Blues 2024
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'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).
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