Hurricanes 2022
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@canes4life Yeah agree and as much as I like Booth and his explosiveness he is too injury prone, would much rather they kept Campbell, I’m glad they let JT go he offered nothing not even a crisp pass.
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@mikey07 @Stargazer Given he is originally out of Napier BHS that generally means he will get little or no game time behind teachers pet B Proctor and someone that J Holland will undoubtedly pluck from obscurity out of the Wellington Schools Competition. PUJ might move up the pecking order somewhat but won't hold my breath on that one either.
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@higgins said in Hurricanes 2022:
@mikey07 @Stargazer Given he is originally out of Napier BHS that generally means he will get little or no game time behind teachers pet B Proctor
Good thing is we only have 2 more seasons to wait til his contract gets renewed for another 5 years
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Yay another mediocre player to add to the list. Can’t we sign his brother.
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Hurricanes media release about the Sullivan signing: https://www.hurricanes.co.nz/news/article/bailyn-sullivan-signs-with-the-hurricanes-for-2022/
If there's room in next year's Magpies squad, I hope he'll come home for the NPC.
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@stargazer maybe it is the camera angle but I'm surprised Franks ankles aren't thicker..
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I don’t know why James Blackwell gets such a hard time on this forum.., sure he’s not the biggest lock you would ever see but the guy has some engine and from what I have heard ticks all the required training boxes .
You can’t do anything about the body you were born with when it comes to height .
I have seen some locks that are well over 1.98 and have nowhere near the work rate as Blackwell, I suspect if he was playing in the Crusaders nobody would notice his height. -
@steven-harris he gets a rough deal, oddly enough it's mostly from canes fans. Most of the good stuff he does is pretty easy to ignore, so I guess you're left only seeing the clangers.
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@steven-harris said in Hurricanes 2022:
I don’t know why James Blackwell gets such a hard time on this forum.., sure he’s not the biggest lock you would ever see but the guy has some engine and from what I have heard ticks all the required training boxes .
You can’t do anything about the body you were born with when it comes to height .
I have seen some locks that are well over 1.98 and have nowhere near the work rate as Blackwell, I suspect if he was playing in the Crusaders nobody would notice his height.Do you think he would be selected for the Crusaders as a lock? Because that’s the reason why Cane’s fans are down on him. He’s certainly a hard worker and I’m sure he trains the house down, but he just doesn’t have a big enough body for the position in which he plays.
As you said, you can’t do anything about the body you were born into.
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@gt12 Todd Blackadder ,1.90 6.2 126 games for Canterbury, 71 x games for the Crusaders and 12 tests for the All Blacks not the tallest guy , but good number of those games at lock . ..in fact he’s exactly the same height as his son Ethan ..
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@steven-harris said in Hurricanes 2022:
@gt12 Todd Blackadder ,1.90 6.2 126 games for Canterbury, 71 x games for the Crusaders and 12 tests for the All Blacks not the tallest guy , but good number of those games at lock . ..in fact he’s exactly the same height as his son Ethan ..
It's kind of you to make my arguments for me.