Highlanders 2019 Discussion

[Duluth]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/110112432/highlanders-to-unleash-giant-pari-pari-parkinson-use-jackson-hemopo-at-no-6

[Nepia]

@Duluth I hope so ... I like the look of Hemopo more so than the Tongan. Request from the AB selectors maybe?

[Bones]

@Nepia probably makes sense when you have a lock that big! Geez, where did he come from? Although does that mean Squire to 8? I can't see that happening, which would probably mean him and Tongan on the bench.

[Nepia]

@Bones said in Highlanders 2019 Discussion:

@Nepia probably makes sense when you have a lock that big! Geez, where did he come from? Although does that mean Squire to 8? I can't see that happening, which would probably mean him and Tongan on the bench.

Like many of @Chris-B's Ta$man-ians he's another North Island poach.

Yeah, I assume Squire is number 1 still and Hemopo will be the back up.

[Bones]

@Nepia well he better be starting somewhere.

[Tim]

@Bones Auckland

[Chris B.]

@Bones We do not discriminate in Ta$man. We do not say, "he is from Auckland and therefore a worthless fellow". We make concessions for the disadvantaged and give opportunities.

We are a charitable people.

We send missionaries to the unenlightened, even though they are regularly faced with heathen ingratitude.

We do our best to raise others toward our standards - as best as they are able!

[Nepia]

@Chris-B said in Highlanders 2019 Discussion:

We do our best to raise others toward our standards - as best as they are able!

You sent Ben Franks to us as a thug and we tried our best to temper his thuggishness, but alas it was too ingrained.

[Chris B.]

@Nepia He went to high school in Christchurch, in the Eastern Suburbs.

It's very hard to come back from that!

[Nepia]

@Chris-B said in Highlanders 2019 Discussion:

@Nepia He went to high school in Christchurch, in the Eastern Suburbs.

It's very hard to come back from that!

Ta$man, Canterbury, Crusaders - all the same isn't it.

[Chris B.]

@Nepia Silence, Viking!

[Nepia]

@Chris-B said in Highlanders 2019 Discussion:

@Nepia Silence, Viking!

All right then, Ta$man!

[African Monkey]

@Chris-B said in Highlanders 2019 Discussion:

@Nepia He went to high school in Christchurch, in the Eastern Suburbs.

It's very hard to come back from that!

Hey now, not a bad word is to be said about the beautiful Christchurch East

[Chris B.]

@African-Monkey Home of those bastards at the East-Christchurch Shirley Cricket Club?

I did several years of missionary service in Breezes Road!

[African Monkey]

@Chris-B Hahaha I run through Breezes Rd every day.

[shark]

Itll be really interesting to see how the Highlanders juggle their loose forwards this year, when at or near full strength.

[cgrant]

Probable starting XV :

Lienert-Brown
Coltman / Dixon
Lomax
Franklin
Parkinson
Squire
Hunt
Whitelock
Smith
Banks
Li
Buckman
Thompson
Naholo
Smith

[Yeahtheboys]

You anti Hemopo?

[cgrant]

No, of course, but I think Liam Squire will be the starter with the "6" jersey. Hemopo, who can cover lock and 6, is a perfect player for the bench. However, maybe there won't be a typical XV but a rotation with the likes of Dixon, Frizell and Lentjes who are not far behind in terms of talent.
The XV I wrote in my earlier post was what I think that could be the probable XV.
My personal team is :

Lienert-Brown
Coltman
Lomax
Hemopo
Parkinson
Squire
Lentjes
Whitelock
Smith
Banks
Mackay
Buckman
Thompson
Naholo
Smith

[mariner4life]

@Chris-B said in Highlanders 2019 Discussion:

@Nepia Silence, Viking!

the bared-faced cheek that a fan of one unholy alliance franchise would harass the fan of another unholy alliance franchise.