NZ Club Rugby 2022 ( General)

[JK]

@tim yep great win for silverdale.

I’m not sure re Massey and I’m equally unconvinced about how good Takapuna are this year too. Looks an interesting season ahead!

[Higgins]

Disappointing to see both Otahuhu and University conceding their games by default in Auckland rugby in this weeks opening games of their pre-season tournament.

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[Tim]

@higgins Auckland Uni is remote only this semester (and last), so would have been tough for them to get organised, I suspect.

[Higgins]

@tim There must be a decent number of players in the club that still live in Auckland, be they students or non students.

[muddyriver]

@higgins they have had plenty of games in last couple of weeks maybe they were travelling

[Bovidae]

Waikato Premiership club rugby starts this weekend. Looking at the team lists there are a few of the Chiefs WTG players involved.

HOB - Cobb
Hautapu - Burr, M Jacobson
Varsity - Brown

TA Sports seem to have picked up at lot of the Hamilton BHS school leavers like Sean Ralph, Taha Kemara and Austin Anderson, as well as Malachi Wrampling-Alec (all named in the 2021 NZ Schools team). Latrell Smiler-Ah Kiong is at fullback.
Varsity has some of the young BOP players (Josh Bartlett, Nikora Broughten and Veveni Lasaqa) involved.

[Bovidae]

[Tim]

[Stargazer]

Interesting to see that Kahn Fotuali'i is playing club rugby in Manawatū again (at 10 for Freyberg Old Boys).

[Bovidae]

Here is the draw for week 2 of the Waikato Draught Premiership:

Fraser Tech v Otorohanga - Waikato Steel Fabricators Park (Ron Crawford Memorial Trophy)

Hamilton Marist v Hamilton Old Boys - Marist Park

Morrinsville Sports v United Matamata Sports - Campbell Park

Te Awamutu Sports v Hautapu - Albert Park

University v Melville - Waikato University

Jack Lam is playing for Marist. Adam Thomson on the bench for HOB.

@gt12 Here's your TA team.

[Tim]

Shore vs. Silverdale should be a good game.

[Bovidae]

The other funny thing about the TA Sports vs Hautapu game is the coaches. Jackson Willison is one of the TA coaches, and he played all of his club rugby for Hautapu. Similarly, Jono Armstrong is one of the Hautapu coaches, and he was a TA stalwart, who IIRC, only moved to Hautapu at the very end of his career.

[Stargazer]

@Bovidae I noticed that Adam Thomson is a player/coach, too. Just like Declan O'Donnell for Melville.

[Bovidae]

@Stargazer said in NZ Club Rugby 2022 ( General):

@Bovidae I noticed that Adam Thomson is a player/coach, too.

He had that role last year too.

I scanned through the list and there are quite a few well-known ex players involved as coaches. de Malmanche is another at HOB. I see that James Semple is one of the Matamata coaches. I don't know if that is the Nathan Harris.

[mikey07]

Tehiorangi Walden is at 12 for Poneke tomorrow
Alex Fidow at 3 for Ories
Josh Moorby at 15 for Upper Hutt
More Importantly it’s a certain Ferners first game of rugby tomorrow after a year out with a torn Bicep.

[Bovidae]

[mikedogz]

S.U.R.F from Tokoroa are setting the standard in Division One in the Waikato, they played my club Te Rapa today. We didn't get thrashed by 50 so I see that is an improvement. Isaac Boss was playing halfback. Ross Filipo was watching.

[Tim]

[Bovidae]

Waikato Draught Premiership Week 3 (Kickoff A's 2:45 pm)

Fraser Tech v Morrinsville Sports - Waikato Steel Fabricators Park (Ron Crawford Memorial Trophy)
Hamilton Old Boys v Te Awamutu Sports - Fred Jones Park
Hautapu v United Matamata Sports - Memorial Park, Cambridge
Otorohanga v Melville - island Reserve
University v Hamilton Marist - Waikato University

Waikato Club Rugby Preview 7 May 2022

Waikato Draught Premiership Week 3 Kickoff A s 2:45pm B s 1:00pm After 2 weeks of competition three teams remain...

Out of curiosity, I will likely go along to watch HOB vs TA Sports.

[Tim]

Hapakuki Moala-Liava'a is back playing for East Coast Bays. Was he overseas?

Edit: looks like he was in Japan.