Hurricanes 2026
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@DurryMexted said in Hurricanes 2026:
@Darren said in Hurricanes 2026:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes 2026:
@SecFid said in Hurricanes 2026:
Agree Laidlaw will probably be conservative. Losing Godfrey is a real shame. The successful spine of the Canes backline became Roigard, Love, Harkin but Laidlaw went away from that in what proved to be the last game of the season.
I'd be happy with Roigard, Love in the halves, Higgins and Proctor in the midfield and a back three of 11. Fineanganofo, Moorby and Barrett to start the season. Naholo out for the start of the campaign.
That's looks great, but we need to find room for Harkin, he seems to spark a lot of our attack.
I think both Harkin and Fineanganofo are very underrated.Harkin will be an interesting one - i still cant tell where he stands at this level. Confidence was a definite issue last year you could see in his decision making. A season of swapping between fullback, wing and 12 for the lions has been a weird one.
Will come down to how much the noise about Love to 10 plays out, and the juggling of Barrett and Higgins in the midfield with proctor. With Laidlaws track record, i sort of expect the early rounds to look something like
Roigard, Cameron, Naholo/Fehi, JB, BP, Moorby, Love with Higgins and Punivai on the bench.I would like to see Love at 10 & Cameron/Harkin to share the 23 jersey / Harkin at 15 if Jordies not there.
I think you're spot on here @DurryMexted, I think Laidlaw will be conservative early on and start Cameron at 10.
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Canes training jersey
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@Canes4life said in Hurricanes 2026:
Canes training jersey
Big Bill is a laugh.
Having stood next to him fairly recently I can confirm he is fucken enormous these days. I reckon about 170kg
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Good to see some key players back early for the Canes.
Riley Higgins and Asafo Aumua pictured back at training (finally), as well as Jordie Barrett.
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@Canes4life Riley Higgins looking fucking huge, meanwhile Will Cole looks like a teenage soccer player
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@DurryMexted said in Hurricanes 2026:
@Canes4life Riley Higgins looking fucking huge, meanwhile Will Cole looks like a teenage soccer player
Yeah he looks ready to go for sure. 2026 is the year of Riley.
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@Canes4life said in Hurricanes 2026:
@DurryMexted said in Hurricanes 2026:
@Canes4life Riley Higgins looking fucking huge, meanwhile Will Cole looks like a teenage soccer player
Yeah he looks ready to go for sure. 2026 is the year of Riley.
I hope Billy Proctor isn't reading this
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Ownership change now announced.
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@MN5 said in Hurricanes 2026:
@Canes4life said in Hurricanes 2026:
@DurryMexted said in Hurricanes 2026:
@Canes4life Riley Higgins looking fucking huge, meanwhile Will Cole looks like a teenage soccer player
Yeah he looks ready to go for sure. 2026 is the year of Riley.
I hope Billy Proctor isn't reading this
Riley has the much higher ceiling in my view.
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See Hurricane's latest news - I'm too incompetent to try and link it.
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Hurricanes' ffs.
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Good of NZR to bail out the basket case WRU and Canes.
NZR will become a minority investor in the Hurricanes as part of a comprehensive re-financing of both the Hurricanes and WRFU. The refinancing package includes loan arrangements for both organisations and a new capital raise by the Hurricanes’, in which NZR will participate
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Lomax back also.
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Anyone know who this guy is?
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@Canes4life From the post looks like Zach Taulapapa is tagged. Wonder if hes a relation of Jack Taulapapa who played a fair bit of club footy in wellies and played for Samoa i believe
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@DurryMexted said in Hurricanes 2026:
Zach Taulapapa
