2023 Hawke's Bay Club Rugby
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Are you here today @Higgins ?
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NTOB 17-8 at half time in prem final
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Tech win in injury time to get revenge from last year. Liam Udy-Johns scores the winning try in a great solo effort
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Yeah the boys!
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Congrats Higgins.
@kiwimatrix said in 2023 Hawke's Bay Club Rugby:
Congrats Higgins.
Thank you, I can confirm that I have made it back to the flat after completing my preparatory celebrations in readiness to start the full celebrations when/if I ever sober up! Somewhat surprisingly I managed to complete the stagger back from the Wellington Football Club's Isherwood Lounge in a distance of only something like about 982.30 metres (normally about 650 metres) so must have accomplished the task in a not too bad of a slalom like path! Having said that I am not looking forward to waking up in the morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I must give thanks to the bar staff at the WFC for not booting me out when they were ready to close the clubrooms whilst I finished up all my purchases even though they had to leave me to it all by myself for some two or three hours before I had consumed them all!!!! I am pleased to say that I have not yet had the need the use the chunder bucket they kindly left in case of a mishap, obviously all the preparations over the last forty years had prepared me well! I'll include you @Magpie_in_aus in my official celebrations whenever I sober up enough to start the serious victory toasts! -
Tech's winning try:
@Stargazer said in 2023 Hawke's Bay Club Rugby:
Tech's winning try:
I would like to think that I could take this victory graciously but I can't so a big pfffffft to the vanquished, especially after last year!
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That was the best atmosphere for a club rugby game I have seen. The Harris stand was almost full, with more maroon than red supporters, most of which were pretty vocal. The momentum swung multiple times - it was all Taradale for the first 10 minutes, then tech for the next 30 to take a big lead into half time. Tech scored again a couple of minutes into the second half, to take a 24-8 lead and it looked all over. Then Taradale came roaring back to take the lead, Tech took it back, then Taradale scored again with a converted try to have 5 point lead with 3 minutes left on the clock. Taradale messed up the exit with a knock-on following the kick off, and Tech through multiple phases looked like they had scored under the posts, but the referee called the grounding a knock on, but there was a penalty advantage to Tech, who eventually got the winning try to draw, then then conversion to win the game.
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@Magpie_in_aus I can confidently advise you were not forgotten in the celebrations and our "shared" hangover is, thankfully, a thing of the past, although there will probably be more celebrations to come at some stage later this week (the old body struggled manfully to get through yesterdays one!)
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@Magpie_in_aus I can confidently advise you were not forgotten in the celebrations and our "shared" hangover is, thankfully, a thing of the past, although there will probably be more celebrations to come at some stage later this week (the old body struggled manfully to get through yesterdays one!)
@Higgins not all hero's wear capes. Some wear tech pride and take a hangover for the team. RWC Victory, Ranfurley Shield win and Club rugby champions those three are the ultimate!
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Some familiar names in this team line-up.
If they're playing league now, does that mean they'll not play for the HB Development team anymore?
Or is this a one-off? I don't know anything about the rugby league comp in the Bay, so no idea where it's at.
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@Stargazer Very brief mention of it was made in relation to the usage of the Mitre10 HB Regional Sports Park on Ross Holden's sports radio show this morning. It was mentioned that there are five games of league (two reserve grade and three premier grade) being played there today along with the Tui game plus the NZ Short Course swimming championships so parking could be at a premium. Other than that there was no mention of how long the league season was going to be.
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It's good that the league comp is up and running again, and could be a good way for Udy-Johns and a guy like Thompson-Dunn to maintain match fitness in case they're needed later in the season.
Hopefully it doesn't suggest that Udy-Johns has been told he has no hope, even with injury, so is just going to play league instead.
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So Udy-Johns, Popoalii and Thompson-Dunn aren't playing for the HB Development team tomorrow.
@Stargazer Thumbs down.
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I haven't really followed the U85kg competition, but it was won by Central.
