Kirk Cousins is now 4-24 vs teams with a winning record.

Vikings are stuck paying him big guaranteed $ for another two years after this.

I'm pretty sure the last time Blues played a regular season game in Northland the crowd was about 8k... and then they wonder why they dont play regular season games there anymore...

Good - both players are certain starters and should be.

@dice sweet - might have to make the trip to Sydney for that one.

Players are named here

https://theblues.co.nz/replacement-players-assemble-for-preseason/?fbclid=IwAR1n2HQ0TTQJwwpdbZU8q_Pif-i0l02fdr0Uphtt_v7DtfdBtkcpui2kizA

The 13 current replacement players are Mikey Tamoaieta (North Harbour), Luatangi Li (North Harbour), Danny Drake (North Harbour), Evan Olmstead (Auckland), Waimana Riedlinger-Kapa (Auckland), Matt Matich (Northland), Jono Kitto (Northland), Lewis Gjaltema (North Harbour), Jack Heighton  (North Harbour), Harrison Groundwater (North Harbour) Hawaii Ahokovi (Auckland), Tomas Aoake (Tasman) and Mark Telea (North Harbour).

In addition to the replacement group, two young players from the Blues Under-20s who have recently been selected for the New Zealand Under-20 training squad, will join the Blues for 10 weeks fulltime training as part of the Interim Training Contract scheme. They are Rob Cobb (Auckland) and Brad McNaughten (North Harbour). Scott Gregory (Northland) is currently with the NZ Sevens team.

You'd think the real answer is to have NZ Rugby put in place some sensible rules that are consistent across the country. Hopefully that's what comes out of this NZ Rugby schoolboy rugby review.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/sport/377525/chiefs-release-nanai-seturo-for-all-black-sevens

The Chiefs have helped to ease the New Zealand men's sevens team's injury crisis.

The Super Rugby franchise has released Etene Nanai-Seturo from pre-season duty to join the All Blacks Sevens in South Africa, ahead of this weekend's world series tournament in Cape Town.

New Zealand suffered an unprecedented run of injuries in Dubai last weekend, with six players going down before and during the event.

I was impressed by the debutant Gregory. He got the winning steal vs England and seems to have a very high workrate.

Good to see Perofeta a part of this week's preseason training group. With his injury history I wasn't sure how long he might be out for.

@stargazer said in Blues 2019 - (New Head Coach):

@daffy-jaffy said in Blues 2019 - (New Head Coach):

Also training with the team is young North Harbour lock Danny Dake. Its interesting that Coventry usually started Ben Nee Nee ahead of both Drake and Scott Pierce for Harbour but they both passed him into the Blues squad. I guess on youth and potential, they are 23 and 21 years old.

Have they though? Ben Nee Nee played for Samoa on Sunday morning (NZT), so has maybe just returned from the NH and need a break before he joins the Blues squad?

Well Jacob Pierce definitely has - he is in the 38 man Blues squad and NeeNee isn't