Blues 2023

[Duluth]

@Chris

LF leaving takes some pressure off the midfield competition

If Goodhue did move north I would assume it was for personal reasons. Does he want to be near family? Also, NPC and SR at different ends of the country sucks (unless he is in the ABs)

[Crucial]

@Kirwan said in Blues 2023:

@Chris I think that's a better choice for him.

He'd be pretty established in ChCh after all this time. I'm guessing he may have a family etc.

[Chris]

@Kirwan

I think he would be a asset to the Blues at 12,
He may still move to the Blues,I just heard he is having 2nd thoughts about leaving the Crusaders.

[Chris]

@Duluth
Yep all those things,Plus Ennor hasn't re signed as yet so maybe that is a factor.

[Tim]

Mafileo is moving North for the NPC (Harbour). Any chance he signs for the Blues?

[KiwiMurph]

Would be really happy with Vern Cotter.

[Bovidae]

@Duluth said in Blues 2023:

McWhannell would be a great addition.

Hinton's article has now removed any mention of McWhannell. It is now "a young second-row reinforcement". While I think that McWhannell needs to play regularly, from a Chiefs' perspective I'd keep him over MSR.

[taniwharugby]

@Duluth wouldn't be surprised if he ends up in Japan with his brother either.

[Tim]

@Duluth I wonder who they've signed for the front row?

[Canes4life]

@Tim is this Tevita? Jeez, I hope not. I was hoping the Canes would lock him into a long term contract.

[Tim]

@Canes4life Yeah. No idea if he's changing Super Rugby teams, but North Harbour did announce his signing for this season.

[Canes4life]

@Tim I would be pretty shocked if he made the shift, especially after last week's effort. Mafileo and Lomax were pretty dominant against the Crusaders.

[Duluth]

Final Blues player of the match voting tally

Points	Player
12	Papali'i
10	Sotutu
9	A Ioane
9	Telea
7	Choat
7	Clarke
7	Heem
6	R Ioane
5	Sullivan
5	Riccitelli
5	Segner
4	Tuipulotu
4	Robinson
3	Suafoa
3	Laulala
3	Perofeta
2	Barrett
2	Christie
1	RTS
1	Tu'ungafasi
1	Rush

Last year was Sotutu with Dalton 2nd. Both players got more points last year.

The big change from last year was Barrett, Christie and Perofeta were all prominent. Perofeta obviously missed a lot of games

Akira strong after his return from a long injury layoff somehow got into the top 4

Surprised Telea didn't get more points. Seems he got rewarded for the freakish games but not the others

[Machpants]

Shows how shit we are at abs selecting

[Stargazer]

@Machpants What? Who's "we"? And a Blues TSF poll shows that?

[Machpants]

@Stargazer said in Blues 2023:

@Machpants What? Who's "we"? And a Blues TSF poll shows that?

Best 3 players for the Blues, according to voters here. One dropped from ABs to XV, one dropped from ABs and XV. the collective voting 'we' obviously have no idea!

[Duluth]

@Machpants said in Blues 2023:

@Stargazer said in Blues 2023:

@Machpants What? Who's "we"? And a Blues TSF poll shows that?

Best 3 players for the Blues, according to voters here. One dropped from ABs to XV, one dropped from ABs and XV. the collective voting 'we' obviously have no idea!

Sure but it is just an aggregate though.

Sotutu deserves the points he got. However in some other games he was off the pace or he was making costly errors. It was an erratic season for him.. I strongly doubt he'd do well in an overall player of the season poll (Probably Telea followed by Dalton?)

[Stargazer]

The Blues have indeed poached HB halfback Joel Russell. Another local talent lost to the HB Academy!

[Stargazer]

And the Blues comms people still don't know how to make a readable graphic. This hurts my eyes.

[taniwharugby]

@Stargazer don't worry NRU couldn't read it properly either, thier post congratulating the Northland players they completely missed one of them.