The Silver Fern

How shit has Jackson been. Inconsistent the whole game

Bridge played with Emerson in 2012, also in that team was Hugh Renton (Hurricanes), Tim Cadwalider (Manawatu/20s,Canes Dev), Sam Godwin (Canterbury,Crusaders Dev), Tiaan Falcon (Chiefs), Ben Parsons (Magpies)

Funny cause Jordie played 12 at school and Peter played 15 at school which was only 3 years ago for these boys

They put Stacey Ili into 10 when Falcon goes off. Dunn is only a midfielder. They could look to put Lincoln into the starting spot or move Stacey into 10

Does Marty Mckenzie think he’s playing touch out there? Multiple miss tackles and penalty kick didn’t find the sideline

I think we could be struggling for a back up 10.
If you look at the 5 starting franchise 10s, you have Beauden(Canes), Lima ( Highlanders), Gatland/Perofeta (Blues), Richie ( Crusaders) and Mckenzie/Falcon
If McKenzie isn’t playing 10 for the chiefs then he can’t really count as a genuine option.
Richie could be injured for most of the season before the June series.
So Hansen could be left with picking out of Falcon, Gatland, Perofeta or Hunt for third 10

From my understanding kautai and Aumua are available. Just that kautai isn’t getting selected and I heard whispers that Aumua has struggled with the step up to super rugby level training standards the whole year. He was named to play in that Ta$man game the other day.

@tim I couldn’t probably see Perofeta as the only one who could be an all black in that group. In a good team, going forward , he would be awesome

@stargazer With Ozich having a whole year to recruit and build depth in the region, I’m sure he has more time to do this than last year when he got the job 2 months before hand and with the head coach away at 20s. I guess we will see how good of a coach he actually is with this years results.

No news on Wilson, Lamborn or Dixon.

Sad to see Renton leave, truely believe the Union has failed him as a player. They signed him young as so did the canes, now they let him go after being injured for 2 years when they signed him.

Ihaia and Bucky huge loss but hearing that falcon could be well and truly ready with expectation of him playing a lot more for the chiefs during the season, although probably off the bench. Need to find a decent 12 to get go forward.