2023 New Zealand U20s

[Duluth]

Match thread for the first NZ v Aus game is here:
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/6013/nz-u20-v-junior-wallabies-i

[SBW1]

[Stargazer]

@SBW1 See the post above yours.

[SBW1]

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[98blueandgold]

Jeepers! set piece is terrible!!!!! It does not look like much of a squad. I know a few more players possible but on that performance will struggle to make out of pool against NH/Sth Africa. Obviously want them to succeed but did not look good.

[bobily2]

@98blueandgold I think most of those players won't be in the starting XV, so hard to tell how we'll go based on that. Still, it'd be nice to have a bit more depth

[Grooter]

Timestamp for Finn Hurley's try? please and thanks

[Steven Harris]

@98blueandgold if they cant handle the Australian set piece , god knows whats gonna happen when they meet the NH teams or even South Africa and Argentina ..NZ looks very light on size

[SouthernMann]

@FakatavaAllBlack said in 2023 New Zealand U20s:

Timestamp for Finn Hurley's try? please and thanks

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[Dolamite]

When is the squad being announced for the U20 World Cup?

[Stargazer]

@Dolamite The squad was meant to be announced yesterday!

[Bovidae]

You'd have to assume that the delay is due to injury concerns over a number of players who weren't involved in the two games against Aust.

[Stargazer]

@Bovidae Yeah, or new injuries, whether they played against Australia, or not.

[Stargazer]

Squad:

[SouthernMann]

Finn Hurley dropped. Thought he was quite tidy in the first game.

[Stargazer]

Media release:

https://www.allblacks.com/news/new-zealand-under-20-squad-named-for-the-world-rugby-u20-championship/

Unavailable due to injury:
Payton Spencer (Auckland), Fiti Sa (Taranaki), Maliu Niuafe (Auckland), Cody Nordstrom (Waikato), Toby Bell (Canterbury)

[Bovidae]

I am surprised that Essendon Tuitupou missed out, as I had thought he and Leo Gordon would be the midfielders (having also played for the Blues U20s and NZ U19s together).

The tight five will still be an issue. A year too early for a couple of them IMO.

[Stargazer]

The wider squad members, or other players used for the matches against Australia, who didn't make the squad and are NOT listed as injured:
Finn Hurley
Will Martin
Sean Ralph
Dominic Ropeti
Nic Shearer
Essendon Tuitupou
Semisi Tupou Ta’eiloa
Rory Woods

[Bovidae]

And Jordi Viljoen, Leo Gordon, Siale Lauaki and Will Stodart have been selected after not playing the Aust tests.

[SBW1]