Auckland Rugby 2022
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@Tim said in Auckland Rugby 2022:
@Dice I was wondering if Costa was playing in America? None of the Costa brothers have played for Eden this year.
A big reason why they've struggled this year.
@Daffy-Jaffy said in Auckland Rugby 2022:
@Dice There seems to have been a mass exodus from the strong Eden team of the previous few seasons. There are few names I recognize from last season and they finished second last in the round robin this season.
The Gallaher Shield semi finals next weekend are Ponies v GT and Varsity v Manukau.They don't have David Bateman as coach anymore. Maybe that has something to do with the exodus?
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@Steven-Harris GT have a history of this stuff. A story from coaching against them with age group teams. Their team magically registered 2 star League players in time for the playoffs, a flanker and a midfielder. They put them straight into the starting team, but it backfired and we beat them anyway because the flanker got penalized at every second ruck because he didn't know the rules and the midfielder never passed so made their otherwise dangerous backline easy to defend. Talking to some of their parents it pissed them off too, that kids who played all season were dropped for 2 league players. They seemed to have a lot of influence at the union committee levels. We once beat a team that had not lost for 4 seasons in the first comp game of the season and it was turned into a non-comp game after the event!
Other stuff that happened is one of their players Uncle being rostered to ref us every time we played them and all of our games over 3 seasons were either away or at neutral grounds. We never got to play them at home. The evil empire I say.
and now we have to play them in the Gallaher semi final next week
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@KiwiMurph said in Auckland Rugby 2022:
Auckland squad to be named after the club semi finals?
On social media they said it’s announced on Monday
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@Duluth who the heck is Jackson Pugh..?
And i pretty sure Pasqualle Dunn has been playing the CM comp.. -
@Steven-Harris Aussie, plays for the Force.
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@Steven-Harris he was also picked for Aussie A for the recent Pacific series. he's 22, 1m94, 100kg. He scored a try vs MP here at 4m 50secs.
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Did the Auckland club competition start late? Most other provinces seem to have allowed their players to miss the early NPC pre-season games to play in the club finals but Auckland is doing the opposite and removing NPC players from club playoff games because of the timing.
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@Tim especially when Wallace Sititi is playing for Marist today and has not featured at all in preseason games? I hope he isn't lured away. Also Sione Tuipulotu is yet to feature so i don't know if he is returning? Queenslander Connor Vest is also playing today at Lock. I understand them looking for Locks a bit more as we do struggle with Locking depth in Auckland.
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@Bovidae Of likely Auckland squad members there are 7 Ponsonby players in the Auckland preseason game while 3 are playing the semi final for Ponies today (Joel Cobb, Terrell Peita and Hamdahn Tuipulotu). likewise GT have 3 playing for them and 3-4 for Auckland. Maybe they allowed the clubs to play up to 3 rep players each. Its annoying as a club supporter to be playing a semi final below strength.
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@Daffy-Jaffy Some of those guys have missed much of the club season? I wonder if they are eligible for finals games?
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Gallaher Shield Semi final results -
Ponies 31 GT 12
Manukau 21 Varsity 19 -
@Daffy-Jaffy Damn, University were up by 19 to nil at halftime!
