SR U20s 2025

[Chris]

@Bovidae said in SR U20s 2025:

@Sowndariya said in SR U20s 2025:

Hi Bovidae,
Can we get a coach list for this competition Super Rugby U20

From the articles posted in this thread:

Blues - Ben Afeaki, Jeff Ierome, Matt Howling and Ian Robinson
Highlanders - Scott Eade, Ash Barron, Danya Cunningham and Marty McKenzie

As to the other teams:
Chiefs - James Porter, Hika Elliot, Jackson Willison, and maybe one other.
Hurricanes - Darren Larsen is usually their coach, no idea on the assistants
Crusaders - @Chris should know

Alex Robertson and Hoani MacDonald are taking the team again I believe Johnny Leo'o is involved as well.

[Left Right Out 0]

How many players are allowed to play?
I see Canes have named 30 for tomorrows match

[Steven Harris]

Keep an eye on Harlyn Saunoa from the Blues attended the Blues senior training camp up in Whangarei late last year and was the talk of the camp
Has rapid top end pace which had many shaking their heads , out of Botany College not one of your more fashionable rugby schools
Saw him play for Auckland U19s last year , had a few at that game shaking heads

[Bovidae]

I'm not sure if it is worth having separate match threads.

Here is the Barbarians team to play the Chiefs.

[Mauss]

@Bovidae said in SR U20s 2025:

Pahulu and Guerin are still at school. They never select players that young for these teams.

Ha, fair enough. I vaguely remembered Lakai and Godfrey playing in the 2021 U20 tournament and figured it wasn't that uncommon. But looked it up and they seemed to already have left school by then.

[NTA]

Putting this here

On another U20 matter: England's U20 side is mentally imploding against Wales. Zero composure

[NTA]

That said, the Welsh boys aren't afraid to go the verbal

[NTA]

ITALY BEAT IRELAND U20!!!

[Daffy Jaffy]

[Bovidae]

A jersey clash to start with.

[Steven Harris]

@Bovidae Unbelievable

[Steven Harris]

Is this the Drua or the Fijian team?

[Daffy Jaffy]

@Bovidae painfully amateur. How can the Canes not have a yellow jersey available. Surely someone is racing back to base as we speak to retrieve the yellow kit.

[Steven Harris]

Cant coach pace one team clinical the other not so

[Bovidae]

@Steven-Harris Fiji U20s this year. Their ball retention is poor.

Solomon is much more suited to fullback, so expect him to be there for the NZ U20s instead of on the wing.

[Bovidae]

[Bovidae]

Will Cole put his hand up to be Rico Simpson's back up at 1st 5. Out of Rathkeale College.

[Canes4life]

@Bovidae said in SR U20s 2025:

@Steven-Harris Fiji U20s this year. Their ball retention is poor.

Solomon is much more suited to fullback, so expect him to be there for the NZ U20s instead of on the wing.

I’m about 39 mins through the replay. Solomon looks bloody sharp at fullback, you can’t beat pace. He’ll be another Hurley type player moving forward.

Really like the look of Will Cole at 10, looks to run the cutter really well and showed some lovely balance and pace in that first try.

Jai Tamati also playing well.

But how the hell are both teams wearing white. Rugby gets this wrong so often.

It’s nice to see some real speed in the outsides with Kennedy and Solomon.

[Canes4life]

Jeez this Will Cole kid looks good. Puts a player through a gap and then follows up and then cuts right through the Fijians to score. He looks like he’s got plenty of time, a big indicator of a class player. Looks like a specialist 10 as well.

If the Canes don’t sign him the other franchises will be in talks. I know he’s been training with the main side but you never know with the Canes. Just look at how we lost Preston.

[Canes4life]

Jeez Solomon finishes an absolute screamer of a try. About three tries in this game have been better than anything I’ve seen in Super this year. Classy rugby from the Canes Under 20s. They look better coached than our main side.

You definitely can’t coach speed.