Farah Palmer Cup 2021
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The Farah Palmer Cup draw has been released:
Media release: https://www.provincial.rugby/news/action-packed-rugby-schedule-ahead-with-2021-domestic-rugby-draws-announced-today-3/
Draw: https://www.provincial.rugby/assets/FPC-Draw-2021-Final7-v2.pdf
The FPC starts two weeks before the NPC, on 17 July. Not sure why it starts so early. If they had started later, the players who'll go to the Olympics (if it goes ahead) could have participated, but then again, maybe they are already assuming the Olympics won't go ahead? I forgot the dates of World Sevens Series rounds planned for later this year, maybe that's the reason? They want the FPC to finish before those rounds? Or did they already make this draw before the 2021 Women's RWC was postponed? I can't imagine them being so lazy that they didn't adjust it to the postponement. So ....?Anyway, there are several double-headers planned.
The women's version of the Ranfurly Shield, the JJ Stewart Trophy, is currently held by Canterbury, so all Canterbury home games are defences. How Championship teams are supposed to ever get a challenge without crossovers, I don't know.
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@bovidae And Hawke's Bay have lost another good player to Otago again. Otago usually benefit from having an university. As female players don't get paid a cent, not sure why players move from Otago to Canterbury (other than for work/uni), unless the upcoming SR competition is already pulling them to Christchurch.
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@stargazer I recognise one of those names very well. Bad enough possibly having a whangai in the Lions (neither confirming nor denying) until this year and now this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God I hope her father does not expect me to forgo watching any Magpies matches that might happen to be on at the same time.
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I had noticed before that NP East Coast now have a women's team. They play Ta$man Mako women today, in a preseason game for the Mako.
Just wondering whether anyone has heard of Southland still aiming for joining the FPC? If not, is NPEC going to join instead? I have no idea whether other Heartland provinces have women's rep teams and whether they play FPC teams occasionally ...
Is this the start for a future Heartland comp?? Or have I just missed that Heartland provinces have had women's rep teams for ages?
Questions, questions ...
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@stargazer said in Farah Palmer Cup 2021:
I had noticed before that NP East Coast now have a women's team. They play Ta$man Mako women today, in a preseason game for the Mako.
Just wondering whether anyone has heard of Southland still aiming for joining the FPC? If not, is NPEC going to join instead? I have no idea whether other Heartland provinces have women's rep teams and whether they play FPC teams occasionally ...
Is this the start for a future Heartland comp?? Or have I just missed that Heartland provinces have had women's rep teams for ages?
Questions, questions ...
AKAIK Southland aren't in a strong enough position to field a team yet. Their womens comp is still pretty new and numbers still growing.
Wakatipu women play in the Southland comp but it is Otago that are doing development on promising players. -
Media release: http://www.mooloo.co.nz/newsarticle/105679?newsfeedId=679964
