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[taniwharugby]

@Snowy no, I is a good 20km form seeing any of those (well much smaller ones at least) further to see bigger ones

[Yeetyaah]

@Snowy yeah that was my point. You don't put an s on the end of a Māori word to make it a plural as a isn't the Māori alphabet.

[Stargazer]

Media release: Ben May signs with the Yarrows Taranaki Bulls

[Nepia]

@Stargazer said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

Media release: Ben May signs with the Yarrows Taranaki Bulls

[booboo]

@Snowy said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

@booboo said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

@taniwharugby said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

@Yeetyaah said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

@taniwharugby Mako*

@booboo someone gunning for your job!

'Mako's' surely?

I believe that Mako is both plural and singular - like sheep?

Hence Mako's denoting possession to the plural.

[booboo]

@Yeetyaah said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

@Snowy yeah that was my point. You don't put an s on the end of a Māori word to make it a plural as a isn't the Māori alphabet.

Two questions:

1. How to you show possession in written Maori?
2. How do you spell 'Fundraiser' in Maori?

[Yeetyaah]

@booboo Still wouldn't use an 's at the end of the word. If you're seriously asking, the proper way would be fundraiser for the Mako.

[NateHill74]

I talked to Rob Thompson today as he's my coach for school rugby and he's going to Japan and not playing for Bay of Plenty. Confirmed

[booboo]

@Yeetyaah said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

@booboo Still wouldn't use an 's at the end of the word. If you're seriously asking, the proper way would be fundraiser for the Mako.

Semi serious

[Yeetyaah]

Thinking about it more, Mako are stacked as it is, is it really good for the comp to have that stacked of a team? I know players are attracted to winning teams and all that blah blah but surely you'd be struggling for game time. Reece I can understand but Telea?

[Nepia]

@booboo said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

@Yeetyaah said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

@Snowy yeah that was my point. You don't put an s on the end of a Māori word to make it a plural as a isn't the Māori alphabet.

Two questions:

1. How to you show possession in written Maori?
2. How do you spell 'Fundraiser' in Maori?

1. Possession is represented by tā/tō (singular) and ā/ō (plural). With tā/ā being things which I think money/funds comes under.
2. There's not a 100% direct translation that I know of but I think whakaara putea is close. Whakaara - raise, Putea - money/funds. I guess whakaara moni (money) is probably used regularly but I try not to use loan words.

So I think the Mako's fundraiser would be: ā Mako whakaara putea.

Happy to hear fo any different translations if anyone has one.

[booboo]

@Nepia top stuff Neps

[Yeetyaah]

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[Yeetyaah]

[Dice]

@Yeetyaah What a team. If at full strength, they could give every team problems.

[Yeetyaah]

@Dice I'd be picking them for promotion

[Bovidae]

They were favourites last year too.

[Steven Harris]

@Yeetyaah for a Union that is cash strapped , I am staggered how they can acquire such large squad.. ...All Blacks I have been told are 55k alone ..Super Players range from anything from 35k to 50k..can only imagine that the non super rugby guys will be taking what their given..

[Dice]

@Steven-Harris that's not the final squad, that's a wider squad.

[mikey07]

@Yeetyaah I thought Lewis Ormond was contracted to the Stags, it’s good to see Lahmert still running around.