Northern Region Representative Rugby 2025

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I went to this corresponding fixture last year and it was a close game. Not the strongest Harlequins team available so maybe Thames Valley are in for a tough season compared to the highs of 2024.

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Looking at the TV team, Liam Pratt was their starting LH prop. He was named in the original Harlequins squad.

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Under 19s | Counties Manukau RFU

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@mikedogz said in Northern Region Representative Rugby 2025:

Under 19s | Counties Manukau RFU

Stoked to see one of my old 1st XV boys Takavaha Tuionetoa from the past few years make it, kid oozes talent.

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Three of the Waikato NPC squad will be involved. Wrampling returning from injury.

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Harbour lineups - some NPC experience in the Development lineup.

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Not a lot of sub union rugby happening this season so a new holder of the Peace cup after this game.

Rotorua Daily Post, Sport, Rugby, Sport, New Zealand, Waikato News, Sport

NZ's ugliest trophy? 105 year-old rugby cup on the line in Rotorua

The Peace Cup was inaugurated to mark the end of World War I.

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Waikato are slack as usual with no publication of their U19 squad. The team that played NH on the weekend had a lot of players I am not familiar with, and some players you would have expected to be in the team, missing.

Here are the BOP and Taranaki squads. No Mason Verster in the BOP squad. Injured or moved?

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@Bovidae said in Northern Region Representative Rugby 2025:

No Mason Verster in the BOP squad. Injured or moved?

To answer my own question, google tells me that Verster has moved to Canterbury. So the Crusaders have both 2024 NZ Schools 1st 5s.

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Harbour U85s squad

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Pyrenees Boyle-Tiatia must be injured as he would be in the U19 squad. Butterworth is a tall English lock, and obviously younger than I thought.

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I went to watch the Waikato U19s v BOP U19s. A high scoring game with Waikato winning 66-36. I was surprised that some key players like Fale were subbed so early in the 2nd half.

Also watched the 1st half of the Development game that followed. Chicago Doyle playing fullback for the BOP Dev so has obviously moved from Wellington to BOP.

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