2023 Hawke's Bay Club Rugby
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Some teams have published their team sheets:
NOBM
1 Johnny Faleiva
2 Dylan Homan
3 Pulea Faleiva
4 Nicholas Ennor
5 Boris van Bruchem
6 Josh Gimblett
7 Ricky Hayes
8 Hannon Brighouse
9 Kade Manuel-Green
10 Jonty Stewart
11 Michael Beech
12 Duff Penitito
13 Josh McIntyre
14 Kere Penitito
15 Paoraian Manuel-Harman
16 Reilly Hannan
17 Lee Moleli
18 Tulitaluai Faleiva
19 Matthew Monaghan
20 Mitchell Gibson
21 Pedro Bezanilla
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Taradale
1 Wiremu COTTRELL
2 William Fonohema
3 Aloese Aiolupotea
4 Sam Combs
5 Angelo MUFANA
6 Josh EDEN-WHAITIRI
7 Kinghouse TUPUOLA
8 Iakopo Petelo Mapu
9 Karl HEWITT
10 Ezra Malo
11 Junior Saufoi
12 Nathan RAMSAY
13 Hemaua SAMASONI
14 Flynn Allen
15 Brayden-Trevaughn Lansdown-Cunningham
16 Jackman BYRNE
17 Jayden WALKER
18 Levy Aiolupotea
19 Thomas EDEN
20 Ryan Spice
21 Dylan RAMSAY
22 Majella TUFUGA
Ex-Lindisfarne Kinghouse Tupuola playing for Taradale. I'm surprised he's not in the HB academy. I liked what I saw from him, last year. Played both at hooker and loose forward. -
I'm waiting to see whether the Tamatea line-up on the HBRU website changes, or not. Or until Tamatea publishes it on their socials. On the HBRU website, Lincoln McClutchie is listed at 10, which is weird as he's supposed to play for MP, tonight. The situation must be pretty dire squad-wise, if he has to return to the Bay to play for Tamatea tomorrow as well.
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By the way, Taradale have posted a clip introducing their full premiers squad here:
TARADALE RUGBY AND SPORTS CLUB | Welcome our 2023 premier Squad , All...
Welcome our 2023 premier Squad , All the best to all the club teams this year 💪
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@Stargazer said in 2023 Hawke's Bay Club Rugby:
Ted Walters on the bench.
I'm disappointed about that. All the effort last Saturday night I made to bribe my way onto the bench obviously to no avail! I'll still be taking my boots though just in case!
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@Stargazer said in 2023 Hawke's Bay Club Rugby:
By the way, Taradale have posted a clip introducing their full premiers squad here:
Goodness, two of their locks have played 345 games between them. Interesting to note they also have a lot of players that have not played a single match for their Prems in their squad. Does your research indicate they are down from Auckland trying out for NPC spots as I don't recognise a single name amongst them? Looks like about three or four of them are starting tomorrow.
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@Higgins About Taradale's newbies:
- William Fonohema is a first year HB Academy player out of Feilding HS
- Kinghouse Tupuola (I mentioned him above) is an ex-Lindisfarne loosie, who also played at hooker for the school. First year out of school, too.
- Levy Aiolupotea (midfielder) played for the HB U16 in the same year as Kereru-Symes, McClutchie etc. and made Hurricanes U16 tournament team and Hurricanes U17 training squad with them. He must have been in the Hastings Boy 1st XV squad with them, too, but I can't find much more info about him.
- Halfback Ryan Spice is a local, too. I couldn't much info about him, but he played for Napier West in the Wakely Shield comp in 2016.
- Junior Saufoi played for Tech, the last few years.
So the answer is no. These newbies are no rejects from other provinces trying for a spot in this year's Magpies squad.
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Clive's team to play Pirates:
Surprised to see Tyrone Chrystal at hooker. I thought he was still at school, but apparently not. Was very good for Napier Boys, last year. Should be in our academy, but he wasn't on the list published more than a month ago.
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@Stargazer Thats good to hear, always great when our local talent decides to stay home and play. Fancy me not knowing about the last player you listed and rewatching the video can confess to not recognising the name or face! Still I'm sure I must know him if he played at Tech last season.
The guy from Feilding is showing as a hooker in that Taradale promo. Must be that some of the real good hookers already plying their trade might be moving on in the next year or three. I suppose you could aim that mainly at Tyrone Thompson as it would be silly for him not to explore great paying positions overseas if he is not called up to higher honours post William Web Ellis Cup.
Levi Aiolupotea shows as a loose forward in the video so he might have been somewhat young and small when at HBHS and filled out size wise later on? -
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@Stargazer Tech was up 61 - 00 at halftime when I arrived from Taradale after my Colts duties (we lost 24 -10 but was meritorious after fielding just 14 players and having 2 in the bin at different times - lots of other kids sticking their hands up to come and play now that we have got a team that are up and running) but watching the remainder of the game it was almost inconceivable that the score was that big given the way Aotea went in the second half. Either my guys must have dropped off or Aotea hugely lifted themselves, probably a fair bit of both but just on the second half viewing alone there is no way the visitors were 70 points worse than the Altherm Texans. Not sure who got all the tries, and there were obviously plenty of them, but my last years Colts man Tane Hiha got player of the day for the Prems so that has given all us Colts officials from last year something to be very pleased about.
No Premier games next weekend but the Texans do take on @Stockcar86 Napier Old Boys outfit in a night game on April 12. God what I would give for a similar scoreline (in my guys favour of course) in that game! -
Watched Tamatea v Taradale yesterday, easy win to Taradale 56-7 without having to play well.
Taradale scored first and then Tamatea equalised with a breakout try to level at 7-7.
Score should have been bigger but Taradale only converted 3 of their 10 tries. Used three kickers who goaled one each.
Ezra Malo looked good at first five with a running game, found the gap a few times, but his kicking out of hand and for goal was poor. He missed a conversion from in line with the left hand upright and missed another from 5m to the left of the posts.
Apparently Central's win over Hastings yesterday was their first win over Hastings since 2010.
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With scorers:
Hawke’s Bay premier rugby competition (round two):
Napier Old Boys Marist 49 (Tries: Hannon Brighouse, Kade Manuel-Green, Mitchell Gibson (2), Josh Gimblett, Paoraian Manuel-Harman, Michael Beech; Conversions: Jonty Stewart (7)) defeated Havelock North 5 (Try: William Underwood)
Central Hawke’s Bay 34 (Tries: Kaliova Mocetadra, Joseph Elisha, Jeri Kavekai (2); Conversions: Jordan Soli (4); Penalties: Jordan Soli (2)) defeated Hastings 8 (Try: Titi Motusaga; Penalty: Oscar Sowman)
Napier Pirate 26 (Tries: Tipene Maxwell, Luke Russell, Al Momoisea (2); Conversions: Lincoln-Blake Bowman (3)) defeated Clive 23 (Tries: Bronson Hokianga, Sam Wong; Conversions: Tianua Poto (2); Penalties: Tianua Poto (3))
Napier Tech 78 (Tries: Liam Udy-Johns (2), Bayden Brewer (2), Pevelise Faumuina (2), Timothy Farrell, Tamati Samuels, Waitangi Tuisuga, Nik Patumaka, Troy McIvor, Perrin Manuel; Conversions: Sheridan Rangihuna (6), Waitangi Tuisuga, Bayden Brewer) defeated Aotea 0
Taradale 56 (Tries: Ezra Malo, Hemaua Samasoni, Josh Eden-Whaitiri, Brayden-Trevaughn Lansdown-Cunningham (3), Iakopo Petelo Mapu, Junior Saufoi, Majella Tufuga, Nathan Ramsay; Conversions: Ezra Malo, Brayden-Trevaughn Lansdown-Cunningham, Dylan Ramsay) defeated Tamatea 7 (Try: Sawelio Macenalagi; Conversion: Oranga Harris)
MAC Sports bye
Table (after two rounds): Napier Tech 10, Napier Old Boys Marist 10, Central Hawke’s Bay 7, Taradale 5, Napier Pirate 5, Aotea 5, MAC Sports 4, Hastings 4, Havelock North 2, Clive 1, Tamatea 0.
Hawke’s Bay club rugby: Taradale make winning start with new coach, birthday boy scores three
A full wrap-up of round two of the Hawke's Bay premier club rugby competition.
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@stargazer Did you happen to pick up on Joe Walding Karaitiana named on the bench for Havelock against NOBM? Last I heard of him he was plying his trade for Marist St Pats two or three years ago. Think he might even have had a run for Wellington against Auckland in a preseason game over on Evans Bay Park circa 2017ish that I happened to catch. Amazing how you can sometimes manage to fit work around watching rugby when necessary! I can recall he had big wraps on him during his HBHS days and made some decent teams but never really broke through at the top level for whatever reason
