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@Tim said in Super Rugby News:
Woeful midfield depth is major reason why the Chiefs will miss the playoffs this year.
People said the exact same shit at the start of last season when SBW went off to play Sevens and how'd that turn out?
What's up with your snipes at the Chiefs lately though? Getting a bit uppity before the reality that the Blues are still the Blues comes crashing down? :thinking:
Anyway, gutted Ngatai's still out. They sounded pretty positive late last year, so I was hopeful he'd come right in time for a full season. Great to hear he is on the improve though, even if it is a slow process.
Also gutted they're seriously looking at TNW as a midfield option. He should really only be looked at as emergency midfield cover and nothing more, dude can't tackle for shit.
That 23 looks ideal, Bovidae.
@Unco said in Super Rugby News:
@Tim said in Super Rugby News:
Woeful midfield depth is major reason why the Chiefs will miss the playoffs this year.
People said the exact same shit at the start of last season when SBW went off to play Sevens and how'd that turn out?
What's up with your snipes at the Chiefs lately though? Getting a bit uppity before the reality that the Blues are still the Blues comes crashing down? :thinking:
Anyway, gutted Ngatai's still out. They sounded pretty positive late last year, so I was hopeful he'd come right in time for a full season. Great to hear he is on the improve though, even if it is a slow process.
Also gutted they're seriously looking at TNW as a midfield option. He should really only be looked at as emergency midfield cover and nothing more, dude can't tackle for shit.
That 23 looks ideal, Bovidae.
Rennie said 'midfield cover' with regard to TNW. Quite obvious when he has done that job in the past that he would be mentioned as an option again.
I like the idea of Beaver at 12. Has the experience to do a Crotty type role which will also be of benefit to ALB. TNW on the bench would make sense though along with another midfielder or attacking threequarter. If Cruden and DMac both start then having Timmy on the field makes things a bit too small overall, however the shape and gameplan wouldn't have to change much should one of them go off.
BTW maybe Messam not taking a leadership role is because he is secretly concentrating on wearing 13. -
@Wurzel said in Super Rugby News:
So Cruden doesn't like the fact the world knows about him buggering off to France. Maybe wanted to keep it secret from Hansen until afterJune...
Did you read the article? He said he would have preferred to put the news out himself then have it leaked and can't do anything about all a sundry discussing his supposed remuneration. All fairly reasonable things. As for keeping it secret from Hansen that is pure speculation on your part and if he did want to do that so what? You tell your boss when your scouring the job sites?
Don't be petty he has been a great servant to NZ rugby and Waikato. He deserves a pay day and hopefully will do a Beaver and come back to NZ after a few years to end his career.
@mooshld Cruden doesn't deserve any better special treatment than any others who have signed offshore. He isn't the first and won't be the last All Black to have his contract and its terms speculated, rumoured and reported. And it was the French papers that spilled beans first anyway.
It's been interesting to read a few Hamilton-based journos on Twitter yesterday suggesting Cruden should be thankful for their treatment of him in recent years, keeping mum about the specifics around his various misdemeanours from the missed flight to Mad Monday.
BTW, I was having a bit of fun with the Hansen remark so chill.
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SBW out for the first five weeks.
Piers Francis favoured to fill in at 12.
James Parsons still suffering from concussion, hopes to return in the "early rounds".
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joe has been in blues pre season since before Christmas as injury cover
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@mooshld Cruden doesn't deserve any better special treatment than any others who have signed offshore. He isn't the first and won't be the last All Black to have his contract and its terms speculated, rumoured and reported. And it was the French papers that spilled beans first anyway.
It's been interesting to read a few Hamilton-based journos on Twitter yesterday suggesting Cruden should be thankful for their treatment of him in recent years, keeping mum about the specifics around his various misdemeanours from the missed flight to Mad Monday.
BTW, I was having a bit of fun with the Hansen remark so chill.
@Wurzel said in Super Rugby News:
@mooshld Cruden doesn't deserve any better special treatment than any others who have signed offshore. He isn't the first and won't be the last All Black to have his contract and its terms speculated, rumoured and reported. And it was the French papers that spilled beans first anyway.
It's been interesting to read a few Hamilton-based journos on Twitter yesterday suggesting Cruden should be thankful for their treatment of him in recent years, keeping mum about the specifics around his various misdemeanours from the missed flight to Mad Monday.
BTW, I was having a bit of fun with the Hansen remark so chill.
I'm not pointing the finger just agreeing with him there is fuck all he can do about it. You can't make him enjoy it. As he says it is what it is.
Sorry I read your post as being more bitter then it probably was. I mean he has done his time in my view.
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After midweek confirmation that James Broadhurst is no closer to a return, the Hurricanes' locking stocks took another hit with the news that Hawke's Bay's Geoff Cridge, who had a knee operation after the Magpies' Mitre 10 Cup campaign, will be gone for the season.
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After midweek confirmation that James Broadhurst is no closer to a return, the Hurricanes' locking stocks took another hit with the news that Hawke's Bay's Geoff Cridge, who had a knee operation after the Magpies' Mitre 10 Cup campaign, will be gone for the season.
@Daffy-Jaffy said in Super Rugby News:
After midweek confirmation that James Broadhurst is no closer to a return, the Hurricanes' locking stocks took another hit with the news that Hawke's Bay's Geoff Cridge, who had a knee operation after the Magpies' Mitre 10 Cup campaign, will be gone for the season.
Who does that leave them with? Abbott, Fatialofa, Blackwell, Lousi, plus backup from Thomson and Fifita.
hardly a crisis
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in Super Rugby News:
After midweek confirmation that James Broadhurst is no closer to a return, the Hurricanes' locking stocks took another hit with the news that Hawke's Bay's Geoff Cridge, who had a knee operation after the Magpies' Mitre 10 Cup campaign, will be gone for the season.
Who does that leave them with? Abbott, Fatialofa, Blackwell, Lousi, plus backup from Thomson and Fifita.
hardly a crisis
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@Crucial Also Youngster Isaia Walker-Leawere is starting the pre season game at the Blues today.
@Daffy-Jaffy said in Super Rugby News:
@Crucial Also Youngster Isaia Walker-Leawere is starting the pre season game at the Blues today.
GBHS boy. Following the footsteps of Hosea and Rico?
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After midweek confirmation that James Broadhurst is no closer to a return, the Hurricanes' locking stocks took another hit with the news that Hawke's Bay's Geoff Cridge, who had a knee operation after the Magpies' Mitre 10 Cup campaign, will be gone for the season.
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All Black Patrick Tuipulotu's career in limbo after positive test for a banned substance
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Really sad news. Wasting a career. I sort of hope it was recreational drugs and not cheating drugs.
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Really sad news. Wasting a career. I sort of hope it was recreational drugs and not cheating drugs.
@Billy-Tell said in Super Rugby News:
Really sad news. Wasting a career. I sort of hope it was recreational drugs and not cheating drugs.
Herald saying cheating drugs. In that case good riddance.
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@Billy-Tell said in Super Rugby News:
Really sad news. Wasting a career. I sort of hope it was recreational drugs and not cheating drugs.
Herald saying cheating drugs. In that case good riddance.
@Billy-Tell said in Super Rugby News:
@Billy-Tell said in Super Rugby News:
Really sad news. Wasting a career. I sort of hope it was recreational drugs and not cheating drugs.
Herald saying cheating drugs. In that case good riddance.
It doesn't say that, plus Herald has been known to get things wrong, so I'll await finding out more before I hang him.
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@Billy-Tell said in Super Rugby News:
@Billy-Tell said in Super Rugby News:
Really sad news. Wasting a career. I sort of hope it was recreational drugs and not cheating drugs.
Herald saying cheating drugs. In that case good riddance.
It doesn't say that, plus Herald has been known to get things wrong, so I'll await finding out more before I hang him.
@taniwharugby said in Super Rugby News:
@Billy-Tell said in Super Rugby News:
@Billy-Tell said in Super Rugby News:
Really sad news. Wasting a career. I sort of hope it was recreational drugs and not cheating drugs.
Herald saying cheating drugs. In that case good riddance.
It doesn't say that, plus Herald has been known to get things wrong, so I'll await finding out more before I hang him.
It says performance enhancing drugs. They're not talking about viagra here.
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@taniwharugby said in Super Rugby News:
@Billy-Tell said in Super Rugby News:
@Billy-Tell said in Super Rugby News:
Really sad news. Wasting a career. I sort of hope it was recreational drugs and not cheating drugs.
Herald saying cheating drugs. In that case good riddance.
It doesn't say that, plus Herald has been known to get things wrong, so I'll await finding out more before I hang him.
It says performance enhancing drugs. They're not talking about viagra here.
@Billy-Tell doesn't say that either.
Tuipulotu is not thought to have used recreational drugs.
Yes you can take from that it means performance enhancing, but maybe it was medicated?
I am happy to leave judgement until all is known.
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Left an All Blacks tour early, not available for the start of the Super rugby season, no one knows when or even if he will be playing again.
Doesn't look good!
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@Billy-Tell doesn't say that either.
Tuipulotu is not thought to have used recreational drugs.
Yes you can take from that it means performance enhancing, but maybe it was medicated?
I am happy to leave judgement until all is known.
Stuff were saying it was personal, and applying for exemption on compassionate grounds. Sounds like there is more to come on this - don't rush to judgement.
B sample results apparently not yet back either -w hich is a weirdly long time. He has also been in and around the Blues, so if it was PED then you'd hope they shitcanned him and barred him from the team.
Sad however this turns out.
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Stuff were saying it was personal, and applying for exemption on compassionate grounds. Sounds like there is more to come on this - don't rush to judgement.
B sample results apparently not yet back either -w hich is a weirdly long time. He has also been in and around the Blues, so if it was PED then you'd hope they shitcanned him and barred him from the team.
Sad however this turns out.
@nzzp said in Super Rugby News:
Stuff were saying it was personal, and applying for exemption on compassionate grounds. Sounds like there is more to come on this - don't rush to judgement.
B sample results apparently not yet back either -w hich is a weirdly long time. He has also been in and around the Blues, so if it was PED then you'd hope they shitcanned him and barred him from the team.
Sad however this turns out.
How can you take PEDs on compassionate grounds?
I guess I wait and see what evolves but if he's let off for PEDs the rest of the rugby world will go to town on it.
