2019 Hawke's Bay Representative Rugby

[Stargazer]

@Higgins No, it isn't. This is the Hawke's Bay rep team. The initial trialists are nominated by their school.

This is from the HBU14 FB page:

Hi guys, with the season due to start any day now, the coaching/management team have already been out and about watching preseason games, training's and trials at schools. 
The schools will soon put together a list of nominated players to attend trials, the dates are still yet to be announced.

From there we will select a group of around 35 boys to attend a 3 day camp at Lindisfarne during the July school holidays. This camp will allow the selectors to pick a squad for the 2019 season.

The Ross Shield tournament is usually held in the last week of September. At the end, they name a tournament team, the Hawke's Bay Ross Shield team, that plays one or two games in October.

The Ross Shield tournament is for players who are U14, have not passed year 14 and, I think, have to weigh under 57kg.

All the participating teams hold trials, too, obviously.

[Number 10]

@Higgins Negative, but Augustine, Edmonds, Ross, Timu and Whatarau did play in last year's HB Ross Shield team.

The Under 14 team has no weight limit, compared to Ross Shield which is 56 kgs.

[Higgins]

Thanks guys. It sounds like it is open to first year high school players if they meet the age requirements then.

[Stargazer]

@Higgins It's primary and intermediate school only. As I said in my previous post, they may not have passed Year 8.

Oh, and another difference is that the HBU14 team is - as far as I know - boys only. Ross Shield teams can be mixed.

Edit: just realised you probably mean that the HBU14 team is open to first year HS players if they are U14. Yep, that's possible. Looking at an earlier post, it names the schools of the trialists. It looks like they're all high school students.

[taniwharugby]

@Stargazer yes I believe it is U14 level where they dont allow the girls to play in the boys teams, but can in U13 level, think this is nationwide...was a girl from Northland named in the Roller mIlls tournament team last year, but not sure if she is playing at all this year.

What is the Ross Shield?

Possibly the same as our Taniwha Shield? which is being played currently, U13 kids that are year 8 and under and also restricted to 57kg which are the sub-union teams who compete (Rodney, Northern Wairoa, 3 Whangarei teams, Bay of Islands, Mangonui, Hokianga) and from there they select kids for the Northland Roller MIlls team

[Stargazer]

@taniwharugby Yes, I think it's similar.

I just found this Ross Shield 2015 Programme. It contains quite a lot of interesting info about the tournament.

[Stargazer]

Preseason game:

Horowhenua-Kapiti v Hawke's Bay Saracens
Sat 27 July at 2.00pm
Playford Park, Levin

From the HBT:

Two former Magpies, outside back Ryan Tongia and prop Jody Allen, are in the Hawke's Bay Saracens team who take on the Horowhenua Heartland Championship side in Levin from 2pm today.

This is the first of four pre-season games for the Saracens team before they begin their Hurricanes Development competition with a match against Wellington Development on August 31.

The Saracens will host the King Country Heartland Championship side in Napier on August 3 and the Whanganui Heartland side on August 10 before playing the Poverty Bay Heartland side in Gisborne on August 17.

Saracens team: 
Johnny Ika, Trent Hape, Travis Janssen, Kalin Paewai, Ryan Tongia, Kodie Drury-Hawkins, Humphrey Sheild, Phil McRoberts, Cristobal Niedmann, Tomo Fogarty, Lucas Albornoz, Donovan Mataira, Paula Latu, Matt Morrison, Jasper Wylie.

Substitutes, forwards: Frank Tupuola, Jody Allen, Tipene Lord, Noel Sanft, Mikaele Tapili, Eru Wano, Jason Cutbush, Albert Hemopo. Backs: Simon Quickfall, Marty Watson, Lester Maulolo, Pedro Benzanilla-Corte.

[Stargazer]

Result preseason game:

Horowhenua-Kapiti 7 - 64 Hawke's Bay Saracens

[Stargazer]

The 2019 Hawke's Bay Tui squad has been named:

Nicolette Adamson, Davina Atkin, Michaela Baker, Sylvia Bockman, Hanna Brough, Kathleen Brown, Forne Burkin, Krysten Cottrell, Lukika Faavae, Teani Feleu, Kara Huata, Chanel Huddleston, Te Aroha Hunt, Rebekah Hurae, Tori Iosefo, Niamh Jefferson, Emma Jensen, Teagan Meyer, Liana Mikaele-Tu'u, Te Maari MacGregor, Holly Macdonald, Whitley Mareikura, Whitney Olsen, Ashley Palu, Felicity Powdrell, Jennifer Simati, Jess Taueki, Cortez Te Pou, Shaylee Tipiwai, Gemma Woods.

Extended Wider Squad under-18s: Tuia Edwards, Amber McKenzie, Anna Powdrell.

Injured players in contention: Natalie Cotton, Lara Kendrick.

Two current Black Ferns (Burkin and Cottrell), a former BF (Jensen), a Manu Sina rep (Simati) and a former Kiwifern (Huddleston) and some exciting young teenage talent in Te Pou and Mikaele-Tu'u (yes, younger sister of Marino).
Not in the squad from last year's squad, among others: Laurae Blake and former BF Amy Williams

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503460&objectid=12253800

[Number 10]

This Tui's team looks like it could be best team since the 2006 team set the benchmark for the Tui's. That 2006 team, finished 3rd in the 1st division round robin and was the first team to beat Auckland in the history of the women's championship, which started in 1999. Auckland had won 50 straight games from 1999 until the Tui's beat them 15-13.
The Tui's then lost the semi-final 10-24 to Auckland.

[CMK]

@Stargazer - yes great to see Treyah repping the Canes jersey with pride, but please let it be known that he was not poached by St Kent's at all.

[Stargazer]

Rep games Saturday 3 August 2019 (all preseason games)

HB Saracens v King Country Rams - Tremain Field 1 - k/o 1.00pm

Squad:
Kodie Drury-Hawkins, Travis Jansse, Mataeus Marsh, Ted Walters, Simon Quickfall, Marty Watson, Johnny Ika, Phil McRoberts, Damien Scott, Jason Cutbush, Donovan Mataira, Lucas Albornoz, Terry King, Frank Tupuola, Teremoana Joel. Substitutes: Forwards, Matt Morrison, Jody Allen, Tipene Lord, Everard Reid, Cristobel Niedmann. Backs, Humphrey Sheild, Johnny Lauano, Anzelo Tuitavuki, Jesse Paewai, Kalin Paewai, Trent Hape.

HB U19 v HB Saracens XV - Temain Field 1 - k/o 2.45pm

Manawatu Samoa v Hawke's Bay Samoa - Bill Brown Park, Palmerston North - k/o 3.00pm

[Stargazer]

Results:

Hawke's Bay Saracens 90 - 12 King Country Rams

HBT's write-up below.

The Manawatu Samoa v Hawke's Bay Samoa game wasn't a preseason game, but already the first game for the High Commissioners Cup. Hawke's Bay Samoa won 39 - 15.

Edited to correct the HB Samoa score.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503460&objectid=12255385

[Stargazer]

Edited to add that the Tui, U19 and Saracens games are preseason games.

[Kiwidom]

Where is Joe Apikatoa at the moment? He was with the Highlanders earlier in the year, and am sure he was signed with the magpies for 2019.(sorry if this has been mentioned in this thread already)

[Stargazer]

@Kiwidom I don't think he was signed with the Magpies for 2019; after preseason with the Highlanders, he went back to Wellington and played club rugby there (not many games, I think). Not sure where he is at the moment.

[Stargazer]

Results 10 August 2019

Manawatu Cyclones 35 - 40 Hawke's Bay Tui
Hawke's Bay Saracens 17 - 38 Whanganui
Hawke's Bay U19 35 - 7 Whanganui Development
Hawke's Bay Samoa 42 - 25 Horowhenua-Kapiti Samoa

By the way, this was the U19 squad that played against Whanganui Dev:

And this was the Saracens' line-up:

[Stargazer]

This year's U19 squad has been named:

[Stargazer]

I wasn't sure where else to post this.

One of four Hawke's Bay players in the New Zealand Marist Colts side which is on a four-match tour of Poverty Bay and Hawke's Bay, Teddy, is relishing the opportunity to receive tips from the team's head coach Steve McDowall who played 81 matches, including 46 tests for the All Blacks from 1985 to 1992.

The youngest of the Bay quartet, Teddy, had 25 minutes off the bench at hooker in Saturday's 79-21 drubbing of the Poverty Bay Development team in Gisborne. On Monday he had 70 minutes as the starting tighthead prop and scored a try in a 29-7 victory against a Wairoa Selection in Wairoa.

He is expecting to mark some familiar players including clubmate Lee Moleli when the tourists take on a combined Hastings Rugby and Sports-Napier Old Boys Marist Colts XV at Elwood Park from 6pm today and a Saracens XV in the curtainraiser to the Magpies Mitre 10 Cup Championship match against the Wellington Lions at Napier's McLean Park on Friday night.

After this tour the apprentice builder's attention will return to the Hawke's Bay under-19 team's campaign.

The Hastings Rugby and Sports trio of loosie Fale Matamata, lock JJ Scales and first five-eighth Shamara Brooks are the other Bay players in the New Zealand Marist Colts team. Hastings-based New Zealand Marist Rugby Federation general manager Neil Murphy said all four Bay players have performed well to date and he has been impressed with how well the squad has gelled during the short time it has been together.

Players from all 31 New Zealand Marist clubs are represented in the squad. The concept of the New Zealand Marist Colts tour began in 1974 and each year a different region of the country is visited.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503460&objectid=12258233

[Stargazer]

Rep games Saturday, 17 August 2019:

1:30pm: Poverty Bay v Hawke's Bay Saracens - MoreFM Park, Gisborne

U19 seeding game:
1.00pm: Hurricanes Heartland U20 v Hawke's Bay U19 - Sports and Rugby Institute, Palmerston North

U19 line-up: