Blues 2020

Dice

The shorts and socks look good though...
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Seeing Beaudie in a Blues uniform makes me feel a little better about the jerseys. It's too bad we have to win our title(s) in this jersey though.

Machpants

@taniwharugby said in Blues 2020:

@Stargazer what a crock, how the marketing team sold that concept 🙄

Amazing how they can take a simple rugby jersey and try to justify why it looks shit.

Was this only a training Jersey? One of the better looking ones IMO.

Fuck Kaino is awesome. Everyone else look knackered. Kaino just looks nails

jegga

@Daffy-Jaffy said in Blues 2020:

Listed as the Kids home jersey on a retail site so I guess the team one will be much the same -

Crusaders marketing team one, "we just convinced the crusaders that changing from a badass knight to two sets of cocks and balls touching was a great design idea! Top that"

Blues marketing team "hold my beer"

Have the canes unleashed this years atrocity yet? I'm setting my expectations to low based on that thing in the picture.

Machpants

@jegga canes much much worse

jegga

@Machpants said in Blues 2020:

@jegga canes much much worse

Nah , blues one is crap . Reminds me of tie died crushed velvet

Stargazer

Bones

@jegga said in Blues 2020:

@Machpants said in Blues 2020:

@jegga canes much much worse

Nah , blues one is crap . Reminds me of tie died crushed velvet

Yeah I don't understand the fuss about the Canes one. It's just your usual stark yellow Canes Jersey with a bit of black stuff on it.

Tim

Tevita Mafileo is training with the Blues.

Daffy Jaffy

The mahi begins -

Daffy Jaffy

Does anyone recognise any of the wtg/acadamy/injury cover players in the video above? I wondered if the player with dreads second from the right in the 'wedding photo' at 2m35s was the young Auckland halfback Taufa Funaki ?

nzzp

@Daffy-Jaffy that drone footage is amazeballs. Looks brutal (like most years)

taniwharugby

@nzzp yeah they all seem to put it in pre-season, so comes down to other issues that see the results fall the way they do.

Kirwan

@nzzp said in Blues 2020:

@Daffy-Jaffy that drone footage is amazeballs. Looks brutal (like most years)

I liked the one where Ofa was having to bear crawl up One Tree Hill. Look hideous.

nzzp

@Kirwan said in Blues 2020:

@nzzp said in Blues 2020:

@Daffy-Jaffy that drone footage is amazeballs. Looks brutal (like most years)

I liked the one where Ofa was having to bear crawl up One Tree Hill. Look hideous.

That was quality brutality, eh. Glamorous life of a pro athlete.

nzzp

@nzzp said in Blues 2020:

@Kirwan said in Blues 2020:

@nzzp said in Blues 2020:

@Daffy-Jaffy that drone footage is amazeballs. Looks brutal (like most years)

I liked the one where Ofa was having to bear crawl up One Tree Hill. Look hideous.

That was quality brutality, eh. Glamorous life of a pro athlete.

2012! I feel old

KiwiMurph

Going by the Blues latest video the main leadership group is

Patrick Tuipulotu (captain)
James Parsons
Rieko Ioane
Tom Robinson

Also - Doug Howlett looks to be involved - great to see!

Dice

@KiwiMurph That confirms Parsons as an automatic starter again this season.

KiwiMurph

@Dice yep.

I hope at least Nuia/Eklund get proper minutes off the bench. If Parsons starts he shouldn't be playing more than 50 minutes max.

Machpants

@Dice said in Blues 2020:

@KiwiMurph That confirms Parsons as an automatic starter again this season.

Not necessarily. Captain, yes, part of leadership group, no. Kevin M was part of the leadership group of ABs for a long time, even when not a starter

KiwiMurph

@Machpants big difference between how ABs and Blues operate.

The Silver Fern

Blues 2020