Highlanders 2020

[Machpants]

@Higgins said in Highlanders 2020:

@Jonty-lean Better still, who is Ricky Jackson?

Injury situation goes from bad to worse for Highlanders with another player ruled out for the season

Otago and Highlanders’ hooker Ricky Jackson has been forced out of the 2020 Super Rugby season with an ankle injury sustained during training pre-Christmas.

[Stargazer]

@Machpants

Jackson has been replaced in the squad by Bay of Plenty hooker, Nathan Vella, an experienced rake who played the first of his 15 provincial games for Auckland in 2011 prior to a period overseas with London Welsh and then the Bedford Blues.

Geez, why such a journeyman, who changes teams every season? Why not Kianu Kereru-Symes, who was excellent for the NZU20s (one of the few). This is for the third hooker spot; they should have gone for a young one.

[Higgins]

@Stargazer Is Leni Apisai still looking for a professional contract for 2020?

[Daffy Jaffy]

@Higgins Signed by the Sunwolves.

[Bones]

[taniwharugby]

@Bones saw that on FB, funny!

Was Gregory simply not selected in the last 7s series, or is he only released for a certain window for the Olympics?

[Machpants]

@taniwharugby said in Highlanders 2020:

@Bones saw that on FB, funny!

Was Gregory simply not selected in the last 7s series, or is he only released for a certain window for the Olympics?

He's not selected for 7s squad, but I think the Super Rugby 4 play some SR at the start of the season, they'll come on board later. IIRC that's what they said in the announcement, however Etene Nanai-Seturo & Salesi Rayasi are in the squad so I don't know. Maybe it's all about flexibility with the SR players

[KiwiMurph]

@taniwharugby @Machpants

It's all covered here (from August 2019)

Clarke, Nanai-Seturo and Rayasi will join the All Blacks Sevens squad after their Mitre 10 Cup commitments at the end of this year while Gregory will assemble with the Highlanders until March 2020.

https://www.allblacks.com/news/olympics-beckon-for-investec-super-rugby-players

[taniwharugby]

@KiwiMurph that is what the Fern is for, as that was ages ago, I'm not gonna go trawling through shit to find out, I asked the question, and the Fern answered

[Daffy Jaffy]

Tonights game will be live streamed on the Waratahs Facebook pagel: 8:45pm -

https://www.facebook.com/nswwaratahs

[Daffy Jaffy]

Here is a direct link to the game live stream

Latest Rugby Videos | NSW Waratahs

NSW Rugby looks to care, connect and unify the great game of rugby in New South Wales through a clear vision and focus.

[Stargazer]

Tomkinson playing well in the first 20 minutes.

[Yeetyaah]

Parete with a yellow in preseason. Good luck with him this year Landers fans.

[KiwiMurph]

@Yeetyaah said in Highlanders 2020:

Parete with a yellow in preseason. Good luck with him this year Landers fans.

In midseason form already.

[Stargazer]

This ref is a bit too keen to hand out cards, IMO.

[Stargazer]

HT: Waratahs 7 - 14 Highlanders

[Stargazer]

So Fakatava and Mikaele-Tu'u have come on.

Great pass from Fakatava to Vella there.

[Stargazer]

Josh Dickson and Dillon Hunt are on the field now, too.

[Stargazer]

I'd like to see Mikaele-Tu'u and TBN next to each other. Mikaele-Tu'u looks much bigger, but I may be wrong.

[Stargazer]

That was poor defence from the Landers. Tahs score.