Chiefs 2024

[Bovidae]

https://www.chiefs.co.nz/news-item/quinn-tupaea-re-signs-with-the-gallagher-chiefs

[Yeetyaah]

@Bovidae

Tupaea completes the Gallagher Chiefs midfield alongside fellow All Black Anton Lienert-Brown, Rameka Poihipi, Gideon Wrampling and rookie Daniel Rona.

Midfield is complete.

[gt12]

ALB might be close to not even starting for the Chiefs.

[Bovidae]

https://www.chiefs.co.nz/news-item/gallagher-chiefs-re-sign-nanai-seturo

[Stargazer]

@Bovidae Good to see him re-signed, but how hard is it to mention for how many season he's been signed? These comms people really don't understand what fans want to know!

[Bovidae]

@Stargazer Agreed. I re-read the article thinking I had missed that important info, but no. Hopefully they amend the media release.

[Stargazer]

By the way, in that text is also the info that Narawa is in the 2024 squad. Narawa is one of the players of whom the contract duration was never published.

[Bovidae]

@Yeetyaah

There will be a few positions to fill for the confirmed departing players:

• Prop (Moli)
• Lock (Retallick, McWhannell)
• Loose forward (Sowakula)

Also others might have only been on a 1 yr contract. Everything has gone quiet in the last few weeks.

[Bovidae]

If Ta'avao is going back to the Blues two new TH props are needed to replace him and Moli. A fit Reuben O'Neill might mean he is back, and then???

[Yeetyaah]

https://www.chiefs.co.nz/news-item/shaun-stevenson-secured-by-the-gallagher-chiefs

Shaun Stevenson has put pen to paper on a new contract which will see him remain with New Zealand Rugby, the Gallagher Chiefs in DHL Super Rugby Pacific and North Harbour in the Bunnings Warehouse NPC until 2025.

[Tim]

@Yeetyaah Great news, even if it's just for one year.

[Dan54]

@Tim Yep grteat news, and it's for 2 years!

[Bovidae]

@Yeetyaah The same back three again!

[cliff]

Any rumuors of signings? So far I've only heard of the naki flyhalf jacombs

[Tim]

Paul Feeney has a new job as assistant coach at NEC Green Rockets Tokatsu.

[cgrant]

Sangster ? He hasn't been signed by the Hurricanes ... yet.

[cliff]

@cgrant if we could snap him he would be a fantastic signing he has some good aggression

[Bovidae]

I'm sure Sangster is still contracted to the Hurricanes, but you never know.

[Yeetyaah]

Got a wee scoop that George Dyer is expected to stay on.

[Bovidae]

@Yeetyaah Dyer is the starting TH now. So he was another off-contract? I wonder what Ollie Norris' situation is?