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<p>There must be some other props and locks Rennie can jet in from Christchurch (via Auckland/Tonga)... aside <strong>Siate Tokolahi </strong></p>
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<p>Fixed.</p>
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<p>Laulala came via Samoa/Counties, Bird the Hawke's Bay and Retallick from Amberly. They all come from somewhere before being turned into the real deal. Rennie is loyal to his wholesaler, I'll give him that.</p> -
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<p>Laulala came via Samoa/Counties, Bird the Hawke's Bay and Retallick from Amberly. They all come from somewhere before being turned into the real deal. Rennie is loyal to his wholesaler, I'll give him that.</p>
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<p>You're missing the part where Retallick signed with Hawke's Bay straight out of high school, made the U20s from there and that's when Rennie got a look at him.</p>
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<p><strong>Laulala came via Samoa/Counties, Bird the Hawke's Bay and Retallick from Amberly.</strong> They all come from somewhere before being turned into the real deal. Rennie is loyal to his wholesaler, I'll give him that.</p>
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<p>So of the three (four if you include Tokolahi) the one who moved away earliest and didn't play Canterbury ITM/Crusaders by far and away the best....interesting...</p>
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<p>Laulala came via Samoa/Counties, Bird the Hawke's Bay and Retallick from Amberly. They all come from somewhere before being turned into the real deal. Rennie is loyal to his wholesaler, I'll give him that.</p>
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<p>Careful Wurzel. </p>
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<p>Rule number one on this board is: don't criticise Super Coach Rennie
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<p>But hey, don't let facts get in the way of a whine. Fuck it feels great reading Cantabs whining about other teams poaching their players.</p>
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<p>I'd consider your dig about Retallick if you handed back Read. Fair swap?</p> -
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<p>Careful Wurzel. </p>
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<p>Rule number one on this board is: don't criticise Super Coach Rennie :)</p>
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<p>Pretty disappointed about that. Thought Laulala was a good chance to challenge for the Ab starting TH spot. Strikes me that Faumuina will always be the impact player off the bench, but was hoping Laulala might challenge Franks. All 3 ligaments is pretty unlucky.</p>
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<p> Fuck it feels great reading Cantabs whining about other teams poaching their players.</p>
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<p>Not so great when a Crusaders supporter "likes" a post about two of their former players suffering long-term injuries. Classy stuff, that. </p>
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<p>jeez, it was done tongue in cheek.. I would never wish injury upon anyone.</p>
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<p>As I mentioned in a post above I've followed Nepo's career with great interest since he arrived in Canterbury.</p>
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<p>I've probably watched around 80% of his club games and seen his early progress in the gym first hand through my time at the Franks brothers gym. </p>
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<p>I think he's a huge talent, and the word down here is that he's the strongest tighthead in the country, so was gutted to lose him.</p>
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<p>I was just reading an article about these injuries to Laulala and Bird. Both were freakish and resulted from players landing on them in different "non-contact" training sessions. It also appears that neither can be replaced at this stage although Rennie thinks that there aren't many options for a ready-made replacement TH prop when you already have the best 15 TH props spread across the 5 NZ teams.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I forgot the Fern can't have a bit of fun when the topic somehow concerns anything Red & Black.</p>
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<p>Like Smudge said, when the first Cantab in here likes the post announcing their injuries and his first comment is "Because it's the Chiefs... and I hate them," are you surprised some backs go up? Sure he also said he was a fan of both after but I still don't really think it's on at all.</p>
