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Does anyone know this player? Is this signing a loss to NZ rugby?
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/front-page-top-stories/news/article.cfm?c_id=698&objectid=12274496
Premium article shit. This player any good?
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@Yeetyaah Nothing on the Blues website (yet). Franchises must be desparate if they sign a 29-year-old for - what I assume is - his first SR contract.
Edit: Google tells me he played one game for BOP in 2017. He was first named in the Steamers' squad in 2018. If the stats that I found are correct, he has played 17 Mitre 10 Cup games, of which 13 starts.
He has trained with the Chiefs (in 2018, don't know about 2019).
No doubt, BOP supporters on the Fern will be able to tell us more about him?
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@Stargazer My nephew plays for the Sydney Rays in the Aussie NRC and I sort of watch most of their games that are streamed live on https://www.rugby.com.au/competitions/nrc but can't really honestly give my opinion as I really only see how the nephew is going. Will try to watch with more interest when they play the Western Force this Saturday afternoon (or at least for the first half hour as the Magpies v Ta$man match obviously takes precedence from 2.25pm onward). Suffice to say that he must have spent a lot of time standing behind his try line contemplating life as his Sydney team has had a couple of hammerings and currently has a negative points difference eighty after conceding 280 points in their six games so far and they still have to play the top of the table team who are also the leading points scoring team!
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@Stargazer IIRC Wardlaw played the full 80 mins in the Battle of the Bays.
Edit: The locks in the Chiefs Dev team were Aaron Carroll (Bay of Plenty) and Damon Leasuasu (Counties Manukau) along with Laghlan McWhannell (Waikato) from the main squad.
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@Stargazer can recall Charlie Gamble as one of the outstanding number 7s at the National under 19 tournament playing for Canterbury in 2015 ,in fact he actually won the MVP for for the outstanding player of the tournament, has build similar to David Pocock ,has been playing the shutte shield in NSW..
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@Daffy-Jaffy And this tweet is confirming it:
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This confirms a conversation I had with a friend who works for Sky, I suspect Mitre 10 cup could be a casualty of costs ..
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@Steven-Harris said in Super Rugby News:
This confirms a conversation I had with a friend who works for Sky, I suspect Mitre 10 cup could be a casualty of costs ..
If that's the case then NZR needs a bullet. Unless they've sold it separately, they need to have bundled it together, right at the the time they had a bit of leverage over Sky - let Sky figure out how to make it work financially.
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@Nepia said in Super Rugby News:
@Steven-Harris said in Super Rugby News:
This confirms a conversation I had with a friend who works for Sky, I suspect Mitre 10 cup could be a casualty of costs ..
If that's the case then NZR needs a bullet. Unless they've sold it separately, they need to have bundled it together, right at the the time they had a bit of leverage over Sky - let Sky figure out how to make it work financially.
How much can the NPC be worth though? Must be a losing entity
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@Hooroo said in Super Rugby News:
@Nepia said in Super Rugby News:
@Steven-Harris said in Super Rugby News:
This confirms a conversation I had with a friend who works for Sky, I suspect Mitre 10 cup could be a casualty of costs ..
If that's the case then NZR needs a bullet. Unless they've sold it separately, they need to have bundled it together, right at the the time they had a bit of leverage over Sky - let Sky figure out how to make it work financially.
How much can the NPC be worth though? Must be a losing entity
Very little these days I would suggest. I know a lot of people get upset about the thought, but it's no longer the amateur era. At best it's the pathway for players who didn't get selected out of school, which is now the modern professional route.
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@antipodean said in Super Rugby News:
@Hooroo said in Super Rugby News:
@Nepia said in Super Rugby News:
@Steven-Harris said in Super Rugby News:
This confirms a conversation I had with a friend who works for Sky, I suspect Mitre 10 cup could be a casualty of costs ..
If that's the case then NZR needs a bullet. Unless they've sold it separately, they need to have bundled it together, right at the the time they had a bit of leverage over Sky - let Sky figure out how to make it work financially.
How much can the NPC be worth though? Must be a losing entity
Very little these days I would suggest. I know a lot of people get upset about the thought, but it's no longer the amateur era. At best it's the pathway for players who didn't get selected out of school, which is now the modern professional route.
Watching it fizzle out is sad for the amateur days but if that is what it takes then so be it.
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@Duluth said in Super Rugby News:
The article says the deal includes the NPC
haha no one reads articles nerd!!
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@Hooroo said in Super Rugby News:
@Nepia said in Super Rugby News:
@Steven-Harris said in Super Rugby News:
This confirms a conversation I had with a friend who works for Sky, I suspect Mitre 10 cup could be a casualty of costs ..
If that's the case then NZR needs a bullet. Unless they've sold it separately, they need to have bundled it together, right at the the time they had a bit of leverage over Sky - let Sky figure out how to make it work financially.
How much can the NPC be worth though? Must be a losing entity
Not much, that's why I said it needed to be bundled together with the money making stuff. (Which it appears has happened).
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@Steven-Harris said in Super Rugby News:
This confirms a conversation I had with a friend who works for Sky, I suspect Mitre 10 cup could be a casualty of costs ..
I don't know what the ratings figures are for Mitre 10 Cup, but Sky surely need it as a credible live sport event through August - October.
I'm not sure the Warriors' annual play-off run would be enough of a drawcard to keep most subscribers happy!
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