Crusaders 2022

[ARHS]

@stargazer I remember him playing in Papamoa at primary level. Who poached who?

[Nepia]

@arhs said in Crusaders 2022:

@stargazer I remember him playing in Papamoa at primary level. Who poached who?

So now you're saying that BOP got in on the poaching act as well?

[ARHS]

@nepia yeah. Primary school first xv recruitment program

[cgrant]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/nz-olympic-team/125813350/tokyo-olympics-with-games-dream-on-the-back-foot-eddie-oseinketia-reportedly-gains-interest-from-crusaders

[mikey07]

@cgrant As if they don’t have a gluten or outside backs already..

[Stargazer]

@mikey07 He has to go through their academy first. This is future proofing the squad. He probably won't play SR before 2024, as he's never played rugby IIRC. By that time, some players may have left. Also, there's a possibility that he'll never play SR; maybe he won't be good enough.

[Bovidae]

He was a rugby star for his school in Canberra. But let's be realistic about where he is at right now.

[MN5]

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[mikey07]

@stargazer Would rather he play 7s and make use of his raw pace.

[chchfanatic]

Private message me if you want to know the third halfback. It’s actually quite a surprise. Fakatava had verbally agreed to join crusaders. His dad told him to stay loyal and stick with highlanders.

[Tim]

@chchfanatic Foreign or domestic player?

[chchfanatic]

@tim domestic

[nostrildamus]

@arhs said in Crusaders 2022:

@stargazer I remember him playing in Papamoa at primary level. Who poached who?

Papamoa is just weekend well-off Auckand these days so that settles it, he stays at the Blues. Which is the best place if any of you slinky banditos with sly fingers really cared about New Zealand rugby...

[Tim]

@chchfanatic Cool. Has Enari picked up a contract somewhere else?

[chchfanatic]

@tim unsure about that. I see it looks like waisake naholo is playing for Canterbury too

[nostrildamus]

'I always knew rugby was in my blood': New Zealand's teenage sprint prodigy gives update on rugby future

It has been little over a year since Edward Osei-Nketia last delved into the realm of rugby, but the 19-year-old sprint sensation has no intention of giving up his sevens dream.

That isn’t to say the speedster has lost his desire to try his hand at rugby, a sport he made a name for himself in while attending St Edmund’s College in Canberra, where he claims to have scored two to three tries per match.

“I was in the smallest state of the whole of Australia,” Osei-Nketia laughed as he explained his try-scoring feats in the Australian capital.

“I don’t know how I would have gone if I was in Queensland or New South Wales, but for my first six matches, I would have been averaging like two to three.

“When it was later on in the season, I was pretty much just scoring in every match.”

[Stargazer]

Looking at the 2021 Canterbury squad, there may be a chance that Debreczeni will replace Brett Cameron? And Jono Kitto the new scrumhalf instead of Enari?

[mikey07]

@chchfanatic someone who has played for the Canes before?

[Chris]

@stargazer said in Crusaders 2022:

Looking at the 2021 Canterbury squad, there may be a chance that Debreczeni will replace Brett Cameron? And Jono Kitto the new scrumhalf instead of Enari?

No different HB

[Stargazer]

@chris Seeing your repost of my comments, I'm going to slap myself on the hand for typing "scrumhalf".

Edited to add that I think Jack Stratton is back in the country. Surely it's not him?