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@Toddy Taumololo was with the bay for years and a stalwart of the Clive club.I have no issue with him coming back, let the local lad prove himself like Sona has and he will get his chance. You dont just hand out jerseys to players because they are locals.

A wins a win I suppose ,a good forward effort.I don't think Southland's much good though and we will need to get the backs more involved if we are to compete against better teams.

It's almost as if the whole club season was a waste of time
They appear to have completely disregarded the club form and there's not even any fringe players named like they usually do.

@nepia You would have to assume the coaching know the capabilities of the local halfbacks and perhaps don't rate the rest of them. We have 3 decent local halfbacks, that is quite a few for a smaller province. We haven't got Unlimited depth.

Unbelievable I thought waikato was going to win by 30 with 20 minutes to go. Some great efforts from the bench players.

@stargazer Somebody wrote on Instagram it was Will Tremain with the serious injury.

@Nepia Yeah hes signed a 2 year deal.Theres an article in Hawkes bay today which also mentions Pasquale Dunn has gone back to Auckland and obviously Falcon is unavailable with injury. Ben Smith a north harbour sevens rep and Antonio Mikaele Tu,u are both playing club rugby in the bay and trying to get a magpies spot.

@Stargazer Sapsford played yesterday, so he may be still in the mix.

@steven-harris said in Hawke's Bay rugby 2018:

Caught up with Mark Ozick and Josh Syms at Waitemata Park in Auckland yesterday,they were watching the Waka Nathan challenge cup which is to anyone outside of Auckland a preseason rally day were all the Auckland Club teams are on show,
A couple of players they were looking at were Siosiua (Josh) Kaifa a very rugged open side flanker who has appeared on a handful of times for Auckland and Sebastian Visinia younger brother of Lolagi Visinia,Sebastian is a very tall rangy midfielder.
Talking to both coaches they are looking for more gainline physicality which was a real issue for them in 2017.
Sam Ulufonua the Lock from ponsonby in Auckland has been signed but only on a PD contract,I stand to be corrected but it’s something similar to player development contract for younger players.
Gone from 2017 are both Vaega brothers and Hugh Renton ironically the younger of the Vaega brothers was running around for Gramnar Tech and I believe Cardiff is running around for Karaka in the Counties Manukau region.

Both coaches seem to have a very good senergy with each other.
Auckland can never seem to select the right talent but man alive there is some talented rugby players running around at many of there clubs, I guess it’s all about having the ability to select that talent.
Even Southland have signed the 3 Costa brothers from Eden Rugby in Auckland,

Kaifa while he looked a bit off the pace fitness wise,had very good size,is very physical,good over the ball and very accurate on the tackle will be a very good acquisition to the Bay.

Thanks for the updates.

@Number-10 said in 2019 club rugby:

Yep, no sign of Karl Lowe. He was helping out the Hastings BHS first XV last year. Maybe he's doing the same again this year?

No sign of Kianu Kereru-Symes for Tamatea, either.

That Clive team list of 22 contains only five players that played in last year's Maddison Trophy final - Rana Huata, Lucas Goodin, Bronson Hokianga, Eti Collins, Jesse Tuhua.

According to the paper Kereru-Symes played for MAC yesterday and Tim Farrell made his first appearance for 18 months.

@Stargazer said in Magpies 2020:

@Jonty-lean

McLeod just finished his studies at Otago Uni (Bcom). Last year, he was named in the NZ Universities team for a tournament in Japan, but had to pull out because he was called up by Otago as injury replacement. He was named Otago Development Back of the Year 2019. He was on the bench for Otago when they played us in the semi-final.

He was also on the bench for the Hurricanes Hunters when they beat the Crusaders dev team about a month ago.

Found his work profile from his current employer. I assume he'll be playing his club rugby for Havelock North.

Looks like hes playing for hastings, hes listed as being out injured for the spillane cup in one of the hbt articles.

Hawkes Bay Magpies Instagram page saying player announcements will be made in the next few weeks. The first one is a returning former magpie any idea who??? Sona or Renton perhaps??

@Stargazer We might get a better guide tomorrow in the Taradale Marist game of how Wa'as going.

@Stargazer Yeah locks are in short supply at the moment unless someone came back from during covid maybe. A lot probably depends on how long the management have known that Falcon and Allerdice wouldn't be there this season. If they have known for a while then we may have players lined up but if they just found out recently we could struggle to find decent replacements at short notice.

@Stargazer Herman put up a post farewelling him at the airport.

@stargazer I think Ratcliffes record was pretty poor from memory.I know its probably a massive longshot but hawkes bay did try to get Joe Schmidt at one stage. Hes moving back to Nz but hes probably looking at a higher level than itm cup

It's far from ideal but you would think James would have been heavily involved in the planning for this season and would at least have a decent idea of the club scene and what positions we need to strengthen.

Someone had a bit of a go at them on Facebook for no announcements and they said dropping soon.

Congrats Higgins.

A friend of mine on Facebook who lives in Taupo now,attended a game there yesterday but the photos are very unclear.One team looks like Auckland but the other team wore sky blue jerseys.