NPC - news, injuries etc

[Stargazer]

Media release: https://www.steelers.co.nz/steelers-heat/latest/news/local-stars-set-to-shine-for-pic-steelers.html

[Yeetyaah]

No Daniela. He's a family friend so guts that he isn't there anymore, never did a whole lot tbf.

[Crucial]

A possible backline of Taumateine, Kerr, Leger, Molia, Fifita, Nabura, Laulala/ENS isn't too shabby.

Lindenmuth and Laulala either side of Maka.
Martin and Dunshea locking
Read, Papalii and Hyatt back row?

[Bovidae]

@Crucial Slade played at 6 last year didn't he? Dalton at no.7.

[Stargazer]

His Super Rugby debut for the Chiefs lasted 12 minutes. It looks like Kini Naholo will also miss the Mitre 10 Cup again.

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[Yeetyaah]

@Stargazer wasn't he injured for the entire M10 last year?

[Stargazer]

@Yeetyaah In 2019, he played the first three games. In the third game, he suffered a season-ending hamstring injury.

[Bovidae]

The Vikings return on SS1 tonight.

[Bovidae]

Wiki says Northland owned them in 1997.

[Gunner]

@Bovidae said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

The Vikings return on SS1 tonight.

Oh what a game that was, a thing of stunning beauty!

[taniwharugby]

@Bovidae you should ask @Nepia he may remember.

[Bovidae]

@taniwharugby Randle was so traumatised he moved to Waikato.

[Duluth]

That game was on last week, I skimmed through it

Northland smashed everyone that year and averaged something like 40 points a game. Most of what I had remembered was the backs causing problems. I'd forgotten how tough that pack was.

[taniwharugby]

@Duluth pretty sure that was the season Holwell set the NPC season points record?

What is awesome, is you look at both those teams who were 2nd Div sides and the quality of players back then!

[Nepia]

@taniwharugby said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

@Bovidae you should ask @Nepia he may remember.

The final that had a result before the game was even played. Yes, I remember that one.

Wasn't pleasant watching that.

[taniwharugby]

@Nepia I enjoyed it!

I think the result was a foregone conclusion regardless of the NZR decison, margin may have been a bit slimmer.

[Duluth]

@taniwharugby said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

I think the result was a foregone conclusion regardless of the NZR decison, margin may have been a bit slimmer.

Yeah the regular season match was a thrashing too. They lost by 30 instead of by 50

[Nepia]

@taniwharugby said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

@Nepia I enjoyed it!

I think the result was a foregone conclusion regardless of the NZR decison, margin may have been a bit slimmer.

Yeah, Northland were on fire that year so I don't think the Vikings could have turned it around. But I knew a few of those players and they definitely had no wind in their sails after that decision.

[Bovidae]

@Nepia The Vikings did beat Nelson Bays 90-21 so the season wasn't entirely a lost cause.

[Nepia]

@Bovidae said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

@Nepia The Vikings did beat Nelson Bays 90-21 so the season wasn't entirely a lost cause.

And Hawkes Bay beat Manawatu that year too so that was also good.