Highlanders 2024
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Wouldn't really matter who you got in the forwards. Without a decent pivot you'll still never get a backline going.
Is there a chance for Ioane to be a prodigal son or have bridges been burned? Trask is back at the Chiefs on a promise and they will presumably still have Reihana as well. If Ioane doesn't go overseas his options are Highlanders and MP.
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@friedrugby or @SouthernMann probably have a better idea as seem to have the good oil but i didnlt think Joane burt his bridges too much, he kept playing for otago so there wasn't a "fuck this place"...just felt like the highlander wanted hunt as the first choice and Joane wanted to shot somewhere else closer to home?
As i said im not sure he's what we need though, would love to have him in the squad but i think a firm at 10 is whats needed, someone that does the basics really well, plug the corners, fast hands, solid D
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I doubt he will even be back at Otago let alone the Highlanders.
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@SouthernMann is he not back this year?
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@Kiwiwomble said in Highlanders 2024:
@SouthernMann is he not back this year?
Not on this page https://www.orfu.co.nz/NPC/2023-player-profiles
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@SouthernMann that looks different to the last time a looks so has been updated, fair enough
side point, come on hastie you miserable bugger, everyone else got the memo about how to stand
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J Ioane certainly burnt bridges, which is why he had his contract cut a year early. Coaches went off him after the boozy incident... and lets not forget when T Brown made the comment about shorts size on the breakdown... Could be different with Dermody, but more likely he either stays with the Chiefs or even more likely goes overseas. As he isn't playing for Otago, I'd suggest the latter.
He also isn't the answer everyone hopes he would be - if he was, we never would have let him go in the first place. Too inconsistent with serious gaps in his kicking game, and prone to brainfades. He effectively cost the Chiefs at the end in their loss v the Reds by trying to stop the ball with his foot as opposed to picking it up.
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@Bones thats the one...we already have some shorties...not sure we need more
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@Kiwiwomble said in Highlanders 2024:
@Bones thats the one...we already have some shorties...not sure we need more
Didn't impress me one bit in any outings. Yuck.
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He's a speed bump
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thats what various infoweb sites have him listed as....and i remember him being pretty light weight
seriously though, unless he is miles better than who we can bring through otago and southland i dont see the point, i mean, we had him last year and let him go...its not like hes an unknown entity....i know my expectations arent high but go i hope we can do better than someone thats play a bit at 10 in club rugby elsewhere in the country
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@Kiwiwomble I'm not saying LCF is a big winger but he isn't lighter than Aaron Smith. Probably closer to 90 kg. As a comparison Nareki is listed as 1.75 m and 83 kg.
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Imagine a back three of Finn Hurley, Liam Coombes-Fambling and Nareki. Would probably be close to the smallest back three in Super history
