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[Stargazer]

@Machpants Yep, Mitre 10 Cup starts in less than 8 weeks!

[Yeetyaah]

Hoping for another preseason game in some random town in Waikato like the Taranaki v Auckland in Te Awamutu, was a good little game to go watch.

[Snollygoster]

I had heard that :-

Fri 28th August Katikati .. BOP v North Harbour.

Fri 4th September Whakatane.. BOP v Counties.

[Stargazer]

So, who do you think?

[Yeetyaah]

@Stargazer Liam Messam maybe? Facebook comments reckon it's Messam or Kerr-Barlow. Doesn't look like Kahui unfortunately.

[Stargazer]

@Yeetyaah Isn't Kerr-Barlow still in France?

Edited: I just checked. TKB is still contracted to La Rochelle. It won't be him.

[Yeetyaah]

The insignia on the Otago kit says Air New Zealand cup so it's a few years old. Could it be the beaver?

[Chris B.]

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

@Yeetyaah Isn't Kerr-Barlow still in France?
Edited: I just checked. TKB is still contracted to La Rochelle. It won't be him.

Google tells me Messam is in NZ - running a coaching clinic in Tauranga three weeks ago.

36 yo.

My money is on Liam.

[Yeetyaah]

I'd be stoked with Messam, Beaver or Kahui.

[Duluth]

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

The insignia on the Otago kit says Air New Zealand cup so it's a few years old. Could it be the beaver?

Good spot. Google suggests that’s the 2005 Otago uniform?

Messam, Donald, Kahui or Sweeney? It’d be funny if they are just teasing the signing of Sweeney

[mikedogz]

Beaver played for Waiuku on Saturday so is keeping fit. I would prefer he played for Counties again if keen.

[Yeetyaah]

@Duluth 2006 as ANZ cup started then, did a search and found some photos of a game of Waikato v Otago from 2006 and they were wearing this kit, couldn't find this photo though. Hope it isn't Sweeney, dudes past it.

[KiwiMurph]

Sweeney's silhouette is just a tad different in 2020....

[mikedogz]

That's Messam

[mikedogz]

Air NZ Cup Semi Final - Waikato v Otago, 14 October 2006 | Photosport New Zealand

Waikato's Liam Messam during the Air NZ Cup semi final match between Waikato and Otago played at Waikato Stadium, Hamilton, New Zealand on Saturday 14 October 2006. Waikato won 44-15. Photo: Brett O'Callaghan/PHOTOSPORT

Photo I found would have been moments later.

[Bones]

This would be funny though.

[Yeetyaah]

@mikedogz that's not the same photo

[mikedogz]

I'm not saying it is but from the same moment.

[Yeetyaah]

@mikedogz Ah my bad. Looked through that album.

[Yeetyaah]

Some dude on Facebook posted this. Terrible quality but looks like the same moment with a different angle.