Blues 2022

[nzzp]

@bovidae said in Blues 2022:

@nzzp

St Kents had players from all over the NI, and often the best from other Auckland schools for their last couple of years of schooling. That has helped.

http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/schoollist.asp?sl_id=St Kentigern College&stats_id=71

Christie has his own link (due to spelling).

http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/schoollist.asp?sl_id=St Kentigern's College&stats_id=71

hah, yeah! St Kents vs St Kent.

the other St Kents has 9 ABs ... but 8/10 were in the last 5-6 years.

http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/schoollist.asp?sl_id=St Kentigern College&stats_id=71

[Nogusta]

@bovidae forgot about Tamanivalu. And I'm pretty sure Steven Luatua didn't attend St Kents

[KiwiMurph]

Luatua was MAGS.

[Stargazer]

Caleb Clarke suspended for three weeks (up to and including 23 April 2022)

https://twitter.com/SaffasRugby/status/1510157632052596737

Here's the official SANZAAR media release:

https://super.rugby/superrugby/documents/judiciary/super-rugby-pacific-round-7-clarke-suspended-for-three-weeks/

[antipodean]

@stargazer so no clarification, just a punishment for clouting an attacker...

SANZAAR really is useless.

[Stargazer]

@antipodean It's unfortunate that SANZAAR only publishes media releases and not the full decisions, like World Rugby does.

[nzzp]

@stargazer young age is now a basis to reduce bans.

FML.

[Stargazer]

@nzzp Yeah, it's strange. I can see inexperience as a basis for reduction, but Clarke has plenty of experience, including at the highest level.

He also didn't admit to any wrongdoing (no "his acceptance of foul play" in the reasoning) and contested the allegations; in most cases that means that you get one week less reduction (so a 4 week-ban). It's not impossible that they might have considered reducing the penalty more than 50% (for example to two weeks) if he had accepted the citing.

[Tim]

From Instagram, Akira Ioane ran on his foot for the first time since his injury.

[Crucial]

@stargazer said in Blues 2022:

@nzzp Yeah, it's strange. I can see inexperience as a basis for reduction, but Clarke has plenty of experience, including at the highest level.

He also didn't admit to any wrongdoing (no "his acceptance of foul play" in the reasoning) and contested the allegations; in most cases that means that you get one week less reduction (so a 4 week-ban). It's not impossible that they might have considered reducing the penalty more than 50% (for example to two weeks) if he had accepted the citing.

These things just give the appearance of being 'what do we reckon is fair considering the act and the person'? Then they retrofit some justification through the guidelines.

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[gt12]

@kiwimurph said in Blues 2022:

Luatua was MAGS.

I was just coming to post that - he played with my cousin.

Edit: Was he was poached at some point? I don't remember it @Dice

[nzzp]

@gt12 said in Blues 2022:

@kiwimurph said in Blues 2022:

Luatua was MAGS.

I was just coming to post that - he played with my cousin.

Edit: Was he was poached at some point? I don't remember it @Dice

that ABs profile is plain wrong then.

Also, he's only 30. Would walk into the team these days

[Bovidae]

Luatua made the NZ Schools team in 2009 as a MAGs player so his profile is wrong. Read spent a year at St Kents before returning to Rosehill. Kaino was poached from Papakura HS.