Blues 2023
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LF leaving takes some pressure off the midfield competition
If Goodhue did move north I would assume it was for personal reasons. Does he want to be near family? Also, NPC and SR at different ends of the country sucks (unless he is in the ABs)
@Duluth wouldn't be surprised if he ends up in Japan with his brother either.
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The Blues, meanwhile, are equally relaxed about the holes they have in their playing roster for next year, with just three key spots to fill (lock, midfield and loose forward). It’s understood they’re looking closely at young Chiefs second row Laghlan McWhannell, while Jack Goodhue has been mentioned in dispatches as a potential replacement for Roger Tuivasa-Sheck at No 12. The All Black is also talking with the Crusaders about re-signing there.
McWhannell would be a great addition. If Goodhue is specialising at 12 that would be good too.. with the obvious caveat about durability.
So that sounds like the outside backs are all sorted? I would've expected JRK at least to look elsewhere
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@Tim is this Tevita? Jeez, I hope not. I was hoping the Canes would lock him into a long term contract.
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@Canes4life Yeah. No idea if he's changing Super Rugby teams, but North Harbour did announce his signing for this season.
@Tim I would be pretty shocked if he made the shift, especially after last week's effort. Mafileo and Lomax were pretty dominant against the Crusaders.
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Final Blues player of the match voting tally
Points Player 12 Papali'i 10 Sotutu 9 A Ioane 9 Telea 7 Choat 7 Clarke 7 Heem 6 R Ioane 5 Sullivan 5 Riccitelli 5 Segner 4 Tuipulotu 4 Robinson 3 Suafoa 3 Laulala 3 Perofeta 2 Barrett 2 Christie 1 RTS 1 Tu'ungafasi 1 Rush Last year was Sotutu with Dalton 2nd. Both players got more points last year.
The big change from last year was Barrett, Christie and Perofeta were all prominent. Perofeta obviously missed a lot of games
Akira strong after his return from a long injury layoff somehow got into the top 4
Surprised Telea didn't get more points. Seems he got rewarded for the freakish games but not the others
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@Machpants What? Who's "we"? And a Blues TSF poll shows that?
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@Machpants What? Who's "we"? And a Blues TSF poll shows that?
@Stargazer said in Blues 2023:
@Machpants What? Who's "we"? And a Blues TSF poll shows that?
Best 3 players for the Blues, according to voters here. One dropped from ABs to XV, one dropped from ABs and XV. the collective voting 'we' obviously have no idea!
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@Stargazer said in Blues 2023:
@Machpants What? Who's "we"? And a Blues TSF poll shows that?
Best 3 players for the Blues, according to voters here. One dropped from ABs to XV, one dropped from ABs and XV. the collective voting 'we' obviously have no idea!
@Machpants said in Blues 2023:
@Stargazer said in Blues 2023:
@Machpants What? Who's "we"? And a Blues TSF poll shows that?
Best 3 players for the Blues, according to voters here. One dropped from ABs to XV, one dropped from ABs and XV. the collective voting 'we' obviously have no idea!
Sure but it is just an aggregate though.
Sotutu deserves the points he got. However in some other games he was off the pace or he was making costly errors. It was an erratic season for him.. I strongly doubt he'd do well in an overall player of the season poll (Probably Telea followed by Dalton?)
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D Duluth forked this topic on
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And the Blues comms people still don't know how to make a readable graphic. This hurts my eyes.
@Stargazer don't worry NRU couldn't read it properly either, thier post congratulating the Northland players they completely missed one of them.
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@Stargazer don't worry NRU couldn't read it properly either, thier post congratulating the Northland players they completely missed one of them.
@taniwharugby Ha, I was just thinking the person who makes the graphics for the Blues is also the person who makes the Northland graphics, considering those aren't readable either.
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The Blues have indeed poached HB halfback Joel Russell. Another local talent lost to the HB Academy! :face_with_symbols_on_mouth:
@Stargazer Blues seem a little desperate trying to get the most out of Sam Tuitupou. Surely it's time for him to hang up the boots.
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The Blues have indeed poached HB halfback Joel Russell. Another local talent lost to the HB Academy! :face_with_symbols_on_mouth:
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@Stargazer and blues have lost a number to others too with two of the westlake boys in the crusaders squad
@JK Although I don't like the Hurricanes losing talent, I'm less concerned about one SR franchise losing talented young players to another franchise than about a small province losing talent to another province. We (the Magpies Academy) are losing several good players every damn year!
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@JK Although I don't like the Hurricanes losing talent, I'm less concerned about one SR franchise losing talented young players to another franchise than about a small province losing talent to another province. We (the Magpies Academy) are losing several good players every damn year!
