2022 Hawke's Bay Representative Rugby
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From the Club Rugby socials:
Today's scheduled game in neutral Palmerston North between the Wellington and Hawke's Bay U20 sides has been cancelled, owing to some close contacts of another positive case. So the only trip away today for us is to our garden where the capsicums are booming.
The HBRU didn't post anything about the cancellation. They simply removed the post with the team line-up from their FB feed. I'm glad I copied it before they did that; at least we've got a list of (most of) our academy players now.
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Nice to get an update!
Busy start to the year for HB Academy
Still no complete list of players, but the article names players that have come to the Bay from other provinces:
Among the 20 Academy players 14 are local and have attended high school here, as for the other six boys that have moved to the bay from out of the region they will be playing for local clubs in premier comp. Meni Manase and Brandon Televave from Auckland will be playing for MAC, Matt Monaghan has joined the Old Boys Marist squad, Ezra Malo Taradale, Jurrell Maiava playing for Havelock North and Nik Patumaka for Tech.
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Ezra Malo - from Wanganui, 2022 Hurricanes Under 20s SquadMeni Manase ex Tangaroa College, 2021 Blues Under 18 Development Camp
Matt Monoghan ex Kings College, 2022 Hurricanes Under 20s Squad, Was with Cooper Flanders in the paper only NZ Schools 2021 Team
Jurrell Maiava - ex Mt Albert Grammar, looks to be a big hard running/tackling centre
Brandon Televavae ex Botany Downs College, 2021 Blues Under 18 Development Camp
Nik Patumaka ex Gisborne BH, 2021 Hurricanes Under 18 Development Camp
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@higgins said in 2022 Hawke's Bay Representative Rugby:
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Ezra Malo - from Wanganui, 2022 Hurricanes Under 20s SquadMeni Manase ex Tangaroa College, 2021 Blues Under 18 Development Camp
Matt Monoghan ex Kings College, 2022 Hurricanes Under 20s Squad, Was with Cooper Flanders in the paper only NZ Schools 2021 Team
Jurrell Maiava - ex Mt Albert Grammar, looks to be a big hard running/tackling centre
Brandon Televavae ex Botany Downs College, 2021 Blues Under 18 Development Camp
Nik Patumaka ex Gisborne BH, 2021 Hurricanes Under 18 Development Camp
I wonder where in the Canes region he's from originally?
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@nepia Digging a bit further pre scholarship days he was listed as attending Haunui College when listed amongst the 2020 Blues Under 17 Development squad. Whether he is from Whangarei or from further north I suppose we will have to await confirmation from the likes of @taniwharugby. Looks to be a big munter if the couple of unlabeled photos I saw are indeed him.
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@higgins from Whangarei, son of former Northland, Blues and NZ 7s player, Tony Monaghan.
I havent seen him for a a decent time (played touch rugby against him, one of his brothers and mates in late 2021) so cant comment on his size now, but dont think he was massively tall, more a 6 height IIRC (although that means lock in Hurricane-ville.)
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@taniwharugby Maybe the photos that came up when I google searched weren't him? The guy in those had the Taniela Tupou sort of build but looked a bit taller than Tupou.
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@higgins neither of them are a Monaghan!
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@taniwharugby Thanks! Just watching the Grammar v Kings game on youtube to see what he plays/looks like, the guy pictured above is the Kings tight head prop in that game.
EDIT: @Nepia It looks like he is the guy in the red 4 jersey making a midfield burst running time 14 mins 25sec into the coverage or 5minutes 30 seconds on the game clock. Looks like he was the rear lifter for the guy in No. 6 that won the lineout steal for the play that set up his burst
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@bovidae said in 2022 Hawke's Bay Representative Rugby:
His father is an ex-Northland player.
It just means that some of these new players have been selected for the Hurricanes U20s wider squad already.
Yeah, I didn't read it properly and thought it was Hurricanes Schools.
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@number-10 They didn’t discuss my agenda item of putting the Canes on notice for their anti Magpies selection bias?
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@number-10 Just imagine what the profit would have been had they been allowed to have proper crowds for the Shield Defences. I guess the gate would have been conservatively affected by at least five or six thousand for each one with the Covid-19 restricted attendances. Our marketing/sponsorship people must be doing a fabulous job to get us to that level (although the annual distribution from the NZRFU must also help) however they sure don't spend much of it on social medial/website news, team naming releases etc!
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I was hoping for one against King Country so the Meads Tremain Trophy could be at contested again. Come to think of it why don't we give heaps more challenges to Heartland Unions in the early season to pad our Shield record out a bit more and to move further clearer from Waikato as the third most successful Union?
Jurrell Maiava on Hudl
