Unlucky Players not to pick up Super Contracts
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@steven-harris said in Unlucky Players not to pick up Super Contracts:
@booboo I was thinking I should have put George Dyer in that XV , for a young guy he was outstanding..,liked the look of lock Fabian Holland from Otago but I reckon his time will come ,also young Lucas Cashmore & Nikora Broughton
I really didn't get to watch much NPC at all. But the odd time I tuned in I noticed Florence.
The other names mean nothing to me.
Although the wee bit of the Championship final I saw Potroz looked ok. But Google tells me he's 30 so that ship has sailed.
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@steven-harris Dyer has that future AB look about him in the way he relishes the handling and charging up. I suspect he will be injury cover somewhere within a week or two.
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@booboo said in Unlucky Players not to pick up Super Contracts:
Although the wee bit of the Championship final I saw Potroz looked ok. But Google tells me he's 30 so that ship has sailed.
I suspect if a super franchise was looking at Potroz , he would pick up something a couple of seasons back .
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@steven-harris only mentioned him because of Marty Banks and Simon Hickey and young Wellington 10s. Did wonder if Potroz Parata or Cashmore would get a gig with options not too abundant.
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Harry allan
Jarrad Adams
Teague McIlroyKianu Kereru-Symes
Jacob deveryFatongia Paea
Jacob Norris
Kiti VaiRichard Judd
Fletcher Smith
Jack Debreczeni
(msybe not unlucky, but if we want this theoretical 7th team to have experience in the halves)Josiah Maraku
Moses Leo -
Coombes-Fabling needs to be included in the NZ sevens squad. He doesn't have the size for XVs, but as he showed earlier in the year, has the speed and skill to be a very good sevens player.
I am hoping that the Chiefs include many of their U20 players in the WTG.
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Suddenly having form in the second half of the NPC can make you unlucky. There's a limited number of contracts by that stage
It was probably worse this year too. The season went later than normal and a lot of contracting would have happened during the covid break
Was there room for a 10/12 in any of the 5 NZ sides when Leuila became a starter for Waikato (late October)? There was probably room at MP and he's unlucky he didn't wind up there
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@duluth said in Unlucky Players not to pick up Super Contracts:
Suddenly having form in the second half of the NPC can make you unlucky. There's a limited number of contracts by that stage
Conversely, not playing much NPC seemed to work for some. Hicks being an example.
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@mikedogz said in Unlucky Players not to pick up Super Contracts:
Any players from the three Auckland teams that never got the chance to show their wares. Counties did get an increase in the number of Super rugby players thanks to the Drua and Moana.
CM did alright, in fact they didn't get to make reputations worse
I don't think there were any players that would have been gunning for the next level that missed out really.
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@duluth said in Unlucky Players not to pick up Super Contracts:
Suddenly having form in the second half of the NPC can make you unlucky. There's a limited number of contracts by that stage
It was probably worse this year too. The season went later than normal and a lot of contracting would have happened during the covid break
Was there room for a 10/12 in any of the 5 NZ sides when Leuila became a starter for Waikato (late October)? There was probably room at MP and he's unlucky he didn't wind up there
yeah, thats fair, ya feel for these guys though
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A few props from North Harbour might have been in with a chance:
Nic Mayhew
Teague McElroy
Fatongia Paea
Jimmy RootsWould also like to have seen more of Tate Evans and Jack Heighton.
From Auckland would have been interested in the form of lock Felix Kalapu, loose forwards Kitiona Vai, Niko Jones, and Terrell Peita, and the two U20 props.
