Super Rugby 2024
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Savea will not be coming to the Highlanders. We have signed our quota of outside backs... and why would we want a washed up 33 year old. You'd be stunned if it wasn't Moana Pasifika.
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Savea will not be coming to the Highlanders. We have signed our quota of outside backs... and why would we want a washed up 33 year old. You'd be stunned if it wasn't Moana Pasifika.
@frugby lol you have Connor Garden-Bachop and a random Argentinian. I’d take Julian any day over those options.
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Savea will not be coming to the Highlanders. We have signed our quota of outside backs... and why would we want a washed up 33 year old. You'd be stunned if it wasn't Moana Pasifika.
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Hurricanes chief executive Avan Lee has addressed Julian Savea’s exit from the club, saying poor contract negotiations saw the parties part ways.
Lee shed more light on that situation this afternoon, saying discussions between the two parties “weren’t as good as they should have been” but he wished Savea all the best for the next part of his career.
Lee also noted that a change in the team’s coaching setup for 2024 – with Clark Laidlaw replacing Jason Holland as head coach - played a part in the outcome.
“There were conversations taking place between coaches and the player, and obviously that didn’t work out in Julian’s favour. It’s massively difficult to go through a process like that and see a legend of the club leaving,” Lee said.
“The fact we had a new coaching setup was definitely a complication because that person hadn’t started, the coaches had to discuss players and contracts, who might be coming in and who might not be.
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@frugby lol you have Connor Garden-Bachop and a random Argentinian. I’d take Julian any day over those options.
@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 2024:
@frugby lol you have Connor Garden-Bachop and a random Argentinian. I’d take Julian any day over those options.
Not as a winger.
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If it’s Laidlaw coming in and making tough decisions then I’m all for it. Holland was too soft and never made the hard calls. I’d like us to get rid of Rayasi aswell, he’s way too lazy and inconsistent.
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@frugby
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@frugby lol you have Connor Garden-Bachop and a random Argentinian. I’d take Julian any day over those options.
@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 2024:
@frugby lol you have Connor Garden-Bachop and a random Argentinian. I’d take Julian any day over those options.
Random Argentinian who will start games at the RWC for Argentina... he is so much better than Savea.
He has had his time.
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@Chris I strongly doubt it. It is so obviously MP... and regardless, I think the Highlanders are more likely to be looking for a second five than a centre.
@frugby said in Super Rugby 2024:
@Chris I strongly doubt it. It is so obviously MP... and regardless, I think the Highlanders are more likely to be looking for a second five than a centre.
Could be the opportunity to play 2nd 5 he has been looking for
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@Chris I strongly doubt it. It is so obviously MP... and regardless, I think the Highlanders are more likely to be looking for a second five than a centre.
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Now I'm confused-isn't TUG more a 12?
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In the article from Club Rugby NZ below, they understand that two high profile Hurricanes players are signing with Moana Pasifika for next season. One is likely to be Julian Savea, anyone have any leads on who the other might be?
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In the article from Club Rugby NZ below, they understand that two high profile Hurricanes players are signing with Moana Pasifika for next season. One is likely to be Julian Savea, anyone have any leads on who the other might be?
Maybe Reed Prinseep or Salesi Rayasi are the only 2 I can think of who would have a MP connection.
Peter Umaga-Jensen,? -
Maybe Reed Prinseep or Salesi Rayasi are the only 2 I can think of who would have a MP connection.
Peter Umaga-Jensen,?@Chris I wouldn't class Prinsep as high profile though but I hope you're right. Rayasi is another I wouldn't mind departing. I wouldn't be sad if PUJ departed either knowing we have Higgins waiting for his chance, who I rate higher aswell.
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@Chris I wouldn't class Prinsep as high profile though but I hope you're right. Rayasi is another I wouldn't mind departing. I wouldn't be sad if PUJ departed either knowing we have Higgins waiting for his chance, who I rate higher aswell.
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@Canes4life
No me neither, but most of your other players are signed up or have AB/AB XV pathways so I can not see any of them moving.@Chris another player could be Isaia Walker-Leawere.
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@Chris another player could be Isaia Walker-Leawere.
