Blues 2024
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@Tim said in Blues 2024:
I found that quite insightful. At least more than the usual cliches. Exciting to see what sort of attack the Blues come up with and what sort of new dimensions can be added to Rieko's game.
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@Tim said in Blues 2024:
I found that quite insightful. At least more than the usual cliches. Exciting to see what sort of attack the Blues come up with and what sort of new dimensions can be added to Rieko's game.
@KiwiMurph said in Blues 2024:
@Tim said in Blues 2024:
I found that quite insightful. At least more than the usual cliches. Exciting to see what sort of attack the Blues come up with and what sort of new dimensions can be added to Rieko's game.
I'st going to be interesting to see who O'Halloran selects first up at 12. There's a few options but they are quite different
Heem, when in form, can do pretty good Jordie Barrett impersonation. Plummer has been tidy at 12, has potential to be an old school 2nd 5/8 but hasn't been used like that yet. Evans is an option but I think the NPC showed he went better wider out (13/15)
A left field option could be Grindlay? The bulk of his rugby has been at 13 but has a game that could work at 12
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"Introducing our wider squad for 2024
"Lisati Milo-Harris
Ben Ake
Edward Annandale
Alex Harford
Shilo Klein -
'cough cough' have tyo say bloody Jafas are going to start getting more of my support with the good work they seem to be doing etc in remembering the fans?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/301016055/blues-boss-andrew-hore-warns-super-rugby-pacific-remains-a-work-in-progress -
@Daffy-Jaffy said in Blues 2024:
Is this a money thing? It seems every second SR team is going up there for pre-season.
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in Blues 2024:
Is this a money thing? It seems every second SR team is going up there for pre-season.
@antipodean NZR (and Rugby Aus) have signed agreements with the Japan RFU. More tests between NZ and Japan (in Japan) is only one result of that. More games between SRP sides and Japan League One sides is another. I also don't think it's a coincidence that we saw more Japanese players in the NPC/provincial development teams. Even Chiefs Manawa now have a Japanese player in the squad announced today.
I have no doubt it's all about the yen.
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Officially confirmed now.
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Officially confirmed now.
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@Stargazer Be curious to know whether any other franchises pushed hard for him.
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Visual confirmation that Sam Hainsworth-Fa’aofo is training with the squad -
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Annual Navy Mud Run -
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Young Xavi Taele training with the team. Maybe one of the ndc players?
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Young Xavi Taele training with the team. Maybe one of the ndc players?
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King Maxwell also on an ndc with the Blues -
https://www.blues.rugby/blues-rugby-news/king-maxwell -
He (Maxwell) is one of six players who earned a National Development Contract (NDC) with the Blues this season alongside last year’s Scholarship winner – Xavi Taele.Strange that the article doesn't name the other four NDC players. Have the Blues named them anywhere else?
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Not announced, but we know Sam Hainsworth-Fa’aofo, Rico Simpson and Riley Williams are training with the squad. They may be ndc players? I also think I spotted Leo Gordon in some posts but not completely sure its him.
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There are also two young front rowers at training as well as Ben Ake. The one in orange i think may be Maliu Nuiafe -
The other next to him I don't recognize, he looks a bit like Ake but it is not him as they appear together briefly in the same video screen shot below (Far left and far right).
