NPC - news, injuries etc

[Number 10]

@mikey07 said in NPC - news, injuries etc:

@stargazer said in NPC - news, injuries etc:

I can’t believe Lemi Masoe is still running around he seems to have been around for years.

But no Ralph Darling - retired?

[Yeetyaah]

@mikey07 we should know by now that the canes coaches have smooth brains

[Higgins]

@number-10 Maybe he can't get time off work. Nth Otago players are amateur it must be remembered.

[mikey07]

@number-10 Yeah he retired in 2019 I remember him taking a droppie in the final.

[Bovidae]

[mikedogz]

Counties Cavaliers based on club players for pre season game against North Harbour. The pre-season hit-out is due to kick off at 6:30pm at East Coast Bays RFC (Windsor Park Mairangi Bay) on Wednesday.

[Bovidae]

@mikedogz So Tikoirotuma has moved from NH to CM.

[Yeetyaah]

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[Stargazer]

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[Yeetyaah]

@stargazer my apologies

[Stargazer]

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[mikedogz]

@bovidae Looks like it.

[Stargazer]

Just heard on the Breakdown:

Tomorrow, the draws for the NPC, FPC and Heartland will be announced.

And guess what, please, someone send some tranquilizers to our Ta$man faithful ....

Ta$man will get a Shield challenge .. if one of the other challengers hasn't grabbed the Shield before them, that is.

They also mentioned Waikato. I missed the rest.

[Yeetyaah]

@stargazer Ta$man haven't held the shield yet eh?

[Stargazer]

@yeetyaah Not as Ta$man. According to Wikipedia (assuming that's correct), Marlborough held the Shield in 1973.

[Steven Harris]

@stargazer in that 1973 challenge Marlborough winger Brian Ford scored one of the most unbelievable shield tries , running down the sideline , he ran 60 metres and left the then all black fullback Fergie McCormack in his wake ..

[Number 10]

@steven-harris said in NPC - news, injuries etc:

@stargazer in that 1973 challenge Marlborough winger Brian Ford scored one of the most unbelievable shield tries , running down the sideline , he ran 60 metres and left the then all black fullback Fergie McCormack in his wake ..

Got a similar one on the same ground two years later for South Island in the inter-island match when he got passed Joe Karam.

[shark]

@mikedogz isn't this an incredibly early pre season game? The NPC won't start until August or so, surely??

[Steven Harris]

@number-10 I think he was nicknamed the Kaikoura express , was very quick ..should have played far more than 4 tests , in fact I still can’t work out why he never toured South Africa in 1976…the All Black wingers were Bryan Williams ,Grant Batty ,Terry Mitchell and Neil Purvis ..none with what you would say had top end pace ..Ford was quicker than any of these 4 , would have been superb on the hard grounds

[Chris]

@steven-harris said in NPC - news, injuries etc:

@number-10 I think he was nicknamed the Kaikoura express , was very quick ..should have played far more than 4 tests , in fact I still can’t work out why he never toured South Africa in 1976…the All Black wingers were Bryan Williams ,Grant Batty ,Terry Mitchell and Neil Purvis ..none with what you would say had top end pace ..Ford was quicker than any of these 4 , would have been superb on the hard grounds

I think Ford wouldn’t tour SA in 76 due to his stand against Apartheid if my memory serves me well.