2024 Super Rugby U20s

[Bovidae]

@cgrant said in 2024 Super Rugby U20s:

What happened to Mathis ? He was outstanding for the NZ schoolboys last year and now he is warming the bench for the Chiefs U20.

The Chiefs have rotated the 7 and 8s for the 2 games so far. Mathis started game 1. He is one of the co-captains in the team.

[Duluth]

7th/8th playoff is on now

NZB leading the Moana Pasifika 21-0

Conditions aren't great. Will be interesting to see how the pitch holds up with four games in a row

[Duluth]

Not sure what happened in the first game.

Highlanders wining the 5th/6th playoff 33-7 at HT

[Daffy Jaffy]

The Final, to cheer up our Crusaders fans -

For Bronze -

[Bovidae]

I see that Mosese Bason won the Sir John Graham Player of the Tournament award. He played well but I am a little surprised by this. Based on the games I watched I would have chosen Isaac Hutchinson.

[Canes4life]

@Bovidae Mosese Bason was very dynamic but to be fair I didn't see too much of Hutchinson. Bason is a player of the future for sure but might end up at another franchise with the depth we've already got at the Canes at 8.

[Bovidae]

@Canes4life The top player award has tended to be given to a forward, not an outside back.

[Canes4life]

@Bovidae I think Godfrey won it in 2022 didn't he? But yeah I think the guy giving out the award must be a forward.

[Chris]

I hear the NZ U/20 side for the Rugby Championship is named today, it maybe the best prepared team for a while that heads to the WC in South Africa later this year.

[Bovidae]

I would think Gibbes will select a squad for the RC and then another for the WC. I'll be interested to see if the three NZ sevens players (Vai, Spencer, Tito-Harris) are involved in the latter.