Nice to see a number of Saders players playing well in that semi - from both sides.

@nzzp his pace variation and skidders seem to have troubled the Aussies. He’s the Indian Terry Alderman.

Big upset.

Not another final....

Tasman’s to lose

@booboo said in AB EOYT 2018:

Umm @Derm-McCrum @Steven-Harris maybe Stephen Jones was right about Auckland supporters and irony ...

For accuracy....

@mariner4life We didn’t get Gaff but saints didn’t end the TP too badly picking up Hannebery and Kent.

@hooroo said in AB EOYT 2018:

@taniwharugby said in AB EOYT 2018:

@stargazer said in AB EOYT 2018:

@booboo From the article below:

Before secondary school, Cameron played in the junior grades for the Marist Rugby Club, but was then committed to playing for Cullinane College.

His final season in the Cullinane 1st XV was in 2014 when he left school for Lincoln University in Christchurch where he made an immediate impact, playing for the Canterbury provincial team.

Cameron came of age in the 2017 Mitre 10 Cup, making an assured performance in the semifinal in just his third provincial outing for the red and blacks, as Canterbury marched to the Mitre 10 Cup title.

Cameron first came onto the national radar in 2014 when he was plucked from Whanganui's small Cullinane College and named in the inaugural New Zealand Schools training squad.

The all-round sportsman was already well known in Whanganui, having played age-grade rugby.

Last season he was in the New Zealand Universities squad to tour Japan, but only had one game before being injured.

Looking at the allblacks dot com website, he wasn't named in the 2014 NZ Schools squad. Found another site with the teamlist of NZ Schools Barbarians of that year, and he isn't on that list either.

Looks like a young Merhts in that pic

That pic is of him passing, not missing a tackle?

Mertz never missed a tackle, Kronfeld wasn’t always quick enough....

@mariner4life TJP is a beast defensively and we’ve needed that more so this season that the last couple. Smith has been exposed defensively and has missed a lot more tackles than we would want.

@mariner4life said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:

@act-crusader said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:

@duluth said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:

@act-crusader Donald would be the last one

Who?

Yeah forgot about him. No wonder the jersey was so short for him....

don't you even slightly besmirch the good name of a World Cup hero. You bow down to the guy that heard the call of a nation from a whitebaiting batch, and strode in to our rescue. This man was the hero that we needed after all those Canterbury/Crusader 10s had failed us over and over again.

It was all part of Wayne Smiths cunning plan to put Chiefs rugby back on the map prior to the 2012 season. Turncoat

@duluth said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:

@act-crusader Donald would be the last one

Who?

Yeah forgot about him. No wonder the jersey was so short for him....