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Wellington Rugby is pleased to announce the coaching line-up for the Wellington Lions 2021 season alongside the 2021 fixtures.
Leo Crowley, Greg Halford and Tamati Ellison return to the team, while Paul Tito joins following his return from France.
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Just went and watched the Waiakto vs BOP dev game in Matamata.
Club was packed, had to park a bit away and walk to get there good to see.
Mainly took notice of Waikato. Both Waikato 10s seemed lost every time they held the ball. So many dumb chip kicks from Waikato, even the forwards were joining in. Lineout wasn't great, both Waikato hookers battled pretty hard. A try was scored by Waikato's Tana Tuhakaraina who's one of the hometown lads so the crowd went nuts.
Players I recognized were Mason Tupaea, James Thompson, George Dyer and the hometown lads Alex Thrupp, Tana Tuhakaraina and Rhys Dickinson (who's technically a hometown boy but doesn't play for UMS.
In BOP I only recognized Stan van den Hoven and maybe Narawa.
Was fucking freezing at the ground but packed. Decent game.
Bay of Plenty took it out 19-10
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Kylem O'Donnell seems to be hanging around New Plymouth. Tagged in the video is Declan O'Donnell, Beaudein Waaka and Seta Tamanivalu so possibly all 4 playing for Taranaki this season.
Last I saw Kylem he was a security guard here I. Hamilton.
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@mikedogz said in NPC - news, injuries etc:
Why would you sign that aging Australian?
Sheesh, with him and Franks back the referees are going to be experienced at reaching into their pocket and pulling out cards.
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some more signing for Otago, looks like they're dropping a few at a time building up to the season
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@kiwiwomble said in NPC - news, injuries etc:
some more signing for Otago, looks like they're dropping a few at a time building up to the season
Ray Nu'u from Southland after 25 games, 2018-2020.
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This Otago team is starting to look rather stacked.
In the midfield alone, we can pick between Sio Tomkinson, Thomas Umaga-Jensen, Ray Nu'u and Matt Faddes.
It is looking like the strongest Otago team we have fielded for at least a decade.
Do feel sorry for Southland losing Nu'u. But it seems it does relate a lot to off-field decisions.
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@stargazer really feel for Dale McLeod , on the back of a couple of others the stags have lost .
It just confirms to me how lazy several provinces have got in and around their own player development and are happy to splash out cash to win a title .
It might be a short one or 2 year fix for a bit of glory ,but you just know those particular unions somewhere in the future will get bitten financially.
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@steven-harris This also shows that the Highlanders aren't doing much to help Southland.
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I wouldn't blame Otago or the Highlanders.
It does appear as if it is a case of a a player putting their personal circumstances first. Working in Dunedin, potentially having a partner living there, it is a fairly big sacrifice going between the two cities for the season.
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lets also not forget southland have probably splashed some cash on Alaimalo so they're playing the game too and the highlanders would have assisted with that
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@southernmann said in NPC - news, injuries etc:
I wouldn't blame Otago or the Highlanders.
It does appear as if it is a case of a a player putting their personal circumstances first. Working in Dunedin, potentially having a partner living there, it is a fairly big sacrifice going between the two cities for the season.
If that is the case then I would blame them.
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@kiwiwomble there’s more to the Alaimalo story than just cash , the relationship between McLeod and Solly goes back to when he was a youngster,.
Alaimalo was actually lost rugby , went to live in Melbourne during those rebellious teenage years and it was McLeod who knew of his talent and bought him back to northland
.I can totally understand when a union needs to fill a gap because they don’t have the same quality within the union and may need a position filled , but to just stockpile so they have depth pisses me off greatly..have we learnt nothing from..?.Personally I would rather develop the majority of my players from within my own union and if it comes with a bit of pain in terms of results , then so be it , but the long term pay off is loyalty not to mention the financial benefits .
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Jeez, Otago has struggled for the last decade (more), we sign one or two NPC level guys, not like we've signed an all black, to fill gaps (Collins leaving so we need a midfielder), also no one has any idea if it was actually his choice to move from invercargill...and suddenly we're stockpiling? this is fucking ridiculous
Having 4-5 midfielders in you squad (we also have Timu), especially when sio will get a ban at some point is hardly just stockpiling talent, especially when only two of those three are super players
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@kiwiwomble , you mean to say a union that has super team based on their door step , probably can afford to filter some of their more talented players into Highlanders Super Rugby wider training squad, has a much bigger club catchment area than Southland including a University can’t develop a midfielder..It’s called falling asleep at the wheel when it comes to development ..the stockpiling coms was probably more aimed at a couple of other unions
