Magpies - 2018 Mitre 10 Cup
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@kiwimatrix Yep, I agree. It's easy to get excited by all those youngsters being named in the squad but it's quite a step up from school rugby to Mitre 10 Cup.
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Magpies squad for the preseason game against Manawatu this afternoon (Tremain Field, k/o 1.00pm)
1 Mark Braidwood
2 Ben Power
3 Joe Apikotoa
4 Tom Parsons
5 Sam Ulufonua
6 Devan Flanders
7 Josh Kaifa
8 Marino Mikaele-Tu’u
9 Folau Fakatava
10 Tiaan Falcon
11 Mason Emerson (c)
12 Pasqualle Dunn
13 Stacey Ili
14 Michael Buckley
15 JJ Taulagi16 Kianu Kereru- Symes
17 Ash Dixon
18 Pouri Rakete-Stones
19 Josiah Tavita-Metcalfe
20 Michael Allardice
21 Fa’alemiga Selesele
22 Nathan Tweedy
23 Brad Weber
24 Sasa Tofilau
25 Shae Tucker
26 Danny ToalaAnyone able to go to give us some liveupdates?
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Evans and fellow Hurricane, prop Ben May, don't return until next week.Tremain, fellow loosies Solomone Funaki and Hannon Brighouse, props Jason Long and Tim Farrell, first five-eighth Lincoln McClutchie and lock Geoff Cridge will all miss today's game with injuries. Hooker Jacob Devery has been released to play for the Saracens against Poverty Bay at Park Island tomorrow.I hope that injury list will be shorter when the season starts next week, although Farrell is out for the season and Brighouse for the the first month or so. I wonder who'll be the back-up first five-eighth in the absence of McClutchie? Taulagi, Toala, Ili?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503460&objectid=12104320
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Devan Flanders with the line-break, going for our first try at the end of the first half.
Half time: Magpies 5 - 21 Turbos
It sounds a bit like a reality check. Glad some of the cavalry will be coming off the bench. Will be interesting to see what impact they'll have.
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FT: Magpies 41 - 33 Manawatu
So indeed, the bench with our SR players must have made the difference. Great to get another win, although we leaked too many tries at the beginning of the first half.
Edit: it also looks like Falcon needs to work on his goal kicking. Seven tries, 3 conversions. (That's assuming he played 80 minutes).
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There is another Mitre10 Cup Competition running in conjunction with the on the field one. That's the Tipping Contpetition run by the Silver Fern's KiwiPie. Teams consist of six tippers with the top five score from each week counting. At this stage the Bay have five tippers in the lineup and still need one other person to commit to upholding the honour of the Bay.
Surely there must be someone out there to join Stockcar86, Stargazer, Skudderstep, Paj and yours truly in mounting a full strength squad in our attempt to dethrone the Wai-Bush outfit that has swept all before them for too long now.Don't be shy, here's the link needed to get your tips in, hopefully by 7.34pm tonight, but if not by then still tip away and the remaining games will all still be counted!
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A good start in the Sliver Fern Tipping with a reasonable win over the combined Counties-Waikato outfit but we are still undermanned and really need another tipper to fill out our squad. Any HB aligned person out there please come out and join in with Sotckcar86, Stargazer, Higgins, Clara and PAJ as we will probably need to be 6 strong as we take on the Wellington outfit this round. Tips in by 7.34pm on Thursday night (NZ time) please. This link should take you to where you need to go https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BoKFSRpmTmlO-VdhnxMtoNDHTPtODtCGwgXqabqZ3OM/viewform?edit_requested=true
