Who will get a first SR contract ?

[cgrant]

@KiwiMurph said in Who will get a first SR contract ?:

Norris perhaps?
Xavier Roe

Norris has played a few games with the Chiefs during the SRA.
I forgot Roe. He is one to watch next year.

[ARHS]

Jacob Norris from Ta$man looks very good (brother of Ollie from Chiefs?). Most of the top suspects noted above. But, Kaylum Boshier, Jared Adams, Valance Te Whare, Rameka Poihipi, Chad Elton, Charles Alaimalo all show something worth a closer look. Would like to see Regan Ware in super rugby too.

[Tim]

Xavier Cowley-Tuioti is 1.94m and 117kg, so the Chiefs will probably pick him up as a lock.

[Yeetyaah]

@Tim

so the Hurricanes will probably pick him up as a lock

FIFY

[bobily2]

@Yeetyaah said in Who will get a first SR contract ?:

@Tim

so the Hurricanes will probably pick him up as a lock

FIFY

Surely there is someone shorter out there they could go for. Kaylum Boshier played lock for Taranaki - he's about 190cm.

[Bovidae]

@Tim said in Who will get a first SR contract ?:

Xavier Cowley-Tuioti is 1.94m and 117kg, so the Chiefs will probably pick him up as a lock.

Picking any NH player in the Chiefs is so 1996. Stevenson should consider himself very lucky.

[cgrant]

Misa ?

[Stargazer]

After a quiet start to the season, Lincoln McClutchie is getting better and better. With our shortage of good 10s in NZ, it would be stupid if he doesn't get signed, this year.

[mikey07]

@Tim Jared Paige? He looked good the last two weeks.

[Tim]

@mikey07 Was with the Blues this year already.

[mikey07]

@Tim Oh I didn’t realise.

[ACT Crusader]

@Stargazer said in Who will get a first SR contract ?:

After a quiet start to the season, Lincoln McClutchie is getting better and better. With our shortage of good 10s in NZ, it would be stupid if he doesn't get signed, this year.

He does have a touch of the Ihaia West about him. Could get himself a SR contract, but I wouldn’t go as far as say stupid if not picked up given he’s only 20 years old.

[mikey07]

James Tofa the 12 from Manuwatu he runs really hard and tackles aswell.

[Stargazer]

@ACT-Crusader He's 21 and in his 3rd Mitre 10 Cup season. IMO, it's time.

[ACT Crusader]

@Stargazer said in Who will get a first SR contract ?:

@ACT-Crusader He's 21 and in his 3rd Mitre 10 Cup season. IMO, it's time.

I thought I heard in a game earlier this season the comms say he was only 20?

[Stargazer]

@ACT-Crusader The comms make mistakes, too. He's from April 1999. Fakatava is still 20.

[mikey07]

@Stargazer possible replacement for TJ at the Canes IF we can find out when his Highlanders contract expires.

[ACT Crusader]

@Stargazer said in Who will get a first SR contract ?:

@ACT-Crusader The comms make mistakes, too. He's from April 1999. Fakatava is still 20.

I’m only going by what I heard.

Not sure who run these websites, both have him at 20?

https://www.rugbypass.com/mitre-10-cup/teams/hawkes-bay/players/lincoln-mcclutchie/

Lincoln McClutchie

A New Zealand Secondary Schools representative in 2016, McClutchie was outstanding for the Hawke's Bay under-19s as they finished their national tournament in Taupo with a 40-13 win against Taranaki in the play-off for seventh in 2018. He scored two tr…

[Stargazer]

@ACT-Crusader The HBRU haven't updated the player profiles sufficiently for 2020. You can find his date of birth on last year's site:

Hawke's Bay Magpies

The Hawke's Bay Magpies are the official representative team of the HBRU.

[Nepia]

@mikey07 said in Who will get a first SR contract ?:

@Stargazer possible replacement for TJ at the Canes IF we can find out when his Highlanders contract expires.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves, depends if the Canes Magpies quota is filled or not, plus there's a danger of him being number 1 and then having to start regularly which would be pretty unpalatable to the Wellingtonians in charge of the Canes.