2021 Hawke's Bay club rugby

Stockcar86

@stargazer said in 2021 Hawke's Bay club rugby:

From the article below:

Tamatea

... have also recruited, well adding Magpies Lincoln McClutchie and Kianu Kereru-Symes ...

I am pretty sure that McClutchie was playing for Tamatea last year wasn't he, or did he leave Tamatea the year before, and is returning to them?

kiwimatrix

@stockcar86 No those 2 and Mason Kean all played for MAC last year and have all gone back to tamatea.

Number 10

@stargazer said in 2021 Hawke's Bay club rugby:

From Magpies Facebook:

This season we will be live streaming one game a week. Tomorrow's live-stream is CHB v MAC. This game kicks off at 3pm, so make sure to check out the live stream here on our Magpies Facebook page.

I'll be at the Hastings RS v Pirates game.

Higgins

Just confirming no B Retallick listed on the Central Hawkes Bay team sheet. Looks to be a reasonably sunny, if not a tad wind, down in Waipukurau today. But as I type that the sun disappears as MAC run onto the field, let the battles begin.
Would help if someone could post score updates from Anderson Park for me and magpie_in_aus thanks!

Higgins

Opps forgot to add the Link to the game https://www.facebook.com/hbmagpies as MAC in for the first try of the season after just a couple of minutes. The conversion from in front is a mere formality.

Higgins

@Magpie_in_aus And this is the Altherm Window Systems Texans lineup - looks to be plenty of old faces and doesn't appear to be too many retirements

Tim Farrell
Teremoana Joel
Perrin Manuel
Elijah Martin
Trent Boswell Wakefield
Corey McCaffrey
Amos Ruddick
Xavier McCorkindale
Sheridan Rangihuna
Tamati Samuels
Wade Moore
Ted Walters
Ben Lewis
Kyle Cornellissen
Leighton Shaw

Stargazer

MAGPIE WAA TO CAPTAIN TARADALE THIS SEASON

Hurricane Danny Toala will play at first five-eighth for Hastings today. His backline will miss the services of Magpies midfielder Neria Fomai who has a short-term contract with the Highlanders, Jayden Rihia who is in Australia and Antonio Mikaele-Tu'u who is out for the season with a ruptured Achilles.

Clive have secured the services of former key Havelock North players in halfback Trent Hape and winger Anzelo Tuitavuki.

So Neria Fomai was with the Blues and is now with the Highlanders. That explains why I saw him in a photo with Fakatava (in Dunedin) on instagram, yesterday.

Stargazer

I assume it's (close to) half time in most games. These are the scores; just a little typo in the first game :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Higgins

@stargazer I'm loving what I see from Anderson Park! The scores look a little behind as the live stream from Rugby Park has MAC leading 17 - 10 (from memory) at half time.

Stargazer

@higgins I thought you would!

Higgins

@stargazer On closer inspection of the more minor games I suspect at least one of the scores is incorrect. There is no way Pirates could possibly rack up 164 points in half a game of rugby unless their opponents have been reduced by red cards to about ten players. They would be thanking their lucky stars if they got that many points in an entire season!

Higgins

@stargazer Not so thrilled about the Town & Country (Town Division) grade result though. No doubt stockcar86 will be exactly the opposite on that one, still his mob did have home advantage.

Bit of a worry about Pirates and Havelock Prem Reserves defaulting, lets hope it is simply because so many of their players are out of town for the weekend. Having said that surely they could have used some of their Colts player to bolster those teams for the weekend?

kiwimatrix

The livestream was hard to watch,kept cutting out.Who was number 18 for MAC he is enormous, would have to be close to 140kgs,lol.

Number 10

Hastings RS beat Pirates 41-36.

There was some odd scoring patterns.

Pirates led 17-12. Hastings scored 26 unanswered points to lead 38-17, then 41-29. Pirates scored a converted try with two minutes left to close to 41-36.

From the restart they had to go from their own 22 to win and got to the Hastings ten-metre line where their maul was held up and the game finished.

Pouri Rakete-Stones played the whole game for Pirates apart from ten minutes in the bin. He was a bit unlucky - Hastings had a long movement on attack in the Pirates 22, there were about three or four advantages during it, just short of the line the ref awarded Hastings a penalty try and gave Rakete-Stones the card because he was the last transgressor.

Danny Toala played at first five for Hastings, played the first 50-55 minutes and came back on for the last three on the wing.

Mason Emerson played centre for Hastings and other Magpies in the Hastings team were Jacob Devery (started at 8 and finished at hooker), prop Jason Long subbed off with about five minutes left, and halfback Connor McLeod who went to first-five when Toala was subbed off.

Stargazer

Higgins

@stargazer Pretty easy to see who is leading the points table, even if only on points differential. Long may it stay that way although the next two games are against the Doolies (away in a cross over match) and then home to Taradale. Something tells me that my guys will be doing well to still be undefeated after three games might be something that might be about as hard as winning a Powerball Jackpot (even if the ticket comes from Stortford Lodge Pharmacy)

Incidentally the Draws page shows only the nine teams entered in the Colts Grade, down from the earlier reported eleven. Those listed are Defending Champion Tech Old Boys, Pirates, Taradale, Clive, Central HB, Aotea, Hastings and Onga Tiko.
EDIT: Upon rechecking this morning one team seems to have disappeared (unless I miscounted in the first place!)

Steven Harris

@stargazer how long has MAC been around ..?

Stargazer

@steven-harris Since 1934.

Nepia

@stargazer said in 2021 Hawke's Bay club rugby:

@steven-harris Since 1934.

I think prior to that they competed in the senior comp while still a college too.

Stargazer

Article about this weekend's club rugby:
https://cdn.hbapp.co.nz/sport/sport/minnows-exceed-expectations-in-club-rugbys-first-round

Seeing their names, I'm hoping that at least one of Humphrey Sheild (HRS) and Shamara Brooks (Tamatea) step up, this club rugby season. Not sure what Brad Weber's plans are if he misses out on the ABs, but if we're going to miss both him and Fakatava this NPC season, we desperately need a good back-up for McLeod (who himself is a big step down from Fakatava and Weber). I don't rate Rangihuna (Napier Tech). Good thing about Brooks is that he already played alongside McClutchie at Hastings Boys (including in that 2017 Final) and now again for MAC (although the article says that McClutchie played at fullback; I hope he won't play there every game).

I also notice two returnees:
Prop Gene Syminton (Taradale) and 1st five Jayden Falcon (Clive) have returned from Manawatu. I don't think Jayden is as good as Tiaan, but I must admit I haven't seen him play for a few years.

The Silver Fern

2021 Hawke's Bay club rugby