2018 Hawke's Bay Representative Rugby

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@stargazer said in 2018 Hawke's Bay Representative Rugby:

Hurricanes U16 Tournament

Div A Final:
Hawke's Bay U16 40 - Wellington U16 36

Div B Final:
Hawke's Bay U16 Dev 20 - Wellington U16 Dev 40

O-for-Awesome.

Not only beat Wellington in the final, but beat them twice in three matches.

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Saturday, 6 October 2018
12.45pm: Waikato U14 v Hawke's Bay U14 at Owen Delany Park, Taupo
Apparently, this is the first time the U14s are playing Waikato.

FARAH PALMER CUP (cross-over game)
1.00pm: Manawatu Cyclones v Hawke's Bay Tui at CET Arena, Palmerston North

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Results:

Waikato U14 31, Hawke's Bay U14 45
Manawatu Cyclones 22, Hawke's Bay Tui 10

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This week: Hurricanes U18 girls tournament at Napier BHS, with 3 games of 35 minutes and finals.

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Several players with familiar names and a set of twins for the midfield.

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Results U18 girls:

v Poverty Bay: 15 - 14 W
v Wellington: 0 - 24 L
v Manawatu: 22 - 14 W

They'll play the final against Wellington tomorrow.

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As we know the Hawke's Bay Under 16 team won the Hurricanes tournament for the first time since 2014.

HB beat Wellington twice in the tournament - in the round-robin game and then in the final.

So, of course, the Hurricanes Under 16 Tournament team (22 boys) is named and contains nine from Wellington and only six from Hawke's Bay ...

Even more astonishing is that the Hurricanes deigned to award the player-of-the-tournament to a Hawke's Bay boy - Treyah Kingi-Taukamo.

Surely the Hurricanes could have gone the whole way and flipped two fingers in our direction instead of just one?

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@number-10 It's always the same story, isn't it? Frustrating. They have more opportunities to watch these Welly boys play, maybe even know some of them. Maybe they find it hard to overlook them just for that reason? They should come out of Wellington more, to the Bay.

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The Tui are playing the semi-final in the Farah Palmer Cup against Otago Spirit today (k/o 2.30pm).

Livestream for whoever is interested:

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Team (crucial injuries to Black Fern Krysten Cottrell and centre Te Maari McGregor, unfortunately, leading to a few players playing out of position: loosie Huddleston at centre, Amy Williams at 10)

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The Tui have lost their semi 10 - 34. They missed Cottrell badly; without her, there's no good game management, no creativity on attack. That's not Williams fault; she had to play out of position. There were too many handling errors, but the players showed great attitude. They kept playing until the final whistle. Jefferson, Powdrell and Tipiwai looking good, but the Tui desperately need to find younger players in some positions. Several players over thirty in this team and some of them are just too slow.