Best players in SR this week

Winger

Article on Roigard. Compared to Cowan
https://www.rugbypass.com/news/the-former-all-black-halfback-that-cam-roigard-is-drawing-comparisons-with/

and Blackadder makes another team of the week. Stevenson misses out though in this team

https://www.rugbypass.com/news/super-rugby-pacific-team-of-the-week-for-round-four/

Canes4life

@cgrant said in Best players in SR this week:

Oh, and best NZ second five was Stacey Ili.

He’s on fire for the Rebels.

Kiwiwomble

interesting to compare to rugbypass, i thought TUJ was a huge presence for us when it came to front foot ball, hunt could shovel the ball on and generally not loose ground

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Machpants

Not often the canes get two front rowers in any SR team of the week

Crazy Horse

@Kiwiwomble said in Best players in SR this week:

interesting to compare to rugbypass, i thought TUJ was a huge presence for us when it came to front foot ball, hunt could shovel the ball on and generally not loose ground

Burke at 15? Surely someone was better than him. The best I can say about him on the weekend was that I don't recall any major blunders.

Kiwiwomble

@Crazy-Horse to be clear....i didn't pick it

cgrant

A bit off topic but what would be your form team so far (eligible NZ players only) ?
Mine :
De Groot
Taukei'aho
Lomax
Retallick
?
Finau
Papali'i
Sotutu
Weber/Roigard
MacKenzie
Fainganu'uku
T. Umaga Jensen
Aumua
Narawa/Telea
Stephenson

I could not find a lock to partner BBBR : Whitelock has been sidelined for weeks and Vai'i goes missing sometimes. It's the same with PPP. Maybe the most constant in his performances is Cameron Suafua but he is not a standout either. Bird has been good in his outings but he is not even considered as a starter at the Canes. So who ? Gardiner (he's just a stop gap in the Crusaders team as he is more a 6 than a lock) ? Barrett (pretty anonymous so far) ?
I could not make a choice between Roigard and Weber. The latter is slightly in front because of a bad Roigard's performance from the bench. The same for Telea and Narawa. Both have been outstanding so far.

Canes4life

@cgrant said in Best players in SR this week:

A bit off topic but what would be your form team so far (eligible NZ players only) ?
Mine :
De Groot
Taukei'aho
Lomax
Retallick
?
Finau
Papali'i
Sotutu
Weber/Roigard
MacKenzie
Fainganu'uku
T. Umaga Jensen
Aumua
Narawa/Telea
Stephenson

I could not find a lock to partner BBBR : Whitelock has been sidelined for weeks and Vai'i goes missing sometimes. It's the same with PPP. Maybe the most constant in his performances is Cameron Suafua but he is not a standout either. Bird has been good in his outings but he is not even considered as a starter at the Canes. So who ? Gardiner (he's just a stop gap in the Crusaders team as he is more a 6 than a lock) ? Barrett (pretty anonymous so far) ?
I could not make a choice between Roigard and Weber. The latter is slightly in front because of a bad Roigard's performance from the bench. The same for Telea and Narawa. Both have been outstanding so far.

Solid team, but I’d have Proctor over Aumua. Proctor has been exceptional and was sorely missed against the Chiefs on Saturday.

Also when he was fit, Blackadder was playing the house down so maybe he deserves a mention.

booboo

@cgrant said in Best players in SR this week:

A bit off topic but what would be your form team so far (eligible NZ players only) ?
Mine :
De Groot
Taukei'aho
Lomax
Retallick
?
Finau
Papali'i
Sotutu
Weber/Roigard
MacKenzie
Fainganu'uku
T. Umaga Jensen
Aumua
Narawa/Telea
Stephenson

I could not find a lock to partner BBBR : Whitelock has been sidelined for weeks and Vai'i goes missing sometimes. It's the same with PPP. Maybe the most constant in his performances is Cameron Suafua but he is not a standout either. Bird has been good in his outings but he is not even considered as a starter at the Canes. So who ? Gardiner (he's just a stop gap in the Crusaders team as he is more a 6 than a lock) ? Barrett (pretty anonymous so far) ?
I could not make a choice between Roigard and Weber. The latter is slightly in front because of a bad Roigard's performance from the bench. The same for Telea and Narawa. Both have been outstanding so far.

Thought Vaa'i was good yesterday

cgrant

@booboo
Zero impact said Bones.

ARHS

@cgrant He was active around the park and tidy in what he did. He was the distributor while Retallick and Taukeiaho hit up the hard yards, with support from Jacobson, Sowakula, Dyer and Norris.

cgrant

@ARHS
We are expecting more of him. Let's not forget he's an All Black.

Bovidae

I'd pick Ainsley at TH. He's more prominent around the field than Lomax has been, and his scrummaging has been strong.

Bones

@ARHS said in Best players in SR this week:

@cgrant He was active around the park and tidy in what he did. He was the distributor while Retallick and Taukeiaho hit up the hard yards, with support from Jacobson, Sowakula, Dyer and Norris.

Yeah that's basically what I said, but I didn't ignore the negative aspects. He's got good hands and geez the kid gets around the field. But as soon as he has to do actual tight forward stuff, meh. Gets stopped dead hitting it up, like a flea if he hits the ruck. It makes him seem smaller than he is.

cgrant

@Canes4life said in Best players in SR this week:

@cgrant said in Best players in SR this week:

A bit off topic but what would be your form team so far (eligible NZ players only) ?
Mine :
De Groot
Taukei'aho
Lomax
Retallick
?
Finau
Papali'i
Sotutu
Weber/Roigard
MacKenzie
Fainganu'uku
T. Umaga Jensen
Aumua
Narawa/Telea
Stephenson

I could not find a lock to partner BBBR : Whitelock has been sidelined for weeks and Vai'i goes missing sometimes. It's the same with PPP. Maybe the most constant in his performances is Cameron Suafua but he is not a standout either. Bird has been good in his outings but he is not even considered as a starter at the Canes. So who ? Gardiner (he's just a stop gap in the Crusaders team as he is more a 6 than a lock) ? Barrett (pretty anonymous so far) ?
I could not make a choice between Roigard and Weber. The latter is slightly in front because of a bad Roigard's performance from the bench. The same for Telea and Narawa. Both have been outstanding so far.

Solid team, but I’d have Proctor over Aumua. Proctor has been exceptional and was sorely missed against the Chiefs on Saturday.

Also when he was fit, Blackadder was playing the house down so maybe he deserves a mention.

Sorry, I forgot Proctor. Yes, I would take him over Aumua. He could be a bolter for the ABs if the likes of ALB and Goodhue don't come back strongly.

mariner4life

that's not a bad shout for a form side

what should be concerning is, maybe only the first 4 blokes there will start for the ABs

Kiwiwomble

@Canes4life said in Best players in SR this week:

@cgrant said in Best players in SR this week:

A bit off topic but what would be your form team so far (eligible NZ players only) ?
Mine :
De Groot
Taukei'aho
Lomax
Retallick
?
Finau
Papali'i
Sotutu
Weber/Roigard
MacKenzie
Fainganu'uku
T. Umaga Jensen
Aumua
Narawa/Telea
Stephenson

I could not find a lock to partner BBBR : Whitelock has been sidelined for weeks and Vai'i goes missing sometimes. It's the same with PPP. Maybe the most constant in his performances is Cameron Suafua but he is not a standout either. Bird has been good in his outings but he is not even considered as a starter at the Canes. So who ? Gardiner (he's just a stop gap in the Crusaders team as he is more a 6 than a lock) ? Barrett (pretty anonymous so far) ?
I could not make a choice between Roigard and Weber. The latter is slightly in front because of a bad Roigard's performance from the bench. The same for Telea and Narawa. Both have been outstanding so far.

Solid team, but I’d have Proctor over Aumua. Proctor has been exceptional and was sorely missed against the Chiefs on Saturday.

Also when he was fit, Blackadder was playing the house down so maybe he deserves a mention.

i was very impressed with Proctor against the Highlanders, the backline actually sparked at 13 rather than petered out

@mariner4life said in Best players in SR this week:

that's not a bad shout for a form side

what should be concerning is, maybe only the first 4 blokes there will start for the ABs

definitely concerning

Duluth

@mariner4life said in Best players in SR this week:

what should be concerning is, maybe only the first 4 blokes there will start for the ABs

Why? The knockout stages of the RWC are in mid to late October. I would expect regular ABs to be on a program to peak then. We’ve seen that in previous years

Crucial

@mariner4life said in Best players in SR this week:

that's not a bad shout for a form side

what should be concerning is, maybe only the first 4 blokes there will start for the ABs

Not too concerning unless this is the same weekly form side by the tail end of the comp. (edit: as @Duluth just said)

Finau an interesting call. Is he in bolter discussions? If they still want a 'strong man' 6 he is doing that role better than others atm.

Personally I think Cane is at 7 due to winning a points decision against Paps.

mariner4life

@Duluth said in Best players in SR this week:

@mariner4life said in Best players in SR this week:

what should be concerning is, maybe only the first 4 blokes there will start for the ABs

Why? The knockout stages of the RWC are in mid to late October. I would expect regular ABs to be on a program to peak then. We’ve seen that in previous years

i don't subscribe to that way of thinking at all. Good players should be good no matter what. But for some reason in World Cup years NZ rugby fans are cool with our so called Elite talent playing like ass for half the year in the vain hope that it all comes good later on.

The Silver Fern

Best players in SR this week