2023 Hawke's Bay Representative Rugby
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Is any of you familiar with the location of the HBRU Training Centre and knows whether it has been damaged?
Also, our Academy team is supposed to play Wellington Academy on Saturday (in Palmerston North), but I somehow can't see that go ahead. Many players are probably busy helping in the clean-up and may not have been able to train. There are more important things than playing a game, at the moment.
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Hawke's Bay Academy squad to take on Manawatū Academy on Sat 25 Feb 2023 (at SRI, Palmerston North):
Good squad on paper and in normal times they should be able to beat Manawatū, but how have the events of the last 2 weeks affected them? How many times have they been able to train?I hope the people at Club Rugby will cover this game, so we can get some highlights.
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Looking at those photos, I'm not sure Cooper Flanders played. Definitely not in the 6, 7 or 8 jersey.
@Stargazer said in 2023 Hawke's Bay Representative Rugby:
Looking at those photos, I'm not sure Cooper Flanders played. Definitely not in the 6, 7 or 8 jersey.
@Stargazer how tall is Tom Allen? Hopefully the Canes have him in his sights, he looks like a 2m lock from those photos but the other players could be really small.
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@Stargazer said in 2023 Hawke's Bay Representative Rugby:
Looking at those photos, I'm not sure Cooper Flanders played. Definitely not in the 6, 7 or 8 jersey.
@Stargazer how tall is Tom Allen? Hopefully the Canes have him in his sights, he looks like a 2m lock from those photos but the other players could be really small.
@Canes4life I don't know his height, but he is quite tall. On the photo below, he's in the 5 jersey, in-between Bethel Malasia (13) and his brother Reuben (19). Bethel is a big back; Reuben is also a lock.
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Tui halfback Kahlia Awa played for Petone Rugby, today.
I hope that doesn't mean Wellington have poached her, too. That would mean we've lost our first and second Tui halfback, with Jensen retiring.
@Stargazer Two obvious props there but the rest of them look like they restrict their play to somewhere in the backline, must be a ten aside team.
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The Farah Palmer Cup draw has been released.
The Tui will play in the Premiership in 2023, so I expect them to be absolutely trashed in most games. I'll be happy to be wrong though! Their round robin games are below. I haven't included the finals.
Day Date Time Home Away Venue Sat 15 July 2023 12.05pm Hawke's Bay Auckland Regional Sports Park Hastings Sat 22 July 2023 Bye Sat 29 July 2023 2.05pm Hawke's Bay Waikato Regional Sports Park Hastings Sun 6 August 2023 12.05pm Wellington Hawke's Bay TBC TBC Sat 12 August 2023 2.05pm Hawke's Bay Canterbury Regional Sports Park Hastings Sun 20 August 2023 12.05pm Bay of Plenty Hawke's Bay TBC TBC Sat 26 August 2023 12.05pm Counties Manukau Hawke's Bay Navigation Homes Stadium Pukekohe -
@Higgins Not holding my breath that the HBRU will post one. They didn't for the first game.
As written in this article, it will be a mix of mainly Academy players and other club rugby players. There are very few Magpies that are not playing SR or MLR.
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The Tui have a new head coach: last year's assistant coach Sione Cherrington-Kite. He coached Hastings R&S when they won the Maddison Trophy in 2020.
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Manawatu won second half 24-17.
Magpie reps that played - Paoraian Manuel-Harman, Frank Lochore, Josh Gimblett, Kienan Higgins, Tim Farrell, Sam Smith. Josh Kaifa was there but didn't play. Tiaki Fabish was on the sideline, just returned from Spain.
Hunter Morrison, Cooper Flanders and Tom Allen all played and now head off to the NZU20 camp. -
Manawatu won second half 24-17.
Magpie reps that played - Paoraian Manuel-Harman, Frank Lochore, Josh Gimblett, Kienan Higgins, Tim Farrell, Sam Smith. Josh Kaifa was there but didn't play. Tiaki Fabish was on the sideline, just returned from Spain.
Hunter Morrison, Cooper Flanders and Tom Allen all played and now head off to the NZU20 camp.@Number-10 Thanks for the updates!
So we scored all 24 points in the first half and nothing in the second? And Manawatū the opposite? Did the more experienced players play the first half, and the younsters or club players the 2nd? I know these games don't see much for the NPC, but I'd still like them to do better. Well, I guess it's better than the first game ...
Edit: reading @Higgins' comments, the 24 - 17 wasn't the full time score but only the score in the second half. So what was the full time score?
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I recorded the scoring as follows
3 Mins 07 - 00 HB Converted Try
13 Mins 12 - 00 HB Unconverted Try
16 Mins 19 - 00 HB Rollingish Maul Converted Try (might have been about 15 metres in from the left hand corner from memory)
27 Mins 26 - 00 HB Lineout Drive Converted Try in the right hand corner
44 Mins 31 - 00 HB Try from solo slightly left of centrefield break and feeding supporting player to score out wide on the left
50 Mins 31 - 07 'Poo converted try about ten metres to the right of the posts from a longish range regathered grubber
55 Mins 36 - 07 Can't remember what happened but a HB try over in the left hand corner
63 Mins 36 - 12 'Poo try from a scrambly maul play 5 metres in from right hand corner
70 Mins 36 -19 'Poo try after a messy lineout from a penalty 10 metres in from right hand corner
76 Mins 43 - 19 HB converted breakout try (albeit with a slight hint of a double movement) 5 metres in from right hand corner
39+ Mins 43 - 24 'Poo try five metres to the right of the posts after collecting a long range HB clearance about mid way ten metre line and 22 leftish of centre on their own side of halfway aided by some awful tackling. Somehow they managed to miss the conversion!
