Exodus

[pakman]

Rieko was born and bred in Auckland.

[LABCAT]

Eligible for Samoa as well apparently, which team would he pick?

[mikey07]

@LABCAT Japan would pay more I reckon.

[Tim]

How is Michael Little going these days?

[Tim]

Westlake oldboy Tiennan Costley has made the Japan training squad as a loose forward.

EDIT: He made the full squad too.

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[Crazy Horse]

Bloody typical. Akira finally runs on to the ball at 100 miles an hour and smashes into the line like I have been wanting him to do for years. And then he says he's leaving.

[nzzp]

@Crazy-Horse said in Exodus:

Bloody typical. Akira finally runs on to the ball at 100 miles an hour and smashes into the line like I have been wanting him to do for years. And then he says he's leaving.

Blame Jason not Akira. He does not look like he wants to leave.

[Billy Tell]

@Machpants said in Exodus:

@Number-10 said in Exodus:

In the video he says he is born and bred in Auckland.

He was born in Japan, born and bred just a phrase

The Q is not where he was born and bred but where were his parents when his fired the “fatal” shot.

A player who never reached the promised heights and ended up bit-part.

[Mr Fish]

@nzzp said in Exodus:

@Crazy-Horse said in Exodus:

Bloody typical. Akira finally runs on to the ball at 100 miles an hour and smashes into the line like I have been wanting him to do for years. And then he says he's leaving.

Blame Jason not Akira. He does not look like he wants to leave.

If he doesn't want to leave, he doesn't have to leave...

There are plenty of players his age who haven't left NZ yet (some All Blacks, some not).

It's not Jason Ryan's fault if Ioane thinks he deserves to get picked and isn't after one very good season.

Though of course a lot of assumptions are being made based on one Instagram post.

[nzzp]

@Mr-Fish said in Exodus:

It's not Jason Ryan's fault if Ioane thinks he deserves to get picked and isn't after one very good season.

To be clear, I think he got the word he wasn't in the selection frame, so is making a rational financial decision for his family.

[KiwiMurph]

[Machpants]

@KiwiMurph said in Exodus:

There you go loads of bullshit online

[Bovidae]

Someone better tell the official AB player database.

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[Duluth]

@Bovidae

You beat me to it

Screenshot because I'm sure it will change in the next day or so. The "NZ and overseas media" would've been getting it from here

Weird that it was left incorrect for so long

[LABCAT]

Yeah weird that both the All Blacks and Olympics sites say he was born in NZ, but he himself says he wasn't (go to 32:19):

[Number 10]

The Rugby Almanack got it right

[Darren]

Shame as he is having his best ever season, I would have had him in the AB mix, but understandable

[nzzp]

@Machpants said in Exodus:

@KiwiMurph said in Exodus:

There you go loads of bullshit online

Welcome to the Fern

[Machpants]

I'm in deep shock that information that is all over the internet is utter bollocks. Surely this is the first and only example of this?

[nzzp]

@Machpants said in Exodus:

I'm in deep shock that information that is all over the internet is utter bollocks. Surely this is the first and only example of this?

It's poor, but not surprising. Fact checking is expensive and doesn't add to stories in teh short term. Reckons are usually way off base, but the AB official site getting something as fundamentally wrong as a birthplace is interesting.