Auckland Rugby 2021

[dirtydoolan]

@tim initial plan was him to play the last 4 games. How serious was his injury last week?

[Duluth]

@dirtydoolan said in Auckland Rugby 2021:

initial plan was him to play the last 4 games. How serious was his injury last week?

Before he was released there were NRL articles saying he might have played this weekend.

Hard to predict when a player is ready to come back from a concussion though

[Dice]

Heard Alama on the radio and he said they'll likely play him in the outside backs with potential to move into the midfield.

He also said they've had no contact with Roger, so who knows when he'll join us.

[Dice]

When talking about the make up of the team, Alama said we've got Super players from the Blues, Hurricanes and Chiefs.

I wonder which Chiefs players we'll be getting, because I don't think there were any Auckland players in the Chiefs team this year.

[KiwiMurph]

@dice Ta'avao?

[Tim]

@dice Did he say when the team will be announced?

[Dice]

@kiwimurph Totally forgot we had him.

[Dice]

@tim said in Auckland Rugby 2021:

@dice Did he say when the team will be announced?

He didn't mention when the team will be announced, but he did say they'll add a few additions to the team after the last pre-season game.

[Duluth]

Auckland posted a few training photos

[Duluth]

Here's the Ieremia interview that was mentioned earlier:
https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=856361

[Tim]

@duluth good to see Choat in there.

[Duluth]

@tim

Also I hope that showed the first choice 10/12 combo (Plummer/Evans)

[Tim]

@duluth Who do you think will play centre? Lam?

[Duluth]

@tim

No idea. Maybe Kata? Assuming the rumour is correct.. I don’t think we’d recruit him as a winger?

[Nepia]

@duluth said in Auckland Rugby 2021:

@tim

No idea. Maybe Kata? Assuming the rumour is correct.. I don’t think we’d recruit him as a winger?

I wouldn't think Auckland rugby would be dumb enough to recruit him as a centre. But then again it appears they're dumb enough to recruit him full stop so I should just return to my cave.

[Duluth]

@nepia

Why? (I don't follow league)

[bayimports]

@duluth its times like this you might find it useful

the guy was a pretty damaging runner, but tackling and distributing were not strong points

[Nepia]

@duluth said in Auckland Rugby 2021:

@nepia

Why? I don't follow league

He was my most disliked Warriors player before they decided to hire straight up thugs like Lodge.

He has an average passing game and his defence was poor and that's in league where he's standing on one side of the field. He'll be all at sea defending at centre.

Please select him there for the Magpies game.

[Bovidae]

Does Kata ever pass the ball?

[Duluth]

Ok so he's not a centre.

He had some goodish moments on the wing for the Brumbies so I think he'll handle the step down to NPC. If the rumour is true..

Maybe that other league guy as a centre