.
He is originally from Ta$man so may be heading home ? now his studies are completed in Wellington.
I haven't heard he is moving just a thought thrown out there.
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After those signings, this is an update on the squad:
Props:
T Mafileo
X Numia
S Lauaki
T Lomax
? P Rakete-Stones (highly likely)
? TBCHookers:
A Aumua
? TBC
? TBCLocks:
I Walker-Leawere
B Grant
J Tucker
J Taula
? potentially one more lock - Justin Sangster hopefullyLoose forwards:
T Howden
D Flanders
D Kirifi
B Shields
P Lakai
? C Delany (highly likely)
? B Iose (highly likely)
? TBCHalfbacks:
C Roigard
T Perenara
? TBCFirst Fives:
B Cameron
A Morgan
? Lincoln McClutchie (hopefully)Centres:
R Higgins
J Barrett
B Proctor
B Sullivan
? P Umaga-Jensen (highly likely)Outside backs:
R Love
H Godfrey
J Moorby
D Sinkinson
? Kini Naholo (highly likely) -
