2022 Hawke's Bay Representative Rugby
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One of the HB U19 tries:
The player making the break near the left touchline and try assist is Harry Godfrey. I can't see who the try scorer is, but it looks like a 14 on his back.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CiHKYlKOQGY/
Here's the link to the Facebook post with all the tries (these links are not always so-called permalinks, so may stop working at some point):https://www.facebook.com/NZClubRugby/videos/1083741452281312/
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Earlier this week, a friend of mrs SG had a bit of a rant on the Magpies' Facebook page about them not giving injury updates and no info whatsoever about rep games (we had talked about that on the weekend, or rather, I complained and she said I should "do something" about it, but I hesitated). She has since removed her post, but it may have had some effect.
They have posted the U19s line-up for Saturday's curtain raiser against Hurricanes Heartland U20.
No Cooper Flanders and Mefi Tupou, obviously, because they'll travel with the NZU19s to South Africa on Sunday (I think). Also no Harry Godfrey, who - depending on the injuries suffered by McClutchie and Makene - may play for the Magpies. -
Farah Palmer Cup Championship Final
Otago Spirit v Hawke's Bay Tui
Sat 10 September 2022
Kick-off 12.35pm
Live on Sky Sport 2Emma Jensen's last rugby game, but not lost to rugby. Not only is she a member of the HB Rugby board; she's also directly responsible for the development of the next generation of female rugby players in part of the Bay. She leads Hastings Girls' rugby programme (the only one for girls in the Bay). Her likely successor in the Tui 9 jersey, Kahlia Awa, is one of her current students.
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There are two home games this Saturday (10 September 2022):
The U19s play the Hurricanes Heartland U20 team in the curtain raiser to the Magpies' Shield game against Southland. Kick-off at McLean Park is at 12.00pm.
The U18s also play at home. Not sure where and at what time, but they play Wairarapa-Bush U18.
The Development team is supposed to play the Wellington Centurions in Wellington, but I haven't seen any confirmation of this, yet.
Then there is also the Te Upoko o Te Ika Tournament at the NZ Campus of Innovation & Sport in Upper Hutt.
The Hawke's Bay Māori Te Matau a Maui team will play Waitaha (Canterbury Māori) in the second game (k/o is about 2.45 or 3.00pm). The first game is between Wellington Māori Te Upoko O Te Ika and Taranaki Māori.On Saturday, the winners of the Friday games play each other and the losers play each other, at the same venue.
@Stargazer said in 2022 Hawke's Bay Representative Rugby:
There are two home games this Saturday (10 September 2022):
The U19s play the Hurricanes Heartland U20 team in the curtain raiser to the Magpies' Shield game against Southland. Kick-off at McLean Park is at 12.00pm.
The U18s also play at home. Not sure where and at what time, but they play Wairarapa-Bush U18.
The Development team is supposed to play the Wellington Centurions in Wellington, but I haven't seen any confirmation of this, yet.
Then there is also the Te Upoko o Te Ika Tournament at the NZ Campus of Innovation & Sport in Upper Hutt.
The Hawke's Bay Māori Te Matau a Maui team will play Waitaha (Canterbury Māori) in the second game (k/o is about 2.45 or 3.00pm). The first game is between Wellington Māori Te Upoko O Te Ika and Taranaki Māori.On Saturday, the winners of the Friday games play each other and the losers play each other, at the same venue.
The U18s game is at Tremain Field. Kick-off 1.00pm.
The Development Team's game v Wellington Centurions is at Petone Rec. Kick-off also 1.00pm. -
Video clip posted on the Magpies Facebook page in honour of Emma Jensen, who'll play her last game of rugby today.
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Didn't get there in time for the Shield curtainraiser but was told it was something like HB Under 19s 39 Hurricanes Heartland Under 20s 17? Whatever it actually was it was a decisive margin in favour of the Bay. Did not feel sorry in the slightest for Darren Larsen who looked very morose outside the visitor's changing rooms when I went past them. Naturally I gave him a wave and a smile as I went past!
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Didn't get there in time for the Shield curtainraiser but was told it was something like HB Under 19s 39 Hurricanes Heartland Under 20s 17? Whatever it actually was it was a decisive margin in favour of the Bay. Did not feel sorry in the slightest for Darren Larsen who looked very morose outside the visitor's changing rooms when I went past them. Naturally I gave him a wave and a smile as I went past!
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@Higgins The final score was 39 - 27 according to the website of the Hurricanes Youth Rugby Council.
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@Stargazer OK I'll believe you but either way it was a kick up the bum for Mr. Larsen.
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In addition to the great results from the Tui and Magpies, here are today's other results:
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The U19's 39-27 win over Hurricanes Hearland has already been mentioned. With that win, they finished 2nd in the Central Region Shield competition. Wellington U19 retained the Shield.
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The Development team suffered a big loss to Wellington Centurions: 17 - 55. I think this was their last game, too, but not sure.
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The U18s beat Wairarapa Bush 52 - 13, while it's worth mentioning that next week's opponents - Wellington U18 - lost to Poverty Bay!
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The Hawke's Bay Māori team won their second game of the Te Upoko o Te Ika Tournament, beating Poverty Bay Māori 29 - 17. Canterbury Māori won the tournament after beating Wellington Māori 59 - 24.
The U16 and U16 Development teams will play their first game in two weeks. -
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In addition to the great results from the Tui and Magpies, here are today's other results:
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The U19's 39-27 win over Hurricanes Hearland has already been mentioned. With that win, they finished 2nd in the Central Region Shield competition. Wellington U19 retained the Shield.
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The Development team suffered a big loss to Wellington Centurions: 17 - 55. I think this was their last game, too, but not sure.
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The U18s beat Wairarapa Bush 52 - 13, while it's worth mentioning that next week's opponents - Wellington U18 - lost to Poverty Bay!
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The Hawke's Bay Māori team won their second game of the Te Upoko o Te Ika Tournament, beating Poverty Bay Māori 29 - 17. Canterbury Māori won the tournament after beating Wellington Māori 59 - 24.
The U16 and U16 Development teams will play their first game in two weeks.@Stargazer Don't get too excited abput the Wellington v Poverty Bay result as Wellington have about four or five Under 18 Teams eg Wellington Samoans Under 18, Wellington Samoans Under 18 Development, Wellington Centurions, Wellington Under 18s and Wellington Under 18 Development and probably Wellington Maori Under 18 so it could have been any one of those but lets rejoice at the result anyway!
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@Stargazer Don't get too excited abput the Wellington v Poverty Bay result as Wellington have about four or five Under 18 Teams eg Wellington Samoans Under 18, Wellington Samoans Under 18 Development, Wellington Centurions, Wellington Under 18s and Wellington Under 18 Development and probably Wellington Maori Under 18 so it could have been any one of those but lets rejoice at the result anyway!
@Higgins This is their main/first U18 side, called (Wellington) Centurions RFC U18.
Those other Wellington U18 teams also played games.
The Hurricanes Youth Rugby Council and others around Wellington are still calling our Development and U18 team "Saracens", but the HBRU hasn't used that name for at least two years now.
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@Higgins This is their main/first U18 side, called (Wellington) Centurions RFC U18.
Those other Wellington U18 teams also played games.The Hurricanes Youth Rugby Council and others around Wellington are still calling our Development and U18 team "Saracens", but the HBRU hasn't used that name for at least two years now.
@Stargazer Ah well even more reason to rejoice then seeing that we benefit from a number of good Poverty Bay players arriving and playing in HB so it probably is a Poverty Bay team shorn of a lot of talent. Wonder how many of the Gissy boys will get on the bus and go home and how many will stay in HB!
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In addition to the great results from the Tui and Magpies, here are today's other results:
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The U19's 39-27 win over Hurricanes Hearland has already been mentioned. With that win, they finished 2nd in the Central Region Shield competition. Wellington U19 retained the Shield.
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The Development team suffered a big loss to Wellington Centurions: 17 - 55. I think this was their last game, too, but not sure.
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The U18s beat Wairarapa Bush 52 - 13, while it's worth mentioning that next week's opponents - Wellington U18 - lost to Poverty Bay!
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The Hawke's Bay Māori team won their second game of the Te Upoko o Te Ika Tournament, beating Poverty Bay Māori 29 - 17. Canterbury Māori won the tournament after beating Wellington Māori 59 - 24.
The U16 and U16 Development teams will play their first game in two weeks.@Stargazer said in 2022 Hawke's Bay Representative Rugby:
In addition to the great results from the Tui and Magpies, here are today's other results:
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The U19's 39-27 win over Hurricanes Hearland has already been mentioned. With that win, they finished 2nd in the Central Region Shield competition. Wellington U19 retained the Shield.
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The Development team suffered a big loss to Wellington Centurions: 17 - 55. I think this was their last game, too, but not sure.
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The U18s beat Wairarapa Bush 52 - 13, while it's worth mentioning that next week's opponents - Wellington U18 - lost to Poverty Bay!
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The Hawke's Bay Māori team won their second game of the Te Upoko o Te Ika Tournament, beating Poverty Bay Māori 29 - 17. Canterbury Māori won the tournament after beating Wellington Māori 59 - 24.
The U16 and U16 Development teams will play their first game in two weeks.I believe the Under 18's score was actually 69-10. Josh Leach, playing at six, scored four of their 11 tries.
And the HB Under 16 Dev Team beat the HB Under 18 Co-Ed Team 35-28.
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@Stargazer said in 2022 Hawke's Bay Representative Rugby:
In addition to the great results from the Tui and Magpies, here are today's other results:
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The U19's 39-27 win over Hurricanes Hearland has already been mentioned. With that win, they finished 2nd in the Central Region Shield competition. Wellington U19 retained the Shield.
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The Development team suffered a big loss to Wellington Centurions: 17 - 55. I think this was their last game, too, but not sure.
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The U18s beat Wairarapa Bush 52 - 13, while it's worth mentioning that next week's opponents - Wellington U18 - lost to Poverty Bay!
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The Hawke's Bay Māori team won their second game of the Te Upoko o Te Ika Tournament, beating Poverty Bay Māori 29 - 17. Canterbury Māori won the tournament after beating Wellington Māori 59 - 24.
The U16 and U16 Development teams will play their first game in two weeks.I believe the Under 18's score was actually 69-10. Josh Leach, playing at six, scored four of their 11 tries.
And the HB Under 16 Dev Team beat the HB Under 18 Co-Ed Team 35-28.
@Number-10 So the HYRC got it wrong? The official score on theri website is 52 - 13 (as copied above).
I really rate Josh Leach. One of this year's best in the Hastings Boys' 1st XV.
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From the pay-walled article (below) in the HBT about Hawke's Bay U19 (and Hurricanes U20) player Tino Savea:
It's a big chance to take, but teenaged rugby player Kusitino Savea - from Futuna - is taking it with Hawke's Bay, so far making almost every post a winner.
In his first year out of Lindisfarne College, Tino Savea has been a member of the Hawke's Bay Rugby Academy, played for the Hurricanes Under-20s and the Hawke's Bay Under-19s, and won the Hawke's Bay Premier club Maddison Trophy final with Taradale.
But he recognises they're only the first steps if he's to follow the other Savea, one of the few New Zealand rugby names he was aware of when he first came to New Zealand in a Futuna team for the Lindisfarne Under-15 tournament in 2018.
It was there that he was noticed and offered a scholarship at the school, quickly making it into a Magpies queue of some quality and depth - ahead of him were future Ranfurly Shield holders and Super Rugby loose forwards such as Devan Flanders, Marino Mikaele-Tu'u, Josh Kaifa, and Solomona Funaki.
As it happens, Wallis and Futuna, a French territory and island group of about 16,000 people in the South Pacific - between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fiji to the southwest, Tonga to the southeast, Samoa to the east, and Tokelau to the northeast - has produced a surprising number of players who have made it in big-time rugby.
Where Savea made the choice to come here, most of the rest went with their French connections to the Northern Hemisphere. At least 13 have played professional rugby in France in the last two decades, and at least nine have played internationally for France. They include Noumea-born lock Sebastien Vahaamihina, who played 46 games for France, scoring a try in his last when the Tricolours were beaten 20-19 by Wales in a 2019 Rugby World Cup quarter-final, and centre Yoram Moefana, born on Futuna and who has made seven appearances for France since 2020.
Another who ventured north was Laurent Simutoga, a France Under-20 representative now coaching at Lindisfarne.
Tino Savea, as far as he is aware, is not related to Wellington-born Ardie Savea, although teammates and club supporters have tried to make a connection.
And he's not, specifically, after the No 7 jersey for the All Blacks, he says in good English (that he's learnt in New Zealand). Savea hails from a background of French speakers and local dialects, growing up in the villages of Ono (population 524 in the 2018 census) and Kolia (pop. 254), in the Alo district on the southern coast of Futuna, an island of barely 80 square kilometres.
"It took me a couple of months [to learn English]," Savea says, something that highlights he's not just here for the football. He's also a fulltime nursing student.
He's also had to bulk up, from about 95 kilos last year to the 110kg he reckoned he needed.
"I wanted to play Prems, from last year," he says. "I knew what I have to do to get looked at by the Magpies."
It was a good season, till he took a knock to the ribs 60 minutes into the Maddison Trophy final, but he was out just a short time, missing the first of the Under-19 team's four-match representative programme.
And the try scorers of Saturday's U19 game v Hurricanes Heartland:Tries were scored by Sam Cavanagh, Hame Lauaki, Nik Patumaka, Bethel Malasia, Gilgal Malasia, Troydyn Bird, and Harry Godfrey, who also kicked two conversions, in a 39-27 win over the Hurricanes Heartland Unions Under-20 selection on Saturday, claiming second place in their Hurricanes region competition.
