Blues 2022
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@kiwimurph said in Blues 2022:
I wonder who replaces Faiane in the squad.
I realise Plummer will probably start at 12 but they need more 12 options.
Evans? Tua? Is Toala still signed to the Canes?
Maybe the Blues could steal Dallas McLeod as well?
@crazy-horse said in Blues 2022:
@kiwimurph said in Blues 2022:
I wonder who replaces Faiane in the squad.
I realise Plummer will probably start at 12 but they need more 12 options.
Evans? Tua? Is Toala still signed to the Canes?
Maybe the Blues could steal Dallas McLeod as well?
Don't get me excited that would be Awesome.
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Four key cogs of the Blues rugby machine, with nearly 150 caps between them, have all signed to extend their contracts with the club.
Northland forwards Josh Goodhue and Tom Robinson, Auckland captain Harry Plummer and fellow utility back Stephen Perofeta have re-signed.
Perofeta and Goodhue have extended to 2022 with Robinson and Plummer to 2023 by which time all could chalk up 50 caps for the Blues. -
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Segner said that while he calls Nelson his home away from home, he is very much at ease in bigger cities, having grown up in Frankfurt.
Frankfurt is probably the most boring city in Europe though.
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@daffy-jaffy said in Blues 2022:
I watched that on Sky the other day. Very awesome.
Love how he sounds just like a Kiwi kid (which would always happen)
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Do you think Segner is a replacement for Gibson or Hunt?
Given he is younger than Niko Jones I'd say Jones' chances of making the Blues has passed him by at this stage.
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@bovidae Jones is apparently off to the U.S. to play for New York.
@daffy-jaffy said in Blues 2022:
@bovidae Jones is apparently off to the U.S. to play for New York.
Yes, but was that because he wasn't wanted by the Blues (or MP)?
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@daffy-jaffy said in Blues 2022:
@bovidae Jones is apparently off to the U.S. to play for New York.
Yes, but was that because he wasn't wanted by the Blues (or MP)?
@bovidae His development has been slow since leaving school straight into the NZ sevens environment where he hardly got a game. Then with Auckland he has only occasionally made the bench on match days, stuck behind Gibson and Choat. The complete change of environment and living independently should accelerate his development.
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@bovidae His development has been slow since leaving school straight into the NZ sevens environment where he hardly got a game. Then with Auckland he has only occasionally made the bench on match days, stuck behind Gibson and Choat. The complete change of environment and living independently should accelerate his development.
@daffy-jaffy disappointed he hasn't kicked on, but glad the Blues talent scouting seems to have improved.
It's good - hopefully he steps up an dcomes back super strong
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Do you think Segner is a replacement for Gibson or Hunt?
Given he is younger than Niko Jones I'd say Jones' chances of making the Blues has passed him by at this stage.
@bovidae said in Blues 2022:
Do you think Segner is a replacement for Gibson or Hunt?
It's not officially confirmed but there was a strong rumour that Choat was signed about the same time it was announced Gibson went to the Hurricanes
So I assume this is a Hunt replacement
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@bovidae His development has been slow since leaving school straight into the NZ sevens environment where he hardly got a game. Then with Auckland he has only occasionally made the bench on match days, stuck behind Gibson and Choat. The complete change of environment and living independently should accelerate his development.
@daffy-jaffy said in Blues 2022:
His development has been slow since leaving school straight into the NZ sevens environment where he hardly got a game. Then with Auckland he has only occasionally made the bench on match days, stuck behind Gibson and Choat. The complete change of environment and living independently should accelerate his development.
He really needed to make an impact in this years NPC to get into a SR squad.
I agree he was likely to be stuck behind Choat/Gibson again.. however covid took away any chance he had of forcing his way up the rankings
A US stint seems like a good move. He needs to play.
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@daffy-jaffy said in Blues 2022:
I watched that on Sky the other day. Very awesome.
Love how he sounds just like a Kiwi kid (which would always happen)
@hooroo said in Blues 2022:
@daffy-jaffy said in Blues 2022:
I watched that on Sky the other day. Very awesome.
Love how he sounds just like a Kiwi kid (which would always happen)
It's a great story.
Most of the German's I met when I was over that way were monsters, they could have a great rugby team if it got popular. Reminded me of even more humourless South Africans.
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@hooroo said in Blues 2022:
@daffy-jaffy said in Blues 2022:
I watched that on Sky the other day. Very awesome.
Love how he sounds just like a Kiwi kid (which would always happen)
It's a great story.
Most of the German's I met when I was over that way were monsters, they could have a great rugby team if it got popular. Reminded me of even more humourless South Africans.
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@tim said in Blues 2022:
@kirwan They beat France twice during the interwar period.
There's a WWII joke just sitting here.
@kirwan said in Blues 2022:
@tim said in Blues 2022:
@kirwan They beat France twice during the interwar period.
There's a WWII joke just sitting here.
exactly my reaction! Too juicy a setup
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@kiwimurph Bugger - now I've got to have conflicted loyalties on Segner.
Unusual choice of destination, because the Blues are hardly short of loose forward options. He's probably got a harder path to a starting berth than he would have had at the Crusaders. But, maybe Razor wasn't offering a full contract.
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@kiwimurph Bugger - now I've got to have conflicted loyalties on Segner.
Unusual choice of destination, because the Blues are hardly short of loose forward options. He's probably got a harder path to a starting berth than he would have had at the Crusaders. But, maybe Razor wasn't offering a full contract.
@chris-b said in Blues 2022:
@kiwimurph Bugger - now I've got to have conflicted loyalties on Segner.
Unusual choice of destination, because the Blues are hardly short of loose forward options. He's probably got a harder path to a starting berth than he would have had at the Crusaders. But, maybe Razor wasn't offering a full contract.
Leon link again?
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@daffy-jaffy said in Blues 2022:
His development has been slow since leaving school straight into the NZ sevens environment where he hardly got a game. Then with Auckland he has only occasionally made the bench on match days, stuck behind Gibson and Choat. The complete change of environment and living independently should accelerate his development.
He really needed to make an impact in this years NPC to get into a SR squad.
I agree he was likely to be stuck behind Choat/Gibson again.. however covid took away any chance he had of forcing his way up the rankings
A US stint seems like a good move. He needs to play.
@duluth I know he is young and has some growing to do, but when they were up here in pre-season I thought he looked small and not as effective (in that and the other small bits I had seen of him) as some of the other loosies.
Especially when comparing him to the likes of Ekuasi and Vikena.
