Blues 2022
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Pretty sad.
One of my earliest memories of Moa was seeing him play for De La Salle against Kelston in the Auckland 1A Final where he scored 4 tries. Because of his size, a lot of people thought it was the number 8 that was scoring. It was probably the most dominate performance I've seen by a player in a 1A Final. De La Salle won pretty convincingly and secured their first ever Auckland title.
That team also had Toeava at 10 and I'm pretty sure Sherwin Stowers on the wing.
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NZ RUGBY SELLS SHARES IN BLUES TO LOCAL BUSINESS CONSORTIUM — Blues Rugby
The positive momentum for the Blues continues with the announcement that a consortium of eminent New Zealand business people will take a significant shareholding in the organisation. The Better Blues Company Limited will purchase the 40 per cent holding in the Blues which was held by New Zealand R
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A forgotten gem.
The replay really shows how audacious this try was.
BTW, Happy New Year, boys. It goes without saying that this is our year!
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@hooroo said in Blues 2022:
I'm kind of glad Auckland had no NPC this year as it is quite exciting waiting to see how RTS can transition back into Rugby? No doubting his talent.
It took SBW two years in France then some time in NZ. I can't see him making consistent positive impace until after RWC.
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@machpants dunno, SBW was a supreme athlete with a good skillset, what I've seen of RTS, he is that with brilliant skills and smarts too, I reckon he will transition much quicker, possibly with him hitting his straps at the RWC
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@taniwharugby said in Blues 2022:
@machpants dunno, SBW was a supreme athlete with a good skillset, what I've seen of RTS, he is that with brilliant skills and smarts too, I reckon he will transition much quicker, possibly with him hitting his straps at the RWC
I've no idea, I hope that's the case, but I wouldn't hold my breath!
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A more recent example is Laumape. He played his first match for the Canes in 2016 and in 2017 he was starting for the AB's against the Lions
RTS > Laumape
It's impossible to know if he'll even succeed. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work out. I also wouldn't be surprised if he makes an AB squad this year
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@duluth said in Blues 2022:
A more recent example is Laumape. He played his first match for the Canes in 2016 and in 2017 he was starting for the AB's against the Lions
RTS > Laumape
It's impossible to know if he'll even succeed. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work out. I also wouldn't be surprised if he makes an AB squad this year
The only asterisk with that is Laumape was only really 3 years out of rugby, whereas RTS hasn't played a game since school, and I think he just dabbled in rugby as opposed to Laumape.
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@nepia he played NZ schoolboys didn't he, which is a little more than dabbled...?
Edit - NZ schoolboys team he played in
