NZ Club rugby (general)
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@ploughboy In 2019, Brodie Retallick played for his club Central Hawke's Bay (for the first time in 9 years). Just about half the region was there and his team mates were stoked to have him. An experience they will never forget, and he said it was awesome, too!
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went along to watch Kamo play Ngati HIne Moerewa/United Kawa Kawa.
UKK got off to a flyer, and lead 14-3 late in the 1st spell but Kamo hit back just before the break to trail 8-14 and ended up taking a good win 25-14
UKK has avery handy side, with a number of former rep players running around.
JUstin Davies was strong with ball in hand, Warren Dunn was best back on the park for the 1st 40, and the UKK 9, Kane Vlaardingerbroeks has a bloody nice pass on it!
THe entire UKK front row was very busy, and lead by Aorangi Stokes who just never gives up!
THey looked wel coached and up for it, but once Kamo turned the screws, they lost thier way a bit and unable to get enough good ball.
For Kamo, Nikau GRaham was full of running and a constant threat there, shame his line kicking rivals Dan Hawkins for distance, missed touch a couple of times too, if he wants to move up a level, which his running game looks capable of, he will need to get his kicking game sorted.
Setefano Funaki has also looked strong with ball in hand and in contact last 2 weeks, but he aint a lock.
Seleti Tuungafasi also looked good these last 2 weeks, strong runner, and hit a sweet sweet pass off the 9 at a primo angle and was barely touched as he ran 10m for a try (although at the pace he was moving, no one woulda stopped him)
Brody Lam on the wing for Kamo looks good, but he has seen f-all ball.
while still undefeated, Kamo just look to lack a bit of finishing power for me right now, but the 2nd half today was the best I have seen them play this season.
Surprising result today was Western Sharks rolling a strong Mid Northern side at home.
OBM still lead the way on points diff from Kamo
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A few Hurricanes playing Wellington club rugby this week. I assume most of these players won't be going to Sydney.
Lolagi Visinia (Wainuiomata)
Vince Aso (Petone)
Pouri Rakete-Stones (Norths)
Jonathan Taumatiene (Marist St Pats)
Pepesani Patafilo, Orbyn Leger (Tawa) -
TR Jnr keen to do a roadie tomorrow too and watch most of his old team play Dargaville U16s and then stay on to watch the Kamo Prems play Western Sharks, a match where I have a feeling Kamo will pick up thier 1st loss of the season.
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@higgins said in NZ Club rugby (general):
@bones Had a beer in the Axemen's Isherwood Lounge with the venerable Mr. Quinn last night after the Axemen narrowly failed to defeat Wainuiomata. Paying the penalty for not attempting two very kickable penalties in the last 15 minutes and losing 14 - 16. Vaea Fifita donned the WFC jersey for the first time since 2016 playing the full eighty minutes and was Mt. Everest heights above everyone else on the field in terms of prety much everything worthwhile measurable. Even managed to make a couple of effective tackles but did miss one when a huge guy Wainui had playing on the wing managed to avoid his covering corner-flagging attempt to shove him into touch Incidentally his last three appearances for the Axemen have all been against Wainui, one being a seven point win and the other two being one and two point losses.
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/3844/nz-club-rugby-general/210?_=1618713373994Kept buying beers to shout Mikey07 in case he turned up, but if he did he was incognito. Still the beers were certainly not wasted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry mate unfortunately our Pressies team play at the same time so can’t make it, you can lock in the
3/7 as our Pressies team is coming your way to play the axemen so I’ll definitely have a beer with you then. -
@canes4life said in NZ Club rugby (general):
A few Hurricanes playing Wellington club rugby this week. I assume most of these players won't be going to Sydney.
Lolagi Visinia (Wainuiomata)
Vince Aso (Petone)
Pouri Rakete-Stones (Norths)
Jonathan Taumatiene (Marist St Pats)
Pepesani Patafilo, Orbyn Leger (Tawa)First Liam Mitchell then Reuben Love now Visinia such a shame we’re playing at the same time.
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Had a big day off watching planned but a website posted a wrong time for a game so we only watched the U16s game.
A few large lads at that level, again the Kamo U16s alot smaller.
Watched half the reserves game then headed home before the prems, but as I suspected Kamo suffered thier first loss.
Looking at the scoring they were down 21-8 with about 20 to go and then I saw 21-15, so with the final score of 21-20 they must have had a conversion to steal it.
OBM sit atop still unbeaten, then Kamo, Mid Northern then the Sharks round out the top 4.
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Radio reports a large skirmish between spectators at Wellington College during the College Old Boys-University v Marist-St Pats game after OBU scored a try right on full time to win 20 - 18. Not the first time spectators from the MSP club have been involved in skirmishes recently. No doubt more details will emerge over the next short while.
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So Selby-Rickit signs with BOP for NPC, but still wants to play club rugby in Southland, despite Highlanders' policy that all SR players must play club rugby in Dunedin ...
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@higgins said in NZ Club rugby (general):
Radio reports a large skirmish between spectators at Wellington College during the College Old Boys-University v Marist-St Pats game after OBU scored a try right on full time to win 20 - 18. Not the first time spectators from the MSP club have been involved in skirmishes recently. No doubt more details will emerge over the next short while.
Everyone is being very tight lipped about this one but there is no doubt that something did happen. Even more disconcertingly is reports of other incidents referred to in this article https://clubrugby.nz/wp/2021/05/10/bond-banter-10-may-news-in-briefs-and-some-rugby-information-to-start-the-week/
