Highlanders 2021

[Yeetyaah]

@Bones b8 m8

[Kiwiwomble]

@Yeetyaah back to your own thread

[Bones]

@Kiwiwomble the invisible man. Well it seems the chiefs couldn't see him anyway....

[Kiwiwomble]

another Crusader coming south, which side does he prefer?

a lot of this highlight video seems to be him getting tackled, looks like he's a 23 for Ta$man, think we really want a super rugby starter...

[Duluth]

@Kiwiwomble said in Highlanders 2021:

a lot of this highlight video seems to be him getting tackled, looks like he's a 23 for Ta$man, think we really want a super rugby starter...

He hasn't started much for Ta$man

He got a start for the Crusaders at 13 v the Canes. He struggled a bit marking PUJ

[Tim]

Paea effectively replaces Highlanders midfielder Rob Thompson, who is moving overseas next year.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/300103332/super-rugby-highlanders-sign-tasman-back-fetuli-paea-from-the-crusaders

[Kiwiwomble]

@Tim i hadn't heard Thompson was heading overseas, sad end to his Landers carrier, far from his best season, wiki had him listed as a wing and thats where he played against us, more of a midfielder though?

edit: my mistake, thought he started wearing 11

The Tongan made his Super Rugby debut for the Crusaders in the midfield against the Highlanders earlier this year, and is regarded as a strong ball carrier who cover multiple positions.

[mikey07]

@Bones said in Highlanders 2021:

Harmon would be a great addition with the loss of Hunt. He's the openside that did a great job at the canes when Ardie was out, right? Or have I mixed him up?

Your thinking of Sam Henwood

[Bones]

@mikey07 yes! Thank you.

[Bones]

@Kiwiwomble runs hard and tackles hard I think it is, according to @Chris

Basically Tomkinson without the red cards from what I've seen.

[Chris]

@Bones said in Highlanders 2021:

@Kiwiwomble runs hard and tackles hard I think it is, according to @Chris

Basically Tomkinson without the red cards from what I've seen.

Yeah I like him good signing with some game time under his belt he will be a good pickup.

[shark]

The Highlanders are making a habit of picking up Crusaders and/or Canterbury players a year or so out from cracking it at the Crusaders.

[macmanus]

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[macmanus]

Tei Walden stays in deep south?

[Duluth]

McKay doesn't have a SR contract for 2021

[Kiwiwomble]

@Duluth does he not, thought he might have done enough towards the back end of the season but maybe not

[Duluth]

@Kiwiwomble

There was a stuff article on it. Not renewed by the Highlanders and not picked up by another team yet

[Chris]

[link text](link url)https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/provincial/300103210/mitre-10-cup-offcontract-highlander-josh-mckay-playing-for-his-next-gig

[Higgins]

Would fit nicely into the Hurricanes setup where there is next to no competition for the first five position.

[Kiwiwomble]

i do find this kind of stuff annoying about professional rugby, highlanders havent really given him a lot of chances before this season, one or two games here and there when bender had to be rested etc

gets a bit more game time this year...rough to start with, absent in some games, struggled to connect with the rest of the back lines in others....but i kind of see some of that as understandable settling in...then the last few games really seemed to settle...far from perfect but at 22 i thought he might have been more of a long term project

and its not like many of the others we tried on the wing did much better