Crusaders 2017
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@cgrant
He played most of the game against the Hurricanes (after S Barrett came off) and went pretty well. A fair bit of that might be the team culture where a series of relative no names are fronting up when required.
He does look about 17 years old though! -
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Mitch Hunt: Game-saving kick something 'I'll remember for the rest of my life' (interview with Hunt - Veitch on Sport)
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Crusaders U18 Development Squad
The 2017 Crusaders region Junior Knights Development Camp will be held from the 9th-12th of July at St. Andrews College. At the end of the camp, a squad of 25 players will be selected to play the Hurricanes U18 team in a curtain raiser to the Hurricanes v Crusaders game on 15 July.
Players selected for the camp:
Christs college
Lachie Gunson – Christ’s College, Canterbury
Sam Darry – Christ’s College, Canterbury
Jason Embling, Christ’s College, Canterbury
Amhlaoibh Porter – Christ’s College, Canterbury
Levi Emery – Christ’s College, Canterbury
Kaveni Balenacagi – Christ’s College, Canterbury
Nic Murray – Christ’s College, Canterbury
Isaiah Punivai – Christ’s College, Canterbury
Kurtis Weeks – Christ’s College, CanterburyChristchurch boys high school
Hunter Stewart – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Adam Reid – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Angus Tucker – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Campbell Reid – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Sam Alsop-ten Hove – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Corban Harding – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Ben Colvin – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Louie Chapman – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Max Hughes – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Cullen Moody – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Tahu Kaa-Goodwillie – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Latham Kelly-Foleni – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Jack Harris – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Jordan Jennings – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Ryan Barnes – Christchurch Boys' High School, CanterburyTimaru boys high school
Thomas Edwards – Timaru Boys' High Schools, South Canterbury
Melvin Pauni – Timaru Boys' High School, South Canterbury
Cullen Grace – Timaru Boys' High School, South Canterbury
Finlay Joyce – Timaru Boys' High School, South
Maka Mafelio – Timaru Boys' High School, South Canterbury
Dean Andrews – Timaru Boys' High School, South CanterburySt. Andrews college
Shilo Klein – St Andrew's College, Canterbury
Jack Rose – St Andrew's College, Canterbury
Veitata Kinivuwai – St Andrew’s College, Canterbury
Scott Rees – St Andrew's College, Canterbury
George Harding – St Andrew’s College, CanterburyNelson college
Max Fraine – Nelson College, Ta$man
Kyle Te Tai – Nelson College, Ta$man
Caleb Havili – Nelson College, Ta$man
Caleb Coventry – Nelson College, Ta$man
Graham Urquhart – Nelson College, Ta$man
Anton Segner – Nelson College, Ta$man
Leicester Faingaanuku – Nelson College, Ta$manRangiora high school
Angus Fletcher – Rangiora High School, Canterbury
George Prain – Rangiora High School,
Fletcher Newell- Rangiora high schoolWaimea combined
Caleb Delany – Waimea College, Ta$man
Josh McPherson – Waimea College, Ta$man
Matthew Stevenson – Garin College, Ta$manSt Thomas of Canterbury college
Sione Afemui – St Thomas of Canterbury College, Canterbury
Patrick Elia – St Thomas of Canterbury College, CanterburyMarlborough Boys college
Vailua Kaloni – Marlborough Boys' College, Ta$man
Jack Shadbolt – Marlborough Boys' College, Ta$man
Nigel Satherly – Marlborough Boys' College, Ta$manHigh school old boys rugby club
Simon Rosevear – High School Old Boys, CanterburyShirley boys high school
Glen Beardsley – Shirley Boys' High School, CanterburySt Bedes college
Reuben Cotter – St Bede’s College, CanterburyIn addition to this squad, a Wider Training Group has also been selected and will be involved during the camp:
Wider Training Group:
Jacson Edie – St Andrew's College, Canterbury
Caleb Allison – St Bede’s College, Canterbury
Josh Duckworth – Rangiora High School, Canterbury
Sam Caldwell – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Charlie Watanabe – Burnside High School, Canterbury
Alex Harford – Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury
Brad Cvitanich – Timaru Boys' High School, South Canterbury
Angus Gilbert – St Andrew’s College, CanterburyUnavailable due to injury:
Jaydn Holdaway – Marlborough Boys' College, Ta$man
Ollie Lewis – Christchurch Boys' High School, CanterburyAlso unavailable for selection:
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Interesting.
When I was at school, many moons ago, one of the big fixtures of the years was Town vs Country. Town usually won, but it wasn't always a drubbing and Country usually had at least a handful of players in the combined Canterbury team.
Looks like most of those country schools from Hurunui, North Canterbury and Ellesmere are pretty marginalized these days in terms of selection opportunities.
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Warm-up match Crusaders v Highlanders (Thu 6 July, k/o 3pm at Alpine Energy Stadium, Timaru)
Crusaders team:
1 Tim Perry
2 Ben Funnell
3 Michael Alaalatoa
4 Quinten Strange
5 Mitchell Dunshea
6 Heiden Bedwell-Curtis (VC)
7 Jed Brown
8 Jordan Taufua (C)
9 Mitchell Drummond
10 Mitchell Hunt
11 George Bridge
12 Sean Wainui
13 Seta Tamanivalu
14 Manasa Mataele
15 David HaviliRESERVES
16 Andrew Makalio
17 Chris Gawler
18 Oliver Jager
19 Jonno Osbourne
20 Shannon Frizell
21 Bryn Hall (VC)
22 Marty McKenzie
23 Braydon Ennor
24 Jone Macilai
25 Vernon Fredericks
-- Digby Ioanehttps://crusaders.co.nz/news/1126-team-to-play-the-highlanders-in-warm-up-game
I wonder why Richie Mo'unga and Tim Bateman are not in this line-up. Particularly, Mo'unga is surprising, because he's mostly likely to start against the Hurricanes on 15 July.
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@Stargazer probably dropped after his Lions performance.....
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Highlanders team:
1 Daniel Lienert-Brown
2 Ash Dixon (c)
3 Siate Tokolahi
4 Tom Franklin
5 Jackson Hemopo
6 Gareth Evans
7 James Lentjes
8 Luke Whitelock
9 Kayne Hammington
10 Fletcher Smith
11 Tevita Li
12 Rob Thompson
13 Sio Tomkinson
14 Gavin Stark
15 Josh IoaneReserves: Greg Pleasants-Tate, Flynn Thomas, Aki Seiuli, Craig Millar, Guy Millar, Alex Ainley, Joe Wheeler, Elliot Dixon, Adam Knight, Dan Pryor, Josh Renton, Liam Howley, Teihorangi Walden, Thomas Umaga-Jensen, Jona Nareki
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Mo'unga - maybe carrying a niggle, or maybe he's just too important to risk in this game. I see the Highlanders aren't using Marty Banks, either.
Good to see Digby Ioane and Macilai back. I'm also interested to see Shannon Frizell included. For those who don't know he's the brother of Aussie leaguie Tyson Frizell. Has good size for a blindside flanker!
Looks like the injury ward is emptying a fair bit with the business end of the season approaching. Crotty and Pete Samu presumably still crocked, but not many others?
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Gonna be a good clear out at the end of the season, with Razor getting rid of Toddy's deadwood.
And it appears that everyone likes playing for Robertson too which should make recruiting easier if all the boys are telling their mates how they love it in the Crusaders camp.
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@Wurzel Looks like the Highlanders did that pretty easily.
Yeah - I'd think there will be half a dozen that Razor will be looking at shedding. Fifita, Sean Wainui and Leon Fukofuka probably top of the list. Marty McKenzie, Jone Macilai and Tim Perry won't be sleeping comfortably in their beds either.
I think they'll be fairly keen to hold onto everyone else - though Digby Ioane has been something of a foodbill.
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@Chris-B. The problem for Robertson: some of these players are on contracts extending beyond the 2017 season. For example, Fukofuka and Macilai are signed through to 2018. Not sure about the others. Is there a way to get rid of players who are still on a contract, esp if no other franchise wants them?
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The Blues "de-listed" Anscombe (in a baffling move). Anyone know exactly what happened with contracts there?
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Don't know exactly how it works, but the delisted guys go into a draft pool and other teams can pick them up.
So Jackson Willison a few years ago was delisted so the Chiefs could sign and protect Aki. The Chiefs still intended to pick Willison from the draft (assuming no one else would want him) but the Blues picked him
Not sure what happens if no teams want a delisted player. I assume the original team would have to honour the contract?
