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Talk of a Cleary coming to the Warriors. 17 Year old Jett.
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Counties Senior Club Rugby Results - 20 April 2024
McNamara Cup (Premier Men’s):
Pukekohe 28-32 Karaka
Patumahoe 41-14 Manurewa
Bombay 77-6 Ardmore Marist
Papakura BYE -
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Don't celebrate too early!!!
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He came off the bench and played as a loose forward. I don't know how long we will have him. He has been in OZ playing S G Ball League for the Dragons. Not a good year so far for Melville but they will probably be still too good for the best Div 1 side at the end of the year. Our current 1st Five was recently at Melville. Haven't seen Harry Lafatuanai on any team sheets, hopefully his mates get in his ear to come back to Te Rapa.
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Yep, Ardmore Marist used to be one of the strong clubs, an ex coach attracted players away and they haven't recovered.
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Counties Energy Senior Club Rugby Results - 13 April 2024
McNamara Cup (Premier Men’s):
Manurewa 28-34 Pukekohe
Papakura 10-10 Bombay
Ardmore Marist 5-125 Patumahoe
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An improvement from my club Te Rapa but still no win. A bit more expectation this year with some new players with Prem grade experience. They just need time to bed in. It doesn't get easier with last years finalist Leamington next week. We had a HBHS 1st XV player from last year join this week, Inga Kokohu. We don't usually get that caliber of player in our grade, it helps that his brother is a player/coach.
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16/17 year old's that have left school can't play for schools either in the Waikato. I have read that they have relaxed those rules a bit in the Thames Valley. I didn't play school rugby in the 90's. I played club. My under 17's team was a mix of guys still at my school, guys who had started apprenticeships and some of their mates from a couple of other schools.
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A bit more complicated for 16/17 year old's to play senior rugby here in NZ. Not just a permission form signed by their parents. They then have to get a doctor to fill in a form and then have a RDO from the union to assess their suitability before being signed off. Got a couple of young guys fresh to the country that might go through the process. Their dad was thinking about getting them into Boys High but they might have to go to a co-ed school with a poor rugby program.
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@NTA said in Aussie Pro Rugby:
If I was to fund that purely through player payments (ha!) it would be over $400 per player. We charge $150
Reading and chatting on a Facebook post about NZ club rugby and a guy from Melbourne pays fees of $450!
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Seen chat on facebook that Doug Sanft lured players from Ardmore Marist to Manukau. He is now at Auckland Marist so maybe more movement. Not popular among some people in Ardmore/Counties.
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I see that Hamilton Marist are putting in an all weather turf. I might get to run on it in Prezzies grade.
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A mixed day for my club Te Rapa. A good win for the B's but the A's lost. Suburbs were helped by having Dan Sinkinson at Centre. A tough day for Kereone, they will look forward to the second round when the division splits.
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Counties Energy Senior Club Rugby Results - Saturday 6 April 2024
McNamara Cup (Premier Men’s):
Karaka 44-27 Manurewa
Pukekohe 86-0 Ardmore Marist
Patumahoe 32-20 Papakura
Bombay BYEMixed results for my home district club Onewhero, two losses for the stand alone teams but the combined 19's team smashed Puke 64 to 3.
A few Super rugby guys running around in counties club rugby. Jack Lam, Kaivelata, Motunga.
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What is Cam Church like?
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Counties club rugby also starts this weekend. 7 clubs in the Premier grade, that hasn't changed for a while. They all have development teams that play in their own grade. The country and small town clubs have recovered since Covid and they all play in the Championship grade with no reserves team needed. Drury, Weymouth are the City clubs with Manurewa the only club with a C team. Onewhero and Waiuku in my opinion the most likely to push to go back in to prems if they can get their player numbers up in the future.
Beachlands Maraetai is the only club without a senior team but have consistently had an U85's team and junior teams. U85's and colts teams are about the same. Manurewa Women the only premier team in the Auckland comp, the rest in the Development grade with Karaka a new team.
For the first time in a long time there will be an U19's grade with teams from all parts of the province and Puketapapa Roskill Sports from Auckland. I will follow Tuakau/Onewhero/Te Kohanga combined. They have been well supported by Liam Daniela and the union running a 6 week youth rugby development program based out of Tuakau and at the stadium. The core of the team would be out of the two time champion Onewhero AS/ Tuakau College teams of the past two years.
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Waikato club rugby starts this weekend. Usual teams in Premier grade. Division one is the grade my club Te Rapa is in, one more team with Kereone coming up. Division 2 is gone. Talk that Old Boys Guzzlers might play the Div 1 Bye team. Colts and U85 grades about the same. A bit of growth in the women's grade with a smaller prem grade and the rest in the championship grade. Looks like 3 or 4 new teams including Waitete from Pine tree country. A bit of growth in the Presidents grade and more travel needed for us city based folk with 4 new teams from all corners of the province.
Some country and small town clubs are dying or are in recess at senior level. Te Akau, Northern and Matangi-Hillcrest havent had teams for a few years. Whatawhata and Jaradites more recently have gone quiet. Ngaruawahia, Te Awamutu Marist and Huntly have Presidents teams and sometime have junior teams. Raglan has only had junior teams lately. Te Kowhai is one club that might grow. They have a junior club and started up a Presidents team a few years ago.
I am doing a bit of registrations admin for my club Te Rapa and will be running around with the Prezzies again. We have a new coach over from Fraser Tech B's and he has brought over a bunch of players with some having decent premier grade experience, so hopefully we can push to be in the top half of Division one for a change.
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